Emojis That Look Different on iPhone, Android and Twitter

The 20 emoji that change most between phones

Families are left out of this list and covered below, because they would fill it. What is left is mostly emoji with a background: fireworks drawn on a night sky by some sets and on nothing by others, and symbol tiles in a different colour on every phone.

#	Emoji	Apple, Google, Twemoji, OpenMoji	Difference	Odd one out
1	🎆fireworks		94.6%	None clear
2	🚺women’s room		91.4%	None clear
3	🎇sparkler		90.4%	None clear
4	🈂️Japanese “service charge” button		87.5%	OpenMoji
5	🟪purple square		87.4%	None clear
6	☑️check box with check		86.4%	None clear
7	🌆cityscape at dusk		86.0%	None clear
8	🏞️national park		85.9%	OpenMoji
9	🎑moon viewing ceremony		85.0%	None clear
10	🏬department store		84.0%	Twemoji
11	🈳Japanese “vacancy” button		83.8%	None clear
12	💹chart increasing with yen		83.4%	None clear
13	🌇sunset		83.3%	None clear
14	🚼baby symbol		82.7%	OpenMoji
15	🟦blue square		81.8%	OpenMoji
16	🧮abacus		81.6%	None clear
17	🌠shooting star		81.3%	OpenMoji
18	🏙️cityscape		81.2%	OpenMoji
19	🚟suspension railway		81.2%	None clear
20	🌃night with stars		80.9%	OpenMoji

Families: the biggest split on any emoji

All 30 family emoji score above 86%. Apple and Google now draw families as plain one-colour silhouettes with no faces, skin tone or hairstyle, while Twemoji and OpenMoji still draw coloured people with faces. So the same 👨‍👩‍👧 arrives as a faceless outline on one phone and a smiling cartoon family on another.

Which emoji sets agree with each other

The typical difference for each pair of sets, across every emoji both of them draw:

Apple and Google are the closest pair, and Twemoji against OpenMoji the furthest apart. If you write on an iPhone for readers on Android, you are in the safest combination of the four.

Which set is the odd one out

For each emoji we checked whether one set differs from the other three clearly more than any other does (by at least 5 points). For 1,163 emoji no set stands out.

Which kinds of emoji vary most

Symbols vary most (66.8%), because many are a glyph on a coloured tile and every company picks its own tile. Flags vary least (37.4%).

The 20 emoji that look the most alike everywhere

Flags are left out here too, since a flag is the same design on every set by definition. The rest are simple shapes: punctuation, small squares and pointing hands, which leave each company little room to be creative. Keep the small-emoji limit from the method above in mind when reading this one.

#	Emoji	Apple, Google, Twemoji, OpenMoji	Difference	Odd one out
1	▫️white small square		11.6%	None clear
2	❕white exclamation mark		11.8%	None clear
3	▪️black small square		12.7%	Apple
4	🦯probing cane		14.5%	None clear
5	❗exclamation mark		15.4%	None clear
6	📍round pushpin		15.4%	None clear
7	〰️wavy dash		16.3%	None clear
8	➖minus sign		16.8%	None clear
9	◽white medium small square		17.4%	OpenMoji
10	🔸small orange diamond		17.8%	None clear
11	🩼crutch		18.7%	None clear
12	⚡high voltage		19.0%	None clear
13	❔white question mark		19.2%	None clear
14	🕴️man in suit levitating		19.6%	None clear
15	🕶️sunglasses		20.3%	None clear
16	🔻red triangle pointed down		20.5%	None clear
17	🔺red triangle pointed up		21.2%	None clear
18	🪛screwdriver		21.2%	None clear
19	🧍person standing		21.5%	None clear
20	♦️diamond suit		21.8%	OpenMoji