The Golden Gate Bridge rising out of the fog
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SF Balloons

SF Symbols in every app

A keyboard shortcut opens a floating window on top of whatever is on your screen. Search, pick, . The symbol is on your clipboard and you keep working without switching apps – as natural as the macOS emoji picker.

Download on the Mac App Store
Searching for “run” in SF Balloons

Type a word. Get the symbol.

Search finds symbols by more than their name – “run” turns up the treadmill, the wheelchair and the coffee break too. Press and the real symbol character lands on your clipboard, ready to paste into Keynote, Pages or Notes. Hold and you get the symbol name for Xcode instead.

Previewing the animation of the symbol fan.floor

See it move before you ship it.

Preview animations and rendering modes right in the picker – monochrome, hierarchical or multicolor, at any scale. Right-click a symbol for SwiftUI code, or export it as a PNG or PDF at the size you need.

Symbol names shown beneath each symbol

Always one shortcut away.

Open it with ⌥⌘S – or a shortcut of your own – over any app. Recents and favorites stay at hand, categories match Apple's own SF Symbols app, and everything is reachable from the keyboard. A lightweight menu bar app that stays out of the way.

No data. None.

SF Balloons works completely offline. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking and no server. Nothing about you or your work ever leaves your Mac.