Glyph Engine Get it on the App Store
For designers and developers · iPad & Mac

Find the right
glyph in the time
it takes to think it.

Glyph Engine searches every SF Symbol and emoji by meaning — type a phrase in the app, sketch it with your finger or trackpad, or summon a radial canvas from anywhere and draw it.

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Fig. 01 — The app

5,062 symbols + every emoji, ranked by what you actually meant.

Glyph Engine app window showing search field, sketch panel, and a grid of SF Symbols
Three ways in

Search the way your
brain already works.

All three modes hit the same on-device CLIP index — no accounts, no telemetry, no remote calls. Custom symbol generation is opt-in with your own OpenAI or Anthropic key.

01

Type the idea, not the name.

"a thing that says paused" returns pause.circle, hand.raised, and stop.fill — ranked by meaning, not string match.

↳ a thing that says paused
02

Draw the shape, get the symbol.

Sketch a rough wave on the trackpad and watch waveform, scribble, and squiggle.line surface as you draw.

03

A radial picker, one hotkey away.

Hit a shortcut from anywhere. A radial canvas drops in, you sketch on it, results ring the canvas as you draw. Return pastes, Esc dismisses.

On the App Store · iPad & Mac

Stop scrolling the
symbol catalog.

Glyph Engine is for iPad and Mac. Open it once, give it sixty seconds to index, then forget it's there until the next time you need a symbol.

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