Snicker

The perfect reaction, one shortcut away. Search GIFs from your menu bar and paste them anywhere.

Try it. The demo on the right is live.

Download for Mac

Free and open source · macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon

↑↓ choose · ⏎ copy · ⌘D favorite Powered by KLIPY

A mock-up: emoji stand in for GIFs here. The real app shows real GIFs from KLIPY, as in the screenshots below. Clicking copies the emoji, so paste it anywhere to see.

  1. ⌘⌥V Press the shortcut, from any app.
  2. Type what you’re feeling.
  3. Click the one that says it.
  4. Paste. That’s the whole thing.

The real thing.

This is Snicker on a Mac, with real GIFs from KLIPY. The glass takes on your wallpaper, and a copied GIF pastes straight into the conversation.

Snicker's glass popover open from the menu bar over a green desktop wallpaper, showing dog GIFs for the search goofy dog. A Messages conversation: asked about a new macOS app, the reply is a smirking emoji GIF, then a GIF captioned Literally everywhere.

Right-click any GIF to copy its link, save it, or keep it as a favorite. The rest works from the keyboard too.

  • Favorites and Recent sit at the top, and they’re still there after a restart.
  • Suggestions show up while you type, so “hap” gets you to “happy birthday”.
  • Random file names mean a pasted GIF doesn’t tell anyone what you searched for.
  • You can drag a GIF straight into any app.
  • Turn on Launch at Login in the ⋯ menu and Snicker is ready whenever you are.

Pastes where others don’t.

Every chat app wants a GIF a little differently. Snicker puts two copies on the clipboard at once, the file and the image, so each app takes the one it understands, and the GIF arrives animated. Even in Microsoft Teams, where most GIF pickers fail.

Snicker Info

A proper Mac app.

It’s built in SwiftUI with Liquid Glass. You don’t sign up for anything, it doesn’t track you, and it stays out of your Dock.

Kind
Menu bar app
Download
1.2 MB
Requires
macOS 26 or later, Apple Silicon
Price
Free
License
MIT, open source
Accessibility
VoiceOver, full keyboard control, Reduce Motion, Auto-play Animated Images
Privacy
Searches go to KLIPY to find GIFs, and Snicker asks GitHub if there’s a new version when you open it. Nothing else leaves your Mac.

See it in 15 seconds.

The video uses emoji in place of GIFs. The real app shows real GIFs from KLIPY, as in the screenshots.

Install in one line.

Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Luis-Sejer/snicker-gif/main/install.sh | sh

It installs Snicker and opens it. When a new version is out, Snicker tells you and updates itself with one click. Prefer clicking? Download the zip instead.

Using an AI coding agent? Ask it to “install Snicker on this Mac following these instructions”. To uninstall, add -s -- --uninstall to the end of the command, or ask your agent.

Questions

Does it really work in Microsoft Teams?

Yes. Teams only accepts a GIF pasted as a file, and Snicker always puts the file on the clipboard alongside the image data, so the GIF arrives animated.

Is it free?

Yes. Snicker is free and open source under the MIT license.

Why does macOS say it can’t verify the developer?

Apple asks developers to pay for notarization, and Snicker is a free side project that skips it. If you see the message, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only do this once.

Where do the GIFs come from?

From KLIPY’s GIF library. Your searches go to KLIPY and nowhere else.

Which Macs does it run on?

Macs with Apple Silicon running macOS 26 or later.

How do I start it automatically?

Open Snicker’s ⋯ menu and turn on Launch at Login.