SF Balloons · Symbol Picker
Symbols in every app
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
One shortcut, a few letters, Enter. SF Balloons puts the right symbol on your clipboard as a character, name, SwiftUI code or image.
SF Balloons brings SF Symbols to every app. A keyboard shortcut opens a floating window on top of whatever is on your screen. Search, pick, Enter. The symbol is on your clipboard and you keep working without switching apps. As natural as the macOS emoji picker.
Features
• Works over all apps: open it with a shortcut of your choice, ⌥⌘S by default
• Fast search, including terms that aren't part of the symbol name
• Copies the real symbol character, which shows up as a symbol in Keynote, Pages or Notes
• Or the symbol name for Xcode, by holding ⇧
• SwiftUI code and export as PNG or PDF at any size via right-click
• Recents and favorites, always at hand
• Categories just like Apple's SF Symbols app
• Fully keyboard accessible
• Preview of animations and rendering modes
• Notes on symbols with usage restrictions
• Lightweight menu bar app
Use Cases
• Designing apps, when tab bars, menus and buttons need icons that blend right into the system
• Coding, when you need the exact name of a symbol without leaving Xcode
• In presentations and documents, when a symbol says more than a word
Privacy
• SF Balloons works completely offline. No data is collected or transmitted.
Feedback
Enjoying SF Balloons? A rating on the App Store helps me a lot.
SF Balloons is an independent app and is not affiliated with Apple. SF Symbols is a trademark of Apple Inc.
Ratings & Reviews
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The developer, Yannick Lung, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Yannick Lung
- Size
- 3.9 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Large Tip $11.99
- Medium Tip $5.99
- Small Tip $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Yannick Lung