Markdown Emoji installs statistics

By Matt Bierner (11 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other

Adds emoji syntax support to VS Code's built-in markdown preview and markdown cells in notebook

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 22, 2026

Markdown Emoji has 1,465,081 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #427 of 2,502 tracked listings.

Installs: 1,465,081; Official API · Oct 22, 2026
7-day growth: —; Insufficient history
30-day growth: —; Insufficient history
90-day growth: —; Insufficient history
Rank: #427; Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.13 / 5 from 15 ratings

About Markdown Emoji

VS Code extension that adds :emoji: syntax support to VS Code's built-in Markdown preview and to markdown cells in notebooks.

Features

Adds support for :emoji: syntax to VS Code's built-in markdown preview
Adds support for :emoji: to markdown cells in VS Code's notebooks.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

emoji
emoticons
github
markdown
notebook
notebooks

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Adoption over time

Markdown Emoji installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 1,465,081 installs as of Oct 22, 2026.

7/30/90-day growth

Markdown Emoji installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.

Ranking history

Markdown Emoji VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #427 (by installs).

Ratings over time

Markdown Emoji ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 15 ratings as of Oct 22, 2026.

Listing placement

All VS Code Marketplace2,502 listings · 126 pages · 1,252 shown · page 22, #7 (overall #427)

All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order

Listing placement

Other762 listings · 39 pages · page 6, #5 (overall #105)

Other: every listing in installs order

Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

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Recent observations

Full history (7)

Recent installs observations for Markdown Emoji
Date (UTC)	Installs	Change vs. previous	Source	Precision
Oct 22, 2026	1,465,081	+984	Official API	Exact
Oct 21, 2026	1,464,097	+407	Official API	Exact
Oct 20, 2026	1,463,690	+650	Official API	Exact
Oct 19, 2026	1,463,040	+191	Official API	Exact
Oct 18, 2026	1,462,849	+223	Official API	Exact
Oct 17, 2026	1,462,626	+499	Official API	Exact
Oct 16, 2026	1,462,127	—	Official API	Exact

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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner.markdown-emoji. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 22, 2026. See the methodology.