Pop-up Emotes
by Catomon
With Pop-up Emotes, a player can show a picture or animated GIF above their character's head, chosen from the emote menu.
What it does
Pop-up Emotes lets players add their own emotes by pasting image links into the emote settings reached from the title screen. Images in the common web formats can be used, and each emote can be paired with one of several selectable sounds. The emote menu opens while the V key is held.
The mod is a social and decoration tool for multiplayer servers and single-player worlds alike. Its settings cover the scale and brightness of emotes, and a personal emote height that keeps emotes aligned when a custom player model is in use. Fabric, Forge and NeoForge builds are available, and the mod is published for 1.19.2 – 26.3 across 11 release versions. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. The code is covered by All rights reserved and is not open source.
Pop-up Emotes is published under a single set of files per loader, with Fabric's latest file being 1.5.6 for 1.21.1 and Forge's and NeoForge's being 1.5.6 for 1.20.1 and 26.3 respectively.
Key features
Custom emote images
Players add emotes by entering links to their images in the emote settings, and common web image formats are accepted.
Selectable sounds
Each emote can be paired with one of several sounds chosen from a list.
Emote menu on the V key
Holding V opens the emote menu; moving the cursor onto an emote and releasing the key displays it.
Paged menu
Clicking the left or right side of the screen turns between pages of emotes.
Scale, brightness and height
Emote scale and brightness can be configured, and a personal emote height adjusts placement for custom player models.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.19.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want to show reactions above their character on a multiplayer server or in a single-player world, and server owners who run a social hub where players share emotes.
How it compares
Online Emotes is client-side only and open source under the Open Software License 3.0, published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.18 – 26.2, so only the player who installs it runs it. Simple Emotes is client and server and is not open source, with files for 1.18.2 – 26.3, so the server and every player need it. Player Emotes is also client and server, not open source and under the Apache License 2.0, with files for 1.20.1 – 26.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop-up Emotes | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-09 |
| Online Emotes | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.18 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-07-31 |
| Simple Emotes | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.18.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-06 |
| Player Emotes | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-09 |
Questions
Does Pop-up Emotes need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Pop-up Emotes support?
Can Pop-up Emotes be used with custom player models?
In the catalog
Pop-up Emotes is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,084 Social mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This mod allows you to customize and display pop-up emotes above your character's head
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/pop-up-emotes
- Owner
- Catomon
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15