Why it exists
The best reactions are a second or two long, and they usually live in a video, a GIF or a screenshot. Turning one into a sticker used to mean installing a sticker app, building a whole pack and handing over your files. tosticker skips all of that. You pick the moment, add a caption if you like, copy the result and paste it into the chat.
How it works
Your browser does the work. It reads the clip, cuts the part you chose, draws your caption and packs the frames into a small looping GIF that WhatsApp on your phone accepts as a sticker. The sticker keeps its full size and frame rate; only very large files are made smaller.
Cutout, which removes the background, also runs on your phone. It uses U²-Net, a small open model, through ONNX Runtime; the first time you switch it on, your browser downloads the model from this site (about 11 MB) and keeps it. See the open-source licences.
When you paste a link from Tenor, Giphy or X, our server fetches the file for your browser, because those sites don’t let browsers download it directly. The file passes straight through and isn’t kept.
What it costs
Nothing. There’s no account, no watermark and no limit on how many stickers you make.
Not affiliated with WhatsApp
tosticker is an independent project. It isn’t made, endorsed or supported by WhatsApp or Meta. WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp LLC.
Contact
Questions, a link that won’t load, or a sticker that came out wrong: write to [email protected].