The best reactions are a second or two long and they usually live in a video. Here is how to turn that moment into a sticker that moves, without installing an app or building a sticker pack.
What you need
- WhatsApp on your phone. Stickers paste in the phone app, not in WhatsApp Web.
- A clip: a video from your camera roll, a GIF, a photo, or a link from Tenor, Giphy or X.
- A browser. tosticker works in the one you already use.
Step by step
- Open tosticker.com on your phone and upload a video, GIF or photo, or paste a link from Tenor, Giphy or X.
- Drag the frame on the clip bar to pick the part you want. A sticker can be up to four seconds long.
- Make it yours: add a caption in Text, remove the background in Cutout, change the speed or direction in Clip, and crop it in Frame.
- Tap Make sticker and wait a few seconds while your phone packs it.
- Press and hold the finished sticker, tap Copy, then paste it into a WhatsApp chat and send.
Pick the right moment
Short loops read best. Two seconds of a face reacting usually beats four seconds of a wide shot. Drag the frame on the clip bar until the reaction starts right at the beginning, and play it a few times in the preview before you make it.
Make it read at sticker size
A sticker shows up small in a chat. Use Frame and pick Square crop to fill the sticker with the subject, then drag the preview to choose what stays in. Captions are drawn with a thick outline so they stay readable; keep them to a few words.
Want only the person or the pet? Switch on Remove background in the Cutout tab and add a white edge so it looks like a real die-cut sticker. The cutout guide has tips.
Send it
When the sticker is ready, press and hold it and tap Copy. Open a WhatsApp chat, hold the message box, tap Paste and send. It arrives as a sticker; tap the star on it to keep it in your Favourites.
If Paste doesn’t appear, or the sticker shows up as a GIF, see what to do when paste doesn’t work.