The same two seconds can be a dramatic slow-motion fall, a frantic double-speed dance or a loop that never ends. Speed and direction live in the Clip tab.
Change speed and direction
- Open tosticker.com and choose a video or GIF, or paste a link and tap Load.
- In the Clip tab, drag the frame on the clip bar to the moment you want.
- Under Speed, pick 0.5×, 1×, 1.5× or 2×.
- Under Direction, pick Forward, Reverse or Boomerang.
- Tap Make sticker, then press and hold the sticker, tap Copy and paste it into a WhatsApp chat.
Speed
- 0.5× plays the clip at half speed, so the loop lasts twice as long.
- 1.5× and 2× speed it up and make the loop shorter, which also makes the file smaller.
Slow motion doesn’t invent new frames. A sticker holds a limited number of frames, so a long clip at 0.5× is spread more thinly and can look a little steppy. Keep slow-motion clips to about two and a half seconds and they stay smooth.
Direction
- Reverse plays the clip backwards: a dropped phone flies back into a hand, a splash un-splashes.
- Boomerang plays it forward and then back. The loop has no jump at the end, which suits clips that don’t loop on their own.
With a video, the preview in the editor still plays forward; the finished sticker plays the way you chose.
Staying inside WhatsApp’s limits
WhatsApp plays an animated sticker for 10 seconds at most. A full four-second clip at 0.5× with Boomerang would run 16 seconds, so with that pair tosticker keeps up to 2.5 seconds of the clip and tells you so. Every other mix of speed and direction fits the full four seconds.
Boomerang has twice the frames of a plain loop, so the file is bigger. If the sticker arrives in WhatsApp as a GIF, make it again with Light quality in the Frame tab or a shorter clip. The size guide explains why.