How to make a Telegram sticker pack from photos

Telegram is where sticker packs really shine. You can make a pack of your dog’s best faces and drop it into any chat. There are two ways to do it inside Telegram, and one faster way for when you have a whole camera roll of photos.

How do I make a Telegram sticker from a photo?

Use the Sticker Editor, which is built into Telegram. Telegram says you can turn any photo on your device into a sticker, with added text, drawings and emoji. No other app is needed.

1. Open any chat in Telegram.
2. Open the sticker panel from the message field.
3. Tap the + button to open the Sticker Editor.
4. Choose a photo from your phone.
5. Add text, drawings or emoji as you like.
6. Save it. The editor can also create packs of your custom stickers to share with friends and family.

Menus change from one Telegram version to the next, so if a button looks different, check Telegram’s page in Sources.

What is the @Stickers bot?

@Stickers is Telegram’s own tool for creating and managing sticker packs. It now has a mini app, and its functions also work through text commands. You use it when you have finished image files ready to upload.

Telegram’s rules for static stickers are simple:

• The file must be a PNG or WEBP.
• One side must be exactly 512 pixels. The other can be 512 or less.
• A transparent background, a white outline and a shadow help a sticker stand out.

If you cut out your photos in another app first, make sure the exported files fit those rules.

Can I make a lot of stickers at once?

The Sticker Editor works on one photo at a time. For a pack of ten or twenty, that is a lot of repeating. That is where a batch tool helps.

A good pack feels like a set. Pick one subject, such as your dog, and make stickers of their best faces: the sleepy one, the guilty one, the “I heard the treat bag” one. Give them all the same kind of border and caption style so they look like they belong together. That is much easier when you edit them in one place.

The faster way for lots of photos: PAPLO

PAPLO cuts out many photos at once on your phone, lets you add borders and captions, and sends the whole set to Telegram as a pack.

PAPLO is on the App Store and Google Play. It works on iPhone (iOS 15.5 or later) and Android (7.0 or later).

1. Open PAPLO and tap Take a photo or Import photos. The Import button on the camera screen takes up to 50 photos at a time.
2. Let PAPLO cut them out. It shows “Cutting out” with your photo count.
3. Tap a sticker to edit it. Under Border, choose an outline. Under Text, type a Caption and pick a Meme, Label or Tape style. Fix any rough edge with Erase and Restore under Cut-out, then Open cut-out editor.
4. On the finish screen, tap Make a pack. Or go to Make, then Sticker pack (choose New pack if asked), and name it.
5. Under Add from your library, choose your stickers. Hold and drag to put them in order, then tap Save.
6. Open Send to and choose Telegram. PAPLO shows “Find it in the sticker panel in a chat” and works with 1 to 30 stickers.
7. Telegram opens its import screen. Finish adding the set in Telegram.

Just one sticker for a chat? Tap Share on it, then choose Telegram. On Android, Telegram is in the row of chat apps. PAPLO sends it as a 512 pixel WebP, or a PNG if encoding fails. On iPhone, More opens the share sheet and PAPLO shares the sticker as a PNG. To import a whole sticker set on either phone, open the pack and use Send to, then Telegram.

Telegram packs in PAPLO are static. PAPLO can also make GIFs, which you send to a chat as a GIF.

Where to find your pack

After adding the pack, find it in the Telegram sticker panel in a chat.

To see a finished pack first, the free Kiro pack and Barely Functioning, which is part of PAPLO Plus, can both be added in the app and sent to Telegram, and the Telegram sticker packs page has more.

Which is better: Telegram’s editor or PAPLO?

You want to…	Better pick
Make one sticker without leaving Telegram	Sticker Editor
Upload files you already prepared	@Stickers
Cut out 10 to 50 photos in a batch	PAPLO
Add borders and caption styles to every sticker	PAPLO
Reuse the same stickers on WhatsApp and iMessage	PAPLO

Telegram’s tools are free and made for Telegram. PAPLO is free to use for making and sending, with an optional one-time purchase, and has no subscription. Use the editor for a quick one. Use PAPLO when you want a pack fast.

Next, see how to turn a photo into a WhatsApp sticker, make stickers on Android or make stickers on iPhone. All our sticker guides are in one place, and support is there if you get stuck.