Static Telegram stickers are a universe of their own, with people having entire conversations in cool graphics, popular memes, or movie quotes. And it's largely possible because Telegram allows you to make your own stickers.

The best thing about making Telegram stickers is that you don't have to have a developer account or pass a long and painful review. You just send images to a bot to create a Telegram sticker. Apart from static stickers, Telegram also allows you to create animated stickers as well as video stickers.

So, if you've been meaning to do something with all the inside jokes you and your friends have accumulated, follow this guide on how to make static Telegram stickers.

Step 1: Design Your Stickers

Resizing Image of a White Car Down to 512 x 512

You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to create Telegram stickers. If you are, that's great—now you've got another free way for you to promote your art. But if you're not, don't let that stop you.

Some of the best Telegram stickers are hilarious meme-like creations, thrown together out of quotes and photos. Even basic design skills will suffice for those.

The stickers you create have to follow unified design requirements. Don't worry, though, because these are super simple:

  • Telegram stickers must be PNG images with a dimension of 512 x 512 pixels and a file size of 512KB.
  • Each sticker should be a separate image file. Designing and uploading them is easier on desktop than on mobile, so you might want to use Telegram for Mac, Telegram for Windows, or Telegram Web.
  • The icon for your sticker pack is optional. If you'd like to have one, design or edit a 100 x 100 PNG image with a transparent layer.

It's important to understand that using things like movie scenes to create your stickers is copyright infringement. Yes, that's exactly how memes are made, but unlike a meme, your sticker pack will likely be taken off Telegram if the copyright owner complains. That said, there seems to be no copyright check when you upload your designs.

The average Telegram sticker pack includes between 10 and 20 stickers, but you're not limited in how many you want to upload. Some packs have over 100 stickers, and you can keep coming back and adding new ones even after you publish.

As you've probably already noticed, you don't need a Photoshop subscription to create Telegram stickers. You can design yours using a mobile sticker maker app or any of these free alternatives to Adobe software. We designed one using the SVG-Edit web app.

You can generally turn any image into a Telegram sticker as long as you convert it to the appropriate pixel size, file size, and file format beforehand. Just note that compressing and resizing images will hurt their quality.

Step 2: Find the Telegram Sticker Bot

The Sticker Bot for Editing and Adding Sticker Packs on Telegram Chat

Once your very own Telegram stickers are ready to roll, find the Telegram sticker bot. You can do that either by following the link or by opening Telegram and typing "stickers" into the search field. Then click on the first @Stickers option.

You'll see the following list of new Telegram sticker commands in the chat area:

  • /newpack to make a static PNG/WEBP sticker set.
  • /newvideo to make a set of WEBM video stickers.
  • /newanimated to make an animated TGS sticker set.
  • /newmasks to make a static set of masks.
  • /help for full list of commands.

Click Start to start setting up your sticker pack if this is your first time creating stickers. Otherwise, use the /newpack command.

Step 3: Upload Your Static Telegram Stickers

The Telegram sticker bot makes it easy to upload and publish your designs for static stickers. Here's what you need to do:

  1. Type in the /newpack command and hit Enter on your keyboard or click the blue send button.
  2. Type in the name of your sticker pack and click the send arrow.
  3. Now click the File (paperclip) icon to upload your first sticker. Don't just drop the images. Otherwise, you'll get an error prompt saying, "Please attach the image as a file (uncompressed), not as a photo."
    Uploading a New Sticker Selfie Girl on Telegram
  4. Click Send to upload your image as a Telegram sticker. Please note that the Sticker bot will ignore any additional images that you upload at this stage. Don't worry—you can add more stickers to your pack later.
  5. Sticker bot will ask you to assign an emoji to your uploaded image. Choose one that matches it best and hit Enter to send. You can assign a few, but Telegram recommends using no more than two emojis per sticker.
  6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for every Telegram sticker you want to add.
  7. When you're done, input the /publish command and send it.
  8. If you want to add an icon for your sticker pack, upload a supported PNG or WEBP image with 100 x 100 pixels. If you don't have an icon, just send the /skip command, and your first sticker will become the icon for this pack.
  9. Finally, set a name for your sticker pack. The one used here is "SampleStickerSetforMUO".
  10. Done! Click on the link to your Telegram sticker pack to see how everything looks. If you have more than 10 stickers, you can scroll through them.

Step 4: Edit and Check Your Custom Sticker Packs

You can add, replace, or rename stickers in your custom sticker packs. If you want to modify someone else's work, duplicate their packs on your device first.

  • /addsticker: You can add sticker/s to your custom packs.
  • /editsticker: Change the emoji of specific stickers in your custom packs.
  • /replacesticker: Replace any sticker from your custom packs with a new one.
  • /ordersticker: Rearrange your custom sticker packs so that your favorites always serve as icons.
  • /delsticker: Delete any sticker from your custom packs.
  • /setpackicon: Replace or add an icon from your existing custom sticker pack.
  • /renamepack: Change the name of your custom sticker pack.
  • /delpack: Delete an entire custom sticker pack.

The Sticker bot also shows you the usage statistics of your custom stickers and sticker packs.

Checking the Usage Stats on Custom Telegram Stickers
  • /stats: You'll see how many times a specific sticker from your custom sticker packs has been used.
  • /top: Your custom stickers are ranked based on how many times they've been used.
  • /packstats: You'll see how many times a specific custom sticker pack has been used.
  • /packtop: You can check which of your custom sticker packs gets the most downloads.
  • /topbypack: See the top-performing stickers in your custom packs.
  • /packusagetop: Your custom sticker packs are ranked based on usage.

Step 5: Start Sending Your Telegram Stickers

Copying Link of Custom Telegram Sticker Pack With Two Pictures

Telegram doesn't have a sticker store or any other way for people to browse all existing stickers. This means your pack will be gathering dust until you and your friends start sending the stickers you made. You can make use of them while using Telegram Voice Chats to spice up your conversations.

When you click on your pack's URL, you'll see two ways to start sharing your Telegram stickers.

  • Share: This will forward the link to your pack to a Telegram contact or group of your choosing. To access this, click on the three dots button in the top-right corner then click on Share Stickers. You can even use these stickers in the best Telegram Channels for sharing work like this.
  • Add Stickers: This will add the pack to your collection so that you can send individual stickers to your Telegram contacts. Your friends can then see and add the pack by tapping on the sticker you sent—that is how they spread online.

More Reasons to Start Using Telegram

Stickers alone would be enough to ditch other messaging apps in favor of Telegram, but there are more reasons why Telegram is the only messenger you need. From secret chats to the ability to fix typos in the messages you've already sent, Telegram has tons of features you're likely to use.