Guide · Sticker Kit
How to Make a WhatsApp Sticker Pack From a Photo — No Prompts Needed
Custom WhatsApp stickers used to mean design software or fiddly prompt-writing. With Promly you upload a photo — or pick a character you saved — choose a style and the words, and get a clean, transparent sticker pack ready for WhatsApp. Here's exactly how, start to finish.
What you'll need
Making a sticker pack with Promly takes about two minutes. Before you start, have these ready:
- A photo or a saved character. 1–3 clear pictures of one subject (yourself, a friend, your pet), or a character you made in Promly's Character Kit — from a photo or just from words.
- A free Promly account. You get 15 Pixels when you sign up — no credit card — which is enough to make your first pack.
- No design skills and no prompt skills. That's the whole point. Promly's Sticker Kit handles the prompt engineering for you behind the scenes.
Make a WhatsApp sticker pack in 5 steps
Here is the full process from a blank screen to a pack inside your chat app.
Open the Sticker Kit
Sign in to Promly and choose the Sticker Kit. It's a simple form — there's no blank prompt box to stare at and no syntax to learn.
Add a photo — or pick a saved character
Upload 1–3 clear photos of one subject, or pick a character you saved in Promly under Use a saved character. Keep it to one clear subject for the cleanest results.
Pick a style
Choose one of seven looks with a tap — 3D Caricature, Realistic, Cartoon, Cute, Pixar 3D, Anime or Pop Art — then the lettering and the words on the stickers. The style is applied consistently across every sticker so the pack feels like a real set.
Generate the pack
Pick 9, 12, 16 or 24 stickers. Promly draws them on one sheet — the same character in each pose — with clean, transparent backgrounds, one word per sticker (HAPPY, LOL, SORRY and so on), in a single run.
Split, download, add to WhatsApp
Tap Split into individual stickers (free), then download them all as a ZIP or as a WhatsApp pack (.wastickers). Open the pack with a free sticker-maker app and tap “Add to WhatsApp”.
Why "no prompts" makes better stickers
Most AI image tools hand you an empty prompt box and expect you to know the magic words. Get the wording wrong and you get a different face on every sticker, a busy background you can't use, or a style that drifts halfway through the pack.
Promly is built for people who don't want to learn prompt engineering. The Sticker Kit turns your photo, your style and your words into a model-ready prompt for you — locking the character, forcing a transparent background, and keeping the style consistent across the whole sheet. You pick the look; Promly handles the prompt.
The key difference: a sticker pack should look like one character in many moods — not a random new face on each sticker. Promly keeps the subject consistent across every pose, which is the hard part to get right by hand.
Real packs made with Promly
These were made with the Sticker Kit — one consistent character per sheet, transparent backgrounds, ready for WhatsApp:
Each sheet is one run of the Sticker Kit · transparent backgrounds · split into a WhatsApp pack for free.
Tips for a better sticker pack
- Edit the words. The Kit suggests one word per sticker; change them to the reactions you actually send (one per line).
- Keep the subject simple. One character reads better at sticker size than a busy scene with lots of detail.
- Try the lettering. Eight lettering styles — Playful, Bold, Clean, Elegant, Handwritten, Retro Script, Typewriter and Stencil — change how the words look.
- Start from a clear photo. If you're using a picture, a sharp, well-lit, front-facing shot gives the most recognisable result.
Adding the pack to WhatsApp (and Telegram)
WhatsApp: download the WhatsApp pack (.wastickers) from the split screen and send it to your phone. Open it with a free sticker-maker app (for example Sticker Maker Studio) and tap “Add to WhatsApp”. The stickers inside are already 512 × 512 WebP, so nothing needs re-cropping.
Telegram: Telegram builds packs with its @Stickers bot, which takes PNG or WebP files that fit a 512 × 512 square. Download the ZIP of transparent PNGs, resize them to 512 px, then send them to the bot and name the pack.