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Add Sticker Maker to your iPhone

30 seconds, no App Store. Sticker Maker is a web app — Safari saves it to your Home Screen and it opens full-screen like any other app. Free forever.

1. Install the app (one time)

  1. Open this page in Safari (not Chrome — Safari is the only browser that can add to Home Screen on iOS).
  2. Tap the Share button at the bottom of Safari.
  3. Scroll down and tap “Add to Home Screen”.
  4. Tap Add. The Stickers icon appears on your Home Screen.

From now on, tap the icon to open the app full-screen.

2. Make a sticker

Turn any photo, screenshot, or meme into a sticker. Perfect for a chess.com "Blunder" badge, a hilarious screenshot of your friend's text, or any image you want to drop into iMessage.

  1. Open the app and tap Choose photo. Pick any image — screenshot, photo, meme, anything.
  2. Erase the background. You have three tools:
    • Magic wand: tap any pixel and it removes everything matching that color. Great for flat backgrounds like white, app screenshots, or solid colors. Adjust tolerance higher to grab more similar pixels per tap.
    • Eraser: drag to manually wipe pixels. Use this to clean up edges the wand misses.
    • Restore: drag to bring back pixels you erased by mistake.
  3. (Optional) Tap Auto-remove bg for AI subject isolation. First tap downloads a ~30 MB model to your phone — after that it runs offline. Best for photos with people, animals, or objects against a busy background.
  4. (Optional) Tap Crop to subject to tighten the sticker around what's left.
  5. Tap Save / ShareSave Image.

Everything happens on your phone. Photos never leave the device. There's no upload, no server, no account.

3. Add it to your iPhone sticker collection

iOS 17+ lifts subjects from any photo into a real sticker — no extra app needed.

  1. Open Photos and find the sticker you just saved.
  2. Long-press directly on the subject (1 second). iOS lifts it — you'll see a shimmer around the edge.
  3. A menu pops up. Tap “Add Sticker”.
  4. That's it. The sticker now lives in your system sticker drawer — available in iMessage, Mail, Notes, anywhere stickers go.

Tip: the sticker is exported with a bright lime-green background. That's intentional — iOS's subject-lift model needs a clear foreground/background contrast to fire, and lime green is the easiest possible separation. The green never makes it into the finished sticker; iOS lifts the subject and discards everything else.

Using your stickers in Messages

  1. Open Messages, tap the + next to the text box.
  2. Tap Stickers.
  3. Your stickers appear under “Your Stickers”. Tap to send, or long-press and drag the sticker onto an existing message bubble to attach it to a specific message — perfect for slapping a "Blunder" sticker onto your friend's horrendous take.

Why does this app work without the App Store?

Sticker Maker is a Progressive Web App (PWA). It's a normal website that Safari can save to your Home Screen. When you tap the icon, it opens full-screen with no browser chrome — indistinguishable from a native app for what this does. It runs entirely on your phone; nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server.

Built by Jack Homer. Open source — find it on GitHub.