Telegram Stickers to WhatsApp

Telegram has an ocean of stickers while your friends in another messenger have none of them. You spot a funny set you would love to use in WhatsApp, and there is no obvious way to move it. The Telegram Stickers to WhatsApp Transfer bot exists for that.

Send a sticker, get a file

The scheme is simple. You send the bot a Telegram sticker and it returns a file with the .wastickers extension. That file then opens in an app for building WhatsApp sticker packs.

WhatsApp does not read this file by itself, so you need a go-between: a free sticker pack app from your phone's app store. 🎟️

Step by step

1. Install a WhatsApp sticker maker app on your phone. iPhone and Android have different versions.
2. Open the bot and press /start.
3. Send the bot a sticker from the pack you want to move.
4. When the file arrives, open it on Android and pick the sticker app. On iPhone tap the share icon and pick the same app.
5. Add the pack to your collection, then press the button that adds it to WhatsApp.

The stickers then appear in the WhatsApp panel. The whole route takes a couple of minutes.

Tips for getting it right the first time

Make sure WhatsApp and the sticker app are up to date. Old versions most often break the adding step.

If a pack is large, move stickers in batches and check the result in a chat right away. That makes it easier to see which step failed. Free up some phone storage first, since packs take space. 💡

If the file will not open, save it to your downloads and open it manually through the sticker app.

Bot commands

• /start shows a greeting.
• /help explains in plain words what to do with the received file.
• /donate lets you support the author if the bot helped.

The bot understands several languages, including English, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.

The animated sticker problem

This is the weakest spot. WhatsApp has its own format and size limits for animation, and the usual route does not always fit. In its help text the bot suggests unofficial modified versions of WhatsApp.

I would not rush into that. Modified clients are not built or supported by the messenger itself, and you hand account access to an unknown developer. You risk losing the account or your data. ⚠️

Rights and privacy

Stickers are often drawn by real artists. Using them with friends in private chats is usually fine, but publishing someone else's pack as yours or selling it is not.

Send the bot stickers only. Personal photos, documents and screenshots with private data do not belong there.

Who it is for

It is for people who live in two messengers at once and do not want to lose favorite packs. If you only need static images, you will get a result fast. If animation matters, expect compromises.

Messenger limits change. If the instructions stop working after an app update, check /help.