LINE Sticker Maker

The pitch is narrow and honest: the app turns your photos and short videos into stickers and then hands you the same submission pipeline every LINE creator uses. That pipeline is the product. LINE lays it out in three steps — create your stickers, submit them for review, start sales — and the guardrails that usually sink first-timers are baked in: in-app creation tips, the Sticker Review Guidelines, rejection reasons you can read under the SUBMITTED tab, and the advice to limit sales regions to reduce review criteria. What it won't do is as important as what it will. Editing stops at cropping, decorating, text and decals. There's no generative AI, so no prompt-to-sticker shortcut — you bring every image and clip. If your art needs layers or brushes, do that in Procreate or Canva and bring the finished files back here to submit. Animated stickers from your own video clips are the standout capability and the one most likely to pull you in ahead of a static-pack competitor. The economics need plain talk. Approved packs sell at JPY 120, 250, 370, 490 or 610, and you earn a revenue share — but LINE states its example is an estimate based on purchases made on Japan's Sticker Shop as of May 2024 and does not guarantee the specified amount. Revenue shares move with the sales price, purchase location, purchase area, LINE Coin pricing and conversion rates, and what actually transfers is the share minus bank transfer fees, currency exchange fees and withholding tax. LINE's own FAQ mentions some creators earning hundreds of thousands of yen a month, which is a ceiling, not a forecast. Two structural quirks catch buyers. First, you cannot distribute stickers you create without selling them — anyone who wants to use them must buy them after you put them on sale, and free download of your own set only applies to you as the creator, and not at all if 'Paid download with revenue shares' is enabled. Second, the admin doesn't live in the app: bank registration, stopping sales and requesting re-review of a rejected pack happen on the LINE Creators Market website, and you cannot edit or resubmit a rejected set from the app. Privacy settings are a genuinely useful touch — 'Hide in LINE STORE/Sticker Shop' keeps your set out of the new-release and popularity rankings and search results, though anyone with the direct purchase-page link can still view and buy. Use that when you want to test a set before promoting it on social. Where it fits: hobbyists and LINE-native creators who already have photos, clips or doodles and want a zero-upfront-cost path to the Sticker Shop. Where it doesn't: professional designers needing a real illustration toolset, businesses making promotional or mascot stickers (against the review guidelines), and anyone not active on LINE, for whom the marketplace payoff is unreachable.