LINE Sticker Maker is a photography utility for iOS and Android that allows users to create and sell custom sticker sets for the LINE messaging platform.
Product velocity
Unknown
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Photography
Sentiment
4.6
75k reviews
Nemesis
Preset & Filters For LR
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to convert personal photos into unique social expressions, with the secondary job of earning revenue through the integrated marketplace.
For LINE users and amateur creators looking to monetize original designs or personalize their chat experience.
What does it look like?
Key features
In-app submission portal for sticker review and release to the global LINE Sticker Shop.
Settings to hide stickers from public shops, restricting access to specific links.
How much does it cost?
The app is free to use, monetizing through a revenue-share model where the platform takes a cut of sticker sales in the marketplace.
Velocity
Steady developmentShow more...
Who built it?
LINE (LY Corporation)
13+ apps tracked · Photography
LINE：ソリティア
LINEスキマニ - すぐに働けるスキマバイト探し
LINE トリプルトレジャー
LINE占い - チャットや電話で気軽に相談しよう
LINE WALK
LINE 散步趣
LINE：ハンディクラフト
LINE：マージジェリー
LINE：イートホール
LINE Match Flight
LINE：スペーストイコレクト
LINE ロジックUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate the sticker creation tool provides a fun and intuitive way for users to design custom content, but report excessive review and approval wait times for sticker sets frustrate creators who want immediate results.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Weekly average review rating
What users say, by theme
- The sticker creation tool provides a fun and intuitive way for users to design custom content
- Excessive review and approval wait times for sticker sets frustrate creators who want immediate results
120 of 273 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for LINE Sticker Maker
How's the Photography market?
LINE Sticker Maker maintains a consistent presence in the Photography category, ranking #6 in Japan and #15 in Taiwan. The gap between its free utility and the friction-heavy monetization process limits its scaling potential compared to automated AI-editing rivals.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Sajjad IT
This app competes for the same creative photography audience by offering a vast library of aesthetic enhancements that users apply to their personal photos, similar to the sticker-creation workflow.
- Offers a massive library of pre-made filters compared to this app's manual sticker creation workflow.
- Focuses on professional-grade photo editing presets rather than this app's casual, social-sharing sticker utility.
- Users report the app's subscription model feels aggressive and some allege it uses deceptive billing practices.
AI Photo Generator: Remake AIContender
GIO - AI Photoshoot GeneratorContender
PastBook: 1-Click Photo BookContender
PhotoCalendarsContenderUnlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for LINE Sticker Maker
Where is it heading?
The market for creative photo tools is shifting toward AI-driven automation, which makes the manual sticker creation workflow increasingly vulnerable. Unless the app addresses its review and registration friction, it will continue to lose creators to platforms that offer immediate, automated results.
- The manual review bottleneck causes long wait times, which leads to creator frustration and churn, directly impacting the sticker supply chain.
- Technical friction in the registration process prevents new user onboarding, which limits the growth of the creator pool.
The SWOT
- Direct integration with the LINE Sticker Shop creates a creator-led supply chain
- Privacy-controlled distribution allows for private, personalized sticker sets
- Expanding the sticker simulator to include more advanced animation tools could increase creator retention
Next best moves
Audit rejection criteria and ship automated feedback templates because opaque rejections are a top complaint → reduce creator churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's review bottleneck is not just a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
AI-driven automated sticker generation (available in Remake AI but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive outlook has declined due to persistent technical friction in the registration process and a manual review bottleneck that is driving creator churn.
Bottom line
LINE Sticker Maker leverages its unique position in the LINE ecosystem to drive content creation, but the manual review bottleneck and registration friction are actively eroding its creator base, so the PM must prioritize transparency in the approval process to retain top creators.
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Access the full report for freeFAQ
Is LINE Sticker Maker free to use?
How long does it take to get stickers approved?
Can I make stickers private?
What is the difference between this and AI photo generators?
Sources
- [1] Play Store listing, source
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