GIF Sticker & WAsticker

Review by eFreeware

GIF Sticker & WAsticker is a free sticker and GIF app from the developer Photo Collage & Grid - Foto Grid, built for people who send a lot of animated reactions in chat. It carries a 4.8 average from roughly 59,000 ratings and has passed 10 million installs since its release in March 2022, which puts it among the more widely used tools of its type. The main reason to consider it is simple: a broad catalog of animated stickers that can be pushed into WhatsApp and other messengers without paying for anything.

The app sits in the Communication category and describes itself as a source of emoji GIFs, GIF stickers, love hearts and talking emojis. Nothing about it is complicated in principle. You browse packs, add the ones you like, and then send them from inside your messaging app rather than from a separate editor. That is the whole proposition, and it is a reasonable one for anyone whose chats lean heavily on visual reactions.

It is worth setting expectations early. The app is free and supported by advertising, and it does not offer in-app purchases, so the library is the product rather than a gateway to a paid tier. If you already have a favorite sticker setup and rarely feel the need for new packs, there is little here to pull you away from it. For everyone else, the appeal is variety without a bill.

The animated sticker library and how packs reach WhatsApp

The feature the developer leads with is the animated library itself. The themes named by the developer include back to school, Pride Month, 3D emoji, 3D smileys, sweet talking emoji, love, love hearts, red roses, funny greetings, happy birthdays, hugs and kisses. That spread matters more than any single pack, because it means the app is trying to cover both ordinary daily chatting and the moments people plan around.

Getting a pack into WhatsApp is described as a three-step routine. You pick the pack you want, tap the ADD button in the top-right corner, then switch over to WhatsApp, where the stickers appear in the sticker keyboard automatically. I like that the developer keeps this to a short sequence. The design assumption is that you will be dipping in and out of the app between conversations, not sitting down for a long session.

Sharing is pitched as a one-tap action across the popular messengers, with WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messenger and Facebook named specifically. WhatsApp gets the most attention, and the ADD flow is built around it. If you use several chat apps, the same library appears to serve them all, which saves you from keeping separate sticker collections for each one.

The most recent update adds search on Tenor, so you can look for a specific sticker or GIF instead of scrolling through packs. That is a meaningful addition for anyone who knows roughly what reaction they want and would rather type a word than hunt through categories. Bug fixes came along with it.

Love, roses and birthday sets for specific moments

A large part of the catalog is aimed at affection. The love collections include kiss stickers and love heart GIFs, hug stickers, and emoji GIFs intended for missing someone, Valentine's Day, proposals, anniversaries and weddings. The developer frames this as saying more than words can, which is the usual pitch for romantic stickers and is fair enough as far as it goes. What matters practically is that the romantic material is grouped, so you are not hunting through general emoji packs when you want something for an anniversary.

Flowers get their own treatment. There are stickers of red roses and of flower bouquets, meant to bring a romantic tone to everyday chats rather than only to special dates. That distinction is useful. A rose sticker works as well on an ordinary Tuesday as it does on Valentine's Day, and having a small dedicated set means you are not reusing the same image until it loses its effect.

Birthdays are covered through sticker packs that include cakes, gifts, balloons and badges. The developer positions these for sending wishes to friends and family, and also mentions broader holiday coverage such as New Year, Christmas and Mother's Day. The pattern across all of this is occasion-driven browsing: you arrive knowing the moment you are marking, and the app is organized so that moment has a home. If your chats are mostly functional and text-based, most of this will sit unused.

The 3D emoji sets are the other notable group, spanning 3D emoji GIFs, 3D emoji stickers, smileys and talking emoji. These are the packs I would expect to get the most everyday use, since they slot into ordinary conversation rather than a specific event. Between the 3D material and the themed occasion packs, the library covers both the routine and the ceremonial sides of messaging.

What the app asks of you: ads, no purchases, and a messenger

That combination means there is no paid tier to weigh and no spending decision to make before you can use the sticker packs. The trade-off is the advertising.

The app is rated for Everyone, which fits a sticker library built around emojis, hearts, flowers and birthday images. There is nothing in the described content that suggests it is aimed at adults only, and the developer explicitly calls it fun for all ages. That makes it easy to hand to a younger family member.

The other requirement is a messaging app to send stickers through. WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messenger and Facebook are all supported, with WhatsApp as the primary target and the ADD flow written around it. If you do not use any of those, the library has nowhere obvious to go. The app is a supplier to your chat apps, not a place to hold conversations itself.

There is also a feedback channel. The developer invites problems and suggestions by email at [email protected], which is a small thing but a useful one if you want a theme that is not covered.

Getting the most from the packs

The sensible approach is to add packs selectively rather than everything at once. A sticker keyboard crowded with dozens of collections becomes harder to use, and the value of this app comes from having the right reaction close at hand. Start with the 3D emoji and smiley sets for daily use, then add the occasion packs when a birthday, anniversary or holiday is actually approaching.

Search is the other habit worth building, now that the app can look up stickers and GIFs on Tenor. When you want something specific, typing a term is faster than browsing categories, and it also surfaces material beyond the themed packs. For recurring moments, such as a friend's birthday or a weekly catch-up, it is worth deciding on a couple of favorites in advance so you are not searching mid-conversation.

If you send stickers across more than one messenger, the one-tap sharing means the same pack can serve all of them, so there is no need to maintain separate collections. And if a pack you would like does not exist, the developer's email address is the route to ask for it. That is a slower path than finding it yourself.

One caution on volume: animated stickers are more distracting than static ones, and a chat full of them can wear thin for the person receiving them. The themed sets make it easy to match the moment, which is the better way to use a library this size. A birthday cake GIF lands well on a birthday; the same image on a random afternoon does not.

A wide free library for sticker-heavy chatters

GIF Sticker & WAsticker does one job and does it broadly: it supplies animated stickers and GIFs for WhatsApp and other messengers, free of charge, with advertising as the cost of entry. The themed organization is the strongest part of the offer, because it means the app has something for a birthday, a holiday, a romantic message and an ordinary exchange without you having to look beyond it. The Tenor search added in the latest update makes finding a specific reaction quicker than browsing alone.

The audience is fairly clear. If stickers are a regular part of how you communicate and you want a large, varied library that costs nothing to use, this is a reasonable install. The 4.8 rating across tens of thousands of reviews suggests a lot of people have found it useful for exactly that. If your messages are mostly words and you rarely reach for a reaction image, the catalog will go untouched and the ads will be the only thing you notice.

My advice is to install it, add two or three packs that match how you actually chat, and treat the rest of the library as something to dip into when an occasion comes up. That keeps the sticker keyboard manageable and gets the most out of what is, by any measure, a generous free collection.

What's new in version 2.2.7

🥳 Search and find your favorite stickers & GIFs on Tenor - make your chats joyful! 🐚 Bug fixes.