How to Publish Your Sticker App with Mediamoji

Never created a Sticker App before? Worry no more! Follow this simple guide to get started with creating your first Sticker App.

1. Get a MediaMoji account

Mediamoji is the easiest and best way for artists and designs to sell stickers in the App Store. Sign up for a no-risk, free trial and have we’ll submit your app within 24 hours of uploading your designs.

When your app is published to the app store, we’ll begin your free 30 day trial!

2. Upload your Designs

Whether you want to publish your existing work or create something new, you can upload your designs through our easy to use web interface and they immediately appear in your app. You can update or remove stickers just as easily at any time without publishing a new app to the App Store.

After creating an account, you can immediately begin uploading your designs. For best results, follow our best practices guide to formatting the stickers you upload.

Click “Add Media” to create your first sticker!

Upload the content and provide metadata.

Upload a PNG or PNGX (for animations) formatted as described in the best practices document.

Review your sticker and edit at anytime

View your sticker catalog

After uploading your stickers, they are viewable on the “Media” screen. All stickers are shown in the order they are displayed in your app.

Customize your app

Mediamoji was designed and built to look great and work well out of the box. The platform also gives you many ways to express yourself and identify with your fans by customizing some details of your app. You can learn more about the various customizations, in this article describing how to modify your app details, but here are a few of the main features you should know about:

Create categories for your stickers.

After you have more than 9 or 12 stickers in your app, you may want to organize them into logical categories to make it easier for your users to find the sticker they are looking for. Each category consists of a list of media items selected to be in the category, a title and an icon.

Here, we show an example of how the StreetCuts.co team organized their 200+ stickers into categories by the artists that contributed the stickers.

Create sticker packs to sell as in-app purchases

Stickers that are not associated with a pack are accessible to all users that download your app. These are the stickers that your usuer automatically gets when downloading your app from the App Store. But, if you add a sticker to a pack, your users must purchase that pack to get access to this sticker and the others in that pack. To learn more about packs in Mediamoji, have a look at this detailed description of our pack functionality.

Packs are a collection of stickers, a hero image, the sale price and other metadata describing the sticker set. After you create packs in your app, we will publish it to the App Store. Once approved by Apple, your users will be able to purchase your pack in the app.

You can also read this article to learn more about how to earn more money by selling paid packs.

In the example below, we show how StreetCuts created a paid pack for “Abe Lincoln Jr’s Nice Folks” sticker pack in the creator web interface and what this sticker pack looks like when viewed by a user in the app.

3. Complete your App Profile

Your app’s profile includes things like your logo, color scheme, app store description, sale price and other details. This information is required for us to be able to publish your app to the App Store. See this article for a detailed explanation of how to customize your app’s profile or look & feel.

Upload a logo and details entered into Mediamoji

Your app logo and details will appear in the iOS Web App Store

4. Publish to App Store

After uploading all of your media and customizing the app profile, click the “Publish” button. We then generate your new app, load it up with your art and logo and submit it to Apple for their App Store review. For more information on how this works, read our detailed article about how Mediamoji publishes your app.

After submitting the app to Apple for approval it could take between one day and two weeks for the app to be approved. Once the app is approved, it will be immediately available in the iOS and iMessage App Stores. We will send you a notification letting you know that your app is LIVE!