A sticker photo editor for iPhone

Tada is a sticker photo editor for iPhone: pick a photo in Add effects, pick a pack, and in about a second the stickers are placed on the person. Fix any of them with a finger, tap Save, and it goes to Photos as a Live Photo with the stickers moving.

What to look for in a sticker photo editor

• Placement. Does it put hats on heads and glasses on eyes, or do you place every sticker by hand?
• Easy fixes. You should be able to drag, pinch, turn and delete a sticker without digging through menus.
• Packs. Enough stickers to match a mood, with a clear line between what’s free and what’s paid.
• Movement. Do the stickers move, or is the result a still image?
• Saving. Does it save to your camera roll in a format your friends can open on their phones?
• Your photos. Does it work on pictures you already have, including screenshots?

How Tada’s Add effects works

1. Open Tada, tap Add effects and pick a photo. If it’s a screenshot, Tada frames the picture part first, and you can move the frame.
2. Pick one of 19 packs. In about a second the whole set is placed on the person: hats on heads, glasses on eyes, blush on cheeks, and things on ears, neck, shoulders and hands.
3. Tap the dice (Shuffle) for a new set.
4. Drag, pinch or turn a sticker to fix it. Drag it to the bin to delete it.
5. Tap Save. It goes to Photos as a Live Photo, about 3 seconds long, with the stickers moving. Send it in Messages like any Live Photo.

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The packs

There are 263 stickers in 19 packs. The free packs are Classic, Hats & headbands, Glasses, Earrings & ear things, Face stickers, Nose & mouth, Neck things, Things to hold, Speech bubbles, Vibes and Doodles. The Pro packs are Sweet & cozy, Cute critters, Halos & wings, Holidays, Mood marks, Animated emoji, Word art and Tuantuan & friends.

Two places to start: the face stickers, from freckles to whiskers, and the animated emoji.

Tada or the Photos app

The Photos app can add stickers with Markup, one at a time, and the photo stays still. Here is how both ways work. Add effects in Tada also has AI looks, which restyle the whole photo and then move, like Crayon Cosplay, a drawn costume with crayon doodles around it. Each look uses 1 AI tada, and the photo is sent to Tada’s AI partners (see privacy).

Questions

Sources: Apple Support: Add text, shapes, stickers, and more with Markup on iPhone

More you can do

• Add stickers that move
• Face stickers
• Kawaii stickers
• Animated emoji
• All guides