January 11, 2019: Hike — India’s first homegrown messaging app, today announced new animated sticker packs for Uttarayan and Makar Sankrati, a festival celebrated across India to mark the auspicious beginning of the harvest festival. The new sticker packs are available in Gujarati, Marathi and English.
Celebrate this happy and colorful festival with beautiful stickers depicting kites flying, bonfires for coping with the winter chill, and other associated references. Share the joy by sending Hike’s animated stickers that capture the wholesome spirit of the festival.
Available in-app from January 11, Hike users can download these from the PlayStore and AppStore.
Makar Sankrati
Uttarayan
Stickers as a means of social expression
Stickers are one of the most loved features of Hike. Hike offers a library of over 20,000 stickers in 40+ languages and covering multiple genres which highlight the colorful, cultural landscape of India, Bollywood, comedy, festivals, cricket, kabaddi, local catchphrases, emotions, and even excuses. There is also the nifty text-to-stickers feature on Hike chat that can turn any message you type into a fun sticker. Stickers are expressive and a great way to say what you feel. Hike’s most popular stickers reflect love, laughter and fun followed by festivals and regional references. Over 300 million stickers are exchanged every day!
