This festive season, Hike— India's first homegrown messaging app, has an early gift for everyone – new animated sticker packs for Christmas and New Year.

Express your joy, love and happiness with the new sticker packs highlighting the magic of the season— feasts, midnight mass, Christmas carol phrases, Santa, Elves and reindeer, new year celebrations and more. Wish your friends and family with these colourful and warm stickers to add that extra sparkle to your chats.

Available in app from December 21, in time for the festive season, Hike users can download these from the PlayStore and AppStore.

Christmas

New Year

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!