LINE Officially Launches Selfie Sticker Creation App “ycon”

LINE, the world’s leading life platform, with 181 million monthly active users globally has announced the official launch of “ycon,” an update to the LINE Selfie Sticker app released on June 11, 2014, now featuring better integration with the LINE app.

Ycon allows users to insert selfies taken with their mobile phone’s camera or saved on the device into templates to create original LINE stickers featuring their own face. There are now over 1,000 different templates, with new ones being added weekly. Sticker templates can be customized by changing their size, brightness, or saturation, and even adding text.

Since its iPhone release in June 2014, user numbers have grown in LINE’s main markets and other countries amidst the global selfie phenomena, reaching 4.5 million downloads worldwide as of March 7. The app also topped the free apps ranking at App Stores in Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkmenistan, as well as the Entertainment category in 14 countries including Australia, Egypt, and Qatar, displaying its overwhelming popularity across regions.

In view of the app’s excellent performance, the company has officially launched the service globally with enhanced integration with the LINE app and a new name, “ycon.” The new version supports transparent backgrounds, making the stickers look and feel just like real LINE stickers, and enables the sending of stickers directly within LINE chats without having to start the ycon app, making the use of ycon stickers even more seamless and enjoyable.

“The Selfie Sticker Creation App “ycon” is the an interesting way to use one's self-portrait of the digital age. All one has to do is click a picture and convert it into a customised sticker. This gives a personalized feel to conversation and is a new benchmark by LINE in developing creative ways of communication. Selfies have become the best medium of self-expression and creating stickers using selfies will make conversations even more engaging”

.”- Daman Soni, Spokesperson of LINE India.

The main features of the service are as follows.

1. Easily turn selfies into stickers

Take a selfie that fits the frame, select a template, and position your photo – anyone can create a sticker in these three simple steps. Change the size and angle of the face, hairstyle, and facial shape, and add messages using speech balloons to create stickers for every occasion.

2. Send creations the same way as real LINE stickers

Stickers created using the app will be displayed in chats with transparent backgrounds¹, making them look and feel just like real LINE stickers.

Stickers Created with Older Versions or Other Apps　 Stickers Created with ycon

3. Access created stickers from LINE chats

Simply tap the “+” button in LINE chats and select ycon to send created stickers without leaving the app². Since there is no need to open another app, users can send their original stickers without disrupting the flow of the conversation.

Overview of App:

App name: ycon

Supported devices: Android and iPhone

Supported languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Indonesia, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese

Supported regions: Global

Service began: June 11, 2014 (iPhone), June 25, 2014 (Android), March 10, 2015 (Android and iPhone in Japan and Taiwan)

Cost: Free

URL: http://selfie.line.me/go

About LINE Corporation:

LINE Corporation is based in Japan and develops and operates the LINE app for smartphones. Since launching in June 2011, the LINE app has grown into a global service used in 230 countries, ranking first in the free app category in 60 countries. LINE offers free one-to-one and group messaging, as well as free domestic and international voice and video calls. LINE also includes a wide array of social elements such as fun and expressive stickers, a personal Home, a Timeline, and numerous LINE family apps, including LINE games and LINE camera.

For more information about LINE, please visit http://linecorp.com/en/ .

About LINE PLUS Corporation:

LINE PLUS Corporation, the world's leading mobile platform innovator, is a joint-venture entity between Naver Corporation (former NHN Corporation) and LINE Corporation (former NHN Japan Corporation), newly organized in March 2013. As a global smartphone life platform provider, LINE PLUS services LINE and its family applications to bring together an innovative mobile messaging tool and new communication lifestyle. LINE PLUS Corporation was created to promptly react to the ever-changing mobile messenger market and to strengthen its global business based on the industry expertise of its parent company, which furnishes a wide range of innovative and convenient online services. LINE PLUS Corporation is located in Seoul, Korea.

For more information about LINE PLUS Corporation, please visit http://linepluscorp.com/.(For English, http://linecorp.com/en/)

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