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Pixchange
Techstars '20Bern, CH · Founded 2018 · 1 known investors
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Pixchange operates a marketplace for digital collectibles—including avatars, stickers, gifs, videos, and filters—that users can create, mint as NFTs, and share across platforms. It serves creators looking to sell their designs and earn commissions or resale royalties, as well as collectors seeking unique content.
Also known as Pixchange - NFT Marketplace · Pixchange GmbH
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Pixchange, operated by Pixchange GmbH of Bern, Switzerland, is a mobile application combining a marketplace, creation tools and a custom sharing keyboard for visual messaging content. Users browse a database of over one million GIFs and stickers, build albums, and paste content into third-party apps including Messenger, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Viber, WeChat, iMessage and Telegram. Stickers and photos can additionally be exported to WhatsApp as a sticker pack.
Creation features include a sticker-maker with automatic background removal and coloured outlines, conversion of uploaded videos into GIFs, and the addition of 3D stickers, filters and masks to videos. A linked Studio app is used to create 3D avatars and face filters. The app also carries social features: user profiles that showcase creations, a search function for finding artists and friends, and chat for communicating with fans and other creators.
The Google Play listing positions the product as an NFT marketplace for "metaverse NFTs," with the company handling the underlying crypto processes so that users can mint, buy and sell through in-app purchases, cash out in local currency, and transfer assets to an external web3 wallet.
Founding story
The company describes creating the app out of its founders' own frustration at being unable to find a fitting emoji or GIF for a moment before that moment passed.
Business model
Pixchange operates a two-sided marketplace between content creators and consumers, monetised through in-app purchases and a commission on sales. The app is free to download with in-app purchases, and the Apple listing indicates it also handles third-party advertising data.
Creators selling unlimited copies of stickers and GIFs retain 70% of the sale price, implying a 30% platform commission; the company states it takes no commission on limited-edition NFT sales. Creator payouts are made via PayPal or SEPA, or cashed out in local currency for NFT sales.
Traction
The Android app has surpassed 100,000 downloads and holds a 3.7 rating from about 1,510 reviews; the iOS app has a 5.0 rating from 4 ratings. The content database is described as containing more than 1,000,000 GIFs and stickers.
Latest developments
The Android listing was last updated in June 2023, emphasising NFT minting, avatars and planned AI-assisted creation tools. The company was still responding to user reviews on Google Play in February 2025.
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Technology
Mobile apps for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iMessage) and Android, including a custom keyboard extension for cross-app sharing, automatic background-removal for sticker creation, video-to-GIF conversion with sound and HD video support, 3D stickers, face filters and masks, and an associated Studio app for 3D avatar and filter creation. NFT minting and custody of the crypto workflow are abstracted behind in-app purchases, with transfer to external web3 wallets supported. The company has indicated plans to add AI-assisted content creation.
Go-to-market
Distribution is direct-to-consumer through the Apple App Store and Google Play, with growth driven by cross-app sharing via the Pixchange keyboard and export of sticker packs into messengers such as WhatsApp, plus in-app social and chat features that let creators reach their audience.
Two groups: artists and creators who want to sell stickers, GIFs, avatars and NFTs and reach an audience, and consumers or collectors looking for visual content to use in messaging apps and social platforms.
Geography
Headquartered at Spitalgasse 28, 3011 Bern, Switzerland; the apps are distributed internationally through the Apple App Store and Google Play, with English-language listings.
History
The iOS app's version history begins in early 2019, with version 2.0.0 in August 2019 launching the marketplace for selling stickers and GIFs, user profile pages and WhatsApp sticker export. Subsequent iOS releases added web-browser upload and Twitter compatibility (late 2019), sound support, HD video, Apple Login (2020), an instant sticker-maker with automatic background removal (2021), in-app chat and creator search (2021), link sharing for masks and 3D models (2021), and further creation tools through version 2.2 in September 2022. The Android listing, updated in June 2023, repositions the product as an NFT marketplace with in-app minting and web3 wallet transfers.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsGoogle Play listing, updated on this date, presents Pixchange as an NFT marketplace with in-app minting, purchase and sale, cash-out in local currency, transfer to external web3 wallets, commission-free limited-edition NFT sales, and 3D avatar and face-filter creation via a linked Studio app.
Latest listed Apple App Store release, adding new creation tools.
iOS version 2.1 added an updated design and link-based sharing of masks and 3D models.
iOS release introduced chat with fans, friends and creators, and a search feature in the Connect section for finding artists and friends.
iOS release added a sticker-maker that turns any photo or illustration into a sticker via automatic background removal.
iOS version 2.0.0 introduced the Pixchange marketplace allowing users to sell stickers and GIFs, added user profile pages for sharing creations with the community, and enabled export of stickers to WhatsApp.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Pixchange do?
- Swiss app developer running a mobile marketplace and keyboard for NFTs, stickers, GIFs, avatars and AR content.
- Who are Pixchange's investors?
- Pixchange's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Pixchange headquartered?
- Pixchange is headquartered in Bern, CH.