Sendimals vs Stickman
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sendimals
Design unique creatures by combining pre-drawn body parts. Share your creations with friends via iMessage or use the app for personal amusement. Express your creativity from cute to bizarre.
- Create custom critters
- Combine pre-drawn body parts
- Share creations via iMessage
- Express creativity
- Personal amusement
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Create cute, funny, weird, scary, or silly critters using pre-drawn body parts! With Sendimals, you can quickly make awesome-looking creatures with just a few swipes. Or you can make hideous Lovecraftian eyeless nightmares with a hundred legs. Your choice. Sendimals comes with an iMessage app that you can use to send your creations back and forth with your friends. So check out the Messages app! Or just use app to amuse yourself.
Stickman
Create your own cartoons by drawing frame by frame. This app offers an easy-to-use interface, drawing lessons, and the ability to color your creations and add stickers. Save your animations as GIFs to share with friends.
- Frame-by-frame drawing
- Coloring and stickers
- Save as GIF
- Share animations
- Drawing lessons
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Become a real animator with our application: draw frame by frame and turn your drawings into a cartoon. Application features: - Easy to use interface: anyone can create cartoons - Color your drawing and add colorful stickers - Save the result as GIF and share with your friends - Drawing lessons for beginners
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sendimals at none against Stickman's 1. Sendimals also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 40%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). Stickman's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (253 vs 12). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Stickman sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sendimals asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Sendimals against 3.9 for Stickman. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stickman has 253 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Sendimals's written reviews are positive against 40% of Stickman's.
Sendimals ships an update every 6 months, Stickman every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sendimals | Stickman |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) — better | 3.9 (253 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 253 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 372 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Landey | Appache apps and games ltd |
Customer experience
Sendimals
Stickman
Bugs and requests
Sendimals
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Stickman
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frames disappearing during animation
- Inability to access saved projects
- Loading issues and white screens
- Unexpected app crashes
Requested features
5 requests- Add sound and audio support
- Improve export quality
- Implement more advanced animation tools
- Increase frame limit for free version
- Add ability to move and edit objects
In-app purchases
Sendimals
No in-app purchases
Stickman
- Premium version$10.99
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