ArtGen vs Writer Assistant (Wassi)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArtGen
This app helps artists, writers, and creatives overcome creative blocks by generating randomized character concepts. Customize word pools with themed packs and reroll or manually edit attributes. Save your generated characters and attach your artwork, with all data stored locally or privately via iCloud.
- Randomized character concept generation
- Customizable themed word packs
- Reroll or manually edit attributes
- Save generated characters
- Attach artwork to saved characters
- Local and private iCloud sync
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ArtGen is a character idea generator built for artists, writers, and creatives to help push past art/idea blocks. Choose from themed packs to customize your word pool. Tap generate to get a randomized character concept instantly. Reroll any attribute until it feels right, or manually make it your own. When you're done randomizing, save your character and attach your finished artwork. No AI, accounts. or data collection. Everything stays on your device or syncs privately through your personal iCloud. Your ideas belong to you!
Writer Assistant (Wassi)
This app helps writers develop characters, locations, and entire story worlds. It provides guided questions for in-depth creation and allows for outlining plots and scenes. Export your developed worlds and stories to PDF.
- Create separate projects for story universes
- Develop characters and locations with guided questions
- Add photos to characters and locations
- Describe worlds with races, flora, and fauna
- Outline stories, plots, and scenes
- Export projects to PDF
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Writer Assistant (Wassi) is an application created specifically for inventors! We all constantly invent new characters for our stories, be it a comic, a novel, a script, a play, or a game. And so that our characters are alive and riveted the attention, they need to be developed a lot! That is what the Writer Assistant was created for! Plus, with Wassi you can easily outline your stories on the go. Let's check it! With Wassi support, you can: - create separate projects for each of your universes - create characters and locations - develop characters and locations using leading questions in the program - add photos to the characters and locations - create worlds where your story happen - describe every millimeter of the world by filling races, flora, animals of the world and more - create stories with your characters - outline stories - create stories plots and scenes and connect them - export created projects to PDF-documents Free version limitations: - 3 projects - 3 characters, 3 locations, 3 stories, 3 worlds per project - 3 plots, 3 scenes per story - watermark and link to the app's AppStore webpage in the exported document - saving and restoring backups not available To remove all limitations you can upgrade to the Pro version by clicking the "Upgrade to Pro" menu item and purchasing Pro version license. You can share one license between all your iOS devices. In the next update: - ability to add items - more details about constituents of the world - ability to add connections between characters - ability to set up characters and location of the scene - export to the DOCX format
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Writer Assistant (Wassi) at 3.8 against ArtGen's 3.2. Writer Assistant (Wassi) also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). ArtGen's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. ArtGen sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Writer Assistant (Wassi) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Writer Assistant (Wassi) holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 215 and 81 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of ArtGen's written reviews are positive against 72% of Writer Assistant (Wassi)'s.
ArtGen ships an update every 2 days, Writer Assistant (Wassi) monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ArtGen | Writer Assistant (Wassi) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (215 ratings) | 3.8 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | 71.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 215 — better | 81 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LIONBYTE LLC | Dmitry Novikov |
Customer experience
ArtGen
Writer Assistant (Wassi)
User reviews
ArtGen
From 215 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for character concepts
- 👍 Useful for writers/artists
- 👍 Good for organizing characters
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Good value for in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 App closes when scrolling
- 🐛 Cannot delete characters
- 🐛 Cannot edit pictures
- 🐛 Confusing format for some
Writer Assistant (Wassi)
From 81 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for character building
- 👍 Excellent for world building
- 👍 Helpful for in-depth backstories
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Affordable pro version
Room to improve
- 💰 Strict character limit on free version
- 💰 Paywall for adding more than 3 characters
- 💰 Deleted characters still count towards limit
- 💰 Limited free features
- 💰 Blurry character images
Bugs and requests
ArtGen
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when opening edited character
- App closes when scrolling down character profile
- Cannot delete characters
- Cannot edit character pictures
- App crashes when editing characters
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- App closes when scrolling
- Purchased packs not showing up
- App closes when trying to restore purchases
- App keeps exiting when opening
- Application suddenly shuts down
- Bought packs and nothing happened
- Scrolling is glitched
- Profile glitched after removing writing
- Black screen on launch
Requested features
19 requests- Grid view selection
- More detail options
- Ability to delete characters
- Ability to re-roll existing character details
- More powers/attributes
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- Add own attributes
- Sort characters into folders
- Add cover images to characters
- Option to choose selections instead of random
- Ability to choose own choices/type in traits
- Subcatalog by specific works
- More realism in generation
- More attributes (hair, eye color, age, traits)
- Add own character characteristics to generator
- Option to insert image or character creation look
- Additional questions (favorite color, zodiac sign)
- Sections/dividers for organizing characters
- Restore purchases button
- See all characters at once (icon mode)
Writer Assistant (Wassi)
Reported bugs
8 issues- Notes not saved after iCloud sign-in on new phone
- Pictures assigned to wrong characters across projects
- Pictures assigned to new characters in different projects
- Duplicate photos when changing profile pictures
- Typing cursor jumps randomly
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- Blurry character images
- Airdrop issue for saving/backing up
- App not accessible with Apple Voiceover
Requested features
20 requests- Unlimited characters for free
- Ability to delete projects
- Copy/paste support
- Desktop or web version
- Customizable fields for prompts
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- Examples for character attributes
- Revert profile picture to default
- Remove photo button
- Ability to write the actual story
- Folders for organizing characters/locations
- Better subsections for world/culture
- More in-depth story planning (connections)
- Ability to discriminate between major/minor characters
- Residents tab for locations
- Option to add own tabs/text boxes
- Ability to tag characters
- Towns/cities tab
- Dark mode option
- Family account sharing for pro
- Syncing across devices
In-app purchases
ArtGen
- Realistic PackFree
- Fantasy Pack$0.99
- Space Pack$0.99
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- Historical Pack$0.99
- Comic Book Pack$0.99
- Unlock All Packs$2.99
Writer Assistant (Wassi)
- Unlock of the pro version$2.99
Questions
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