Comparison

Character Maker vs Anime Gacha Sim

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Character Maker

Design unique cartoon avatars with a vast selection of hairstyles, clothing, and facial colors. Arrange multiple characters and backgrounds, add text bubbles, and share your creations on social media. Perfect for expressing your style or creating visual stories.

Highlights
  • Customizable face and hair colors
  • Extensive male and female clothing options
  • Multi-character display
  • Adjustable character and background sizes
  • Bubble text for storytelling
  • Social media sharing
Features
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- Any specific colors for face and hair? Choose any color as you like~ - Male characters? female characters? Clothes are prepared as many as you want. - Show all the characters you made on one screen. - The background can also be decorated as you want. - You can also freely adjust the size of the characters and background! - If bubble text is added here? It will be a great story~ - Show the character & background that you made on social media. Character Maker is an app that allows you to create your own pretty character or ideal type by coordinating with various hairstyles and clothes. Open the Character Maker's closet and show off your own style, if you are who like to decorate your homes, want to have cute avatars, or who like to play dolls. You can also create a situational drama by completing a costume similar to your favorite star.

About

Anime Gacha Sim

Embark on a casual adventure in a charming anime world. Design unique characters with extensive customization options, dress them in fashionable outfits, and create engaging stories through interactive scenes and NPC encounters. Enjoy relaxing mini-games and play offline.

Highlights
  • Create unique anime characters
  • Extensive character customization
  • Fashionable costume dressing
  • Interactive NPC encounters
  • Scene design and story creation
  • Relaxing mini-games
  • Offline play
Features
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Welcome to the world of mini anime where everything is cute! Here, you will start splendid two-dimensional cute-character casual development adventure games! Anime Gacha Sim is a two-dimensional style, super healing and cute character costume adventure game with Q cute screen designs, rich clothing & weapons tools, superb background scenes and dazzling NPCs. You can match different costumes and styles as much as you want, create your own personalized fan characters, interact freely with different NPCs, and complete various simple & interesting game tasks! Are you ready to start your adventures in Anime Gacha Sim? Players can create their favorite cartoon characters through thousands of materials given in the list, and use the created cute characters to interact with various NPCs in various scenes. Players can also use the created characters to design various scenes to create a perfect and interesting scene story! Game features: --Create your own & unique characters, and define her/his name, gender, specialty, and preferences! --Customize your character's personal appearance, freely change her/his hairstyle, skin color, eyes, mouth, expressions, etc.! --Dress up your character with the most fashionable anime fashion costumes! Mix and match hundreds of clothes, weapons, hair accessories, jewelry, hats and more! --Create a variety of smooth actions for characters, and get extraordinary fun & experience by combining actions! --Explore different scenes with your own characters, discover new NPCs and design free chats with them! --Make your own anime story! Use hundreds of props to decorate multiple scenes and create exclusive story sketches! --Fun and interesting sushi restaurant upgrade games, unlock delicious sushi, get more coins and bonus diamonds! --Super-cute pet planting synthesis games, unlock more pet props and get bonus diamonds! --Save the super beautiful scene pictures and character design pictures locally and share them with your friends through the camera function! --Super healing & relaxing casual game! --Play without Wi-Fi!

Screenshots

Character Maker4 screens
Anime Gacha Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Character Maker at 4.5 against Anime Gacha Sim's 3.6. Character Maker also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 59%) and ratings volume (7.5K vs 129). Anime Gacha Sim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 13) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Character Maker sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Anime Gacha Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Character Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Character Maker has 7.5K ratings behind it against 129, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Character Maker's written reviews are positive against 59% of Anime Gacha Sim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Character Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, Anime Gacha Sim monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Character Maker versus Anime Gacha Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharacter MakerAnime Gacha Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (7.5K ratings) — better3.6 (129 ratings)
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews — better58.6% of reviews
Number of ratings7.5K — better129
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size232 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKYUNGMIN LEEChengdu Bosijie Technology LLC.

Customer experience

Character Maker

All ratings7,501 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral5.8%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews1,068 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.0%

Anime Gacha Sim

All ratings129 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral7.8%
Negative27.9%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive58.6%
Neutral9.2%
Negative32.2%

User reviews

Character Maker

From 7.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Cute character design
  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 💡 Lots of customization options
  • 👍 Fun and engaging
  • 👍 Diverse character creation

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes
  • 🔋 Ads can be intrusive
  • 💰 Limited free content
  • 🐛 Story mode issues

Anime Gacha Sim

From 129 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💖 Beautiful and cute style
  • 🤩 Fun and enjoyable gameplay
  • 👍 Superior to other dress-up games
  • ✨ Lots of customization options
  • 💯 Great backgrounds and characters

Room to improve

  • 😠 Too many ads
  • 💸 Outfits cost money or require ads
  • 🚫 Game won't let some people in
  • 📉 Glitchy and buggy
  • 😒 Similar to Gacha Life/Club, feels like a copy

Bugs and requests

Character Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Story mode progress not saving
  • Ads sometimes don't load properly
  • Occasional freezing and crashes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more poses and character animations
  • Improve color customization options
  • Introduce more mini-games and activities
  • Allow data transfer between devices
  • Add more hairstyle and accessory options

Anime Gacha Sim

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Keeps kicking user out after download
  • Keeps loading but won't download
  • Character customization glitches (blush reappearing, different butterfly)
  • Deleted characters not reappearing
  • Cannot delete added characters
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  • Skirt ads not working
  • Progress deleting itself
  • Game won't let users in
  • App kicks user out during download/startup

Requested features

6 requests
  • Less ads
  • Make it look like Gacha
  • More clothes and stuff for characters
  • Add boys
  • Fix bugs and glitches
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  • Make the game more engaging/less boring

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Character Maker

One-time13
  • Cookie Pack - 1200$0.99
  • Remove Ad Banner$0.99
  • Decorating the room #2$1.99
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  • Animal shape$1.99
  • Wedding clothing$1.99
  • Student outfit #2$1.99
  • Winter outfit #1$1.99
  • Various hairstyles$1.99
  • Lolita suit$1.99
  • Cookie Pack - 3600 + Bonus 200$2.99
  • Cookie Pack - 6000 + Bonus 500$4.99
  • Cookies - 12000 + Bonus 1100$9.99
  • Cookies 24000 + Bonus 2250$19.99
None

Anime Gacha Sim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Character Maker free?
Character Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anime Gacha Sim free?
Anime Gacha Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Character Maker or Anime Gacha Sim?
Character Maker is rated higher. Character Maker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 7.5K ratings, while Anime Gacha Sim averages 3.6 from 129 ratings.
Do Character Maker or Anime Gacha Sim have ads?
Both Character Maker and Anime Gacha Sim show ads.
Which is updated more often, Character Maker or Anime Gacha Sim?
Character Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Anime Gacha Sim monthly. Most recently, Character Maker was updated on October 12, 2026 and Anime Gacha Sim on October 15, 2026.

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