Comparison

Character Maker vs Create Your Own Monster

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

Create Your Own Monster

Unleash your creativity to design and play with unique creatures. Engage in fun mini-games to unlock new content and develop emotional intelligence. This free, family-friendly game encourages imagination for all ages.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited unique monsters
  • Customize body parts, colors, and voices
  • Engage in fun mini-games
  • Unlock new monsters and content
  • Develop creativity and emotional intelligence
  • Family-friendly gameplay
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Step into a world of imagination where you can bring fun creatures to life and enjoy exciting mini-games! Create Your Own Monster is an educational, free, and family-friendly game where you can unleash your imagination to create and play with entertaining creatures. INFINITE MONSTERS! Use your creativity to create as many characters as you want. Create your monster by selecting parts of its body, color it as you like, choose its voice, give it a name, and make it unique in the entire universe. Will it be a hero? A pet? You decide! FUN MINI-GAMES! Have a blast with your monsters in fun and original mini-games to level them up and earn many rewards to unlock new monsters and game content for free. FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! Easy, intuitive, and entertaining gameplay for the whole family. Both young and old, of all ages, can develop their creativity, expand the boundaries of their imagination, and learn emotional intelligence by connecting with their monsters. WE APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK! Do you like Create Your Own Monster? If so, please leave us a positive review. Your feedback helps us improve the game and develop new free applications. Thanks for playing!

Screenshots

Character Maker4 screens
Create Your Own Monster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Create Your Own Monster at 100% against Character Maker's 89%. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Character Maker sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Create Your Own Monster sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Character Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, Create Your Own Monster every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Character Maker versus Create Your Own Monster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharacter MakerCreate Your Own Monster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (7.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size232 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKYUNGMIN LEEMechanic Games & Gamification, S.L.

Customer experience

Character Maker

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

Create Your Own Monster

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Create Your Own Monster

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
7 purchases

Create Your Own Monster

One-time7
  • 100 Scare Gems$1.99
  • 250 Scare Gems$3.99
  • 500 Scare Gems$3.99
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  • Remove Ads$8.99
  • 1000 Scare Gems$8.99
  • 2150 Scare Gems$17.99
  • 5750 Scare Gems$44.99

Questions

Is Character Maker free?
Character Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Create Your Own Monster free?
Create Your Own Monster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Character Maker or Create Your Own Monster have ads?
Both Character Maker and Create Your Own Monster show ads.
Which is updated more often, Character Maker or Create Your Own Monster?
Character Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Create Your Own Monster every 3 weeks. Most recently, Character Maker was updated on October 12, 2026 and Create Your Own Monster on October 1, 2026.

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