Comparison

Kawaii SELECT vs MimiStar

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

Head to head
About

Kawaii SELECT

Design unique characters with a wide range of expressions and styles, from chibi to anime. Dress them up with numerous fashionable items to create full-body outfits. Share your creations as icons for social media or as wallpapers for your phone.

Highlights
  • Character creation with various expressions
  • Deformed to anime style options
  • Extensive stylish clothing items
  • Full-body fashion customization
  • Share creations for SNS icons
  • Set creations as mobile wallpapers
  • Customizable backgrounds and stamps
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* You can create characters with a variety of expressions, from deformed to the latest anime style! * Lots of stylish items! Enjoy a whole body of fashion!       * Use the share function to share the images you create with everyone! You can use it as an icon on SNS. * You can use it as a wallpaper on your mobile phone when you get a stylish look you like. ----------------Features----------------------- - Choose your favorite parts, you can make a cute character that you like. - You can create your own original image by choosing the background, clothes and stamps. - You can create your own original images by choosing backgrounds, clothes, and stamps.

About

MimiStar

Design unique anime chibi characters with extensive customization options. Create adorable pastel dolls, decorate rooms, and craft custom wallpapers. Save and share your creations as avatars or for social media.

Highlights
  • Color editing and new color additions
  • Two-layer item system
  • Character interaction with speech bubbles
  • Room and scenario decoration
  • Custom wallpaper creation
  • Save and share creations
  • Diverse character types (humans, demons, monsters)
Features
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Create your perfect anime girl now! Special Benefits: - Edit the color of everything and add new colors! - Special items with a 2 layer system! - Make your chibi dolls interact - Decorate your room If you love kawaii dress up games, Mimistar is the game for you, have a relaxing time creating your own chibi and adorable pastel doll girls or boys. With your kawaii dolls created, you can make them interact through speech bubbles, decorate your room, or scenario, to create your kawaii wallpapers that can be saved to your phone or shared with your friends. With mimistar choose from different fashion styles!. Share your favorite kawai dolls! and save them to your gallery! Make your chibi doll interact! Save your cute pastel star girls or boys as avatars to use as a profile image, background image or whatever you like. Create more than humans, demons, monsters or zombies! More than 1000 free assets! Create and decorate your own kawaii wallpapers to use and share through social networks with your friends! Create your own stories using your favorite pastel star dolls! Clarifications -Image files will be saved in a folder inside a folder with the game's name. -Your characters get stored in your phone memory. -If you unistall the app, you can recover purchased items in the start menu under the name "recover".

Screenshots

Kawaii SELECT4 screens
MimiStar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kawaii SELECT at none against MimiStar's 18. Kawaii SELECT also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 303). MimiStar's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. MimiStar sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Kawaii SELECT asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Kawaii SELECT against 4.7 for MimiStar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 303 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Kawaii SELECT's written reviews are positive against 92% of MimiStar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kawaii SELECT ships an update every 2 months, MimiStar every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Kawaii SELECT versus MimiStar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKawaii SELECTMimiStar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better4.7 (303 ratings)
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better303
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB83 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperShota KamedaVeronica Amado

Customer experience

Kawaii SELECT

All ratings1,392 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral8.0%
Negative5.7%

MimiStar

All ratings303 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.5%

User reviews

Kawaii SELECT

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Cute and colorful design
  • 👍 Minimal ads
  • 🎉 Fun and entertaining
  • 💫 Highly customizable characters
  • 🎀 Kawaii-style aesthetic

Room to improve

  • 🎨 Limited skin tone options
  • 🔒 Inability to save multiple characters
  • 🛒 Inability to order multiple items at once
  • 🗂️ Limited character slots

MimiStar

From 303 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💕 Cute and adorable design
  • 👍 Customizable characters
  • 🎨 Variety of styling options
  • 🌟 Great for creating OCs
  • 🤩 Overloaded with cuteness

Room to improve

  • 💰 Some features locked behind paywall
  • 🤖 Concerns about being a ripoff of Moon's Closet
  • 🙄 Occasional bugs or glitches

Bugs and requests

Kawaii SELECT

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Issues with saving character data

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more skin tone options
  • Increase character save slots
  • Allow ordering multiple items at once
  • Add more clothing and accessory options
  • Implement a character studio or mini-games

MimiStar

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Saved characters not appearing
  • Decorating mode not working properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more skin tones and natural hair colors
  • Implement leg poses and character movement
  • Introduce free access to premium items
  • Integrate more accessories like wings, kimonos, and hijabs
  • Allow saving and arranging multiple characters

In-app purchases

None

Kawaii SELECT

No in-app purchases

18 purchases

MimiStar

One-time18
  • Hands pack!$1.99
  • Cyberpunk pack!$1.99
  • Braids pack$1.99
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  • Casual dress pack !$1.99
  • Victorian pack!$1.99
  • Pastel pack!$1.99
  • Siren pack!$1.99
  • Animal ear pack!$1.99
  • Wings pack!$1.99
  • Monster eyes pack$1.99
  • Horns pack!$1.99
  • Halloween pack!$1.99
  • Long skirt pack$1.99
  • Animal pack!$1.99
  • Nurse pack$1.99
  • Oriental pack!$1.99
  • Monster mouths pack$1.99
  • All pack mimistar!$17.99

Questions

Is Kawaii SELECT free?
Kawaii SELECT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MimiStar free?
MimiStar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kawaii SELECT or MimiStar?
Kawaii SELECT is rated higher. Kawaii SELECT averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while MimiStar averages 4.7 from 303 ratings.
Do Kawaii SELECT or MimiStar have ads?
Both Kawaii SELECT and MimiStar show ads.
Which is updated more often, Kawaii SELECT or MimiStar?
Kawaii SELECT ships an update every 2 months, and MimiStar every 3 months. Most recently, Kawaii SELECT was updated on October 17, 2026 and MimiStar on October 18, 2026.

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