Comparison

MimiStar vs Lily Style

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

Head to head
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".

About

Lily Style

Create unique avatars and backgrounds with a vast collection of clothing, items, and animations. Design simple films or dramas using your creations and share them with friends. Studio mode simplifies video creation with saved backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Avatar and background decoration
  • Extensive clothing and item library
  • Studio mode for video creation
  • Color and makeup customization
  • Drag & drop functionality
  • Pretty animations
  • Social sharing
Features
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1. In Lily Style, you can decorate various avatars and backgrounds, to make simple films or dramas out of it. 2. Use the available clothing, items, animals, speech bubbles, and text boxes to create avatars and backgrounds. 3. Studio mode allows you to easily create videos with the backgrounds you saved. 4. There are many available features such as changing the color, makeup, changing layers, drag & drop, pretty animations, and ample storage space. Please make sure to read through the tutorial, available in the menu! 5. You can also share your own avatars and background images with your friends or on social media. ※ In-app purchases can be restored when you re-install the game, as they are stored on the server.

Screenshots

MimiStar4 screens
Lily Style4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MimiStar at 4.7 against Lily Style's 4.3. MimiStar also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Lily Style's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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 and Lily Style sells 43 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MimiStar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 308 and 127 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of MimiStar's written reviews are positive against 86% of Lily Style's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MimiStar ships an update every 3 months, Lily Style every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MimiStar versus Lily Style: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMimiStarLily Style
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (308 ratings) — better4.3 (127 ratings)
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings308 — better127
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB601 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperVeronica AmadoSeyeonSoft Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

MimiStar

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

Lily Style

All ratings124 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral8.9%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral9.2%
Negative5.1%

User reviews

MimiStar

From 308 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

Lily Style

From 127 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 High-quality art style and character designs
  • 👕 Extensive clothing and customization options
  • 💰 Generous free content without excessive paywalls
  • 📱 User-friendly interface and easy navigation
  • ✨ Frequent updates with new items added regularly

Room to improve

  • 🚫 Unable to change clothing colors
  • ⏱️ Long advertisement cooldown timers (10-12 minutes)
  • 👕 Limited male hairstyles and clothing options
  • 🎨 Limited skin tone variety
  • 📦 Some premium items locked behind paywalls

Bugs and requests

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

Lily Style

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App freezes when watching advertisements
  • Character modifications don't save when reloading scenes
  • Pixelated and low-quality icons after recent update
  • Video creation crashes when adding too many frames
  • App won't load on iPad (works on phone)
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  • GIF option crashes the game
  • Blurry interface icons
  • Game occasionally won't open
  • Ad timer appears to be bugged in some cases

Requested features

20 requests
  • Ability to change clothing and accessory colors
  • More diverse skin tones and blush shades for darker skin tones
  • Additional male hairstyles, especially spiky/fluffy anime-style options
  • Two-tone hair color options
  • Character height/size adjustment
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  • Layering system for clothing (jackets over shirts)
  • More fantasy hairstyles (elf ears, drooping ears)
  • Ability to remove/customize ear colors separately
  • More tail and horn varieties
  • Additional background options (shops, boutiques, schools)
  • Custom photo backgrounds from device gallery
  • More boots and footwear options
  • Ethnic and afro-textured hairstyles
  • Item rotation and resizing capabilities
  • Sitting and other emote poses
  • Face masks and veils without themed decorations
  • More frames for video creation
  • Ability to stack/layer certain features (necklaces, face items)
  • Reduced advertisement cooldown timer
  • Back hair options for male characters

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
43 purchases

Lily Style

One-time43
  • Black Dresses : Casual$1.99
  • Animal : Face$1.99
  • Flower : Face$1.99
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  • Mermaid : Face$1.99
  • Two Colors : Face$1.99
  • Pink : Casual$1.99
  • Nobility : Suit$1.99
  • Ballet : Theme$1.99
  • Wedding : Theme$1.99
  • Little Devil : Etc$1.99
  • Wing : Etc$1.99
  • Techwear : Casual$1.99
  • Adventure : Etc$1.99
  • Pirate : Etc$1.99
  • Rose : Casual$1.99
  • Choir : Theme$1.99
  • Lavender : Casual$1.99
  • Manju : Suit$1.99
  • Wedding : Face$1.99
  • Magical Girl : Theme$1.99
  • Mushroom : Etc$1.99
  • Chocolate : Casual$1.99
  • RPG : Theme$1.99
  • Dancer : Suit$1.99
  • Dessert : Face$1.99
  • Mermaid : Theme$1.99
  • K-Pop 1 : Casual$1.99
  • Butterfly : Theme$1.99
  • Pyramid : Suit$1.99
  • K-Pop 2 : Casual$1.99
  • Uniforms : Theme$1.99
  • Animal 1 : Theme$2.99
  • Circus 1 : Suit$2.99
  • Animal 2 : Theme$2.99
  • Circus 2 : Suit$2.99
  • Wizarding School : Theme$2.99
  • Winter : Casual$2.99
  • Concert : Suit$2.99
  • Couple : Theme$2.99
  • Constellations : Etc$2.99
  • Romance : Suit$2.99
  • Nature : Etc$2.99
  • No Ads : Etc$3.99

Questions

Is MimiStar free?
MimiStar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lily Style free?
Lily Style is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MimiStar or Lily Style?
MimiStar is rated higher. MimiStar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 308 ratings, while Lily Style averages 4.3 from 127 ratings.
Do MimiStar or Lily Style have ads?
Both MimiStar and Lily Style show ads.
Which is updated more often, MimiStar or Lily Style?
MimiStar ships an update every 3 months, and Lily Style every 3 weeks. Most recently, MimiStar was updated on October 22, 2026 and Lily Style on October 24, 2026.

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