Emoticons vs Animated Emojis for Message
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emoticons
Easily design unique emojis and create custom sticker packs for iMessage. Share your creations as pictures in any messenger or email, ensuring they look perfect on all devices.
- Design custom emojis
- Create sticker packages for iMessage
- Copy emojis as pictures
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Effortless emoji creation
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Design your own emojis! With this app, you can create your own personal emojis without effort. You will have the perfect emoji at hand for every situation! Create your own custom sticker package with your hand crafted emojis for iMessage! Once you created your emojis, you'll find them as stickers in iMessage. To use your emojis in other messangers or in a mail, simply copy them from the app. As the emojis are sent as pictures, they look the same on all devices. Exactly as you have designed them!
Animated Emojis for Message
Enhance your text conversations with a collection of animated emoticons and funny smileys. Easily share these vibrant emojis across various messaging platforms to make your chats more engaging and expressive.
- Animated funny smileys
- Emoticons for texting
- Share across chat apps
- Add fun to typing
- Stylish emoji options
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Warm up your fingers, there will be a lot of chatting with new animated emoticons for texting app! It offers animated funny smileys for Message, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other chat apps, so check them out now! Bye, bye boring messages! Amazing emoticons for chats and messengers are here to add lots of fun to typing! Let your messages be stylish with cute emojis that you will adore from the get-go! Once you try these smiley symbols, they will become your favorite mobile fun! Express your emotions with animated funny smileys and send them to your friends via Message, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other chat apps. Hurry up and and get animated emojis. Texting has just reached a new level because cute emojis and smiley symbols will change the way you type messages! If you want to have amazing emoticons for chats and messengers on the go, this app is what you need! Funny emoji faces are not hard to get any more, they are right here! Why wait, when you can have the best stickers pack for Message now? Now you can have a lot of fun while texting with the best stickers pack ever! Choose your favorite emojis and animated emoticons for texting, type and chat like never before and have fun wherever you are! They will bring you joy and happiness whenever you use your phone, use funny emoji faces and fun is guaranteed! Enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Emoticons at 76% against Animated Emojis for Message's 10%. Emoticons also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Emoticons sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Animated Emojis for Message sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Emoticons holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Emoticons has 759 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Emoticons's written reviews are positive against 10% of Animated Emojis for Message's.
Emoticons ships an update monthly, Animated Emojis for Message every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emoticons | Animated Emojis for Message |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (759 ratings) — better | 3.3 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 759 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trilliarden Entertainment GmbH | Danijel Cvetkovic |
Customer experience
Emoticons
Animated Emojis for Message
Bugs and requests
Emoticons
Reported bugs
2 issues- Emoticons not visible to non-iPhone users
- Inconsistent behavior when deleting the app
Requested features
3 requests- More emoticon options and customization
- Compatibility with other messaging apps
- Ability to resize and position emoticons
Animated Emojis for Message
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Emoticons
- Super Slot PackageFree
- Ad Removal$0.99
- Poop Package$0.99
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- Summer Package$0.99
- Lunatic Professor Package$0.99
- Smiley Package$0.99
- Halloween Package$0.99
- Christmas Package$0.99
- Caffeine Package$0.99
Animated Emojis for Message
- Unlock This Category5 variants$1.99
- Unlock All$3.99
Questions
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