Comparison

Facemakr vs Comic Puppets

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

Head to head
About

Facemakr

Create unique, high-quality avatars with a vast array of customizable parts. Its intuitive multitouch controls allow for precise scaling and rotation of over 600 elements, including eyes, hair, and accessories. Save your creations and express your artistic vision.

Highlights
  • Create custom faces and avatars
  • Over 600 customizable parts
  • Multi-touch scale and rotate controls
  • Position and color parts
  • Save created faces
Features
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Definitely check it out. - Appolicious / AppVee Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly. "The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3 Here's a run down of Facemakr: Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars. Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc. Save faces. "I recommend Facemakr for budding avatar artistes out there, it’s easy to use and comes with a complete feature set and robust graphics engine." - Nine Over Ten "I have done a number for my family and its pretty darn good!" - app.itize.us Facemakr comes highly recommended as an essential part of anyones app collection.

About

Comic Puppets

Easily create your own comic strips with a vast gallery of characters and backgrounds. Customize figures with accessories, poses, and speech bubbles to share your humorous stories with friends or even submit them to publications.

Highlights
  • Vast gallery of characters and backgrounds
  • Create custom characters with own photos
  • Poseable characters with jointed limbs
  • Add wigs, hats, and expressions
  • Fill speech balloons with text
  • Share creations with friends
  • Includes Heads of State for satire
Features
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Have you always wanted to draw comic strips but don't know how to do it?  ComicPuppets for iPhone and iPad provides you with all the tools to express your creativity.  Join the community of "comicpuppeteers" too by using the vast gallery of characters and backgrounds, or by creating new ones with your own photos.  You decide the ideal position of the character: thanks to the joints of the limbs, this will be easy and funny. Then add wigs, hats, expressions and objects.  Fill the balloons in with jokes, wishes for a Merry Christmas or a happy birthday.  Create the funniest situations and share them with friends. And why not sending them to some newspaper/magazine? From the ComicPuppets gallery you can choose among the most important Heads of State to make the satire more biting.  The world is waiting for you to express, you are the mind ....ComicPuppets will be your arm. You really cannot do without it! ComicPuppets APP is perfect/suitable for children also, try it!

Screenshots

Facemakr4 screens
Comic Puppets3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Comic Puppets at 4.5 against Facemakr's 3.7. Comic Puppets also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (87% vs 70%). Facemakr's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (35 vs 10). On price, ads, chart position 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

Facemakr costs $2.99 and Comic Puppets $2.99 up front. Facemakr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Comic Puppets asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Comic Puppets holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Facemakr's written reviews are positive against 87% of Comic Puppets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Facemakr ships an update every 3 months, Comic Puppets every 12 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Facemakr versus Comic Puppets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFacemakrComic Puppets
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating3.7 (35 ratings)4.5 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews86.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#70 — better#117
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.58.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHawken KingTouch Multimedia

Customer experience

Facemakr

All ratings35 ratings
Positive62.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative22.9%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive70.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative23.9%

Comic Puppets

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Facemakr

One-time1
  • Facemakr Plus$2.99
None

Comic Puppets

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Facemakr free?
Facemakr costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Comic Puppets free?
Comic Puppets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Facemakr or Comic Puppets?
Comic Puppets is rated higher. Facemakr averages 3.7 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Comic Puppets averages 4.5 from 10 ratings.
Do Facemakr or Comic Puppets have ads?
Neither Facemakr nor Comic Puppets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Facemakr or Comic Puppets?
Facemakr ships an update every 3 months, and Comic Puppets every 12 months. Most recently, Facemakr was updated on October 26, 2026 and Comic Puppets on October 26, 2026.
Which is more popular, Facemakr or Comic Puppets?
Facemakr currently peaks at #70 in the App Store charts, and Comic Puppets at #117. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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