friend doodle vs Talking Carl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
friend doodle
Add custom drawings and text to photos of your friends. Choose from various colors to personalize your creations. Save your edited images or share them directly with others via email.
- Doodle on photos
- Multiple color options
- Save drawings
- Email doodles
- Use photos from library or camera
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DRAW ON YOUR FRIENDS!!!! Grab a pic (from photo library or camera) of your buddy, and doodle over it! - Doodle in different colors - Draw over your pics - Save your drawings - Email your doodles to your friends
Talking Carl
Interact with a funny talking character by talking, tickling, and feeding him. He repeats your words with a silly voice and reacts to your actions with laughs, growls, and more. Features a baby mode for younger children.
- Talk and hear words repeated
- Feed the character
- Tickle for laughs
- Poke for reactions
- Baby mode for kids
- Swipe gestures for actions
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Talking Carl is the very first and still the funniest talking character on the App Store, he invented fun! Talk, sing, and play with him. Tickle him, punch him, feed him, and wait until you hear his laugh, it’s just irresistible. Carl has topped all the charts worldwide and has been featured across the globe. We think about small kids too: Use the Baby mode without any buttons: only Carl and no trouble! --------------- Features -------------- • Talk to him and he'll repeat your words with an hysterical voice. • Feed him with bones • Strike him by lightning • Tickle him and he will laugh out loud. • Poke his eyes and he will shout and yell. • Pinch him to hear him growling. • And if you forget him he will grumble. • Very Polite, he even says Goodbye. + Swipe up and he will fly... and fall + swipe down and hear the thunder + swipe left or right and he'll make a round-turn. Talking Carl is hours of laugh for children of any age. Parents, you'll love him too for the peacefulness it gives you while your kids are playing with him. But don’t try it! you’ll never give it back to them. --------- Our users says --------- "The only talking app that I recommend - There are quite a few of talking apps but Talking Carl is the best! I especially like that I can remove all the buttons so that my daughter will not be confused" "Great app for the kids! - My kids love playing with this app and found it easy to share the videos"
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Talking Carl at 71% against friend doodle's 7%. Talking Carl also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.8) and chart position (#101 vs unranked). friend doodle's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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
friend doodle is free to download; Talking Carl costs $0.99 up front. Talking Carl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. friend doodle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Talking Carl holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: friend doodle has 6.7K ratings behind it against 931, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of friend doodle's written reviews are positive against 71% of Talking Carl's.
| Parameter | friend doodle | Talking Carl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.8 (6.7K ratings) | 4.3 (931 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.9% of reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.7K — better | 931 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #101 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 2.2.1 — better | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Indigo Penguin Limited | Tayasui.com |
Customer experience
friend doodle
Talking Carl
User reviews
friend doodle
From 6.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Brilliant
- 🙂 Cool
- 🙌 Great for two year olds
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes at startup
- 🐛 Crashes repeatedly
- 🐛 Doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Keeps crashing
- 🐛 Won't even open
Talking Carl
From 931 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😊 Funny and entertaining
- 🤩 Brings back childhood memories
- 👍 Great for kids and adults
- 💕 Cute and lovable character
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔧 Glitchy and buggy
- 🕰️ Outdated and not updated
- 🤖 Unresponsive voice recognition
Bugs and requests
friend doodle
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on startup
- Crashes repeatedly
- Doesn't open at all
- Incompatible with newer iOS versions
Requested features
2 requests- Add stickers
- Improve stability and reliability
Talking Carl
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch
- Sprites and animations glitch out
- Voice recording and playback issues
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Update the app to fix bugs and glitches
- Add more features and interactions
- Bring back old fan-favorite games and modes
- Improve voice recognition and responsiveness
In-app purchases
friend doodle
No in-app purchases
Talking Carl
- Sticker Pack$0.99
Questions
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