ChatPet vs VRoid Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChatPet
This app enhances your messages by attaching a cute character that delivers your text. Recipients feel like the character is speaking directly to them, potentially bringing a smile and easing strained communication. It allows sending messages to both iPhone and feature phone users.
- Character delivers messages
- Image attached to iMessage/MMS
- Enhances communication
- Works with feature phones
- Brings smiles to recipients
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This application multiplies happiness when communicating with iMessage/MMS. A cute character delivers your message. Character image is attached to iMessage/MMS. Recipients feel as if the character is speaking to them.It may lead to a smile when receiving the message and could ease the strained relation between the sender and the recipient. This app enables you sending not only to the owner of iPhone, but also to the owner of feature phones. -Staff- Rinraro Shimohama Kayo Hasui Takafumi Kai from 3toU
VRoid Mobile
Design unique 3D characters with customizable features and clothing. Capture stunning photos of your creations in real-world AR or virtual environments. Share your personalized avatars and enjoy group photo sessions.
- Create customizable 3D avatars
- Adjust facial and body features
- Dress avatars in various outfits
- AR camera for real-world photos
- Virtual camera for in-app photos
- Group photo sessions with chat
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VRoid Mobile is an avatar camera app that allows you to create 3D characters, change clothes, and take photos. ■ Create your own 3D avatar! Not only can you freely combine face, hair and body parts, Parts can be adjusted freely just by moving the slider! The size of the head, the length of the limbs, the color of the eyes and the color of the hair can also be changed to your liking. Create your own original 3D avatar! ■ Choose avatar “clothes” and enjoy fashion! VRoid Mobile offers a lot of “avatar wear” designed for 3D avatars. Coordinate clothes that suit your avatar and enjoy fashion! Fashionable avatar wear by cutting-edge creators of “virtual fashion” will also appear one after another! ■ In the real world & virtual space! You can shoot "Avatar Photo"! How to show the completed avatar to everyone? VRoid Mobile is equipped with a full-featured “Avatar Camera” function that enables “emo” filters and stylish photo processing! "AR camera" that can call 3D avatar in the real world and take pictures, VRoid is a “virtual camera” that lets you take photos in the virtual space inside your mobile You can enjoy two shooting modes. Take a photo of your avatar and share it on SNS! In addition, virtual cameras can be played simultaneously by up to four people! Avatars in the studio can have a text chat. Let's gather together and enjoy group photo shooting! * "AR Camera" can only be used with ARKit compatible models. * Supported environments and devices may change in future updates. * This information is current as of July 26, 2019. * Operation is not guaranteed on all devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ChatPet at 100% against VRoid Mobile's 48%. ChatPet also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). VRoid Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (420 vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. ChatPet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VRoid Mobile sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ChatPet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRoid Mobile has 420 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ChatPet's written reviews are positive against 48% of VRoid Mobile's.
ChatPet ships an update every 2 months, VRoid Mobile monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChatPet | VRoid Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (420 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 48.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 420 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 3toU | pixiv Inc. |
Customer experience
ChatPet
VRoid Mobile
Bugs and requests
ChatPet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
VRoid Mobile
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login and account creation issues
- Frequent crashes when trying to access certain features
- Failure to load clothing and other assets
Requested features
5 requests- More clothing, hair, and accessory options
- Ability to import custom models and textures
- Face tracking and animation features
- More diverse backgrounds and scenes
- Multiplayer and social features
In-app purchases
ChatPet
- this ChatPet3 variants$0.99
VRoid Mobile
- 100コイン$0.99
- 200コイン$1.99
- 300コイン$2.99
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- 400コイン$3.99
- 500コイン$4.99
- 600コイン$5.99
- 700コイン$6.99
- 800コイン$6.99
- 1000コイン$9.99
- 900コイン$9.99
- 1100コイン$9.99
- 2000コイン$19.99
- 5000コイン$49.99
