Comic Puppets Lite vs Messenger Kids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comic Puppets Lite
Create your own comic strips with a vast gallery of characters, backgrounds, and accessories. Easily pose characters using their joints and add custom text to speech bubbles. Share your humorous creations with friends or even submit them to publications.
- Create comic strips
- Vast character and background gallery
- Customizable character posing
- Add wigs, hats, and objects
- Speech bubble text editing
- Share creations with friends
- Use own photos for characters
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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!
Messenger Kids
This messaging app is designed for children, offering a safe and controlled environment for them to connect with friends and family. Parents can manage contacts, monitor messages, and set usage limits, while kids enjoy fun filters and creative tools.
- Parental dashboard for contact management
- Message monitoring
- Kid-friendly filters and reactions
- Creative tools like stickers and drawing
- Usage limits and bedtime settings
- No phone number required
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Messenger Kids — Made for Kids. Controlled by Parents. Made for Kids. Controlled by Parents. Parent Dashboard: Parents can manage their kids' contact list, and monitor messages on the Messenger Kids app. When kids block contacts, parents are notified. Fun Filters: Kid-friendly filters, reactions, and sound effects make video chats with friends and family even better. Worry Free: Parents can set usage limits when it’s bedtime, and there are no in app-purchases or ads. Creative Convos: Stickers, GIFs, emojis, and drawing tools give kids more ways to express themselves. Easy Start: No phone number required. We’re always working to improve Messenger Kids. If you’d like to share any feedback with us or for more information, visit messengerkids.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Messenger Kids at every 2 weeks against Comic Puppets Lite's every 28 months. Messenger Kids also leads on ratings volume (117K vs 11) and chart position (#74 vs unranked). Comic Puppets Lite's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Comic Puppets Lite against 4.3 for Messenger Kids. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Messenger Kids has 117K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Comic Puppets Lite's written reviews are positive against 60% of Messenger Kids's.
Comic Puppets Lite ships an update every 28 months, Messenger Kids every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comic Puppets Lite | Messenger Kids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) | 4.3 (117K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 60.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 117K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #74 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Touch Multimedia | Meta Platforms, Inc. |
Customer experience
Comic Puppets Lite
Messenger Kids
Bugs and requests
Comic Puppets Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Messenger Kids
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to send/receive messages and photos
- Frequent disconnections and 'reconnecting' issues
- Glitches with group calls and games
- Problems with account creation and login
Requested features
5 requests- Allow customization of chat colors, backgrounds, and emojis
- Add a 'do not disturb' mode
- Increase video recording time limit
- Improve search and contact management
- Integrate with other social platforms like Facebook
In-app purchases
Comic Puppets Lite
No in-app purchases
Messenger Kids
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Comic Puppets Lite free?
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