Kyodo vs Rolemate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kyodo
Discover and join communities based on your interests, from fandoms and gaming to art and technology. Connect with like-minded individuals, engage in conversations, and forge new friendships.
- Explore interest-based communities
- Join conversations
- Meet new friends
- Discover fandoms, games, art, tech, anime, culture
- Connect with like-minded people
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Kyodo is a community platform where people gather around shared interests. Explore thousands of circles covering everything from fandoms and games to art, tech, anime, and culture. Find new communities, join conversations, and meet friends who love the same things you do. Apple EULA: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/app_store/app_metadata/end_user_license_agreements_eula
Rolemate
Connect with other writers for collaborative storytelling through text, photos, and voice messages. Discover and create roleplay scenarios, build your reputation, and engage in a community focused on human-generated content.
- Collaborative roleplay chat
- Text, photo, and voice messaging
- Group chats with roles
- User-generated starters and scenarios
- Reputation and karma system
- Community reporting and moderation
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Somewhere out there is a writer who wants to tell the exact story you've been carrying around. Rolemate exists to help you find each other. Rolemate is roleplay chat with real people. No AI characters, no bots, no generated replies - every message was typed by a real human, and the whole app is built to protect that. START WITH A STARTER A starter is a doorway: a scene, a scenario, an opening line. Post yours and see who steps through. Reply to someone else's and step into theirs. Every conversation on Rolemate begins with an idea worth answering. FIND YOUR KIND OF WRITER Three-paragraph worldbuilder? One-line improviser? Tag your starters (#Longterm, #SemiLit, #SliceOfLife) so the right co-writers find you, and search tags to find yours. No algorithm decides anything here. Your writing speaks for itself. CHAT LIKE IT'S ALIVE - One-on-one chats with text, photos, and voice messages - Group chats with roles, applications, and personalities of their own - Pins, reactions, and chat wallpapers, so every story gets its own room EARN A NAME Karma rewards the writers people love writing with. Hearts lift the starters worth answering. Follow writers whose next idea you never want to miss. Reputation here is built one good scene at a time. WRITTEN BY HUMANS, FOR HUMANS AI can generate a reply. It cannot wonder what happens next. The plot twist you never saw coming because you didn't write it - only another person can give you that. A COMMUNITY THAT LOOKS OUT FOR ITSELF Every user, message, group, and post can be reported right in the app, and reports are acted on. Our community rules and Terms of Service set the standard we hold everyone to. Questions or help: safety@einistudios.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rolemate at 4.9 against Kyodo's 4.2. Rolemate also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Kyodo's advantage is ratings volume (199 vs 10). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Kyodo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Rolemate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rolemate holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kyodo has 199 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Kyodo | Rolemate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (199 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cybersoup | YOSSEF EINI |
In-app purchases
Kyodo
- Kyodo Plus$4.991 Month
- Kyodo Plus Yearly$69.991 Year
Rolemate
No in-app purchases








