Simulon vs kumori
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simulon
Bring your imagination to life by placing custom or real-world objects into augmented reality. Create lifelike images and videos by describing actions, with no animation experience required. Develop ideas or share your creations with the world.
- Create from words, photos, or designs
- Clone real-world objects
- Place subjects in augmented reality
- Direct video action with descriptions
- Personal subject library
- AI rendering for lifelike scenes
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Simulon. The camera for your imagination. Bring imagined characters, real objects and your own designs into the world around you. Compose with your camera, capture a lifelike image and turn it into a video by describing what happens next. No 3D or animation experience needed. CREATE FROM AN IDEA Start with words, a photo or your own design. Turn a sketch into a character or take a concept off the page and into a real setting. CLONE REALITY Create from photos of something real, whether it's your pet, a favourite car or a sculpture. Keep its familiar look or imagine something different. Give your pet a new outfit, shrink a car onto your desk or bring a statue to life. MAKE THE WORLD YOUR SET Place your subject in augmented reality. Adjust its size and position, then move around to find your angle. AI rendering brings it into the scene with lifelike lighting, shadows and reflections. DIRECT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT Describe how your subject moves and what happens in the scene to create a video. From a small gesture to an unexpected adventure, you direct the action without animating by hand. Keep your subjects in a personal library and return to them in new locations and new stories. Make something just for fun, develop an idea or create something to share with the world. GET STARTED Try Simulon with starter assets and included free usage. Creating custom assets requires a paid plan. Simulon Plus and Pro offer additional features and monthly usage. Usage limits apply. Shape reality.
kumori
Transform your photos into unique stickers with various artistic styles like felt, clay, or pixel art. Save, share, or use your creations directly in messaging apps. New users receive free credits to start.
- Photo to sticker conversion
- Multiple artistic styles
- Transparent background stickers
- Sticker collection
- iMessage sticker pack
- Save and share stickers
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turn the things you love into stickers. take a photo or choose one from your library. pick a style, and kumori makes a sticker with a transparent background. try felt, clay, pixel art, watercolor, and more. make it yours turn your dog into a plush toy, your lunch into pixel art, or a friend into a tiny clay character. try the same photo in another style whenever you like. keep them close browse your stickers in your collection. open one for a closer look, save it to your photos, or share it with a friend. send a little of your world use the kumori sticker pack in iMessage to drop your creations into a conversation. credits, as you need them new accounts get free credits to try kumori. making stickers uses credits, and you can buy more in the app. your photos kumori processes photos to make the stickers you request. uploads, creations, thumbnails, and related records may be stored to provide and troubleshoot the service. retention varies by record type and operational or legal need. read the privacy policy for details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: kumori at 5.0 against Simulon's 4.2. kumori also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%). Simulon's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. Simulon sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and kumori sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
kumori holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simulon has 36 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Simulon's written reviews are positive against 100% of kumori's.
Simulon ships an update every 6 days, kumori weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simulon | kumori |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simulon | Luke Nittmann |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Simulon
- Plus$14.991 Month
- Lite7 Days trial$15.001 Month
- Plus7 Days trial$24.991 Month
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- Core$29.001 Month
- Pro$39.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$55.001 Month
- Studio$200.001 Month
- Plus7 Days trial$239.001 Year
- 1,000 credits$18.99
- 1,000 credits$19.99
kumori
- 10 credits$2.99
- 30 credits$7.99
- 100 credits$19.99
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