Comparison

Unvale vs Rolemate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Unvale

Create characters, build worlds, and develop stories with a supportive community. Overcome creative blocks and procrastination with daily prompts, contests, and collaborative projects. Share your progress with fans and connect with fellow artists and writers.

Highlights
  • Create characters with detailed traits and backstories
  • Build immersive worlds for your stories
  • Develop stories piece by piece
  • Engage with a supportive creative community
  • Participate in contests and challenges
  • Share works-in-progress with fans
Features
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Craft original stories in a supportive, AI-free community! Unvale allows you to create characters, build worlds, and develop amazing stories piece by piece while receiving motivation from your 300,000+ fellow creatives every step of the way. Defeat artist block, conquer procrastination, and finally start the comic, novel, or animated series that's been sitting in your head. Beginner artists are welcome! - Begin your journey on Unvale by creating your first character. Our easy-to-use character pages make defining your character's traits a breeze! Then, you can add art, a backstory, and other character elements! It won't be long before you're getting compliments and follows from the community. - Answer daily questions about your characters to help define their personalities and backstories. After just a few questions, your characters may be ready for their own world! - As your following grows, announce upcoming releases, share works-in-progress, and engage with your eager fans. - When you're feeling stuck, participate in one of the many contests, collaborative worlds, or challenges on the platform! Art block doesn't stand a chance. Unvale is built by a small team of creatives just like you. We are a 100% AI-free community, and we believe that the future of creativity is human-made. The next generation-defining story is being written on Unvale right now; could it be yours?

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Unvale4 screens
Rolemate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rolemate at 4.9 against Unvale's 4.7. Unvale's advantage is ratings volume (179 vs 10). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rolemate holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unvale has 179 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Unvale versus Rolemate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnvaleRolemate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (179 ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings179 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB48 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperUnvaleYOSSEF EINI

In-app purchases

None

Unvale

No in-app purchases

None

Rolemate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Unvale free?
Unvale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rolemate free?
Rolemate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Unvale or Rolemate?
Rolemate is rated higher. Unvale averages 4.7 out of 5 from 179 ratings, while Rolemate averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Unvale or Rolemate have ads?
Neither Unvale nor Rolemate shows ads.

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