Comparison

ShinyPokes vs Murim Life Simulator

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

Head to head
About

ShinyPokes

Track your shiny Pokémon hunts, manage your collection, and view in-game locations. Features include encounter counters, timers, and a Shiny Dex. Connect with a community of fellow hunters.

Highlights
  • Shiny hunt counter
  • Encounter timers
  • Shiny Dex and collection management
  • In-game location data
  • Multi-hunt support
  • Community feed and chat
Features
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ShinyPokes is an unofficial fan made tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or associated with Nintendo, Game Freak or The Pokemon Company. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are their trademarks. The app contains no assets from any Pokemon game. ShinyPokes is a shiny hunting tracker. It counts your encounters, keeps your timers honest, logs every shiny you find and gives you one place to look back on all of them. Free, no ads, made by one person who hunts shinies too. WHAT IT DOES Hunt counter. Pick the Pokemon, the game and the method, and the app checks the combination is actually possible before you start. Count with a tap, watch the timer, and see your odds update as you go. Run up to four hunts at once in multi hunt. Put a hunt on hold and pick it up later. Shiny found. When it happens, log the catch with the ball, the gender, marks and a nickname. The hunt moves to your collection and your Shiny Dex fills in. Collection. Every shiny you have caught, with the game, the encounters and the time it took. Edit them, log past catches you found before the app, import a list, and share a card for each one. Shiny Dex. All 1025 Pokemon, with the ones you own lit up. Dex and Living Dex views. Locations. Where a Pokemon shows up in each game, and where the items are. Gen 1 shiny check. Enter the stats from a Generation 1 catch and see whether it will be shiny when it comes forward. Hunter levels. Encounters give a little XP, shinies give a lot. Your level shows as a border around your avatar. Turn it off if you would rather not. Community. A feed of recent finds, live hunts happening right now, leaderboards, community stats and a chat with channels for hunting, trades and showing off. Community events like the Bank Run, where you fill a bingo card of shinies before the old transfer service closes. Notifications. A mention in chat or a reply to your message reaches your phone. Same account everywhere. Sign in with Apple, Google, Discord or an emailed link. Everything you track in the app is on shinypokes.com too, and the other way round.

About

Murim Life Simulator

Experience a martial arts destiny in a living world where your choices shape your life and legacy. Master combat, politics, and even mythical powers across multiple reincarnations. Your actions have lasting consequences, even after death.

Highlights
  • Multiple life paths and starting scenarios
  • Deep martial arts and internal energy training
  • Dynamic world with rising and falling sects
  • Strategic combat with opponent tells
  • Mythical beast transformations and powers
  • Reincarnation with carried-over memories
Features
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Every life. Your own destiny. You are born into the martial world, the murim: an orphan in a temple, the heir of a sword family, a beggar's child, a merchant's heir. Or something stranger. What happens next is up to you. Train your internal energy. Master the sword, the sabre, the fist and the art of lightness. Break through from Third-Rate to Peak Master, Transcendent and beyond, all the way to the immortal realms above the clouds. Join Shaolin, Wudang, Mount Hua or the Heavenly Demon Cult, or walk the road alone. Make friends who will die for you, and rivals who never forget. Then you die. And you are born again, carrying what your soul remembers. A LIVING WORLD • 17,000 story scenes and 5,000 hand-painted illustrations, and no two lives play the same • Fourteen sects rise and fall with wars, plagues and golden ages, even when you are not looking • Found your own sect, choose its side, and declare Sect Wars • Sit the imperial exams, climb from clerk to chancellor, earn noble titles and rule fiefs that can revolt • Run a teahouse, an inn, a smithy or an escort agency, and leave it to your children • Everyone remembers what you did: the favour, the insult, the debt, the grudge FIGHT WITH YOUR HEAD • Duels are read, not rolled: watch your opponent's tells and parry, dodge or counter • Every art you master becomes a move in battle, and bosses fight to five • Create your own martial art, refine it through nine forms, and pass it to your children • Forge your body from Iron Bone to the Vajra Indestructible Body BE MORE THAN HUMAN • Be reborn as one of eleven legendary beasts of Korean myth, from the Imugi to the Nine-Tailed Fox • Awaken one of eleven Mythic Systems: copy every technique you see, level up, earn the favour of the stars • Comprehend one of sixteen Daos, and create a world of your own to rule as its god, then be born inside it DEATH IS NOT THE END • Earn a ribbon for every life: Legend, Saint, Demon, Jailbird, Wanderer and many more • Spend karma between lives on memories that carry over, or choose your exact birth • Name your children, fight your siblings for the family seat, and continue as your heir • Weekly stories, real-calendar festivals, daily challenges and weekly bounties Free to play. No purchases, ever. Plays offline. If you love life simulators, wuxia, murim webtoons/novels and cultivation stories, this is your martial world.

Screenshots

ShinyPokes4 screens
Murim Life Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ShinyPokes at none against Murim Life Simulator's shown. ShinyPokes also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Murim Life Simulator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShinyPokes against 5.0 for Murim Life Simulator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ShinyPokes versus Murim Life Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShinyPokesMurim Life Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB192 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperTrevor BuchananDashsugar Togtokh

Customer experience

ShinyPokes

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Murim Life Simulator

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ShinyPokes

No in-app purchases

None

Murim Life Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShinyPokes free?
ShinyPokes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Murim Life Simulator free?
Murim Life Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShinyPokes or Murim Life Simulator?
ShinyPokes and Murim Life Simulator are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do ShinyPokes or Murim Life Simulator have ads?
Murim Life Simulator shows ads; ShinyPokes does not.
Which is updated more often, ShinyPokes or Murim Life Simulator?
ShinyPokes ships an update every 2 days, and Murim Life Simulator every 2 days. Most recently, ShinyPokes was updated on October 31, 2026 and Murim Life Simulator on October 31, 2026.

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