Characterize vs Avatar Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Characterize
Generate unique characters with names, traits, and stats instantly. Explore diverse categories and save your favorites for any creative project. Unlock additional themed packs for even more variety.
- Unlimited name generation
- Rich character details (age, traits, etc.)
- Themed character packs
- Save and share creations
- Diverse character categories
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Characterize: Your Unlimited Character Creation Companion Characterize is the ideal tool for writers, role-players, storytellers, and anyone who needs fresh, original characters at a moment’s notice. With a tap, Characterize draws from a massive, ever-expanding database of names, traits, and stats to bring you a nearly infinite variety of unique personalities—enough for even the most epic of projects. Whether you’re crafting a daring pirate, a cunning assassin, a modern hero, or something more fantastical, Characterize helps you find the perfect fit every time. Save your favorites, tweak their details, and return for more whenever inspiration strikes! Key Features: Boundless Name Generation: - Instantly generate characters from countless categories, including humans, orcs, pirates, assassins, and more. The possibilities stretch into the quadrillions—no two characters need ever be the same! Rich Character Details: - Don’t stop at names. Dive into ages, birthdays, hair and eye color, height, intelligence, personality, and relationships—all created with a single tap. Your characters will spring to life with depth and flair! Unlock Even More Worlds: - Beyond the vast default selection, themed packs give you even more variety. From superheroes to aliens, historical figures to anime icons, you’ll find the perfect flavor for any setting. Save & Share with Ease: - Keep track of your favorite creations and share them with friends. Revisit your saved characters whenever you like—no scrolling through endless notes or documents. Whether you’re naming a long-awaited protagonist, populating a tabletop campaign, or challenging yourself to write a story without knowing your cast in advance, Characterize puts limitless inspiration at your fingertips. Stop juggling multiple tools—download Characterize today and generate your next hero with a single tap! http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Avatar Maker
Design unique pony characters with extensive customization options. Mix and match clothing, accessories, and physical features to create over 10,000 different looks. Save and share your creations as wallpapers or avatars.
- Extensive character customization
- Over 10,000 unique variants
- Save images to gallery
- Flexible color options
- Male and female characters
- Magical accessories
- Share creations
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Create your own cute pony with our maker! In our game you can easily set up a variety of parts of its wonderful character: clothing, horn, wings, mane, makeup, hairstyle, eye shape, and much more. Moreover, we do not limit you. In the constructor, you can draw a pegasus winged dragonfly or a unicorn horns of a deer... Or put on alicorn skates and send him into the mountains. * More than 10,000 variants of different characters * Ability to save images in the gallery * Flexible color character * Female and male characters * Addition to the wardrobe, there are many magical accessories Having to your liking, you can save it and share with your friends; installed on the desktop background or avatar. Be creative comic books, anime, manga, and create their own fairy tales! *^_^*
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Avatar Maker at none against Characterize's 16. Avatar Maker also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 68%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Characterize's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Characterize sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Avatar Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Avatar Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 345 and 150 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Characterize's written reviews are positive against 95% of Avatar Maker's.
Characterize ships an update every 3 weeks, Avatar Maker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Characterize | Avatar Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (345 ratings) | 4.6 (150 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 345 — better | 150 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 295 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Winn | EDUARD ZABOROVSKIY |
Customer experience
Characterize
Avatar Maker
User reviews
Characterize
From 345 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for character creation
- 🚀 Great for writers and RPG players
- 💡 Lots of creative and random traits
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive, many features require purchase
- 🐛 Bugs with saving and restoring purchases
- 🔍 Limited free options
Avatar Maker
From 150 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly creative and fun
- 👍 Easy to use and cute
- 👍 Lots of customization options
- 👍 Great for expressing oneself
- 👍 Better than other similar games
Room to improve
- 🐛 Limited save slots/lots
- 🐛 Not enough items/accessories
- 🐛 Repetitive at times
- 🐛 Some glitches
- 🐛 Can't change body shape
Bugs and requests
Characterize
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup
- Issues with custom generators and editing characters
- Purchased content not unlocking properly
Requested features
3 requests- More free generators
- Ability to edit and customize generated characters
- Sorting and organization options for saved characters
Avatar Maker
Reported bugs
1 issue- Glitches a lot
Requested features
74 requests- Add riders for horses
- Multi-color manes and tails with different styles
- Add scars for customization
- More normal-looking hair choices
- More items, including Oreo hat, Pegasus armor
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- New body types
- More serious eyes and clothing options
- More manes and tails
- Emotion and action studio
- Online and single-player modes
- More backgrounds
- Fluffy and normal pony skin options
- Chat in online/single-player
- Riding own pony
- Character greeting upon login
- Option to remove blinking animation
- Ability to play with characters
- Add a horn that uses magic
- Cutie marks
- Option to change legs
- More lots/save slots
- Emotes (laying down, sleeping, standing proudly, scared, happy)
- Ability to make the horse lay down or rear or stand proudly
- Arabian horse nose
- Ability to be the horse, eat grass, drink water, run from predators
- Add wolves to hunt the player
- More body features and mouth options
- Wings placed in the correct spot
- Avatar puppy, kitten, squirrel, or chipmunk
- More eye options
- Saddles and rugs
- Less poofy manes and tails
- More save slots
- More accessories
- No hair option or headless horse option
- More backgrounds (water, mermaid tail)
- Update to include horse care and upgrades
- Big butterfly wings
- Pearl earrings
- More animals to decorate (cat, reindeer, dragon, dragonfly, bird)
- Dinosaur or Minecraft themed game
- Age options (old, young, small)
- Body type options (fat, thin, slim)
- Millions of backgrounds
- New super manes
- Pets
- Partners (husband/wife)
- New poses
- More masks and emotions
- Distinguishing marks
- Heels (at least 100)
- Names
- More skins
- More bodies
- More wings
- Different types of wars and horns
- Moose antlers
- Weapons and other items
- Big dragon wings
- More serious character options (not just cute)
- Different avatar poses (in all makers)
- More manes and tails, and other things
- More bodies and so on
- More hairstyles
- More everything
- More bodies
- Avatar maker dog one
- Avatar maker goats
- Double accessory slots
- Animated poses
- Separate pupils
- More hair and tails
- More bodies (currently only 3)
- Change body posing and size
In-app purchases
Characterize
- Heroes & Villains Generator$0.99
- Wizards & Witches Generator$0.99
- Gods & Goddesses Generator$0.99
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- Anime & Manga Generator$0.99
- Demons Generator$0.99
- Anthros Generator$0.99
- Aliens Generator$0.99
- Kings, Queens, & Nobles Generator$0.99
- Apocalypse Survivors Generator$0.99
- Assassins Generator$0.99
- Angels Generator$0.99
- Demigods Generator$0.99
- Dragons Generator$0.99
- Fantasy Races Bundle$4.99
- Mythology Bundle$5.99
- All Generators$19.99
Avatar Maker
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Characterize free?
Is Avatar Maker free?
Which has better reviews, Characterize or Avatar Maker?
Do Characterize or Avatar Maker have ads?
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