Shimeji: Screen Buddies

Digital Cosmos

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Your screen is about to get a lot cuter! Shimeji: Screen Buddies fills your phone with tiny pets that walk, climb, nap and play on top of your apps. And now you can create your dream buddy just by describing it ✨

✨ Cute screen pets, always with you
- Watch your buddies walk, climb, sit, sleep and explore on top of your apps
- Tap, drag and toss them to see how they react
- Run up to 10 characters at once for a screen full of fun
- They keep you company while you chat, study, draw or browse

🪄 Magic AI: describe it, and it comes to life
- Type your dream character — a pastel cat, a cookie dragon, anything!
- Add colors, outfits, accessories and fantasy details
- Pick your favorite from multiple generated options

🎬 Turn one picture into a living character
- A single image becomes walking, climbing, dancing, sleeping and more
- Keep only the frames you love with the frame picker
- Regenerate and adjust motions until they fit your mascot

🎨 Draw and edit every frame
- Brush, eraser, fill and color tools for every pose
- Import your own art and turn it into a live screen buddy
- Recolor, fix or restyle any frame — or duplicate a buddy and make it yours

📦 Collect, create or import
- Download original mascots made for Shimeji: Screen Buddies
- Import compatible PC Shimeji packs and use them on Android
- Build your collection with the editor, Magic AI, or both

🎮 Level up your favorites
- Your Shimeji earn XP while they wander around your screen
- Level up to unlock new moves, poses and surprises
- Play with them for bonus XP and faster progress

⚙️ Smooth, smart and distraction-free
- New animation engine for smoother, more lifelike motion
- Ghost Mode: buddies stay visible but ignore touches while you game or chat
- Battery-friendly, with simple controls for size, speed and behavior

🛡️ Original content
All built-in characters are original creations for Shimeji: Screen Buddies. You can also draw your own, import compatible packs, or generate new originals with Magic AI.

Disclaimer
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is an independent app, unrelated to the Simeji keyboard and not affiliated with any anime, game, movie or third-party IP holders. Our brand name and logo, watermarked images, UI graphics and text, app source code, original characters and curated database are protected by copyright and trademark law.

🆕 What's new
- Magic AI: create original characters from a text description
- Magic animations from a single image, with frame picker
- Full frame-by-frame editor and compatible PC Shimeji pack import
- New animation engine, character levels, up to 10 buddies on screen

Adopt a buddy, create your own, and turn your phone into a tiny playground 💛

Ratings and reviews

I love this app!! I works beautifully and it has limited adds, not too much and you could pay for them out! they also have another website you can look for ideas which I think is pretty cool. the only thing that makes this a 4/5 Is that I wish there was more thing the characters could do apart from the basic walking around a climbing, there's probably more but I haven't found it after months of having this app but I definitely 100% recommend!

This app seems to good to be true but so far I have not come across one and Ive has it for almost a week! There are a several cute characters available for free, while other apps like to put a price tag on everything AND make you watch ads it seems. This one has some ads but so far they've been very very short. It says you can find more characters online but I have not tried it yet. ALSO you can create your own custom character manually or with AI and I just cannot get over it. 💖🐥🐶😻🐰🐧💖

I loved this app and made so many characters until this new update. First of all, they added a new mascot editor that seems harder to use because now you have to scroll to edit your custom character and the worst part of it is it doesn't even save up to which slide you're working on for your mascot. Second of all, all of the options you have to choose from the local side look like they were generated by AI when it says we can't use AI to make shimeji mascots.

What’s new

✨ Cleaner, cuter, more magical
- Bottom banner ad removed. Your shimeji buddies now play on a cleaner, distraction-free screen
- Create your own AI character! Describe any buddy and Magic draws it for you, starting with free Magic Credits
- NEW: Double XP boosts to level up your desktop pets twice as fast
- Buddy reminders bring your screen pet back with one tap
- Smoother browsing, now fully translated into 42 languages