Shimeji: Screen Buddies

Digital Cosmos

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Shimeji: Screen Buddies are cute animated characters that live on your screen and keep you company while you use your phone. With over 36M downloads worldwide, Shimeji is back with a major update: Magic AI character creation, AI-powered animations, a full sprite editor, compatible Shimeji pack import, a new animation engine, and character levels.

✨ Create your own Shimeji with Magic AI
• Describe the character you want and turn your idea into an original screen buddy
• Add details like colors, outfits, accessories, animals, fantasy traits, and more
• Choose your favorite result from multiple generated options

🎬 Create any animation from one picture
• Turn a single character image into a full animated motion
• Create walking, climbing, sitting, falling, jumping, sleeping, dancing, and custom actions
• Pick only the frames you like before saving
• Regenerate, adjust, and improve motions until they fit your mascot

🎨 Full editor: modify every frame
• Edit each pose by hand with brush, eraser, fill, and color tools
• Recolor, redraw, clean up, or fix AI-generated frames
• Import your own art and turn it into a live screen buddy
• Duplicate mascots and customize them to make them unique

📦 Create, import, or pick original characters
• Download original mascots made for Shimeji: Screen Buddies
• Import compatible PC Shimeji packs and use them on Android
• Create custom characters from scratch with the editor
• Use Magic AI to generate new original characters in seconds

✨ Cute screen buddies, always on top
• Watch mascots walk, climb, sit, fall, play, and explore on top of your apps
• Run up to 10 characters at once for a screen full of fun
• Tap, drag, and toss your Shimeji and see how they react
• Let them keep you company while you chat, browse, study, or wait

🎮 Level up your favorite mascots
• Your Shimeji earn XP while they wander around the screen
• Level up your favorite characters to unlock new animations and tricks
• Interact with them for bonus XP and faster progress
• Different levels can reveal new moves, poses, and surprises

⚙️ Smooth, smart, and distraction-free
• New animation engine for smoother motion and better timing
• Better support for custom motions, imported packs, and AI-created animations
• Optimized to be battery-friendly on modern devices
• Ghost Mode: mascots stay visible but ignore touches while you game or chat
• Simple controls for size, speed, and behavior with live preview

📦 Original, IP-safe content
Shimeji: Screen Buddies includes original characters created for the app. Users can also create their own mascots, import compatible Shimeji packs, or use Magic AI to generate original characters and animations.

Disclaimer
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is unrelated to the Simeji keyboard app.
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is an independent app and is 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 Shimeji characters from text
• Magic animations: create new motions from a single image
• Frame picker: choose only the animation frames you like
• Full editor: modify individual frames by hand
• Compatible PC Shimeji pack import
• New animation engine for smoother, more detailed moves
• Character XP and levels with unlockable animations
• Up to 10 mascots on screen at once

Turn your phone into a tiny playground with Shimeji: Screen Buddies. Create original mascots, animate them, edit every frame, import compatible Shimeji packs, and let your screen pets keep you company.

Ratings and reviews

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.

This was SUPER fun when I first got it, but since the newest update, it seems like the search option is completely gone, so I cant find new characters I like, and the only options for new ones are all LOOK AI GENERATED. BOOOO🍅🍅. Not to mention, I cant delete any custom shimejis or any of the ones I accidentally clicked on from the main library thing. I understand watching ads to unlock things, and it was great that it seemed to last forever, but now there are more ads blocking the interface :(

super cute and it's been fun to play with so far. I've only had it for 2 full days now but it runs smooth. it has an easy, simple enough start up. I would LOVE to see a tutorial added. as im needing cleArity as I'm not very techno savey at times. I would like to see my buddies have an option to interact with one another. it does not interfere with call's, apps or Internet. steller~ness to the developer(s). I didn't know I needed this app till I did !!

What’s new

• Easier AI character creation with a new step-by-step wizard
• Improved character editor interface and workflow
• Bug fixes and stability improvements