Shimeji: Screen Buddies
com.digitalcosmos.shimeji
by Digital Cosmos
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About this app
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is a free animated mascots app that has already reached over 35M downloads worldwide! 🥳
Bring your screen to life with cute animated characters that walk, climb, and play on top of your apps. Choose from over a thousand characters, customize their behavior, or even create your own!
✨ Why choose Shimeji: Screen Buddies?
• 1000+ characters from anime, games, memes, and more
• Create your own mascots with the built-in editor
• Optimized to be smooth and battery-friendly
💎 Super Shimeji (premium)
• Next-level detail: high-res 512×512 animations (16 times more pixels)
• Glow-up effects and polish for your favorite mascots
🎮 Play & interact
• Pick up, drag, and toss mascots — watch them react
• Run up to 6 pets at once for a screen full of fun
• Select many of your favorite characters and have them change smoothly every few minutes
• Tap & double-tap actions: Hide, Freeze, Change mascot, and more
• Live preview when adjusting size and animation speed
👻 Ghost Mode
Need to focus during gaming or texting? Toggle Ghost Mode from the notification or settings to make mascots ignore touch — still visible, never in the way.
📦 Content your way
• Two offline mascots included to start instantly
• Online library always growing with new characters. Library also available on the website (link at the end)
• Create your own mascots or duplicate existing and edit them
🚀 Quick start
1. Install and open Shimeji: Screen Buddies
2. Pick a few mascots (or make your own)
3. Enjoy cute companions living on your screen
Shimeji: Screen Buddies makes your phone feel alive with animated, customizable mascots. Whether you love anime, gaming, or memes, there’s a character for every mood — plus powerful controls, premium Super Shimeji, and a creator for endless possibilities.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is unrelated to Simeji keyboard input app.
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is an independent fan app and is not affiliated with any anime/game IP holders. All mascots are fan-made community artwork curated in the Shimeji app. Our brand name and logo, watermarked images, UI graphics and text, app source code, and curated database are original works protected by copyright and trademark law. We don’t claim exclusive rights over general interaction ideas (e.g., double-tap to change, random selection). Copying our code or assets to replicate these interactions is not permitted.
🌐 Learn more: https://shimeji.app
Bring your screen to life with cute animated characters that walk, climb, and play on top of your apps. Choose from over a thousand characters, customize their behavior, or even create your own!
✨ Why choose Shimeji: Screen Buddies?
• 1000+ characters from anime, games, memes, and more
• Create your own mascots with the built-in editor
• Optimized to be smooth and battery-friendly
💎 Super Shimeji (premium)
• Next-level detail: high-res 512×512 animations (16 times more pixels)
• Glow-up effects and polish for your favorite mascots
🎮 Play & interact
• Pick up, drag, and toss mascots — watch them react
• Run up to 6 pets at once for a screen full of fun
• Select many of your favorite characters and have them change smoothly every few minutes
• Tap & double-tap actions: Hide, Freeze, Change mascot, and more
• Live preview when adjusting size and animation speed
👻 Ghost Mode
Need to focus during gaming or texting? Toggle Ghost Mode from the notification or settings to make mascots ignore touch — still visible, never in the way.
📦 Content your way
• Two offline mascots included to start instantly
• Online library always growing with new characters. Library also available on the website (link at the end)
• Create your own mascots or duplicate existing and edit them
🚀 Quick start
1. Install and open Shimeji: Screen Buddies
2. Pick a few mascots (or make your own)
3. Enjoy cute companions living on your screen
Shimeji: Screen Buddies makes your phone feel alive with animated, customizable mascots. Whether you love anime, gaming, or memes, there’s a character for every mood — plus powerful controls, premium Super Shimeji, and a creator for endless possibilities.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is unrelated to Simeji keyboard input app.
Shimeji: Screen Buddies is an independent fan app and is not affiliated with any anime/game IP holders. All mascots are fan-made community artwork curated in the Shimeji app. Our brand name and logo, watermarked images, UI graphics and text, app source code, and curated database are original works protected by copyright and trademark law. We don’t claim exclusive rights over general interaction ideas (e.g., double-tap to change, random selection). Copying our code or assets to replicate these interactions is not permitted.
🌐 Learn more: https://shimeji.app
What's New
- Improved server connection
- Changed mushroom icon to new buddy icon
- Bug fix
- Changed mushroom icon to new buddy icon
- Bug fix
App Information
Version Name
6.8
Version Code
68
File Size
14.3 MB
Minimum OS
Android 8.0+
Target SDK
Android 33
Developer
Digital Cosmos
Contact
Website
Content Rating
Everyone
Package Name
com.digitalcosmos.shimejiPermissions Required
This app may request the following permissions:
Recent Reviews
Human H
4.0★
I understand the ads, the little guys are cute, I love that you don't have to pay to make your own, things are understandable ONE THING though: I wish you could edit where the 'sides' of your screen are because they hover away from the phone at least on mine. apps good though I've been coming back to it since I was little it's just fun to have a little guy
careless camel
5.0★
I wrote a negative review on the worst possible timing, the updated version now has editing and deletion capabilities for custom shimejis. This allows me to be much more versatile. I also appreciate that there is no longer a premium subscription requirement, as you can now buy certain features for a one-time purchase. One of the best decisions made so far, and those who want to continue supporting by other means, can choose to subscribe. I'm excited to create more, I recommend this to artists!
Violet T
4.0★
Overall really good experience, there isn't anything that is not great except a few flaws. First, Some pets have a gap in between the wall they climb and themselves, which I find very annoying. Second, its kinda hard to get many things done. Even with ghost mode(a mode where you cannot tap or interact with the pets, they end up transparent), they are still flinging across the screen. I would say this isn't much of a pay to use app, though the perks of premium does seem to make a difference.
Claire Parmiter
2.0★
I love this app, and it's super cute. But I have one major complaint. Let's say I want to open Pinterest. I click on the app. It opens, then randomly switches to an ad on Shimeji. There's no "x" to click on the ad. It's only a little game you can play for five seconds before it goes to the Play Store. This will happen when I try to open any app. I've been fiddle fartting around and have found a way to get rid of the ad. You just have to sing Russian lullaby to the Greek goddess of Shimeji.
Aliyah Gomes
3.0★
this is pretty fun, it has a large selection and it pretty ok. the reason I got this one and not others was because it had a make your own! but I find out, that 1 if your picture is even slightly bigger than the box then half of its gone, 2 if you want to erase something or draw something near the edge you can't even see it, and the zoom can't go far enough. in general it's pretty good but if your trying to make your own then I wouldn't suggest it.
Eliza Smith
4.0★
They have sooooo many pet options and each pet has a few different animations. Sometimes they hang from the ceiling of your phone, or climb the walls of your phone. I have an arctic fox right now named Dar (female), and a regular fox named Lec (male) They both are the cutest foxes! App recommended! 👍 my cousin showed me this! Oh, and they also get pastedover everything you do. So like they're not just in the home screen on your phone, but also in games. They accompanied me in typing this review
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