Shimeji Downloads & RevenueShimeji: Play with Screen Pets · Google Play
Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets is #120 in Personalization Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 14 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperDigital Cosmos
CategoryPersonalization
PriceFree
Released
Installs10M+
Rating★ 4.4 (420k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets update history & changes
Last change · 24 events since 24 Dec 2016Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 100📦Updated to version 14.3📈Entered the top 100 in 2 charts💰In-app price range changed✏️New screenshots💰In-app price range changed📦Updated to version 14.1🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Yumeji: Bring Photos to Life
Full timeline · 24 events
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100Top Free · Personalization · BR
- 📦Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets updated to version 14.3• Pictures and characters made with Magic now carry a small AI label in their file info. It holds no personal data.
• Stability fixes and updated components. - 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Free · Personalization · CA · Top Free · Personalization · MX
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryThailand
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100Top Free · Personalization · US
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100Top Free · Personalization · ES
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 💰Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets: in-app price range changed$2.49 - $39.99 per item → $2.49 - $28.99 per item · US
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryTurkey
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryBrazil
- ✏️Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 6) · US
- 💰Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets: in-app price range changed$2.49 - $28.99 per item → $2.49 - $39.99 per item · US
- 📦Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets updated to version 14.1- Unlock hats for your 3D cats by watching a short ad. Each cat earns its own, and the fanciest hats take a few more.
- Sleepy cats now take naps on their own.
- Paint any built-in cat: it makes your own copy to decorate.
- Clearer help for importing cat skins.
- Smoother cats: no more flicker, and they stay on the floor after fullscreen.
- Bug fixes and improvements.… more - 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new country in 2 chartsSpain · Taiwan
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100Top Free · Personalization · TW
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets entered the top 100Top Free · Personalization · AU
- 📦Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets updated to version 14.0🐱 NEW: 3D Pets! Adorable cats that live on your screen. Feed them, play with toys and watch them climb walls and ceilings
🎨 Paint your own cat, add a hat, and level it up to unlock new tricks
💞 Every cat has its own personality, friends and foes
🚩 Report any issues with AI generations inside the app
🐞 Bug fixes and smoother performance… more - 🆕Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets first spotted by AppInsiderCanada
- 📦Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets version 13.9Fixed bugs and some crashes
- 🆕Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets: its developer released another app: Yumeji: Bring Photos to Life
- 🆕Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
420k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#120
Personalization FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
159
▼ -27% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.digitalcosmos.shimeji
Publisher
Arnold Gabriel Balasescu
Publisher country
Spain
Content rating
Everyone
Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: Ad-led
How Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchasesAds · 28 ad networks
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | PersonalizationFree | #120 |
 Japan | PersonalizationFree | #170 |
 United Kingdom | PersonalizationFree | #107 |
 Australia | PersonalizationFree | #64 |
 South Korea | PersonalizationFree | #129 |
 Germany | PersonalizationFree | #179 |
 Taiwan | PersonalizationFree | #60 |
 Canada | PersonalizationFree | #109 |
 Mexico | PersonalizationFree | #73 |
 Brazil | PersonalizationFree | #119 |
 Spain | PersonalizationFree | #89 |
 Italy | PersonalizationFree | #138 |
 Netherlands | PersonalizationFree | #132 |
 Turkey | PersonalizationFree | #155 |
Apps near Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets on the chart
Personalization Free, around #120.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
420k ratings
Measured
Ratings
420k
Measured
Written reviews
16k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
159
▼ -27% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
9.8
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.4★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
58/100
faster than 72% of Personalization apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets
Your screen is about to get a lot cuter! Shimeji brings desktop pets to your phone: cute cats, kittens and anime pets that walk, climb, nap and play on top of your apps. The original Shimeji app on Android since 2016, with all-original characters.
✨ NEW: 3D cats you can pet, feed and play with
- Adorable 3D cats with hundreds of smooth animations and interactions
- Pet them, throw them, feed them and watch them play and fight
🐱 Cats and anime pets that live on your screen
- Playful cats, sleepy kittens and anime buddies walk, climb, sit, nap and explore on top of your apps
- Run up to 10 pets at once for a screen full of fun
- They keep you company while you chat, study, draw or browse
👆 Play with your pets
- Tap, drag and toss them to see how they react
- Your pets earn XP while they wander around your screen
- Level up to unlock new moves, poses and surprises, and play with them for bonus XP
📦 Collect or import
- Download original characters made for Shimeji
- Import compatible PC Shimeji packs and use them on Android
- Build your own screen pet collection
🎨 Create your own pet
- Draw and edit every frame with brush, eraser, fill and color tools
- Import your own art and turn it into a living screen pet
- Magic AI: describe your dream pet, like a pastel cat or a cookie dragon, and pick your favorite
- Turn a single picture into a character that walks, climbs, dances and sleeps
⚙️ Smooth and battery-friendly
- Smooth, lifelike animation engine
- Ghost Mode: pets stay visible but ignore touches while you game or chat
- Simple controls for size, speed and behavior
💛 Made by an independent developer
Shimeji has been on Android since 2016, made by an independent developer in Spain. All built-in characters are original creations. You can also draw your own, import compatible packs, or create new originals with Magic AI.
Disclaimer
Shimeji 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.
Adopt a pet, create your own, and turn your phone into a tiny playground 💛
✨ NEW: 3D cats you can pet, feed and play with
- Adorable 3D cats with hundreds of smooth animations and interactions
- Pet them, throw them, feed them and watch them play and fight
🐱 Cats and anime pets that live on your screen
- Playful cats, sleepy kittens and anime buddies walk, climb, sit, nap and explore on top of your apps
- Run up to 10 pets at once for a screen full of fun
- They keep you company while you chat, study, draw or browse
👆 Play with your pets
- Tap, drag and toss them to see how they react
- Your pets earn XP while they wander around your screen
- Level up to unlock new moves, poses and surprises, and play with them for bonus XP
📦 Collect or import
- Download original characters made for Shimeji
- Import compatible PC Shimeji packs and use them on Android
- Build your own screen pet collection
🎨 Create your own pet
- Draw and edit every frame with brush, eraser, fill and color tools
- Import your own art and turn it into a living screen pet
- Magic AI: describe your dream pet, like a pastel cat or a cookie dragon, and pick your favorite
- Turn a single picture into a character that walks, climbs, dances and sleeps
⚙️ Smooth and battery-friendly
- Smooth, lifelike animation engine
- Ghost Mode: pets stay visible but ignore touches while you game or chat
- Simple controls for size, speed and behavior
💛 Made by an independent developer
Shimeji has been on Android since 2016, made by an independent developer in Spain. All built-in characters are original creations. You can also draw your own, import compatible packs, or create new originals with Magic AI.
Disclaimer
Shimeji 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.
Adopt a pet, create your own, and turn your phone into a tiny playground 💛
What's new in 14.3
• Pictures and characters made with Magic now carry a small AI label in their file info. It holds no personal data.
• Stability fixes and updated components.
• Stability fixes and updated components.
Store changes
What Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
In-app price range changed
$2.49 - $39.99 per item → $2.49 - $28.99 per item
New screenshots
8 screenshots (was 6)
In-app price range changed
$2.49 - $28.99 per item → $2.49 - $39.99 per item