Shimeji: Screen Buddies

Customizable screen pets that play, climb, and keep you company.

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.