Shimeji: Screen Buddies

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