Shimeji: Screen Buddies

Shimeji: Screen Buddies Shimeji: Screen Buddies lets you build and interact with cute screen mascots. Watch them roam, climb, and play, earn experience through idle upgrades, and unlock new animations with mushrooms.

Shimeji: Screen Buddies

Shimeji: Screen Buddies is a charming screen-pet utility that lets you create and interact with your own mini mascots. As you enjoy different interactions, your companions can level up, and you’ll unlock richer, more advanced animations. With colorful visuals and strong customization options, it’s an easy way to add friendly “company” to your screen—perfect for relaxing, passing time, and making your display feel a bit more lively.

Excellent Features

Adorable screen companions—always a great choice!

• Watch your mascots walk, climb, sit, fall, and play right on your screen.
• Run up to 10 characters at once to fill your display with extra fun.
• Great for downtime while waiting for games to load or for ads to finish.
• Tap, drag, and toss your Shimejis to see how they react.

Idle Upgrades: Level Up While You Hang Around

• Your Shimejis earn experience points as they wander across the screen.
• Level up your favorites to unlock new animations and special moves.
• Interacting with them gives extra experience and helps you progress faster.
• As you reach new levels, you’ll unlock more moves, poses, and surprises.

Play to Unlock 100% of Features

• When the screen is on, your Shimejis can automatically collect mushrooms.
• Use mushrooms to unlock characters, animations, and other upgrades.
• Daily gifts and rewards encourage you to keep playing.

Completely Voluntary Payments

Payments only speed things up. You can still obtain everything through normal gameplay.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Lots of animated mascot options
• Lightweight app with very low resource usage
• Easy setup plus flexible customization
• Regular updates and new content
• Fun, interactive, and entertaining

Cons

• No built-in search or advanced filtering tools
• Some popular characters/animations may require payment



• Can be distracting in certain situations

Brilliant Highlights

• Pick up, drag, or toss mascots to trigger funny reactions and behaviors.
• Up to 6 mascots can run at the same time, making your screen feel busier.
• You can mark multiple favorites—then the app will switch between them smoothly every few minutes.
• Use actions like tapping, double-tapping to hide mascots, freezing, or switching between characters.
• Turn size and movement speed up or down and use the live preview to see changes instantly.

User Comments

• “This is a great option if you want desktop pets on mobile. The only downside for me was the lack of a paint-bucket tool for custom pets, custom colors, or importing GIFs. That said, the developer added import, so it’s better now.”
• “A lot of people said they took the other characters—just to confirm, it’s because of copyright, and they can’t do anything about it.”
• “Of all the screen pet apps I tried, this one was the best. There’s a wide variety of pets, you can make your own, and it’s amazing. It’s also quieter than some others, and I love the mechanic where you level up your pets by keeping them on your screen.”
• “Super cute and enjoyable so far. It’s been smooth after only two days, and it starts up easily. I’d love a tutorial for people who aren’t very tech-savvy. It would also be great if buddies could interact with each other without interfering with calls, apps, or the internet.”
• “I didn’t know I needed this app until I used it.”

Final Thoughts

Shimeji are adorable little pets that roam around your screen and interact with what you’re doing. After installing the Shimeji browser extension, they can walk, crawl, climb, and react to web pages in Google Chrome. In the Shimeji community, artists and fans create unique behaviors and actions for each Shimeji. You can select one with your mouse pointer and then drag it around using your cursor.