Gacha Club

Casual

7.8~~/10~~

Our score

★ 4.5 Google Play·50M+ installs

Reviewed by Editorial Team, ScoredApps editorial · updated 2026-09-05

Screenshots

Customisation hub listing presets, body, clothes and props

Character editor with hair options and colour sliders

Studio Mode scene with several characters and speech bubbles

Grid of unlockable characters from the in-game gacha

Battle Mode with a wave counter and characters on a grid

About Gacha Club

Gacha Club is a character dresser with a story studio attached: build an anime-styled figure from hundreds of parts, arrange several of them in a scene, write their dialogue and save the result. Everything cosmetic is free and there are no in-app purchases at all — advertising is the only money in it. Nothing has been updated since August 2023.

Game information

DeveloperLunime Inc.

Version1.1.12 (Android) · 4.0 (iOS)

Size100.0 MB (Android) · 156 MB (iOS)

Price / In-appFree

Contains adsYes

In-app purchasesNo

Content rating9+

Requires (Android)Android 5.0+

Requires (iOS)iOS 11.0+

Offline modeFull — the editor, studio and battles all run on the device

Interface languagesCS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR + 19 more

Store rating (Google Play)4.5 from 2,156,862 ratings

Installs50M+

Updated by developer2023-08-19

Data checked2026-09-07

Specs come from the official store listings and were last checked on 2026-09-07. Developers change pricing and requirements — check the store page before installing.

Gacha Club Review: Free Dress-Up, Frozen Since 2023

Customisation With Nothing For Sale

The editor splits into presets, body, head, hair, eyes, face, clothes, props, pets and profile, each with its own colour controls, and the game states plainly on its own screens that dressing up is 100% free. Both store listings confirm it: no in-app purchase badge on Google Play, and Apple's page lists no purchases at all. More than 180 characters can be unlocked through the in-game gacha, which spends currency earned by playing rather than money. In a catalogue full of $19.99 gem packs, a free character creator with no shop is genuinely unusual.

Studio Mode Is Why It Spread

Studio Mode places several finished characters in a scene with backgrounds, poses and speech bubbles, and that is the real product — a generation of children used it as an animation tool, exporting scenes and assembling them into short stories on video platforms. Battle Mode adds waves of monsters across a small grid, mostly to give the collected characters something to do. Neither mode is difficult; the appeal is authorship, which is rarer on a phone than another combat loop. Scenes are saved to the device and re-editable, so a story can be built across several sittings without an account or a cloud save.

Three Years Without an Update

Google Play records the last update as 15 August 2023 and Apple as 19 August 2023, on 50 million installs and 4.5 stars from 2.16 million reviews. That means no bug fixes, no compatibility work and no changes to what the app allows. Apple rates it 9+ while listing profanity or crude humour and mature or suggestive themes among its descriptors — worth reading twice, because the app's main use is making stories that children then publish elsewhere, where the parental controls of a store no longer reach. The install is 155.6 MB.

Pros

No in-app purchases anywhere in the game
Hundreds of parts with individual colour controls
Studio Mode turns characters into written scenes
155.6 MB install that runs on old hardware
Rated 4.5 on Play across 2.16 million reviews

Cons

No update on either store since August 2023
Apple lists suggestive themes and crude humour
Advertising is the only revenue in a children's app
Battle Mode is thin next to the editor

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Verdict

A free creation tool with no shop in it, which in this category is close to extraordinary — the appeal is authorship rather than progress, and children use it as an animation studio. Two cautions: it has had no update since August 2023, and Apple's own descriptors mention suggestive themes and crude humour. Worth installing for a child who wants to make things, with the sharing supervised.

Gameplay7.0A creation tool first; the battle mode exists to justify the collecting.

Controls7.5Dense menus on a small screen, though every option is reachable.

Replay value8.0Unlimited character and scene creation, which is why it outlived its updates.

Graphics & sound7.5Flat anime sprites with wide colour control; charming rather than technical.

Monetisation9.0No purchases at all — only advertising, in an app aimed at children.

7.8out of 10 · weighted average of the five scores above

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Frequently asked questions

Can it be played offline?

Yes. The editor, Studio Mode and battles all run on the device, which is unusual in this catalogue. A connection is needed only to serve advertising, so playing in aeroplane mode removes the adverts and leaves the creation tools working normally.

Does it sell anything?

No. There are no in-app purchases on either store listing, and the in-game gacha spends currency earned by playing. Advertising is the sole revenue, which is why the app is free in a way most children's games are not — nothing inside asks for a card.

What does it need to run?

155.6 MB and iOS 11 or later, so it works on phones a decade old. That said, the last update was in August 2023, so compatibility with newer operating systems is frozen wherever it stood then and will not be repaired.

Is there anything multiplayer?

No. Everything is made alone on one device, and sharing happens outside the app — screenshots and recordings posted to video platforms. That external community is both the reason it became popular and the part no store rating can supervise.

How long do people spend in it?

Far longer than the game structure suggests. A single character can absorb an hour of colour matching, and a Studio scene with dialogue takes as long as writing it does. There are no timers, no energy and nothing pushing you to stop or return.