Your favorite desktop pets and characters, now in your pocket.
Shijima brings the original desktop shimeji experience to Android, letting you spawn, resize, and interact with mascots on your home screen or apps. Import favorite characters or use the curated Featured shimeji, with extensive customization and on-device safety controls. With 100,000+ total and 37K in the last 30 days, it's a standout Personalization app ranked #64 in RU.
Pros & Cons
Allows importing your own characters or using many available shimeji
Extensive customization: size, framerate, and interactions
Home screen and app integration for a personalized look
Optional on-device App Filter with privacy-conscious design
Spawning many shimeji can impact performance on some devices; a 6-shimeji recommended limit helps mitigate this.
No built-in shimeji creator; users must import characters from external sources
Performance may vary with device capabilities when up to 50 shimeji are spawned at once
About Shijima - Shimeji for Android
Shijima - Shimeji for Android is a personalization app developed by pixelomer.
Download Statistics
Shijima - Shimeji for Android has been downloaded 210 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 37 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 personalization apps.
User Ratings
Shijima - Shimeji for Android is rated 4.71 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 870 ratings.
App Information
Shijima - Shimeji for Android is FREE to download. The APK download size is 7.34 MB. The latest version available is 1.1.5. The last update was on March 18, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2025.
Description
Shijima brings the original shimeji desktop pet experience to your Android device. Throw them around! Pet them! Make them really small or really big, or hold them so they can't run away. It's up to you. Import your favorite anime and video game characters and use them however you want. (Or bring your own characters!*)
Shijima is compatible with most Shimeji-ee desktop pets. With Shijima, you can install one (or many!) of the hundreds of shimeji desktop mascots already available on the internet and use them on your device. Use Shijima to make your home screen and/or apps more fun and personalized with the characters of your choice. Shijima is also highly configurable, allowing you to change your characters' sizes, configure their framerates and enable/disable certain interactions like throwing, hotspots, multiplication and sound effects.
If you're new to shimeji, don't worry! A selection of high-quality shimeji are provided in the Featured tab to get you started**. Of course, you don't have to use these featured shimeji; you can just import your own instead.
You can spawn up to 50 shimeji at once using Shijima. However, spawning too many shimeji at once may cause Shijima to slow down or freeze depending on your device's capabilities. Therefore, the recommended on-screen shimeji limit is 6. This can also be configured within the app settings.
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Regarding the Use of Accessibility Permissions
Shijima has an optional "App Filter" feature that allows shimeji to be automatically shown or hidden depending on the app you're currently using. This feature requires accessibility permissions to function. If you enable this permission, Shijima will use it to retrieve the names of the apps you are using on your device and show/hide shimeji accordingly. No other information will ever be collected. This information will only be processed on your device. It will never be transmitted outside of your device or shared with any party.
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*: Shijima does not contain a shimeji creator. To import your own characters into Shijima, create and test your shimeji with Shimeji-ee first, then import it as a zip file.
**: The shimeji shown in the Featured tab are provided as a suggestion only. Shijima does not claim ownership of these characters. Shijima does not bundle any of the shimeji shown in this tab. Many of these shimeji can be installed directly without leaving the app, while some of them may require downloading the shimeji manually using a web browser.
Screenshot credits: Eevee shimeji by Cachomon, Ena shimeji by A-Thingy, GIR shimeji by BillSquid, Hatsune Miku shimeji by Canary Yellow, Loop Critter shimeji by tawnysoup, MD Shimeji by PolarSummit, Tenna shimeji by erotophh, OMORI shimeji by exjelly, Ruby shimeji by JunnBoi, Sans shimeji by v0idless, Shijima Tsukishima shimeji by exmuh, Sonic shimeji by Myly14, Vaggie shimeji by bambitek.
(The use of Cachomon's shimeji in screenshots and other material related to Shijima was approved by Cachomon.)
Recent changes: - Added translations for Turkish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.
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Comments on Shijima - Shimeji for Android for Android
★★★★★Bunggoy de mesa· May 26, 2026
Best Shinji app, no limits for the amount of characters you can put on your screen which is amazing because all the other ones can only have 3-6 pets I also suggest adding a search bar to search for shimejis
★★★★★Kody Kovid· May 10, 2026
I have Alan Becker stick figures. And they are 𝕗𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕤. They make me feel like Alan Becker! Thank you for making the app!
★☆☆☆☆Florid Jamal· Feb 25, 2026
I don't think it has demon slayer characters it's really disappointed me
★☆☆☆☆Sophie· Jan 6, 2026
Can't find out how to make, or even add a Shinji.
★☆☆☆☆MellaCat· Jun 12, 2026
For some reason whenever I tried to import a shijima it just would freeze up and then kick me out of the app, I've tried everything I know but nothing works
★☆☆☆☆Carrie Quincye· Mar 30, 2026
They won't stay with me as once I downloaded this app I summoned Ruby from BFDI, and she disappeared with a single hour, and she never comes back 😢
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Technologies used by Shijima - Shimeji for Android
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Trust & Safety: Permissions include FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, INTERNET, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW, and a dynamic receiver. The optional App Filter uses accessibility permissions and processes data on-device with no transmission or sharing of user data.
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