ArtGen
Character Idea Generator
How much does ArtGen cost?
Prices are current as of 2 Oct 2026.
6 one-time purchases from $0.00
In the United States, ArtGen has 6 one-time purchases priced $0.99 – 2.99.
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Realistic Pack | $0.00 |
| Comic Book Pack | $0.99 |
| Fantasy Pack | $0.99 |
| Historical Pack | $0.99 |
| Space Pack | $0.99 |
| Unlock All Packs | $2.99 |
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| Rating / 5 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.3 |
| Reviews | 270 | 3.5K | 2.9K | 2.4K | 2.4K | 1.9K | 486 | 158 | 130 | 116 | 109 |
| Released | 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019 | 2014 | 2020 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 |
| Monthly price | — | $3.99 | — | $1.99 | — | $7.49 | — | $7.99 | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | $39.99 | — | — | — | $74.99 | — | $24.99 | — | — | — |
| One-time price | $0.99 | — | $2.99 | $0.49 | — | $199.99 | — | $99.99 | $19.99 | — | — |
The going rate for each plan in United States, in its own currency, shaded from the cheapest price on the row to the dearest. Plans fewer than four in ten of the priced apps sell are left out.
ArtGen reviews
3.2 out of 5, based on 270 reviews.
What people like
- Great for organizing story characters
- Helpful for generating random ideas
- Easy to use and simple
What they complain about
- Packs don't add new attributes
- Can't delete unwanted characters easily
- App crashes when editing details
all my fellas
I can make all my fellas
😭😭😭
It said in the description you can do it yourself and it did it for you and didn’t show a picture I’ll sue
Pretty decent
It’s good for when you’re stuck on the basic details of a new character. There are reviews talking about how you can’t edit pre existing features but you can after saving the character. Just wondering why I can’t re-roll the details of a preexisting character. I would like to see more options for details though. By the way.. how the heck do I delete a character?
Help
I can't seem to delete unwanted or uneeded characters? How do I get rid of them?
Good for comics
At the I had no use for this but if like to make oc or make comics it’s really amazing
Nice tool
Really useful for quickly generating character concepts. Great tool and executed well! One bug on IOS; if I manually override a feature (weapon in this case) erase it and leave it blank and save, the app crashes immediately any time I try and open that character and scroll far enough that it would need to display the edited content
It keeps crashing
When I open a character info it crashes after I edited it, also no way to delete a character info card. But other than that it’s pretty cool
Edward
Amazing and wonderful selections but could be better with a grid view selection instead of a line view.
Great but buggy
I really like the app, but I bought the packs and they don’t seem to work. I definitely have them selected but none of the new attributes are showing up at all.
Ok but needs more.
I think it’s a good concept as an app, but it needs more attributes like hair, eye color, age, negative character trait, positive character trait, etc. it also be cool if we could add our own attributes too. Also why can’t we delete the characters? That should be an option.
Tiktok
I just donloaded it of a tiktok recommendation and it did not disappoint I love it
Eh
Um I don’t think that this App is good because I like you can’t really design your character exactly how you want it.
Love it but one problem
Okay so I love this app, it helps me keep check of my comic book characters. Just one thing that I hate is that it won’t let me delete any of my characters. I made a team type of gen before I made all of the superheroes for my team and now I want to delete it. This is really horrible and I rather advertisements than this. But other than that it is one of my favorite and most used apps. :)
Restore purchases button please
So I got this app on my new phone but I don’t see an option to restore my purchases can this be added? I don’t wanna spend money again for something I should already have.
The App keeps kicking me out when scrolling down the characters profile
I am so sick and tired of this, this needs to be fixed ASAP. For some of the characters I add. I tap there info and when I scroll down it closes me out of the app. And it’s done this for at least 4 characters and J brushed it off at first but it’s happening more frequently to the point where it’s bloody irritating. Please fix it . Y’all getting a 3 star.😡
Pretty good, hasn’t been updated in a while though.
I really love this app! I love how the fact that it has a lot of options when it comes to making your own characters. My only complaint, however, is that it was last updated 2 years ago, meaning that it needs new content and bug fixes. Otherwise, keep up the great work!
Thieving scums of the earth, I tell you.
bruh it took my £3 and gave me nothin in return
Really good
I use this for my characters and it works really well only issue I have encountered so far is deleting a characters profile as I couldn’t find the delete button so I tried to remove all the writing and now the profile is glitched to where I can’t open it
I need to know...
The app is great I love you can customize the characters as you please but how do you delete a character I have some characters that I didn’t mean to make like some are missing names and it doesn’t give you the option to delete or change the characters name. Please respond.
People were complaining about this, here’s the solution...
People were complaining about not being able to manually spchange the description but you can. After you make the character select on the character to look at their profile. In the top right corner there in an edit button select the button and you can manually change the description and add an image. My review: This app is amazing and SO useful. As an artist and somebody writing a book I need to remember everything about my characters and this helps so much. Five stars for you. I don’t usually do ratings but this app deserves it.
No option for editing on phone
I have an iPhone and idk how I'm supposed to "edit" like another review's response explained. There is no edit option, and all the app does it generate a bunch of things but I want to type my own answers, yk?
Great but fix this
This app is really great. It keeps all my characters organized and in one place. I would highly recommend for writing. The reason I have it on 4 stars is because on one of the characters it always crashed when I press it. Other than that, 10/10. Very useful :)
Need more
I feel like this app would be so much better if you could edit the characters features such as hair, nose, mouth, clothes, etc.
Not the worst app out there
I would say this is a great character generator app,but not only for drawing. I write stories in my spare time, especially with Covid-19.And sometimes I have trouble coming up with characters and time settings for them.This app is a great way to come up with character ideas and I love it
DON'T GET THIS
1.you can't edit the picture 2. The format is so confusing like when you go into the app it creates you a character by rolling a dice 🤦♀️ 3. There is a major glitch so whenever you try to edit the character it comes out of the app.
Good App
This is an amazing app, and I love it. I do have a couple of suggestions, though. It would be nice if you could sort characters into titled folders and add cover images to characters. If there was an option where you could select the characters options rather then just roll random selections. However, this is great if you need ideas for characters!
Great app... but, if you could fix this bug, please?
I would rate five stars if the app didn’t keep closing out/crashing on me whenever I try to restore my purchases. Otherwise it’s a great app and I will keep using it if I can get my purchases back. I’m running iPad OS 13.1.3. I’m not sure if I’m the only one with this issue but besides this issue it is great. Thanks in advance. EDIT: NEVERMIND. It resolved itself. Five stars! I got everything back! I look forward to future updates, fantastic app, I am going to use it for my world building.
ONLY A BLACK SCREEN
When I downloaded the app I thought it would be fun. But when I finished I didn’t see anything but a black screen!
nearly perfect however...
this is great for creating random characters for art and writing, however i wish there was an option to choose your own choices. i have prexisting characters that i wanted to keep track of between all of my books but you can’t choose what traits you want, it’s all random choice. a delete button, self choice, and a way to subcatalog by specific works would be cool tho.
Hard to Access
There should be a way to sort them by keyword/location (I use this for my DND campaign and it takes forever to scroll) and maybe to see them all/many at once? Like a tiny icon mode for files on a PC. Otherwise I really like this app. I’ve had it for years and just last week realized you can write stuff in the description box 🥴😅
Eh
I kinda hate it.... When downloading this game I was thinking “Yay! I cant wait to create a person/avatar!” But, it only lets you pick a personality, race, ect! You can NOT customize your own character! Its not even art! Would not recommend downloading! ~Phoenix🤍
Super helpful for authors
It can be extremely difficult to keep up with all your characters in a story, and this app is super helpful with just keeping them all in the place to find. And the fact that you can manually put in the information and pictures makes it *chefs kiss*. I love it. Though one major thing I wish this app had was an option to delete characters. I have a good number of characters in there that I either don’t want anymore or messed up on. Besides that, this app is absolutely amazing.
Sections/dividers
The idea of the app is excellent. However, after creating characters, I tend to often have characters with the same name belonging to different stories. It would be a good idea to add sections/dividers so that you can organize your characters into folders or something similar
Suggestions
I have a few suggestions: 1. Don’t get this game. 2. If you do get this game, just be aware that the scrolling is glitched and you can’t edit the character’s picture. 3. 10/10 would never play again. 4. The 5 stars and 4 star ratings are obviously bots. Nobody could possibly like this game.
Great, but somewhat lacking...
I think this app is an amazing idea and all the packs are wonderful! However, rerolling all of the characteristics gets tiring. I understand you can manually edit them, but a list of all the different options would be fun to look through when you aren’t entirely sure what you’re looking for. Otherwise, fantastic app!
Great App for authors
Firstly I never write reviews, but this app is super helpful, so what the heck. Firstly I write large fantasy novels, and sometimes it’s hard for me to keep my characters in order. This App is really good for reminding me what I want my characters to be about. It would be nice to have a place where you could write a large paragraph about the character, but I’m not going to be nit picky. Everything else is super simple to use, and you can simply edit whatever you don’t like to make it more specific. Thanks guys, good job. 👍
Bought packs and nothing happened
I bought all the packs and I thought it would add more attributes but it’s still exactly the same. There are no instructions either on packs or attributes, unless I missed them. Fix this or explain what I might be doing wrong and I’ll rate better score.
This is an <ok> app
So basically it’s a pretty great app, nice simple design and whatnot. The only problem I have with it is that you can’t type in your desired attributes, you have to click a randomizer button that gives you a bunch of attributes and getting the ones you want seems pretty much impossible. So please, to the creators of this, make a completely customizable setting or mode.
ArtGen price by country
A one-time purchase costs $0.70 in Canada and $1.53 in Hungary — 2× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
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| Afghanistan | $0.99 |
| Albania | $0.99 |
| Algeria | $0.99 |
| Angola | $0.99 |
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| Australia | A$1.99$1.38 |
| Austria | €0.99$1.12 |
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| Belgium | €0.99$1.12 |
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| Bolivia | $0.99 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | €0.99$1.12 |
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| Brazil | R$6.90$1.33 |
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| Canada | CA$0.99$0.70 |
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| Chile | CLP 990$1.02 |
| China | CN¥8.00$1.19 |
| Colombia | COP 4,900$1.48 |
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| Czech Republic | CZK 29.00$1.34 |
| Denmark | DKK 9.00$1.36 |
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| Hong Kong | HK$8.00$1.02 |
| Hungary | HUF 499$1.53 |
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| India | ₹99.00$1.03 |
| Indonesia | IDR 19,000$1.06 |
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| Ireland | €0.99$1.12 |
| Israel | ₪2.90$0.94 |
| Italy | €0.99$1.12 |
| Jamaica | $0.99 |
| Japan | ¥150$0.95 |
| Jordan | $0.99 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 499.00$1.13 |
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| Malaysia | MYR 4.90$1.20 |
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| Netherlands | €0.99$1.12 |
| New Zealand | NZ$1.99$1.12 |
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| Nigeria | NGN 1,500.00$1.13 |
| Norway | NOK 9.00$0.93 |
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| Peru | PEN 4.90$1.42 |
| Philippines | ₱49.00$0.78 |
| Poland | PLN 4.99$1.28 |
| Portugal | €0.99$1.12 |
| Qatar | QAR 2.99$0.82 |
| Romania | RON 4.99$1.07 |
| Russia | RUB 99.00$1.19 |
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| Saudi Arabia | SAR 4.99$1.33 |
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| Singapore | SGD 0.98$0.77 |
| Slovakia | €0.99$1.12 |
| Slovenia | €0.99$1.12 |
| Solomon Islands | $0.99 |
| South Africa | ZAR 19.99$1.20 |
| South Korea | ₩1,100$0.81 |
| Spain | €0.99$1.12 |
| Sri Lanka | $0.99 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | $0.99 |
| St. Lucia | $0.99 |
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| Sweden | SEK 9.00$0.90 |
| Switzerland | CHF 1.00$1.20 |
| Taiwan | NT$30.00$0.94 |
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| Tanzania | TZS 2,900.00$1.10 |
| Thailand | THB 29.00$0.86 |
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| Turkey | TRY 49.99$1.02 |
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| United Arab Emirates | AED 2.99$0.81 |
| United Kingdom | £0.99$1.31 |
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| Vietnam | ₫29,000$1.12 |
| Yemen | $0.99 |
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ArtGen FAQ
- Is ArtGen free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 175 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $0.99 (US), across 6 one-time purchases.
- Does ArtGen have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is ArtGen cheapest?
- A one-time purchase costs CA$0.99 (≈$0.70) in Canada and HUF 499 (≈$1.53) in Hungary, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to ArtGen?
- MyStory.today: Write a Book (4.5 from 3,451 reviews, premium from $2.49), Danger Notes - Write or Die (4.8 from 2,935 reviews, premium from $0.99) and Story Plotter - idea to plot - (4.5 from 2,400 reviews, premium from $0.49).
ArtGen download
Last updated 10 months ago.
ArtGen sells in 175 countries. It was released 8 years and 2 months ago, on 3 Aug 2018. It holds a 3.2 rating from 270 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does ArtGen make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- One-time 100%
Revenue by country
- United States 85%
- Canada 6%
- United Kingdom 6%
- Australia 1%