Avakin Life vs ZEPETO
Choose ZEPETO for a more polished experience despite some user concerns.
ZEPETO generally offers a smoother user experience and more engaging community interactions compared to Avakin Life, which has faced criticism for its monetization and safety issues. While both apps have their share of glitches, ZEPETO's user base is larger and more diverse.
Head to head
you prefer a long-established game with a nostalgic community.
you want a more engaging and visually appealing social experience.
Evidence note: Both apps have significant issues, but ZEPETO's larger user base and slightly better reviews give it the edge.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R12] Avakin Life Unfortunate: Man this game is said now I’ve played for like 6 years and it’s just not good anymore you literally have no way of buying pretty much anything new in the shop whit this new crowns currency now without spending real money you have no way of earning crowns or anything and on top of that it’s just dead and you can’t even go to 18+ lobbies without paying actual money it’s just sad this ga
- [R9] Avakin Life Avakin: The game is an amazing game, it’s also one of the reasons why my childhood was amazing but i feel like everything costs crowns now and it’s pretty unfair also there’s so many ads in the game that you have to hear so you get irritated quickly but it’s an overall great game but i feel like the ads and crowns ruined it
- [R73] ZEPETO Zems: Ok so when it comes to zems it's impossible to get unless to do these dumb quizzes which take almost half the day to complete and it's hard to get gifted because of requirements. Zepeto please make an update where u can use coins to get zems like maybe 5,000 coins or 10,000 at least like this is stupid
- [R105] ZEPETO Why is almost everything for zems?: It’s a great game but I think there should be less things for zems.I barely have anything because of how much stuff are for zems and it’s not that fun with not much items for my avatar but i still think it’s a good game I recommend playing and adding less stuff for zems.
- [R11] Avakin Life Glitchy and laggy: I love the game, but lately it’s so glitchy. If this keeps up I’m honestly going to quit playing. I’ve been a player for about 6 years snd I’m a VIP. 7 fully decorated houses too :(. I’ve spend several hundreds maybe even over 1000$ dollars on the game since I’ve started so it’s really a disappointment.
- [R21] Avakin Life To Many Ads: This game use to be awesome until they make u pay for memberships to get rid of the ads… Can’t even hop to 2 different spots without them popping up .. I know you guys need to make your money but damn, we just wanna play 😅
- [R61] ZEPETO Why is it so laggy: Everytime now I open the app and it lags, it glitches me out of it before I can even post and it won’t even let me do dances, fix your game ZEPETO Edit: ZEPETO OMG it is even glitchier can you PLEASE fix the game, it’s fun and all but everytime I do SOMETHING IT LAGS ME OUT UGHHH Edit AGAIN: ZEPETO has not once fixed their game, it’s very fun when it’s running smoothly ZEPET
- [R66] ZEPETO Bad: Glitches a lot overheats my phone there is bullying DMs and just things still tweens shouldn’t be exposed to
- [R27] Avakin Life Help! Game isn’t working: I love this game. Been playing maybe 8 years. But now my game is always saying “connection to Avakin Life is currently unavailable.” My friends say they can play easily. Note: sometimes if I update my phone it will work for a day. I have vip. I’m a paying player and really want to play. If someone knows what I’m doing wrong or not doing right, please help.
- [R24] Avakin Life Why does this keep happening?: I had this game for 7 to 8 years. It’s very fun and most definitely changed over the years my only concern is why do I have to keep leaving the app and coming back because the game is not not fully loading after the update. I’ve even deleted it and reinstalled it back I still have to keep swiping the app away and coming back because content is not loading and the gam
- [R69] ZEPETO Hey ZEPTO: So the app keeps glitching and bugging a lot and I can’t post anything on the app or nothing plz fix this bug
- [R96] ZEPETO Fix ts pls: So I’m playing ZEPETO and my avatar was glitching out and it’s really annoying so when I do a dance or photo my arms go back 360 and. It’s the same for dancing so please fix I hope am not the only one so yea It’s really annoying but anyway luv the game zepeto just fix this glitch pls 🪩👍🏻
- [R16] Avakin Life #FIXAVAKIN: I’ve been a loyal player since 2017. This game is a scam and not free or fun to play anymore. • They nerfed coin currency by adding crowns. • Every item they add is a crown item. • All servers are dead. • They removed Radio / music streaming feature and adding And so much more. Everyone considering playing this game, as well as Devs should watch khaychay.avakin’s video, “BOYCOTT
- [R58] Avakin Life crowns/MONEY HUNGRY😒: this game is pretty good HOWEVER if you actually want good outfits or other things, you have to purchase crowns to buy them!! and of course there are too many ads 🙄. ALSO, there are very few hair options for black people/avatars. I genuinely do wish i could enjoy this game more, but it is just TOO money hungry 😒
- [R77] ZEPETO Fun but probs: OK, so I love Zepto but the thing is I wish zems were free because the thing I hate is that coins are the only thing that is free When I want to decorate my avatar, i only use coins and for me I feel like it’s not fair I like for a update. Here are some ideas. I think you should give people 50 zems Here are my reasons first people that only have coins would really appreciate it. I
- [R3] Avakin Life The mystery box is gone: The game is good, but my mystery box disappeared. I wrote to support, but they didn't answer. I deleted and reinstalled the game, but I still don't have it. · translated
- [R49] Avakin Life CAN NOT RECOVER ONCE DELETED: I have sent emails since November 2025. The app got deleted from my phone and I can’t not recover my account. No one will email me back either.
- [R85] ZEPETO Not under 18: I searched in my daughter’s phone. I found this app and I saw she was chatting with the AI bots definitely not meant for kids. Please do better ZEPETO at protecting children
- [R100] ZEPETO good: I really like zepeto but ai is overcoming it and there are alot of bugs and much better things that could be added, there are also a lot of young young children despite being for 13+ and zepeto is very sensitive and will restrict you for anything. I’ve gotten numerous valuable accounts banned on zepeto and I will try to appeal it but it doesn’t give a long enough extension to write your apol
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store