What is Zepeto and why everyone is talking about it

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A fun game, social network and simple entertainment that blew up Google Play and the App Store.

More recently, Zepeto has burst into the lists of the most downloaded applications for Android and iOS. It is an online service from Korean developers that was originally targeted at the local market. However, the idea of creating cute copies of ourselves has caught the fancy of users from all over the world.

Zepeto allows you to create your own three-dimensional avatar from a photo, which can interact with the characters of other users. If the virtual double turned out to be not very similar to you, then it can be corrected by changing the facial features, hairstyle, hair color, and so on.

After such a setting, you are invited to pick up clothes and even furnish your room, in which the avatar will constantly live. Initial purchases can be made with bonus coins, they will be enough for the first wardrobe.

You can get new coins for subsequent purchases for viewing ads or successes in the built-in game a la Flappy Bird. It is, fortunately, not as difficult as the original, but the profit from it is quite modest. The fastest way to replenish your gold stocks is to buy it with real money.

Coins are also needed to buy various emotions and gestures that your avatar can use when meeting other users. There are a lot of options here, ranging from puffing up the cheeks and ending with the image of wild laughter. Some of them can be unlocked by watching ads.

The main social component of Zepeto is meeting other users' avatars for cute joint photos. For this there is a photo booth with templates for various poses and grimaces. You just have to choose which shot you want and tag one of your friends.

Friends at Zepeto are not a problem as you can always follow someone from the trending avatar list. This will be enough for you to use it for photo shoots. So, you can add to yourself Ariana Grande or Zane Malik, which are often shown in the recommendations.

You can find and add real friends through a special code that is unique for each user. After the invitation, you will be able to correspond and take joint pictures, including against the background of real photos or any other uploaded images.

The personal profile also has a function to create stickers with your avatar. There are ready-made templates, but if you wish, you can make them from scratch. With one click, the ready-made sticker can be sent to friends in any messenger or via e-mail. The function is implemented as a standard image sharing.

Zepeto also features daily quests, a dating street, and systematic gifts, all designed to keep the game interesting. However, even if you are imbued with the idea of three-dimensional avatars, the emotions from such entertainment can be overshadowed by constant problems with the application.

Zepeto does not always load quickly, periodically freezes and crashes. Plus to everything, the application does not have a Russian-language interface and at least some kind of soundtrack is completely absent (or just me?).

Judging by the popularity of Zepeto in the App Store and Google Play, all these problems do not prevent users from having fun with their avatars, making funny photos and even memes. Particularly popular are copies of characters from films, musicians or even politicians. Anyone can create them using a photo.