# Kyle and Tweek on your screen: a name-copying desktop pet pack, and the TikTok wave it didn't catch

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> Strictly speaking, it never really took off. It leeched search traffic by copying the top app's name, pushed into low-barrier category charts in the Philippines and Thailand, begged for ratings with pop-ups, and got a week's boost from a South Park fan tutorial on TikTok. It's already fading.

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Anime Shimeji Screen Pets · ScaleUp Technology

# Kyle and Tweek on your screen: a name-copying desktop pet pack, and the TikTok wave it didn't catch

**What it is** An Android app that lets chibi anime characters walk, climb and sleep on your phone screen. You can tap and drag them. It earns only from ads.

**Why it took off** Strictly speaking, it didn't really take off. It rode search by copying the top app's name, climbed low-barrier category charts in the Philippines and Thailand, and begged for ratings with popups. It also got a one-week boost from South Park fan tutorials on TikTok, and that boost is already fading.

**C** **How you could follow it** Don't make the 20th reskin pack. To enter this category, follow the fastest-growing new characters in TikTok fan circles and make your own "how to make it crawl on your phone" tutorials, or build the half that works on iOS with Dynamic Island and widgets.

Grade C: the demand is real and TikTok brings free traffic year-round, but the category already has at least 19 reskin packs. Same-name packs differ by several times to over a hundredfold, and winners are decided by account weight and paid acquisition. This product is a follower, so you can learn its playbook, but following it isn't worth it. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-09-03 · 11-07 installs 72,835

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Android · Ratings count (cumulative)

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)

Late October, a group of South Park fans on TikTok were teaching each other how to make Kyle and Tweek crawl around their phone screens. A reskin pack, "Anime Shimeji Screen Pets", from a Vietnamese small-account network, picked up speed in those same days and charted in the Philippines and Thailand. Look closer, though, and it didn't really break out: 73k installs in 64 days, while a same-name, same-period rival got twice that, and a new pack in the same category hit 1.7M in 25 days. This piece covers why people keep wanting this category, what this pack got and where it fell short, and where to stand if you want in.

### A tutorial with 130k views

Nov 3, TikTok account tweekandcraigaresocute posted a video tagged #southpark #shimeji #tutorial #samsung, with only "ok tut" as the caption. By 11-06, the video had 133k views and 247 comments. The most-liked comment (773 likes) said: "iOS users can do this too, it's called shijima." Lower down were "obviously not on iPad and iPhone", "I wish iOS had this", and "what's this app called?"

This isn't a one-off. 10-19 One account posted a video of a Kyle desktop pet ("I threw him too high last time") that got 250k views; 10-31 nyx_wears_deodorant posted "CREEK SHIMEJI", which hit 35k views, with top comments like "I've got Tweek, Craig, Kyle and Stan all" and "oh, it's Android". Scroll back and shimeji tutorials keep resurfacing: 2023 year a Spanish-language post, "App Shimeji I love it so much", reached 1.64M views; this March a video of an Amazing Digital Circus character got 570k views, captioned "The app is called shimeji, only works on Android (sorry iPhone users)".

The comments make clear who's watching: fairly young anime and cartoon fans, many on iPhone, and the most common question is "what's the app called?"

### What it is

Shimeji is a Windows desktop pet that became popular in Japan around 2009 years ago: a chibi character walks on the screen, climbs window edges, sleeps, and you can pick it up with the mouse and throw it. On Android, the "draw over other apps" overlay permission produces exactly the same effect. iOS doesn't grant that permission, so people make do with Dynamic Island and widgets. That makes this an **Android-only** category, and demand has been carried for free by fan content on TikTok.

"Anime Shimeji Screen Pets" is one of them: chibi anime characters walk, run, climb and sleep on screen, react when tapped, can be dragged, and their size, speed and count can be adjusted. No in-app purchases; it earns only from ads. It launched in Sep 3, reached version 17 in Sep 1.0.7, and hasn't been updated since.

### Where the volume comes from

| Date | Total installs | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 09-20 | About 7,000 | Third-party estimate |
| 10-04 | About 23k | Third-party estimate: a single-day jump of 12k |
| 10-28 | About 53k | Hundreds to over a thousand per day in mid-to-late October |
| 11-03 | 68,480 | Google Play installs |
| 11-06 | 72,835 | Google Play installs, last 7 days: +20k |

From Oct 29 to Nov 3, it was adding two to three thousand a day, which matches the South Park desktop-pet video wave. Its chart position peaked in these same days: 11-01 ranked in the "Personalization" free charts in 8 countries, #63 in the Philippines, 67 in Thailand, 86 in Mexico, and 124 in the US. By 11-06, only the Philippines (159) and Thailand (179) remained, and daily installs had dropped to 1,300.

Three confirmed ways it got traffic:

- **Copying the top name** . The title "Anime Shimeji Screen Pets" is word-for-word identical to a pack from Genadijs Ecom Holdings, which launched in January and already has 2.33M installs. Its package name com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen is also a string of search terms. When users search "anime shimeji," it shows up next to the leader.

- **Small-country category charts** . The Personalization charts in the Philippines, Thailand and Mexico have low barriers, so a thousand or two installs a day is enough to reach the top 100, and charting brings extra store exposure.

- **Ratings support conversion** . 675 ratings averaging 4.63 stars, but only 5 written reviews. On several days between 10-30 and 11-02, installs stayed flat while ratings kept climbing by twenty or thirty a day. This looks like the app prompting for ratings in-app (inferred).

It only brushed against the TikTok wave. Those videos either pointed to the older "Shimeji" from 2016 years ago (Digital Cosmos, 33.6M installs), or didn't name an app at all, and some just linked the web version shimeji.xyz. It has no TikTok account of its own. Whether it ran paid acquisition can't be determined. The jumps on 10-04 and 10-08 look more like a paid push or a store recommendation (unverified).

### Who made it

Developer "ScaleUp Technology": the Play listing is credited to a Vietnamese individual, the contact email is Gmail, and the "website" is a Blogspot. The same group has a "ScaleUp Ltd." account with 16 apps, including a zipper lock screen (2.34M), an iOS-style control center clone and a caller-ID-style app, plus a desktop pet pack with the **word-for-word identical description** under the same name. There is also a desktop pet pack under "ScaleUp Global." These are not the same as the Turkish ScaleUp that makes AI chat with 100M installs. Developer id, email and domain all differ.

The playbook is clear: the same code and the same copy go live across several accounts at once, and whichever account gets store weight gets the traffic. This pack has the best numbers of their pet apps, but across the whole category it doesn't rank.

### Who it's competing with: this category is already crowded

On Google Play, at least 19 packs with shimeji or screen pet in the title, most released by studios in Vietnam and Hong Kong since December 2025. A few representative ones (Google Play installs, 11-06; the first-30-day comparison is a third-party estimate):

| Product | Launched | Installs | Versus this product |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets(Digital Cosmos) | 2016-12 | 33.6M | The category origin, supports custom characters, most TikTok tutorials point to it |
| Live Anime Shimeji Pets(Hydra Global) | 2025-12 | 4.81M | Top reskin of the same theme |
| Emoji Battery & Shimeji Pets(ZAppsolution) | 2026-07 | 3.56M | Desktop pet plus emoji battery display in one, listed under Productivity, +266k in 7 days |
| Anime Shimeji Screen Pets(Genadijs) | 2026-01 | 2.33M | This product copies its name; ranked #1 on the Turkey and Argentina charts |
| Pets On Screen - Desktop Pet(MANDALA) | 2026-10-12 | 1.71M | 25 days to 1.7M, the strongest among new packs in the same period |
| Mooshi: Shimeji Screen Pets(Tinibuds) | 2026-04 | 740k | Has its own original characters |
| Anime Shimeji Screen Pets(SK-Studio) | 2026-09-05 | 150k | Same name, launched two days later, 78k in the first 30 days versus 12k for this product over the same period |

Same name, same month of launch. The SK-Studio version got more than 6 times this product's installs. The gap is most likely account weight and whether paid acquisition ran, not the product, since the features of these packs are nearly identical.

On the iOS side, searching "shimeji" in the US App Store, the most-rated app is Mooshi (17k ratings). The rest are mostly widgets and Dynamic Island alternatives with a few hundred ratings each.

### Where the money comes from

Ads only. Users are mostly in the Philippines, Thailand and Mexico, where CPMs are low, so ad revenue from 70k+ installs is likely small, and no public figure exists. The category leaders make money through millions of installs times a low CPM, plus combos like ZAppsolution's "desk pet + battery display" that push up the price tier a bit.

### If it were you

**One-liner** : Don't chase this pack. The category is worth learning from, but pure reskins are already too late.

**Who it suits** : Teams that already run an Android tool portfolio, do store optimization in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and have a few aged accounts. For you, one more desk pet pack is a very cheap marginal bet.

**Who it doesn't suit** : Solo indie devs hoping to build a hit from zero with one pack. Packs with the same name and timing can differ by 6x to over 100x, and what decides the outcome is accounts and paid acquisition, not code.

**How to do it** : Don't make the 20th "Anime Shimeji" again. The promising angle is the part none of them have done well:

- Characters that follow the fandom on TikTok. This wave is South Park; before it were The Amazing Digital Circus, Hazbin Hotel and Blue Prison. Whoever gets the matching character up fastest (original art, no copyrighted source images) catches the "what's this app called" comments. Licensed characters are out of reach for small teams, so don't bet on that.

- Build the half iOS users can use. The most common complaint in reviews is "doesn't work on iPhone." Dynamic Island, widget and lock-screen desk pets exist on iOS (Mooshi has 17k ratings), but they're far from the Android floating window experience, so there's room here.

- Copy ZAppsolution's combo approach: desk pet plus battery, plus Pomodoro timer, plus lock screen, placed in a less crowded category.

**How to get users** : Run your own TikTok account and post "how to make XX climb on your phone" tutorials, with the app name on screen. Right now most traffic from these tutorials goes to 2016-year-old incumbents, because nobody tells viewers about the other names. In the store, use category charts to push small countries: Personalization installs of a thousand or two a day in the Philippines or Thailand get you into the top 100.

**Timing window** : No clear window. This is an old category with steady demand. But each fandom spike lasts only a week or two: the South Park wave took off at the end of October and was already fading by early November.

**Signs you misread it** : You get a character up, post the tutorial, one video passes 100k views, and store installs still don't move. That means search results and charts are locked by the authority of a few big accounts, and the reskin route doesn't work for a new account.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets(Digital Cosmos) | Android | 2016-12 | 33.6M installs, +29k in 7 days | The category origin, supports custom characters, most TikTok tutorials point to it |
| Live Anime Shimeji Pets(Hydra Global) | Android | 2025-12 | 4.81M installs | Same-theme top reskin, 66x this app's size |
| Anime Shimeji Screen Pets(Genadijs Ecom Holdings) | Android | 2026-01-08 | 2.33M installs, ranked #1 on the Turkey and Argentina category charts | Title and selling points identical to this app, 8 months earlier. This app copied its name. |
| Emoji Battery & Shimeji Pets(ZAppsolution) | Android | 2026-07-17 | 3.56M installs, +266k in 7 days | Desk pet plus emoji battery in one, in the Productivity category, with paid acquisition |
| Pets On Screen - Desktop Pet(MANDALA) | Android | 2026-10-12 | 25 days, 1.71M installs | Same-period new pack, scaling dozens of times faster than this app |
| Anime Shimeji Screen Pets(SK-Studio) | Android | 2026-09-05 | 150k installs | Same name, launched 2 days later; at 30 days its installs were 6.7x this app's |
| Mooshi: Shimeji Screen Pets(Tinibuds) | Android | 2026-04-16 | 740k installs | Has its own original characters |
| Shimeji-ee / shimejis.xyz | Open source | Years ago | Niche | Desktop and browser extension, not on phones |
| iOS Dynamic Island desk pets (e.g. Shimeji Dynamic Pet Island) | iOS | From ¥2023 | A few thousand ratings | iOS doesn't allow floating windows, so Dynamic Island and widgets are the substitutes |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **Store search: title copied from the top pack** : The title matches Genadijs's 2.33M-install pack word for word, and the package name is stuffed with keywords

- **Verified** **Small-country category charts** : Only charted on the Personalization Top Free chart: Philippines 63, Thailand 67, Mexico 86, US 124 (chart_rank 11-01)

- Inferred **Organic category buzz on TikTok** : From 10-31 to 11-03 a wave of South Park desk pet tutorials appeared (peak 132k views), overlapping with this app's acceleration. But the videos didn't name this app, and it has no account of its own.

- Inferred **In-app rating prompt** : 675 ratings but only 5 written reviews. On days when installs didn't grow, ratings still rose 24~35 every day.

- **查实** **马甲矩阵铺包** :ScaleUp Ltd. 上了同名同文案的包,ScaleUp Global 也有一个桌宠包;同开发者还有 25.6 万安装的 Launcher iOS 26 可以导流

- Inferred **Paid acquisition** : Nothing found in the Meta, Google or TikTok ad libraries (this app isn't on the tracking list). Two single-day jumps, 10-04 +11.6k and 10-08 +8.7k, with unknown cause.

## Why Anime Shimeji Screen Pets (com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen) got traction

> Channel: Google Play | Developer: ScaleUp Technology (Vietnamese individual account) | Launched: 2026-09-03 | Research date: 2026-11-06

### Bottom line

It **didn't really take off** . This is a reskinned desk pet from a Vietnamese "ScaleUp" account-network operation: the title matches word for word the Genadijs pack that reached 2.33M installs in the category, and it shares name and copy with ScaleUp Ltd.'s other pack in the same network. After 64 days on the store it had 73k installs, a fraction of same-theme, same-period new packs (SK-Studio's same-name pack launched two days later and is already at 150k; MANDALA's new pack hit 1.7M in 25 days). The "+7k in the last 20 days" you see on recall is a short-term acceleration from 10-29 to 11-03, matching the South Park desk pet tutorial wave on TikTok and the low bar on Philippine, Thai and Mexican category charts. After 11-04 both rank and daily installs declined. What's worth borrowing is the low-cost playbook, not this product.

### 1. Data (googleplay library, 2026-10-29 to 11-06; early curve estimated from AppstoreSpy)

| Date | Total installs | New today | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09-20 | 7,014 | — (AppstoreSpy estimate) |  |
| 10-03 | 11,551 |  |  |
| 10-04 | 23,189 | +11,638 (single-day jump, AppstoreSpy estimate) |  |
| 10-08 | 33,376 | +8,725 (single-day jump) |  |
| 10-28 | 52,520 | Mid-to-late October about 0.5–1.3k/day |  |
| 10-30 | 58,268 | About 2.9k/day | 551 |
| 11-03 | 68,480 | About 2.6k/day | 657 |
| 11-05 | 71,519 | +3,039 | 673 |
| 11-06 | 72,835 | +1,316 | 675 |

- **Chart positions** : Only charted on the Personalization Top Free category chart. 10-29 in 4 stores (Philippines 79, Thailand 122, Mexico 125, Turkey 140), expanded to 8 stores on 11-01. Best ranks: Philippines #63, Thailand #67, Mexico #86, US #124, Canada #138. By 11-06 only the Philippines (#159) and Thailand (#179) remained (chart_rank). The peak was around 11-01, and it's falling now.

- **Rating** : 4.63★ from 675 ratings, of which only **5 written reviews** . Ratings are about 0.93% of installs, the 5-star share is 79% (distribution 15/10/26/69/536). On days from 10-30 to 11-02 when new installs were nearly 0, ratings still rose 24~35 a day, so rating growth and install growth don't match. This fits the pattern of an in-app rating prompt (inferred, not verified).

- **Monetization** : `ad_supported = true`, no in-app purchases (app_snap), ads only. Version 1.0.7 is the last one released after 09-17.

- Not in our review library (outside the review-scraping scope).

### 2. Competitors: an old category packed with reskinned packs

Shimeji was originally a Japanese Windows desktop pet from around 2009 years ago. On Android it works through the floating-window permission; on iOS, floating windows aren't allowed, so a true full-screen desk pet isn't possible. The googleplay library has at least 19 packs with shimeji or screen pet in the title, most published by studios in Vietnam and Hong Kong after 2025-12:

| Product | Developer | Launched | Installs (11-06) | 7-day gain | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shimeji: Play with Screen Pets | Digital Cosmos | 2016-12 | 33.6M | +29k | The category source, supports importing custom shimejis, and many TikTok tutorials point to it |
| Live Anime Shimeji Pets | Hydra Global | 2025-12 | 4.81M | +34k | Top reskin of the same theme |
| Emoji Battery & Shimeji Pets | ZAppsolution | 2026-07 | 3.56M | +266k | Desk pet plus emoji battery in one, in the Productivity category, with paid acquisition |
| Emoji Battery & Shimeji Pet | Tools for Everyday | 2026-06 | 3.39M | +105k | Same account network as above |
| **Anime Shimeji Screen Pets** (same name) | Genadijs Ecom Holdings | 2026-01-08 | 2.33M | +19k | Title and selling points identical to this app, 8 months earlier; ranked #1 on the Turkey and Argentina category charts |
| Pets On Screen - Desktop Pet | MANDALA | 2026-10-12 | 1.71M | +32k | 25 days to 1.7M, the strongest among new packs in the same period |
| Pet On Screen - Shimeji Kawaii | Tokii Apps | 2025-12 | 1.38M | +23k | Vietnam |
| Anime Shimeji Pets On Screen | WEGO Global | 2026-02 | 1.23M | +20k |  |
| Mooshi: Shimeji Screen Pets | Tinibuds | 2026-04 | 740k | +21k | Has its own character IP |
| **Anime Shimeji Screen Pets** (same name) | SK-Studio | 2026-09-05 | 150k | +12k | Launched 2 days after this app, same name; in its first 30 days it had 78k installs (this app: 12k) |
| Anime Shimeji: Floating Pets | Silver Great | 2026-09-28 | 41k | Plateau | Same period, already plateaued |
| **Anime Shimeji Screen Pets** (same network) | ScaleUp Ltd. | 2026-09 (updated 09-05) | 10k+ (161 reviews) | — | Description word for word identical to this app |
| Shimeji Live Anime Pets | ScaleUp Global (shown by AppBrain) | 09-28 update | 10k+ | — | Same network |
| Desktop: Shimeji-ee, shimejis.xyz browser extension | Open source / web | Years ago | Niche | — | Not on phones |
| iOS: Shimeji Dynamic Pet Island, etc. | iOS | From ¥2023 | A few thousand ratings | — | Only Dynamic Island and widgets as substitutes |

Source: googleplay library app_profile / app_day_ext (11-06); Play store page (read via r.jina.ai); appbrain and applion search snippets.

**Same-period comparison** (AppstoreSpy estimates, app_day_ext): this app 30 days after launch 11.6k, 60 days 58k; SK-Studio's package with the same name 30 days 78k, 60 days 148k; MANDALA 25 days 1.7M; ZAppsolution two-in-one 60 days 1.22M. Same title, same launch month, and this app grew the slowest.

### 3. Developer: Vietnamese "ScaleUp" sock-puppet matrix

- ScaleUp Technology (Play developer id 6713678804898227908): contact email vu.quan.160599@gmail.com, website kimlang689.blogspot.com, Play page credits HUYNH THI KIM LANG, address in Vietnam (from Play page summary). Also has Launcher iOS 26 - Widget Theme (2025-10 on it, 256k installs, package kimlang.launcher.ios) and iCallScreen - Call Theme IOS.

- ScaleUp Ltd. (id 5681386825925998702, admin@wecanmobile.vn, colodyapps.blogspot.com): 16 apps, including Zipper Lock Screen (2.34M), Theme Widget & Icon changer (360k), an iOS-style control center clone, call-screen themes, dual-space, and a **com.anime.shimeji.screen.pets** with the same name and copy.

- Also Shimeji Live Anime Pets (com.pet.petdance.dance.desktoppet) under "ScaleUp Global."

- Unrelated to the Turkish ScaleUp (Nova AI Chatbot 115M installs, Plant App, etc., scaleup.com.tr): developer id, email and domain are all different. Whether the Vietnamese accounts deliberately borrowed the name is unverified.

- The playbook: small studios publish near-identical packages with the same theme and copy across multiple accounts at once, then move traffic to whichever account gets store weight. This app has the best numbers in this matrix for desktop pet packs, but it doesn't rank across the broader category.

### 4. Growth tactics (where users come from)

1. **Store search + copying top titles (title match confirmed; how much traffic it brings is unverified)** : the title "Anime Shimeji Screen Pets" matches word for word the package from Genadijs with 2.33M installs, and the package name com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen is stuffed with keywords. When users search "anime shimeji," it appears alongside the top packages.

2. **吃 TikTok 自然流量带起来的需求(时间对得上,没找到直接点名本品的视频)** :TikTok 上 shimeji 教程一直有人发(smuglynarration 37.8 万播放、smartyplans 164 万播放,TikHub 搜索)。10-31 到 11-03 冒出一波 South Park 桌宠教程(tweekandcraigaresocute 11-03 发,13.2 万播放;fandomsarecoolyay、nyx_wears_deodorant 10-31 发),时间正好对上本品 10-29 到 11-03 的加速和 11-01 的榜位高点。不过这些视频指向的多是 Digital Cosmos 原版,或者干脆不写 App 名。本品自己没有 TikTok 号(搜不到 ScaleUp 相关账号)。

3. **Small-market category charts (confirmed)** : it has only charted on the Personalization free charts in small markets like the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico and Turkey. The bar is low: a thousand or two daily installs gets you into the top 100, and charting brings store exposure.

4. **In-app rating prompt (inferred)** : 5 written reviews against 675 ratings; the rating kept rising on days installs stalled, and a 4.6★ rating held up conversion.

5. **Paid user acquisition (unknown)** : Meta, Google and TikTok (Europe) ad libraries show no record of this app or the ScaleUp accounts. This app isn't on the tracking list, though, so no record doesn't mean no spend. The one-day jumps on 10-04 (+11.6k) and 10-08 (+8.7k) look more like one-off pushes, such as an ad-buy test or a boost from a store featuring slot (unverified).

6. **Cross-promotion within the matrix (possible)** : the same developer's Launcher iOS 26 has 256k users, and the store page has a "More by" section, so the apps may promote each other inside the app (unverified).

### 5. Visibility

- X (x-radar, last 30 days) returns 0 posts for "shimeji"; no press coverage; revenue is not public. Only auto-aggregation sites like appbrain, similarweb and apkpure index it.

- The category itself is crowded, with at least 19 similar packages; this app is one of the copycats.

- Verdict: **few people know about it yet** , and it doesn't deserve to be known.

### 6. Differentiation

No product differentiation: the selling points (walk, run, climb, sleep, tap and drag, adjust size, speed, count) are the same as every reskin in the category, and the description is identical word for word to the ScaleUp Ltd. packages in the same matrix, even the title copies the leaders. Growth came from **copying top titles for search traffic, small-market category charts, and the rating prompt** , and it underperformed the same-named SK-Studio app. So it wasn't built on differentiation, and strictly speaking it hasn't broken out.

### 7. What to borrow

- An Android-only overlay category (iOS can't compete head-on), with demand carried organically by TikTok tutorial content, so there's no need to make content yourself.

- Reskinning costs almost nothing: the same code and the same copy get published across several sock-puppet accounts at once, and traffic goes to whichever account earns weight.

- Copying the title of an already-validated top app in the category to ride its search exposure.

- Ad-only monetization with no in-app purchases, suited to low-ARPU markets like Southeast Asia and Latin America.

- Counterexample: with the same playbook, same-named packages can differ by 2 to 20 times. The gap is most likely decided by account weight and whether there's paid acquisition, not by the product.

### 8. Still unclear

- Whether there's paid acquisition and where: this app is not on the ad-library tracking list.

- The reasons behind the two one-day jumps on 10-04 and 10-08.

- Country share of installs: similarweb page 403, not readable.

- Ad revenue: no public data; estimated to be very small (70k installs, all in low-ARPU markets).

- Whether the name clash between these Vietnamese "ScaleUp" accounts and the Turkish ScaleUp is intentional.

### Sources

- googleplay library (agent-im server, DuckDB): app, app_snap, app_day_ext (AppstoreSpy estimates), chart_rank, app_profile, developer, 2026-10-29 to 11-06

- Ad libraries: metaads app_link / advertiser, googleads adv_app, tiktokads app_link (no match for this app)

- Play store pages: [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pet.anime.shimeji.…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen); matrix package [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anime.shimeji.scre…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anime.shimeji.screen.pets); developer page [play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5681386825925998702](https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5681386825925998702)

- Search snippets: appbrain (https://www.appbrain.com/app/anime-shimeji-screen-pets/com.pet.anime.shimeji.screen), applion, similarweb, apkpure (Jina search)

- TikTok: TikHub search for "shimeji screen pets", "anime shimeji screen pets", "shimeji android" (11-06)

- X: x-radar search for "shimeji" over the last 30 days, 0 posts

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.