Mirror: Emoji & Avatar Maker Reviews

by AbsentbebniM

Who decided to change the animation style? Mirror went from being a solid alternative to Bitmoji (with strong references to the old/discontinued Bitstrips) to some half-hearted attempt at an Apple Memoji clone.

Using Mirror a month or so ago, I was impressed with how accurate the emoji of me was. After just now logging in, and being prompted to take another pic to create a new emoji of me (No option to keep my old picture? Really??), I was presented with an emoji that was barely even close. A good half-dozen pic retakes later, I was presented with a half-dozen completely different emoji options. I even tried uploading a saved pic of my older emoji from Mirror ... nope... still not close. How? It’s like a completely different app now.

Speaking plainly, Mirror has gone from being something I’ve recommended to friends/family to being completely unusable. You couldn’t have left both animation styles as a user option?

Whatever. Just my opinion. It’s your app to do with as you please. But I’m deleting it. Thanks for the small amount of joy/nostalgia I obtained in the short time I used it.

by Widget Cool

Loved this cute app to spread a little sunshine to others. Very sad the update no longer works with iPhone 8Plus. Not sure why Mirror now freezes my stock Apple messaging app. UPDATE. You must pay an exorbitant monthly fee of $9.99/month or annual fee for stickers. Sorry I am not paying as much for a newspaper a month to get a bunch of stickers. The Developer says it’s FREE Mirror . Technically the downloading of app is Free but you now get NOTHING and it disables Mirror from working with out a $9.99 fee. I guess there are a lot of young children out there who will be clicking on this to purchase it. Hopefully parents are watching and have it blocked. No adult would pay $10 a month for stickers unless they just like spending money carelessly or have a lot of it. Lol.

by Hcube7

Mirror is hands-down the best “personalized” sticker pack I’ve tried! There is such great variety in the sticker choices, and Mirror ’s AI actually does a great job reproducing faces from pictures. I like that you can go back after the fact and edit your character easily. I also love the “stickers with friends,” where you can have two avatars in a sticker. That’s really cool! The animated stickers blow me away! I have gotten several comments from people asking, “Where did you get that?” and “How does that look so much like you?”
The stickers are very helpful for communication in general. And!!! There are no ads OR IAPs!!!! 😍😍

However. There is only thing preventing my giving 5 stars to Mirror. It is the foul language easily stumbled upon. Please please please, this app, add an option to turn off mature language stickers. I’m just a child... I don’t want to see that stuff! It doesn’t only come up when you search for it, it comes up if you search by emotion (like anger) and it also comes up in the popular section. This includes inappropriate acronyms, partially censored words, and gestures.
If you don’t want to see bad language, do not download Mirror. I may be deleting it soon myself because it seems to be getting worse in that regard, not better.

Bottom line: tread with caution.

Thanks for reading!

by Yolochlowhoa

Mirror is the first app I ever wished the creators of Mirror didn't create it. Yes I know I may be sounding rude, but I'm saying what I think about Mirror. 1. There's no creativity whatsoever. 2. When you take the photo it does nothing to your avatar. 3. Mirror only lets you change the color of your clothing and you can't even change your outfit!!!
I think Mirror is very very boring and takes away people and kids creativity and it's deserves to be deleted and it also deleted. I am sick of game creators taking away kids and adults freedom in these create your own person apps. The only app I like of these is bitmoji because they give you many many options for you eyes nose and clothing, not to forget to say that this game does not allow you to change your nose. I am very sick of these games. Please step up your game or don't make any other apps again.
Thanks
BYE!

by Jobsofsteven

I thought you could use any image and it would shrink it down into a tiny emoji, like this ☺️ or this 🌺 or this🍕, ya know, an emoji. Alright fine it just does stickers. That’s still cool but when you go to start it has you select a “style” and there’s two options, random shirt and looks very different from me each time I did it. It kind of got my hair right on the second try which I give props for. Then you select one of the two “styles” and go through the next step. The next step is to select different features of the face and hair and what not. Barely any options making it not very customizable at all. Maybe 30 different styles of hair or less. The skin tones are lacking, it should be simple to include every skin tone, but there is only 12! The clothing option is just the top half of a shirt for males. The eye makeup options are very few. I either can have no eyelashes or full on fake lashes 🤦🏼 the fact that Mirror is advertised as making emojis out of an image is not true. It makes stickers and an avatar for it. I wanted an app that can turn any picture, even if it’s just a face picture into a tiny tiny emoji like this ☺️but instead of yellow, it is a real image just tiny. They did a really good job with the graphics though but for the price they charge they can easily put way more stuff. Maybe it’s because I only have the trial, but still.

by KarynArt11

I really liked Mirror when I first downloaded it. I found my exact hairstyle, which was a narrow single braid, and I could approximate my appearance fairly well—at 70 yo I didn’t want a glamorous look that my friends would just scoff at! Unfortunately the next time I went into Mirror my avatar was gone, and I had to start from scratch. Unfortunatley the “this app” function was less effective—any settings for “lips” other than the default don’t work at all, and my hairstyle isn’t there anymore. All the similar styles are fluffed up, supermodel-looking styles that are just too over the top. The fact that features don’t work, and the lack of styles in most categories puts this firmly BEHIND the competition for customized avatars.

by D2dathird

That is why my review is in the middle. I thought it was to look like me. I am a mature overweight woman with short parted locs and i wear pink glasses. What’s my problem. That is not what i got from my picture all the face shapes are the same, no pink glasses it gave me black, no way to make my face look older and lastly it gave the side hair of a man with straight hair. Other than that it is perfect. Maybe you app is only for young people with classic hairdos in a perfect or june cleaver world? but if it cannot do the hair that is the biggest part. The other can slide nah not the glasses glasses and hair is who you present everyday. Need more choices on hair and glasses.

by SoCre8eve

I initially gave it two stars because Mirror wanted me to pay for a subscription when she barely resembled me and there’s no way to customize her hair or clothes to resemble me more. I also don’t use any of the apps that it is designed to be used for (IG, WhatsApp or whatever that one that starts with a “T” is). After playing with it a bit longer, she looks more like me. I do understand the need for some type of revenue to continue doing what you do with Mirror , but more customization options will be needed for me to purchase a subscription.

by Rachel.T.A

Mirror is much better than other similar apps! I love the facial recognition feature and the ability to choose different stickers. I also love that I can make multiple avatars at a time and switch through them.

I only gave Mirror 3 stars because I would like to see more options when editing the avatar. I use this for my classroom and sometimes it makes them the wrong gender or looks nothing like them. I would love the ability to change height, face shape, body shape, age, gender, and outfits after the facial recognition! It would also be helpful to be able to name each avatar. Hopefully these updates can happen soon!

by Hiiiiii11111

Your game is super cool and fun! I love making the emojis and sending them to my friends!!!! But there’s one problem, I wish when you were making the emoji there was a place were you could pick your age because I’m 10 and when I took my picture it made me look like a middle age woman. I just want to be able to make the emoji look like me I think you should add a place where you can add wrinkles or remove wrinkles or make your face look younger. I know that will probably take some time but it was just a idea. Everything else is awesome, your game is really cool and I enjoy it a lot, keep making great games like this!!!!!!!! 😊😊❤️❤️❤️

by Cinderellasphoenix

I decided to buy the lifetime premium because using Mirror has been a great add on for mental health wellness! I have made several avatars to represent different aspects of myself (think Pixar’s Inside Out movie). I can’t even explain with words how much this has been helping when I communicate!

The only reason I didn’t give it five stars is because it’s a bit cumbersome to use. I’ve tried putting it in my keyboard but then I lose access to some things. I wish I could switch between avatars faster but I have to get back into the selection window, switch the avatar, then hunt for which sticker I want.

Which brings me to.... the search is a bit funky. I can type in a keyword but a sticker pertaining to that doesn’t show up.... even though I know it exists because I have seen it in other searches.

But all in all.... I’m really enjoying Mirror.

by JaydaCee

I love Mirror and even fully upgraded by paying the $40 to access all features. Everyone says that my emoji looks just like me. However, the emojis that show up when you open Mirror are easier to find, than when you’re trying to import an emoji from your keyboard to use in a text message or email. It makes it harder to find the emoji you initially saw and want from Mirror , when you’re trying to include it in a message. There needs to be some sort of system that makes it easier to find the relevant emoji. Categorizing them isn’t enough. You could assign each emoji a number and include a search box for us to type the number in to locate the emoji easier via the keyboard. Please do this and I will come back to update this with 5 stars!

by Treeeeees Rule

We should be able to change the shape of our head. Mirror just assumes your an adult and you don’t get to edit the shape of your face nose eyes or mouth. So I look like an adult but I’m a 6th grader. Please, PLEASE let us edit the shape of our overall head!!!!

Also, the shape of the body is really weird. It looks like a rectangle with 4 more rectangles coming out of it. It’s weird. Please please please pretty pretty please let us edit the shape of our body! Idk how much I’m asking for, but I really want this. It’s really bothering me. Please fix!!

by Prmultimedia

Omg! What happened!!! I was so impressed before at how wonderful the characters I was able to create looked of my friends and I and now after logging back in I realized you are using a new software which deleted all the hard work I did to make all the people. Plus this new update only has a handful of character situations. Looks like it wasn’t fully ready for launch. Very sad about the update. But I do look slimmer in the new character style which is great!

Thanks for listening and allowing the removal of the logo.

by Run Like The Kitty Kitty

Was looking for an app similar to Bitmoji, because of the parental controls my parents put on. Found Mirror and loved it!!! Love how you can customize your clothes and put in earrings. Probably the best choice I could have ever made. The last update was great, but not exactly what I wanted. I wanted to switch between friends in iMessage, but I couldn’t. And you must have read my mind, because you fixed that. I’m even trying to think of a suggestion to make, but nothing comes to mind! Keep it up and don’t take anything away from the new update! It’s perfect the way it is!

by Chocochipleesy

I like that there’s variety & look forward to more options throughout. Please

1.create a sync option for all avatars made. I have 3 devices, & I had 7 family members sign up yesterday. It was a nightmare getting everyone created for each. Nobody was really happy the results weren’t the same result image on each. It would be nice if everyone was just responsible to make only themselves, saved & synced automatically like bitmoji does.

2.fix glitches for repeat listings of the same contact over & over. I checked my contacts & I don’t have the same person 2x or 3x like app shows. Or create option to delete from the contact list it shows within app to fix the issue.

3.make more family (child,parent,spouse) options! We are going to be using these for our family texts back & forth.

by @sheronrose

I’m enjoying it so far but a few more facial options would be nice when creating my emoji, like having my emoji smiling-I’m always smiling, and eye shapes, eyebrow shapes and nose shapes. I really love that you have so many conversation “stickers” I think you call them.
I love that I can create emojis for my friends on my phone book. A negative is that this app actually started some of them and one BIG ERROR is that it put a female body on one of my obviously male friends-I don’t know any females named “Mark”. I’ve tried to redo it but have been unsuccessful. I even took his info out of my contact list and put him in again, using his middle name, and restarted my phone but his name didn’t appear on the list. How do I fix it?

by BellaRizzoScoutAli

This game is fun and entertaining I love 😍 how fun the game is but before you buy it it dose not tell you that in order to get premium access you have to pay 6.99a month I thought you should now that before you purchase Mirror. And if you’re reading this thank you for reading my review and I hope it was help ful for who ever you are reading t right now Thank you a whole lots. I hope my review was useful and helpful to you😀😀😀

by BackstrokeCR

I love Mirror , but on this app Original, none of the hairs look like mine. I also think that there are too many premium stickers on both this app Original, and this app Line. One last thing is that when I try to make the GIFs, I take the video, then nothing happens. The screen just has the loading symbol on it. Overall, even though there are some flaws, this app is a good app. 🙂

by CalmSeas777

There could be additional choices if you pay to join but if you just want to see what app will do, it is extremely limited in choices you can make. Just making an emoji from the regular emoji program on iPhone was incredibly more “realistic”. Only looked elsewhere cause I couldn’t find my hairstyle. Couldn’t on this one either but also couldn’t find much else to edit the pic to look like me. The drama or feelings pictures were a lot more but what good does that do if it doesn’t look like you to begin with...?

by RaeannaKH

However, I think it would be incredibly cool if it could recognize my baby’s face.
I also think it would be great if there were more colors for hair. There are a lot already but my bright pink hair just doesn't seem to have a match which is a tad disappointing.
And as others have stated before, if the body’s had more shape and clothing variety, that’d be fun.
I have no intention of deleting Mirror and look forward to seeing what types of improvements can be made.

by Xephya

The mirroring took me some trial and error to get a reflection I felt to be accurate, so many were deleted in the process... or so I thought. Every time I shifted to the other style of emoji, every attempt would come back anew and need to be deleted over again. Besides that, I’ve had trouble accessing them through my Messenger app. The best way to use them is to go directly from the this app app to forward them. All that aside, all of the stickers are very fun and sprite-ly.

by DM KELLY

Mirror is fun, expressive, and provides continual updates to provide innovative emotions to accurately demonstrate all moods and feelings! I appreciate how the developer is expanding the varying skin tones/shades to reflect their users; moreover, I am anxiously awaiting for more skin shades and hairstyles to be added to represent ALL diverse populations. However, I have introduced Mirror to several friends and erased other apps because this app’s design and expressions are truly “on point”. Please keep updating and providing a great experience to your users.

by MyTinTin

Love that we have chance to create our own sticker; however, it will be great if we can customize texts on all existing stickers.
When we try to put stickers, we sometimes have to sticked on top of existing word instead. Other sticker app, you can stick around the bubble. Also, I wish we can have more clothes selection than just colors. Other than above comments, it is great emoji app overall. Thank you for making it!

by Psychicdaydreams

My last rating of Mirror was before the update that allows the user to edit their emoji in more detail. Since then, it has greatly improved.

I still wish I could manually tell Mirror if it's looking at a man or a woman, since depending on the picture it thinks I'm either, and use any hairstyle on any head, but the current editing options are in other ways much better to use.

by FaZeTaco

I only downloaded this application as I had seen a review that just had to judge Mirror because it wasn’t up to date with gender specific addons. It’s an application, it’s not YOUR application. Not everything runs on gender. I bet if there was a male emoji on Mirror ’s icon too, you’d give it a 1 Star rating.

Besides that, very good application, actually very useful for its intended purpose!