What is the best virtual world app for iPhone?

ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & Live, S tier, ranked #1 of 19, rated 4.7 by 543,546 people.

Which virtual world apps are free?

18 of 19 are free to download: ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & Live (S), IMVU: Fun 3D Avatar Chat Game (S), Meta Horizon (S), Highrise: Dress Up Avatar Game (S) and more. 16 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which virtual world app has the best App Store rating?

VRCraft: Voice Chat Build Mine at 4.8 from 6,463 ratings.

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Best Virtual World Apps for iPhone (2026)

19 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & Live is the top-ranked of 19 virtual world apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 543,546 ratings.

1
ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & LiveS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 543,546 ratings · score 97
2
IMVU: Fun 3D Avatar Chat GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 364,572 ratings · score 97
3
Meta HorizonS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 224,909 ratings · score 96
4
Highrise: Dress Up Avatar GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 165,761 ratings · score 96
5
Hotel Hideaway: Avatar & ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 53,138 ratings · score 95

What belongs in this list

Hang out and socialize with other people in shared virtual worlds through avatars.

Not here: Avatar creation, dress-up, styling, or single-player life-simulation gameplay without shared social-world hangouts alone; User-made game platforms or sandbox gameplay alone; AI-character chat or a general-purpose chatbot prompted to roleplay alone; Romantic matching or dating alone; A title keyword, virtual-world-themed sticker or emoji pack, or link to a website alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

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Compare every app

1
ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & LiveS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 543,546 ratings · score 97 · best in class
2
IMVU: Fun 3D Avatar Chat GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 364,572 ratings · score 97 · best in class
3
Meta HorizonS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 224,909 ratings · score 96 · best in class
4
Highrise: Dress Up Avatar GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 165,761 ratings · score 96 · best in class
5
Hotel Hideaway: Avatar & ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 53,138 ratings · score 95 · best in class
6
Everskies: Avatar Dress UpS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 62,435 ratings · score 93 · best in class
7
Avakin Life: 3D Avatar CreatorS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 103,012 ratings · score 93 · best in class
8
Builder Buddies Craft & Mine RS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 57,336 ratings · score 91 · best in class
9
PK XD: Fun, friends & gamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 540,367 ratings · score 91 · best in class
10
Woozworld - Virtual WorldA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 5,326 ratings · score 89 · excellent
11
Party in My Dorm: Campus LifeA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 26,326 ratings · score 85 · excellent
12
VRChatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 3,323 ratings · score 80 · excellent
13
Play Together: Friends & PartyBnot on the App Store
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 72,910 ratings · score 79 · good
14
Club Cooee - 3D Avatar ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 972 ratings · score 74 · good
15
Animal JamC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 84,265 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
16
Hello Kitty Dream VillageC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 6,402 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional
17
Carrot WorldC
Free · ★ 5.0 · 5 ratings · score 60 · situational · provisional
18
MovieStarPlanet 2D
Free + IAP · ★ 3.8 · 7,368 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional
19
VRCraft: Voice Chat Build MineD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,463 ratings · score 55 · weak

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What is the best virtual world app for iPhone?: ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & Live, S tier, ranked #1 of 19, rated 4.7 by 543,546 people.
Which virtual world apps are free?: 18 of 19 are free to download: ZEPETO: Avatar, Connect & Live (S), IMVU: Fun 3D Avatar Chat Game (S), Meta Horizon (S), Highrise: Dress Up Avatar Game (S) and more. 16 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which virtual world app has the best App Store rating?: VRCraft: Voice Chat Build Mine at 4.8 from 6,463 ratings.
How many virtual world apps reach S or A tier?: 12 of 19. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.