AVAKuma

**AVAKuma** was a character maker app developed and published by Dreamforce Innovation Limited for iOS and Android. It was released on January 26, 2022 for Android devices and January 30, 2022 for iOS devices as AVACut. Previously, it was a video maker allowing users to insert their characters into various preset scenes or their own scenes, however, this video editing feature isn’t available anymore due to the end of cooperation of the services provider.

In order to create an account, you either used a Facebook, Google or Apple account if you have iOS, as there's currently no plans to create accounts without using either of them.

AVAKuma went offline without an official statement on November 17, 2023, although a staff member on the app's Discord mentioned that the servers will never open again, which means AVAKuma had shut down permanently.

## Features

AVAKuma had several features, some of which were Android-exclusive. These are a list of features:

* Dress up - The main feature of this app. You'll be forced to choose a character model from the beginning. Afterwards you can dress up. There are some items that you'll have to unlock through AVA Land, and others through the Black Market. There are several poses for each character, along with expressions that allow you to display the mood of your character. Some poses have replaceable props.
* Profile - You can write your character's profile. There are several categories for you to write about them.
* AVA - Displays all the characters you created. Previously you were limited to 30 character slots, but as of now you have 200 character slots.
* Design - Allows you to design clothes through templates. You can add stickers to the clothes.
* AVA Land - You'll go through the history of Illumia, and then unlock new items for your characters. Some of them will have plot fragments throughout your journey. Also, some of the tales were pre-written by the staff, while others were done by users. You can submit a tale if you want, as long as it abides by the AVAKuma policy.
* Social Club - Allows you to chat with other users through several topics, such as roleplay and freechat.
* Community - You can share your OC with others, or post whatever's in your mind. You'll be forced to select the type of your post. If the staff likes your work, it will be on the featured section of the app, and if the staff likes your OC, it will be displayed on the "Display My OC" section.
* Black Market - A feature to buy accessories/outfits for your characters with money.
* Medals - A collectible item that is next to your display name. You can get medals by either participating in events or filling out forms.
* Video creator - A feature that allowed to you to create videos with your characters. Was removed because the services provider ended cooperation with the app.

## Characters

### Zero

*Main article: Zero*

Zero is the main mascot of the app. She usually hosts events on the app, and is most likely the main owner of the app. She is the headmaster of the Academy.

### Kuma

*Main article: Kuma*

Kuma is one of Zero's partners. He is a bear-human hybrid.

### Wandy

*Main article: Wandy*

Wandy is also one of Zero's partners. Her character uses the Woman model and announces what new features were added in the app.

## Shutdown

On November 17, 2023, AVAKuma went offline without an official statement. Although it was treated as a maintenance period at first, the art head of the app Nero had said that AVAKuma's servers will never be online again. However, in January 2024, the reason was revealed by Rose (one of the app's developers) saying that the app had failed funding which caused it to shut down.

## Trivia

* The reason why the iOS version is 4 versions behind the Android version is due to the developers doing maintenance for the iOS version back in March 2023, although they've since then resumed in May 2023 with the removal of the video editor.
* There was a regional version of AVAKuma called Chuman, which is an app popular in China. Chuman has several differences from AVAKuma.
	+ Chuman was released seven years before AVAKuma was released.
	+ Chuman is only available in Chinese, but if your device has English as a set language, the update logs will be in English.
	+ Some clothes, faces and hairstyles are free. Others will need coins and diamonds in Chuman. In addition, it has two currency systems, whereas in AVAKuma it doesn't, but if you datamine the files for AVAKuma there are unused files for coins and diamonds. This could show that AVAKuma supposedly would've had a currency system, as some of the code was borrowed from Chuman.
	+ Chuman has the ability to create your own comics, but AVAKuma has that feature in the Android version only.
	+ While AVAKuma doesn't have the video editor anymore, Chuman does have the ability to make your own videos.
	+ Most features in Chuman are locked unless you verify your phone number. AVAKuma does not do that.
	+ Chuman has its own Weibo account. AVAKuma, on the other hand, doesn't, and instead has several social media accounts like Twitter.
	+ The developers for both apps are different from each other in app stores.
	+ Some of the outfits in AVAKuma could be bought in Chuman as a bundle, usually with a diamond price. Others were just mixed and matched together.
		- In recent years, some bundles only have the outfit and not the hairstyle and eyes. A few outfits have the character in the cover matched exactly as it is as an outfit preset.
	+ AVAKuma does not name most of its outfits, with the only exception being Black Market and AVA Land outfits. Chuman does this, however, as they name all of their outfits released.
	+ Chuman has daily login rewards, but in AVAKuma there isn't.
	+ Chuman allows you to create AI art through its "heart drawing" feature. AVAKuma would've had similar features related to this feature.
	+ The Zero and Furry models do not appear in Chuman.
	+ There are more poses in AVAKuma.
* AVAKuma has been down on two occasions.
	+ The first outage happened on May 2022 and lasted for a day.
	+ The second outage happened in November 2023, which ended up being permanent.