Characterize: Your Unlimited Character Creation Companion
Characterize is the ideal tool for writers, role-players, storytellers, and anyone who needs fresh, original characters at a moment’s notice.
With a tap, Characterize draws from a massive, ever-expanding database of names, traits, and stats to bring you a nearly infinite variety of unique personalities—enough for even the most epic of projects. Whether you’re crafting a daring pirate, a cunning assassin, a modern hero, or something more fantastical, Characterize helps you find the perfect fit every time. Save your favorites, tweak their details, and return for more whenever inspiration strikes!
Key Features:
Boundless Name Generation:
- Instantly generate characters from countless categories, including humans, orcs, pirates, assassins, and more. The possibilities stretch into the quadrillions—no two characters need ever be the same!
Rich Character Details:
- Don’t stop at names. Dive into ages, birthdays, hair and eye color, height, intelligence, personality, and relationships—all created with a single tap. Your characters will spring to life with depth and flair!
Unlock Even More Worlds:
- Beyond the vast default selection, themed packs give you even more variety. From superheroes to aliens, historical figures to anime icons, you’ll find the perfect flavor for any setting.
Save & Share with Ease:
- Keep track of your favorite creations and share them with friends. Revisit your saved characters whenever you like—no scrolling through endless notes or documents.
Whether you’re naming a long-awaited protagonist, populating a tabletop campaign, or challenging yourself to write a story without knowing your cast in advance, Characterize puts limitless inspiration at your fingertips.
Stop juggling multiple tools—download Characterize today and generate your next hero with a single tap!
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I’ve always struggled with character names and deciding on certain minor details, so this is a perfect app for me. I purchased “All Generators” without hesitation and was mildly disappointed that I have to search an entire alphabetical list (or use the search bar, if I know exactly what I want) to find a specific generator. I’ll still definitely be using this app (I just spent $20 on it) but I’d appreciate if a future update could group the generators back into the bundles that were displayed before I purchased them, as I don’t always know exactly what I want and would love to just open, for instance, the Fantasy Races Bundle to see what’s available.TLDR: put purchased generators back in their bundles to earn my fifth star
Developer Response
Good idea! I'll see what I can do in a future update. :)
🚜🚜Love it!🚜🚜
Black Magic5683
Hey, developer! I have a different app called Notes Writer Pro. When the name generator in that app failed to generate for me, I had to go looking for a different way to generate names. I searched the App Store and came across your app! I knew that I just had to unlock everything, so I went ahead and purchased all the generators currently available! For the time I’ve been using it, I really like the fact that I can choose a generator and generate a random name from all the possibles. I’ve also discovered in my exploring of it that I can tap on any characteristic and it will also give me a different result in tapping a field individually. Your app is fine. Nothing so far is wrong. I’m actually reviewing this in hoping to pass on a suggestion to development: Implementing a Set First Name and Set Last Name field just underneath the explainer text for every generator. {If your toying with a likable first name, but don’t know a last name, this feature would be helpful to set the first name, and generate a last name. And vice versa.} I also have another suggestion for a generator. Every time I go to hit Suggest a Generator and hit Send Suggestion, it automatically migrates me to the default e-mail app. I use the Yahoo Mail app for my e-mail. Could you please respond to my suggestion and provide the e-mail address associated with Suggest Generator in Developer Response? I can manually enter the address in the To Field.
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for the kind words! You can email me your suggestion at awinn -at- alexanderwinn.com
Wonderful App and Developer; An Overdue Review
AngelRose15
As a character artist and writer I’ve used this app for years for inspiration for tidbits of traits and entire characters. Even if the idea I get isn’t perfect, I can change it to where ever my idea curves and takes me.On a previous update my saved characters and all the generators had been locked as I had to pay for them again. I had previously paid the 20 dollars and should have all of them unlocked, but the updated erased that. After finding the time to email the developer after school had finished, I emailed him about the issue. He was incredibly quick to respond! The developer had emailed be back near immediately and we got to work figuring out how to solve it. He quickly had a solution and I ended up with the generators all unlocked again on my account. Once again I had access to every generator I had previously purchased without needing to pay another $20 more. The developer was very polite and sweet and I wanted to note his kindness. He helped me solve the issue quickly and efficiently.I could’ve sworn I had written this review but perhaps it was just a draft I forgot to send. Anyhow, this review is long overdue but this app is wonderful and so is the developer. I thank him greatly for his kindness!
What get rid of the landscape view and why rebuy
Hinatams21
Ok so I’m glad this app got updated cuz I use it for a lot of my characters that I need help creating. But there’s an issue or two with this update: 1. The app makes u purchase the same packs you’ve already purchased before. I’m not sure if this is a glitch or not but this is really inconvenient because I’d already purchased this app and it’s pack before. This isn’t good at all. I’m going to ask for a refund of my money cuz it makes no sense to have to repurchase an app I already had before. And secondly the loss of the landscape view fir this app. With the previous update when I turned my phone or iPad to the side the app would do the same letting me see more of the generator I was using. This needs to be fixed cuz always using portrait mode with this app isn’t helpful. Though I do like that this app was finally updated after a long time of being the same & the print is bigger so it’s easier to see which is a plus. But I kinda which all of the creator generators: characterize, DungeonRoller, genesis, cartographer & heromaker were one app because that would be easier for creating characters though I get why it would take so long to do all that so I guess keeping them separate is fine. Anyway hopefully the creator fixes these issues.
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for the review! To address each of your points:1) You shouldn't have to repurchase everything, though it's possible the record of your purchases didn't make the move to the new version. Try opening the sidepanel and hitting "Restore Purchases." That should get them back without having to pay. If it doesn't work, email me at awinn@alexanderwinn.com and I'll help you sort it out. :)2) I'll add landscape mode to my todo list for an upcoming update. Thanks for the feedback!3) One of the things I'm hoping to experiment with, now that the app has been rebuilt, is merging those generator apps into one. Good to know some people were thinking the same thing! :)
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 13.9
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Information
Seller
Alexander Winn
Size
306.9 MB
Category
Entertainment
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.