Take photos with your virtual characters
HOSHIMI CAMERA blends your live camera feed with VRM avatars. Place a character in the shot, give her a pose, an action or an expression, and shoot. What lands in your gallery looks like she was standing there.
Everything stays on your phone — no account, no upload, no analytics SDK.
WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT
Pick a character from your library or import your own VRM file. Drag, scale and rotate her until the framing feels right.
Choose from 20+ expressions, saved poses and animated actions. Freeze any frame mid-motion and shoot that exact moment.
Framing, beauty, denoise, filters, zoom, grid, flash and front/back camera — all in one panel, all live on the preview.
Switch between characters mid-scene and keep everyone in frame. The app composites the characters on top of the live camera feed, so the light and the mess of your room stay in the shot.
CORE CAPABILITIES
/ 01 — PLACE
Pick a character from your library or import your own VRM file, then place her in the frame by hand.
/ 02 — PERFORM
Give her a pose, an action or an expression — and freeze the exact frame you want to shoot.
/ 03 — CAMERA
Camera controls that work live on the preview, not afterwards.
/ 04 — RESULT
The composite happens on the spot, and the finished photo lands straight in your gallery.
/ 05 — LIBRARY
The built-in cast and everything you imported, with their actions and poses alongside.
SPOTLIGHT
You built an avatar and you only ever see her inside a mirror of yourself. This puts her in real light, in a real room, and takes the photo.
HOW IT COMPARES
Getting a virtual character into a real photo is usually a two-machine job: capture on one side, composite on the other. This does both on the phone.
| HOSHIMI CAMERA | Desktop VTuber tools | Green-screen video editors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Android phone | Windows PC | Any editor, after the shoot |
| Live placement | Yes — in the viewfinder | Yes, on the desktop | No |
| VRM expressions / poses | Yes, per character | Yes, with a rig | No |
| Extra gear | Just the phone | PC + tracking setup | Green screen |
| Account | None | None | Varies by editor |
| Price | Free | Varies | Varies |
PC-based avatar performance and capture (VSeeFace, Warudo and friends) — powerful, but they live on a Windows machine.
Pros
Cons
Chroma-key compositing in post (CapCut and similar) — works with any footage, but the shoot comes first.
Pros
Cons
If you want the character in a real place right now, shoot it on the phone. If you need tracked performance or a full post-production timeline, the desktop route is still the right tool.
NOTES FROM USE
What we keep coming back to, and what to know before you start.
Sep 30, 2026
Placing the character before choosing a pose almost always looks better: you can see how the light in the room falls on her, and adjust the angle to match.
Sep 30, 2026
Characters and actions from creator platforms are a deal between you and the creator. This app only imports them locally; what you may do with them afterwards follows their terms.
We have not written about HOSHIMI CAMERA yet — the first notes will show up here.
The APK is about 100 MB, so we suggest downloading over Wi-Fi. After downloading in a browser, your phone will ask you to allow installing apps from unknown sources for that file.
HOSHIMI CAMERA is free: no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription — every feature is in the download. The only things you might pay for are third-party characters or actions you buy on creator platforms such as BOOTH; that is between you and the creator, and this page handles no payment for it.
Pricing is unavailable right now — please try again in a moment.
There is nothing to unlock. Every module, every character slot and every capture mode is in the free download.
QUESTIONS
Yes. The app is free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription — every feature is in the download. The only things you might pay for are third-party characters or actions you choose to buy on creator platforms such as BOOTH; that is a transaction between you and the creator, and this page does not handle any payment for it.
No. There is no sign-up, no login and nothing to sync.
VRM 0.x and VRM 1.0 avatars import fully — expressions, poses and actions included. Other glTF/GLB models can be imported too, but they may come in static: those files often carry no facial blend shapes and no humanoid rig, so expressions and actions stay unavailable for them.
Straight to your device's gallery, in the Pictures/MagicCamera folder, so they show up in whatever photo app you normally use.
Yes — flip between the front and back camera at any time, and switch characters without leaving the viewfinder.
English, 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Français, Español and Italiano. It picks up your system language on first launch and remembers your choice after that.
Download the file (.vrm, .vrma, .fbx or .json) from a creator platform such as BOOTH, then use the import entry inside the app. What you may do with the file is decided by its creator — the app only imports it locally.
Grab the APK, then open it on your phone. Version, size and SHA-256 below are for the file you are actually downloading.
The installer is not published yet. It will appear here as soon as the build is ready.
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