Report updated May 20, 2026

StarDance: Hoď se do gala is an established games app that is completely free.

What is StarDance: Hoď se do gala?

StarDance is a casual dress-up game for children that tasks players with styling characters for specific social events.

Users hire the app for low-stakes, goal-oriented fashion play that rewards them with immediate, theme-specific feedback from an automated rating system.

Current Momentum

v1.0 · 90mo ago

Zombie
  • No updates since 2018 release.

Active Nemesis

Gacha Studio (Anime Dress Up)

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What makes this app unique?

What Does It Look Like?

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What Are The Key Features?

Thematic Dress-up ChallengesStandard

Users select clothing items to match specific scenarios like a Mexican party, a birthday, or a picnic.

Fashion Police Rating SystemStandard

Automated feedback mechanism evaluates the user's outfit choices against the selected event theme.

How much does it cost?

Free
  • Free to play

The app is distributed as a free title with no observable in-app purchases or subscription tiers.

Who Built It?

Česká televize app icon 1
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Česká televize

(44.1K)

Providing public service broadcasting and educational content to Czech audiences. They deliver news, sports, and cultural programming across digital platforms.

Portfolio

13

Apps

Free 12
Adventure8%
News8%
Entertainment8%

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What do users think recently?

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What is the competitive landscape for StarDance: Hoď se do gala?

Where is it available?

Localized markets (1)

United States

How's The Games Market?

**Pricing Strategy**: Free-to-play with no observable in-app purchases or subscription tiers. **Target Audience**: Children and casual players interested in fashion and styling.

Which niche is StarDance: Hoď se do gala in?

Fashion Simulations

to style characters for specific social events

SimulationFashionCasual GamersFreeEmerging

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The rivals identified

Nemeses(1)

This app directly competes for the same casual dress-up audience by offering character customization and icon-based navigation similar to the core loop of StarDance.

Contenders(4)

This app competes by offering themed makeover experiences, similar to how StarDance uses specific events to drive gameplay.

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Mary.com BV

3.0(2)

It occupies the same niche of fashion-focused character styling apps, appealing to users who enjoy virtual dress-up and makeover activities.

This app competes for the same casual gaming audience by focusing on fashion shopping and character makeover experiences.

It targets the same demographic interested in fashion styling and character makeovers, directly overlapping with the core gameplay loop of StarDance.

Same space(3)

It shares the fashion-focused theme while utilizing a strategic resource management approach to character transformation.

Differentiators

  • Uses a strategic resource management system to influence the character's appearance during the run.
  • Focuses on an obstacle course format that prioritizes reflex-based gameplay over static styling choices.
Project Match: Makeup! icon

Casual Joy Games

4.2(84.6K)

This app dominates the casual fashion space by blending match-three puzzles with high-quality makeover and decoration simulations.

Differentiators

  • Uses 3D match puzzles as a primary engagement driver to unlock new fashion and makeup items.
  • Offers a more comprehensive meta-game involving home decoration alongside the standard character makeover features.
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Sol Choi

4.2(5.2K)

It is a direct peer in the character customization space, offering a robust asset library and social sharing features.

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The outtake for StarDance: Hoď se do gala

Strengths to defend, gaps to attack

Core Strengths

  • Localized cultural brand identity provides immediate trust and relevance for the target audience.

Critical Frictions

  • Zero updates since 2018 release date creates a stale content loop.
  • No social or sharing features to drive organic growth.

Growth Levers

  • Integration of user-generated content or social sharing could bridge the engagement gap with community-driven rivals.

Market Threats

  • High-cadence competitors like Gacha Studio drain the casual-entry funnel through superior feature depth and social mechanics.

What are the next best moves?

highPivot

Pivot to a community-driven model by adding social sharing features because the current solo-loop lacks retention → increase daily active usage.

Competitor analysis shows rivals like Gacha Studio use social-style studio modes to drive long-term retention.

Trade-off: Deprioritize new event themes — social infrastructure is a higher-yield retention lever.

mediumSunset

Sunset the title because the lack of updates since 2018 indicates a lack of strategic priority → reallocate resources to active projects.

The app has not received an update in years, making it a maintenance liability rather than a growth asset.

Trade-off: No engineering capacity displaced — the app is already in maintenance mode.

A counter-intuitive read

The app's biggest risk is not its lack of features, but its brand-led entry point; users expect a living, updated experience from a major broadcaster, and the 2018 stagnation creates a negative brand signal.

Feature Gaps vs Competitors

  • Social studio mode (available in Gacha Studio)
  • Photo capture and sharing (available in Hairdresser salon)
  • Competitive fashion show mode (available in Fashion Stylist Dress Up Games)

Key Takeaways

  • The app is currently in maintenance mode with no active feature development, leaving it exposed to competitors with frequent content updates.
  • The lack of social or sharing features prevents the formation of a community, which is the primary retention driver in the dress-up category.

StarDance relies on a recognizable brand identity to attract users, but the lack of content updates since 2018 makes it a static experience that cannot compete with the social-driven loops of modern dress-up titles, so the developer should pivot to a community-focused model or sunset the title.

Where Is It Heading?

Declining

The casual fashion-styling market is consolidating around titles with high-frequency live-ops and social-sharing loops. StarDance's lack of updates since 2018 leaves it exposed to these active competitors, so the app will likely continue to lose relevance unless the developer commits to a significant content refresh.

The absence of updates since 2018 indicates the app is in maintenance mode, which accelerates churn as players move to more active, feature-rich alternatives.

Disclosure: Independent intel to help mobile builders succeed.

AI-powered analysis with editorial review, built from publicly available sources. Marlvel.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by StarDance: Hoď se do gala, its developer, the app publisher, Apple, or Google Play. All trademarks, logos, and screenshots referenced remain the property of their respective owners.

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Cite this report

Marlvel.ai. “StarDance: Hoď se do gala Intelligence Report.” Updated May 20, 2026. https://marlvel.ai/apps/stardance-hod-se-do-gala

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