8/10 - A well-executed frog. His realistic details are appealing without clashing with his cartoonish qualities. Apple’s style of shading leaves something to be desired.
3/10 - This frog cannot be trusted. His wide grin and glaring eyes make him look unhinged. His bright red tongue clashes with his muddy skin and his human teeth are awful to consider. He earns a point for the outline, however.
9/10 - A very cute frog! His colors work nicely together. The thick black outline is sure to make him stand out. Microsoft tends to make their emojis geometric, and that makes this frog look slightly robotic, but not enough to detract from his appeal.
5/10 - Samsung takes the same approach as Google, to only moderately more success. The eye shine and lack of teeth make this frog much more friendly than Google’s, but the lemon lime skin looks bad, and the smaller eyes seem off in some way.
4/10 - This frog is trying his best – just look at that kind smile! – but the unusual shading around his edge and the lighter patch in the middle of his face just look strange.
9/10 - You can tell from his smile that this frog has never had a bad day in his life. His flat colors are far more appealing than the bad shading of some other frogs, and the border matching his smile is a good touch. The only thing keeping him from being flawless is his large soulless pitch black eyes.
10/10 - The frog factor is off the charts on this frog. He looks both realistic and cartoony, and pulls it off better than Apple. His horizontal pupils are a risk that pays off fully and his blep is like a cherry on top of this perfect frog.
7/10 - This frog shares many high points with Facebook’s, but the brighter green isn’t a good look. He shines in weird places and he’s clearly up to something. He earns a point for looking like that angry Kermit face.
6/10 - Oh dear. Twitter fell into the same pit as Google and made their frog’s eyes too large and too round, making him look shell-shocked. Barring that, though, his colors and shape work well and make him a perfectly passable frog.
8/10 - The bright green is this frog’s biggest downfall, but his shape is appealing. His perfectly black eyes are smaller than HTC’s and look better for it. This is a frog you can trust.
7/10 - EmojiOne’s frog looks like if Messenger’s frog realized you were looking at him and tried to pretend he wasn’t doing anything suspicious. His colors and proportions look nice, but his eyes are looking in opposite directions and his smile is aggressive and uncomfortable.
4/10 - The blush stickers on this frog feel like a lazy attempt to make an otherwise mediocre frog more appealing. The mouth having its own outline is also a weird choice, and the pie chart eyes fail to have the same effect as proper shading or coloring. This is definitely a frog, and that’s all that can be said about it.
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