October 14, 2026

How to Start an Avatar Collection: Collect Avatars on AllTheMuse, Step by Step

To collect avatars on AllTheMuse, you do not need a strategy, a budget, or a display shelf — you need one Muse you actually like. A Muse is a collectible AI personality: original plush artwork plus a written character you can keep and chat with, as what is a Muse avatar? explains. This guide walks the whole start, step by step: sign up, spend your first coins well, unlock your first Muse, and grow a Vault across the 77 collections from there.

Step 1: Make Your Account — 150 Coins Land at Signup

Starting costs nothing. When you create an AllTheMuse account, all 150 welcome Muse Coins land in your balance at signup — there is no claim step and nothing to activate later. Your balance lives in your Wallet, and those 150 coins are a real starting budget, not a trial credit.

Here is what 350 covers on day one: any single Muse on the site, including a Mythic at the top price of 200 coins; a whole standard collection bundle at 250; or seven Common Muses at 50 coins each. Teddy Theo, the Legendary of Toy Box Classics pictured below, is 150 — unlock him and you still have 200 left, enough for a Mythic next. You are not choosing under pressure, either: coins do not expire.

• 150 welcome coins — all of them at signup, no claim step
• Any single Muse costs 50–200 coins by rarity
• Coins do not expire, so there is no rush to spend

Step 2: Find the First Muse You Actually Want

Browse before you buy. The Gallery shows every Muse with its rarity and coin price, and the collections hub groups them into 44 themed rooms — pets, pirates, science, zodiac signs, sweater weather, and many more. Open a few Muse pages and read the personalities like casting calls: the first Muse should be the character you would most enjoy meeting, not the rarest one you can afford.

Two shortcuts help if the choice feels big. Start inside one room you already love — Pet Parade alone holds 33 Muses, from Puppy, its Legendary at 150 coins, down to Commons like Bunny at 50. Or skip browsing entirely and take the Find Your Muse quiz, which matches you to a Muse by personality. Either way, let the first pick be personal: a collection grows happily from one right character.

• Gallery — every Muse, with rarity and price shown
• 44 collections — browse by the world you already love
• Find Your Muse quiz — a personality match when you cannot decide

Step 3: Unlock It Once — It Lives in Your Vault Forever

Unlocking is the collecting action itself, and it is deliberately simple: open the Muse's page, unlock it at its coin price, and it is yours. Prices follow the rarity ladder in Muse Coin prices explained — Common 50, Rare 75, Epic 100, Legendary 150, and Mythic 200 Muse Coins. Queen Reina, the Mythic of the Royals court pictured below, is the 200-coin end of that ladder; most first Muses cost far less.

An unlock is one-time and permanent. It includes the Muse's full prompt pack and conversation style — the pieces you paste into Muse to chat with your Muse in character — plus the full-resolution artwork download. The Muse waits in your Vault forever: no subscription is required to keep it, no rental period runs out, and nothing you unlock ever expires.

• Common 50 · Rare 75 · Epic 100 · Legendary 150 · Mythic 200 Muse Coins
• Every unlock includes the prompt pack, conversation style, and full-resolution artwork
• Unlock once, keep forever — no subscription needed to keep a Muse

Step 4: Decide Between Singles and a Whole-Collection Bundle

After the first unlock, most collectors face one honest choice: keep picking single favourites, or take a whole room at once. Singles suit a mixed shelf — one Muse from each world you love. A bundle suits finishing a set: on the Packs page, a whole named collection unlocks for a flat 250 Muse Coins — 300 for the Christmas Bundle — and because bundle membership is resolved live, Muses published into that collection later are included automatically.

The maths is easy to check on a real room. Pirates of the Plush Seas holds 10 Muses: Captain Barnacle, its Legendary at 150, First Mate Pearl, its Mythic at 200, and eight Commons at 50 each — 750 coins bought one by one, or 250 as a bundle. If you only love the captain, buy the captain. If the whole crew makes you smile, the bundle is the collector's move — and your 150 signup coins already cover a standard one.

• Singles — pick favourites across rooms, 50–200 coins each
• Bundles — a whole collection for 250 Muse Coins (300 for Christmas)
• Pirates example — 750 coins as singles, 250 as a bundle

Step 5: Grow the Collection at Your Own Pace

A collection does not need feeding on a schedule — it grows when a new Muse earns its place. Free coins keep arriving while you decide: daily rewards add 10 Muse Coins a day, referrals pay 100 coins to you and 50 to a friend when they make their first unlock, and the Free Muses room holds Muses that are free to collect with no balance at all. If a Muse will not wait, the Wallet sells optional coin packs — 500 coins for $4.99, 1,200 for $9.99, or 3,000 for $19.99 — and Muse Club credits 1,200 coins a month for $7.99, but buying is never required to keep collecting.

When you want a shape for the shelf you are building, avatar collection ideas lays out seven ways to theme one — finish a small room, collect by season or rarity, or follow your interests. A science shelf might start with Dr. Atom, the Legendary of Science at 150 coins, while a fantasy shelf opens with Dragon, a Legendary of Fantasy & Myth at the same price. Start with one Muse you love, and the collection has already begun.

• Daily rewards — 10 Muse Coins a day
• Referrals — 100 coins for you, 50 for your friend, on their first unlock
• Free Muses room — free to collect, no coins needed