Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game App Reviews

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Adorable app!! But…. Don’t me wrong..this is such an adorable idea for the new phones, they look cute on your island! But mine doesn’t stay on my island at all times it stays for maybe 15-20 minutes then I have to go back into the app so it will go back on(I have always stay on island on, there’s just no difference) Another thing is I wish more of the other animals were free or at least a little less(really liked the otter) the animals that aren’t free cost $13/a year or $2/ a month, I would much rather spend like $5 or even $10 to keep them forever and I feel like more people would feel the same way and I’m sure more money would be brought in if the people actually got to keep them forever instead of having to buy monthly or yearly. That is just my personal opinion, thank you for reading☺️

Just a few things to fix. You guys should probably add a reminder when the free trial ends. Many apps have the courtesy of letting you know when the free trial is over so it won’t charge you like it did to me. I understand it’s not your responsibility but it would be very appreciated. Also it can get very annoying to play since everytime I tap the widgets it takes me straight to the app, I just want to be able to play in peace without having to exit the app every 5 taps. Another thing the friend invitation doesn’t really work, my friend and I have tried playing together and it never seems to work, we can never find each other. And one last thing, fighting can get very frustrating when every few taps it again takes you to the main app. Just constructive criticism since the app charged me almost $15 and it’s no different then the free trial besides that I can change characters.

Pointless Without Dynamic Island. The concept here is pretty good, but the execution is not great right now, particularly if you don’t have a device with the dynamic island. Without the dynamic island, the pets can only live in a widget outside of the app. Since widgets aren’t interactive, and don’t really allow animations, your pet will mostly sit there, unmoving. The experience in the app is extremely limited, at the time of this review. I had a very difficult time figuring out how to interact with the pet at all, and it only lives on the home indicator at the bottom of the screen. You can feed and play with it, but there’s no real interaction after you choose what to feed it, or give it a ball or whatever. I understand this is a port of a feature built for Apollo (the Reddit app), but with the freedom of a dedicated app I expect much more, particularly when a paid subscription is involved. As of this writing, it also doesn’t reliably sync Pixel Pals stats between Apollo and this dedicated app. At least if it could do that I’d be able to enjoy my Pixel Pal in Apollo as well, but since the stats don’t sync, it kinda defeats the point. Overall there’s a ton of potential here, and if you have a device with the Dynamic Island I’m sure the experience is much better, but without it, there’s virtually nothing on offer here. Maybe after a few updates I’ll give this another try, but until then, this was a waste of $10.

u/spez ruined Reddit by destroying PixPals dev ability to continue Apollo app.. I’m not someone who likes Pixel Pals enough to do more than play with it for a week. BUT, I just bought a lifetime sub to give Christian Selig, the dev, some money to help offset the insane cost he’s got ahead of him with Reddit financially forcing him to stop development and support of Apollo, his Reddit app, and potentially having to refund a ton of Apollo users. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman (u/spez) has put extreme greed ahead of any sort of sense, and now every Reddit client app is being forced out of existence, including the premium Apollo app. (Apple mentioned them several times in their recent WWDC presentation. So while I’m not a pixel player, I so appreciate what dev Christian Selig has done to make Reddit a fantastic place over the years that I’ve bought this app to show him some love. I hope you consider doing the same.

It was okay. All the good thing cost money which was annoying and the only pixel pal you could use was a cat and dog and they were kinda ugly in my opinion but I don’t really recommend this app a lot but I use the cat because it more cute then the dog and I liked how to cat sleep and walk around my phone and everything I do recommend but at the same time I don’t recommend it like in the middle you can get the app for cuteness but the biggest bummer is that all the good stuff cost money and everything and I know the creators are trying to make money but like the only things that doesn’t cost money is the cat and dog so something I want to say to the creators is can you try not to like only make two things that are free and try more thing that are free thank you.

Great use of the Dynamic Island. Christian is known for making wonderful, useful, intuitive apps (like Apollo…RIP) and this app is no exception. He made it super easy to pick any pixel pal you want (of which there are many), name it, and it’ll hang out in the dynamic island waiting for you to interact with him/her while you go about your day - you can feed it, play games together, or just scroll the web and other apps and your little buddy is right there with you in the dynamic island the whole time. I’m looking forward to watching this app mature but it’s already really wonderful, and with Christian at the helm I’m sure it’ll only get even better with time.

Hasn’t been reliable enough to pay for. I tried the premium features during a trial. The information backgrounds were hit or miss, mostly miss. They wouldn’t load, and if they did, they wouldn’t update. I had a calendar + time medium widget that went two days without updating. Most would just be a beige or blank tile with no pet. Hardly got any chance to use the trial. I love the design, the information backgrounds, and the Pixel Pals themselves. I hope there are new pets too (maybe a Polar Bear?). When the bugs get worked out, I’ll gladly pay for premium. The information backgrounds are useful and there are lots of design options. As it stands, however, the broken premium features takes it down a couple stars.

It’s like a Tamagotchi. I love this app. It started small and now it’s completely evolved. You basically have a tamagotchi on your phone. I love how much has been added to it recently and I’ll always support the small independent developers over the big corps that just want money. Even the things that are available for you to pay for, aren’t that expensive and you know it’s going towards the creator and their development.

before? ok. now? AMAZINGG!!! (scroll down, i added more). Sooo, i had this app before and i didnt really like it and couldnt figure out how to use it. i saw an ad tho and realized that pixel pals had a HUGE glow up! its sooo fun having lil wiggles the cat on my dynamic island and on my home screen! i also luv how you can feed him and play with him! sooo cute! like a little tamagotchi on your phone! i totally recommend!!! <3333 ............................................ update: i loved my pet little wiggles the cat and i took care pf him all day by feeding and playing. i restarted my phone to put on a new screen protector and wiggles is gone. all i have is stupid hugo. all my friends are gone on the app. am very upset and really hope i can get wiggles back. :(( R.I.P. 🩵Wiggles💙................................................... another upd: It happened to my friend too. i think its happening bc our phones are reastarting bc her phone died and her progress was lost too. really hope this can be resolved. :(( R.I.P. Alegria

Too much behind paywall. I’m coming from the Apollo app shutdown, and to try and support the developer I decided to give pixel pals a try. Seems like a cool app, worth giving it a chance — and that’s all it got from me. Immediately after launching the app, it tried to push premium on me, a $15 yearly subscription. I wasn’t interested, so I closed it and navigated around the app. And wow, so much of the advertised functionality is behind this premium paywall. You only get two pets for free, and to have any sort of dynamic background, a feature that’s heavily promoted in the app, well that’s behind premium. I would love to support the app for a one-time payment of maybe $5 or $10, but I can’t justify a subscription, much less one that more or less gives the app 80% of its charm/functionality. A shame but at least I gave it a try.

Unknown free trial?. I had this game for little over a month. It was fun I got to grow the food for my pet. Added a friend and seen her pixel pal as well. I got to the third morph of Hugo and had a lot of food. Suddenly today when I wake up I went to check on him and everything reset. I don't know how since I didn’t do anything unusual its always in the same widget spot. All my progress was lost now it just seems pointless to have. There should also be an option to not open the app when you use the widget. If you click too many times for something it keeps asking to upgrade and pay.

I love this app but the custom photo has a glitch. When I try to upload new custom photos I can only remove the first one I've added. So I have to delete photos one at a time, in chronological order from oldest to newest. It looks like I should be able to scroll down, but I can't. I thought it would get fixed but it hasn't and it's been almost a year. I save a lot of photos and exclusively use the custom photo for my pixel pal so it's getting extremely frustrating to have to search through months of photos to reupload ones I liked after deleting all the photos up to one I am okay with deleting. Also I sometimes upload a photo and it looks terrible so I have to reframe it or upload a new one, so I have to delete all the photos to get rid of the bad ones since it starts from the oldest. I'm on an iphone 8, always with the most recent update, if that information helps with addressing this issue.

One thing…. This app is amazing, I love it but there is only one problem… I don’t really appreciate that you have to pay i think $7.99 to get any pet that you would like. You also have to pay again I think $7.99 to have two pets on your Home Screen. But other than than that this app is great. But I think that if you made everything free or at most $1.99, a lot more people would download your app. Thank you for listening, I’m sorry if I said too much. Have a blessed day🤍

Definitely needs some pricing adjustments but im biased. Got this app because the developer created Apollo. The idea of a cute interactive virtual pet is fun! The price point is I’d say is unrealistic. Now i’m no expert on what a virtual screensaver like pet should cost but 15 dollars per year or 2 dollars per month is not worth it to me. The pets are varied and cute with some level of interaction that I can only speculate about with the free version (which only gives you a basic widget and nothing else) This app is still getting a like from me since its the same developer as Apollo so I’m definitely biased but I hope it makes a one time purchase option. That or allow a little more interact-ability on the free version to learn a little more about it. Especially since the competitor app Pixel Pets allows more options in the free option and a one time purchase option for just 10$

Was cute before update, now even better. Before this recent update, all you got for free was just the virtual pet gif that kind just drifted around its little box. Was very mediocre and not unique. But now??? Holy cow I love this thing. It’s like a little tamagotchi on your phone, I freaking love it. I made a virtual version of my cat and I love how many options there are for interactions. They also added a ton of other widgets, the infinite scroll I don’t really understand, but the world explorer widget is so cute and fun. The pixel art has been upgraded and is so much cuter now, so much more detail. I freaking love this thing, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT FREE. Love it, very rarely you find an app you really like that isn’t constantly trying to squeeze a couple bucks outta you. Good on this app, well done. Only thing I don’t like that if you tap the screen too fast it will open up the app asking for money. Super annoying, especially for the infinite scroll game and the world explorer, like you want to move faster than 1 square a move but if you tap too fast it opens up the app and makes the game go away, super annoying.

It's nice, but it's not Apollo. Was hoping the ability to feed/play with the pet would happen on the phone's island or widget without opening the app, but it does not seem to do so. I long press to feed and it opens the app itself. Furthermore if I close the app, the pet stops eating. I don't seem to be able to interact at all without opening the app. It's cute to have him on the screen, but it seems like that's all I can do. I also wish this app had some one-time purchases, so I could support the dev without a subscription--even if it only unlocked something small.

Suuuuuuuper buggy right now. Edit to 3*- After the most recent updates, it looks like the subscription bug is fixed. I’m personally still having syncing issues between Apollo and Pixel Pals, where it’s not showing the right pet or stats. However, it’s light years better than it was when it released. It’s actually working smoothly aside from the syncing issue. There’s still the concern of losing all of our food and progress from Apollo usage, and I haven’t heard if that will or can be rectified. At least the food… That was a LOT to lose. We’re losing the Pals that we have already grown through Apollo, losing the food that’s been gained, losing all of our stats, and there’s issues with the subscription process. It’s just bug laden right now. I know it will get fixed, but for the time being, I’ve gotta give it 1 star. Definitely wait for another update if you’ve already put time in to Pixel Pals via Apollo. Even if you haven’t, I would still wait so you don’t have a headache with the subscription issue.

Wishing I had an iPhone14, but still love it!. I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max, so I am unable to use the dynamic island function but it’s still such a good app! When I have the Pixel Pals app open, my buddy hangs out on my bottom “swipe up” line. I wish there was a way that he could stay on that bottom line on every app I use, much like how the iPhone 14 users are able to see theirs on their island when they don’t have the app open. I’m still a huge fan, but a girl can dream!

Waste of time and money (lvl 11 pet disappeared out of nowhere). I downloaded Pixel Pals when I got a new iPhone 15 pro max three months ago. I bought the premium version so I could have access to all of the pets and I loved the T-Rex! Mine was at level 11 and morphed into the blue version, then suddenly one day, I tapped on the widget to feed my T-Rex and it kept routing me to that app where I was being told I needed the premium version to use that pet…… I HAVE the premium version for a year.. and after that my Dino was gone 😭 I messaged support but haven’t heard a peep back yet. Waste of time and money.

Very cute with minor bugs. I really love this! I have premium and I have an entire screen dedicated to widgets for pixel pals (weather over the week, weather over the day, monthly calendar, and quote of the day). There have been bugs, but they’ve been fixed. The only bug I’ve encountered that hasn’t been fixed so far is that I’ve set one of my pals to sleep and stay in the bottom left corner, but it seems to still switch and move around. It’s sort of annoying because I can’t fully read the quote because the pal will be in the way. Also, there’s no place to report a bug directly from the app (you have to send an email).

Only one thing I don't like. I love this app and I think it's so fun to have a little pet in my dynamic island. Although there has been one thing that has just really been bugging me lately, that being how if you accidentally click on a different pet in the big grid of pets in the app, it completely resets all progress of the pet you were on before. This has happened to me a few times, and I just find it really annoying. I think it would make the app much more enjoyable if there could be some sort of update for this, maybe a save button for the pet you are on, or giving a pop up to confirm switch of pets?

I can’t get it to work! (I’ll edit it if it starts to work.). When I set it up and go to the widgets to add it, it doesn’t appear! Can someone help me with this? Also there should be more then 2 pets for free- like dog and cat?! I used to have a fish and a hamster lol, but yeah… how do u set it up cuz I have the dinosaur Steve game widget and it works fine. The game seems fun but, yeah I wont stop saying- HOW DO YOU GET IT TO WORK?! (Sorry for caps) No hat but if you find out how it works then great! Don’t mind me I’ll say sorry if I find out but yeah, you should download the app! (Sorry for misleading advice if it doesn’t work either) anyways… That’s my review! I don’t want it to keep bothering me about: RATE THE GAME- so yeah that’s just my “simple” review, but it seems like a great game :D

Very Buggy. Very buggy on both Lock Screen and Home Screen. Paid for premium to have other animals other than the cat and dog, but on the Home Screen it’s says I need premium to access them, when I already paid for premium… On Lock Screen when you choose an animal other than the cat or dog, you can’t choose the animation you want other than “alternate randomly.” Pretty annoying, but cute app nonetheless. Look forward to seeing improvements so I can give this app 5 stars!

Cute, but pretty buggy.. I was super excited to try this game because I love Tamagotchi kinda things. But I kept running into issues that seemed like bugs: - my animal kept changing back to a cat mid-action. Like I would feed it, and once it had the food in front of it, suddenly it was a cat. - I don’t like how a lot of places you touch on the widget open the app - when the app opens, there’s nothing to do except change your animal - clicking “name” in the widget opens the app but there’s nowhere to change the name - even if the widget says the volume is off, it still plays sounds - none of the actions from pressing the dynamic toolbar work. Clicking feed or play just opens the app up, and like I mentioned before, the only thing in the app is select an animal, and the release notes of 2.0. Can’t bring myself to buy the subscription, but once things are fixed, I’ll def give it another go!

You need to make the subscription worthwhile. Update: I have to update my review. This most recent version is incredibly buggy and stops working at random. I have an iPhone 14 pro max and the latest version of iOS. I cannot recommend that anyone purchase a subscription to this app under the current circumstances. So far it’s pretty cool to have these little guys hanging out in the dynamic island. That said, this isn’t a one-time charge, the developer has chosen to make this a reoccurring subscription. That’s perfectly fine, but with that comes the added expectation that this will be constantly updated with new features and cool options. If that happens then great, otherwise this will be a disappointing purchase.

Dynamic Island. Apps very awesome everything about it is spontaneous. I just have one thing more like an idea I know there’s an option to always show on the island but instead of a floating animation in the island I think it’s be better if it’s constantly running around up there not only when you’re on the opened app ya feel me? and long press to feed and watch it eat while being on your Home Screen. and maybe play idk how the wand would work but definitely when feeding and playing with a ball I would say.

Cute, want pal above the island outside app. Super cute, I love the details that already exist. I wish the pal could stay above the island instead of being moved to the black island when not in the app. I personally would love to keep it above the island when the phone is vertical then have it jump inside the island when the phone is horizontal. I'd also love to have interactions take place outside of the app when iniation starts outside of it. it would be nice to have more pal interactions that would make it like a tamagotchi. I'd pay extra for any addition or to beta test additional features to see if they'll function smoothly. 😊

So cute!! Very minor issues. I got this app because of the pixel pals added onto the iphone 14 and was jealoussss! I never write app reviews but this app is brand new so I’d like to take my time to do a first impression review and list my personal pros and cons about the new app. Pros: - super cute and works great! - haven’t found any weird unfixable glitches or bugs so far - perfect for those who want pixel pals without getting a whole new phone Cons: Purchases and small bug: - you only have access to the cat and dog. If you want the other animals you have to pay either monthly or annually. As of right now they have a little sale for the prices so I was able to pay $10 for a year instead of the usual $15 - if you get premium, restart your phone to access the other animals in widgets. If you don’t a text will appear saying to buy the premium instead of your little buddy. This may be a bug but a fix is as simple as restarting your phone! Personally preferences: -pixel pal only shows in this app or on widgets, not always on your phone while using other apps like on the iphone 14 (i have a 13 pro) -they are super small on the app which I think they could be a little bigger but cute none the less! Other than that I have no complains! I tested out transparency backgrounds and it works perfect, super easy to set up. I hope this review helps and if I encounter any issues I will update!

Very torn. I really loved this app- I’ve had it for about 2 years now and it was wonderful! It was a very fun and cute accessory to my phone. I loved the new widgets in the recent updates. It was a very fun way to pass my time and I love my little pet! However I have an issue where the game automatically resets my pal and removes all my friends. This disappointed me greatly after my pet of over a year disappeared. I’ve had my second pet for a few months and that one just reset as well. I’m tired of spending time building friendship with the pets just for it to reset to the default pet. I tried reaching out via email to see if I could get an answer but I never received a response which was disappointing. It makes me sad to give this app a not-so-great rating because the concept and gameplay is adorable and I really like it! It just makes me so sad to see my poor pets keep disappearing :(

Amazing and cute! However,. I’ve honestly had a great time while using this app. The widgets are fun and I added my friends, which was also cool because in the widget, you can see your friends pet! I thought that was awesome. Also the taking care of your pet unlocks morphs was amazing<3 I choose the free cat (Hugo) and named him “Remi”—-however my phone died after it was at low battery for awhile the day after, and I’m not sure if it’s related or not but it’s almost like every in the app reset, my pet was changed back to Hugo and I lost the morph I got, like my entire progress was reset, and i didn’t have my friends friended on there anymore. I’m not sure if it was a glitch with the app or something that happened on my side. Have a good day/afternoon/night though and thank you for reading this.

Fantastic App and Even Better Developer. Before the 2.0 update this was still a great simple tamagotchi app with well designed pixelated animals and great looking widgets. Worth supporting if you were a fan of Apollo or had some extra beer money and wanted a pal other than the cat/dog The 2.0 update has stacked this app with features and incredible widgets which are as fun as they are gorgeous. Christian has such a great understanding of how to make an iPhone app look and feel like it belongs on the phone. More iOS developers need to take notes. Once again, Christian has knocked it out of the park!

love the app but would like to see more features. i absolutely loveeee this app but would love to see more features implemented. For example, when you’re on the app your little pal is on the bottom “app exiting” bar as a miniature version but as soon as you leave the app the pal is no longer there. It would be awesome if the pal actually stayed on the little bar outside of the app. I also think the feed/play menu could be made easier to access. Besides those things, i love this app

Continuing support to Christian. I am so sorry about Apollo. I was a regular user of the app for a better part of two years, and the whole month leading up to this api change was an incredible thing to witness. Despite Reddit’s quadrupling down on their bogus changes, I wanted to continue my support! I never played with the pixel pals aspect of Apollo but now I felt obligated. Plus it looks kinda neat! Good luck on your future endeavors whatever they may be!

No longer working properly — deleted. I love my pixel pal, but with the latest update, it’s no longer working correctly. The option to see a full-width widget with just my pixel pal no longer exists. I also can no longer choose the size of my pixel pal within the widget. When I choose fully transparent background, it still blurs it. It used to work exactly how I wanted it to, but one day my widget just turned white and now I can’t recreate it because those options no longer exist. Please bring them back. I also now have a widget on my Lock Screen, which I didn’t add and can’t edit or remove. Had to delete the app in order to remove this.

Cool idea, nothing much more.. This almost feels like something that should be free. The price is a bit overboard for something that you can experience within 1 minute. There’s not much to do with your Pixel Pal. He doesn’t grow or do anything. You can’t randomize the animations so you need to manually set them each time. The pixel pal app doesn’t seem to connect to my pixel pal in Apollo. So now I have two separate Pixel Pals? I’d expect the Pals to maybe react to things on your phone. Like, when you get a notification why can’t your pixel pal be the one to notify you? I see so many missed opportunities and at a $9.99 a month more features should be there. Cool idea. Feels like a quick cash grab. Would be great if it actually had more function than watching a sprite animate for $9.99 a month. What a joke. Not to mention I encounter numerous bugs within 5 minutes of using the app. It’s kinda garbage.

Love the game but a few changes!. I love this game it is super cute. but I don’t get the point of the premium if you already can add widgets! I understand that you have to make money but still just to get some pets? But still I love this game so much it’s super fun and I love the dog(Rupert)and I love how you can take care of it on your phone it feels like a upgraded version of the tamagotchi! would definitely recommend. I hope you understand my point. -A satisfied customer

Great creator, fun app.. I just wanted to show my appreciation for all your hard work. I found your other app only recently and it changed my access to information in the world, and now that things are the way they are Pixel Pals is a wonderful consolation prize. You’re a very smart and talented person and I look forward to see what you do next. Thank you Christian! Download the app!!!

This game is so fun!. This game is really fun but a little bit of problems first of all u can barely even play with it like it only sits there and either sleeps chills or runs and when u make it run they just run in place like I wanted it to run around and have fun instead I got this pet that doesn’t even run actually it just runs in place please fix this if u can and btw I looked on the App Store and the only thing I saw was pixel pets not pixel pals 2 so this is a scam but it is fun and I will keep this game for a while 😁

Missing Apollo already. This is probably the only review for an app that I will ever write. I’ve been a Reddit user for nearly a decade now and the only time I’ve been on there consistently is when using the Apollo app. I honestly feel like I’ve lost part of my community by losing it. The Reddit interface is so poorly designed and populated by ads that it is no longer worth it to me to be a user. Thank you Christian for all that you’ve done and I’m glad I could at least carry over my pixel pals to my main screen.

Wiped out all my Apollo pet stats. Don’t download this if you use pets in Apollo. It will reset all of their stats, and wipe out any food you already earned. A lot of hard work all gone now. And who in their right mind would pay $15/year for a subscription to this app? Seems like a broken and untested app was rushed out to try and cash in on some quick $$$. Edit: changed to 4 stars from 1 since the developer fixed the pet stat bug and gave us a way to get our stuff back. But I still think this app is way overpriced.

Could be better. This game is super cute BUT I feel like you should not have to buy the pets. It’s kinda unfair. I know y’all want money and all but still. It makes it less fun bc there are so many other cool pets! Also the translucent background isn’t working for me. I’m doing it all correctly and it says I’m not doing it. Idk what’s going on. Also I feel like you should be able to feed it, pet it, and play with it. That would be a lot more fun. Maybe you should either update this game or make a second version. A better version.

The cutest little app. I got the app due to Apollo’s closure and wanting to support the dev. Got a lifetime subscription. The pets are so cute 🥰 there are a few bugs like the widgets needing to be manually refreshed occasionally and the pet animations glitching out when eating. Sometimes the pets don’t show up in the dynamic island and I have to return to the app to get them to show up again as well. But overall it’s a very cute aesthetic for my phone and I’m excited to see future updates and features!!

Wish there was more to do. I love my dog Rupert and that I can add him to widgets but I wish there were more games I could play with him. I also wish there was a separate space in the app maybe like a living room or space for the different animals instead of just the one screen. The animals being on the bar at the bottom is very cute but it’s so small I wish I could see Rupert better. I’ve also seen on computers of things roaming around the screen and idk if that’s achievable on iphones but just a thought!

Some thoughts and request!. I like the creative design and it’s a really cool app, simple easy to use and figure out. I just would like to select and purchase the bat without the paying for premium feature I don’t want to use and more than likely never use, and if possible could y’all add exotic pets? Like a scorpion ( my first top recommendation) or sugar gliders and stuff like that and maybe a cool idea maybe give animals/creatures based on horoscopes, have seen that yet and I’m sure would make this app even more popular! For now I guess I’ll settle for the dog lol thanks for reading if y’all do!

Nice, but bugs need to be fixed! 🔧. This is a very cute and fun app to have, but if you don’t have an iPhone that has Dynamic Island, then you have to either have the widget or be in the app but that’s fine. The only reason I am rating this only four stars are because of the major bugs that need to be fixed! For example, every time your phone shuts down or restarts, it resets ALL your progress, including the name, pet, love meter, hunger (but not the farm for some reason), and live activity. Also, sometimes after you shut down, the monsters on the widget are just frozen 🥶. There are also tiny bugs but those are fine.

A nice accessory. I’ve been looking for a widget pet for a while now that is easy to check on and this is it. On most other apps you have to open the app and physically take care of the pet and watch adds to get food and I really don’t want a care pet game more so than just a cute widget add on. I usually don’t write reviews but I figured if I was looking for something that take seconds to take care of and is just overall not much of a care game than someone else probably is too. While the car is super easy there is a decent bit to do that keeps me coming back if I am in more of a mood to care for it for a longer period of time than needed. It’s the little things that matter and this game keeps me coming back because you don’t just log on to bathe and feed it and have 3 adds littered between all of those to get the items necessary for it. If you don’t feel forced to pay your more apt to do it and I probably will.

Really Awesome, a couple things though (updated to 3). Hi! I recently got the app and loved it immediately. The cat (Hugo) looked exactly like my cat at home! However, the first thing I see when I open the app is the chance to buy premium. I don’t think much of it, and look for the button to close the screen. Now, I’m not sure if this is just my (discontinued) iPod Touch’s fault, but the top part was completely cut off, so if there was a close button, I wouldn’t have seen it! I had to forcequit the app just to add the cat to my screen. After that, it was smooth sailing except for the fact that anytime I opened the app, it kept asking me to rate it! Like, once in a while is fine, but after I was gone for literally 5 seconds? Not cool. Eventually, I decided to just hit the button and write a review, when I saw in the description that I can change the name of my pet. Again, not sure if this is my device’s fault, but I could not figure out how to do this. Finally, I noticed that the actions are basically the same thing. Walk and run are the same, as well as lie down and crouch. Only sleep is unique, and the only difference between that and lie down is the Z’s that float from the pet’s head. Anyway, that’s why I gave it 3 stars. Overall an amazing app, just a few bugs that need to be worked out!

Fun! But a suggestion.... This app is very cute and I was eager to have a bunny as my pixel pet so I got the premium version as well. My only suggestion is to consider adding a few more colors for the game console style widgets! I'm big into theming the layouts of my devices and tend to go for pastel color schemes. Currently there isn't a color for the console widget that fits at all with my theme, and this may seem silly to some, but I like having everything coordinate. Colors like plain white (no colored buttons), light pink, or light blue would be amazing to see added.

Doesn’t always stay on island. Cute idea. Pet will randomly disappear even if background app refresh is on and the setting on app is set to always on island. I have to reopen the app to trigger it. And yes I paid for the premium even. A bit annoying for the cost, almost more worth it to just use the pet as a widget instead of putting them on the island. creators of the app, would appreciate some feedback how to fix this as it’s irritating having to remember my pet is missing and re-initiate him…

Simple, cute, and fulfilling. Love this app. Just having the tiny little cat run around at the top of my phone when I check the time or look for messages warms my heart and makes me think about the tiny kitty I have waiting for me at home. Love this app. Love this developer. Everything is organized so well in the app and helps people like me who aren’t so good at keeping up with iPhone updates and widget accessibility. Totally worth the year sub I just got.

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Amazing app!. Gives me pure joy, and such a novel idea

Kedicik. Şeker kedicik

reeeeally cute. It definitely cures my boredom, however sometimes there are difficulties when i try to interact with the widgets. There are bugs which are very annoying as I have to wait for a couple moments until the bug disappears. Overall, really good and creative!

Great Little App. It looks like there were some bugs in the initial release that made a bunch of the features not work, but they have since been fixed. For free, you get all the features with the cat & dog like feeding, the little games and Live Activities/Widgets. The paid subscription is there to unlock the other animals, and also to support the developer. It’s a great little app with a feature or two that aren’t available in the Apollo app version (like transparent background on the desktop widget) Definitely recommended if you want a little Tamagotchi pet in a few different places on your phone.

This app does not work. I am sorry but this app does not work properly, I am unable to anything with my pets and I am so disappointed that you dare to charge money for something so shoddy. If you have glitches in your system- fix them

Cute but no to the pricing!. It’s soo cute but it’s not worth it to have a monthly or yearly subscription.

MAKE IT FREE!. Good game but can you please make all the animals free because people do not want to pay for more animals. Thank you!

Premium needs work. Wont let me have any other animal besides the cat. Keeps saying “premium required tap for info”. I paid the $$ for premium and when I tap it asks me to pay again and then “you’re currently subscribed to this” pops up. Does the same thing over and over. Only the cat works. Cute app but needs work

Can’t use. Try to add that for Home Screen but cannot allocate it after pressing add. Any idea?

Bad. It not letting me do it

so cute.. so cute<3

Dynamic Island Options Not Showing. Opened app using iPhone 14 pro max, only showing Widgets tab and it’s options, no Dynamic Island :(

It’s cool but could be a lot better!. I can’t wait for the day they have tamagotchi style games on the iPhone. I want to hatch my pet from an egg, have it grow through different life stages, and get different characters depending on how you take care of it. that’s the most fun and exciting part of virtual pet games. This one is just a raccoon on my island. The app’s interface is okay but could also be a lot better.

??? Great app but…. I really like it but I can’t figure out how to get my pixel pet to appear on my screen.I choose how I would like it to show as but still didn’t work. My little sister has the same problem please help thank you.

Yeah nah. So let me get this straight. CONSTANT advertising to upgrade to premium, yet the product doesn’t even work correctly? Maybe work all that out before making people pay? This app has so many odd bugs and things that make it annoying to use, why on Earth would someone pay for that?

Waste of money - none of the features work. I can get a widget but can’t choose the pet I want (i paid for premium) and the transparent background option doesn’t work either.

One of the best apps on the App Store. Christian is a wonderful developer. You should support his excellent work. This app is brilliant. Thanks mate.

Poor launch. Doesn’t work the pixel pal widgets don’t show up anywhere on the select a widget to ad page.

Eh. Rly cute but too expensive for a cat

So cute. Nothing motivates me to stay organised more than a cat calendar.

Extend my support. I just got the app to support Chris. Too bad Reddit chose the path their end.

Cannot change the name of pets. There’s only update information in the app, I want to change the name of the pet but there’s no option for this

NO FUNCTIONS AS ADVERTISED. App does not have the functions as advertised, wasted $16 premium

Potential!. Hey! This is a pretty sweet app! With some tweaking, this can legit be Tamagotchi 2.0! Virtual pets running on the iOS widgets is such a great idea and I’m liking it a lot so far! I don’t want to be “that” guy, but I’m going to toss a few ideas out that the developers have probably already thought of. Creative criticism and idea time: - Have the pixel pal permanently overlayed on the bottom bar of the UI. (I’m assuming this is what the scrolled together tracker is meant for.) So that the pixel pal is always just doing it’s own thing in and out of apps, overlayed on top permanently. I’m no coder, but I think it’s certainly possible. - Don’t just limit yourselves to animals of this earth! Aliens, robots, monsters, ghosts (especially for seasonal sales 😉 Halloween, xmas, international walk like a zombie day… The content is near endle$$!) - When in the app, I can only view my pixel pal at the bottom, which is fine, however the screen is all buttons and settings. Possibly dedicate the pixel pal to be front and center with some small icons for bringing up menus and settings. Like how Digimon or tamagotchi’s had their home screens set up on those physical devices. Just a thought ;) - Hats. Not even kidding. Once this picks up in popularity, sell hats for the pixel pals. You will have to edit the sprites, but if you sell a hat for a cat, people will buy it. Look at the game company Valve and what they did with hats. It’ll print you money. Once you add a small amount of customization, people will go crazy for it. Anyway, best of luck and well done with the app!! I’ll keep an eye out for the updates to see how this develops 😁

Cute but limited. You can only get either the cat or dog unless you want to pay premium, which is eh, but you can’t seem to do a lot of the stuff it advertises, like feeding it. Maybe that’s premium too? :/

Bye Apollo. Great app. Used it over reddit app. Sad to see it go :(

Adopt pet doesn’t work. I got 16.1 using iphone14 pro max. It’s not appearing in my island. Doesn’t work. 1 star 😕

Cute and pushy. Cute app, but extremely pushy with the premium subscription. Sad to see given how much the developer is cashing in on their other platforms and apps. A subscription for this is hard to justify as well, a once off purchase would be more reasonable.

Yeah nah. I get the whole vote with your money thing, but I cannot see a reason to pay a subscription for this…

It’s a great app but…. The annoying thing is you can only choose a cat and dog and I’m can’t buy premium please fix this soon

Automatically erased all my data. This app automatically erased all my data.

Fun little app. Not sure what people were expecting, this app does not cure cancer but it does what you’d expect - it’s a fun little digital pet you can interact with. For free you get access to two pets with all features unlocked. Other pets are gated at 16/yr, hardly a fortune. Don’t want to pay, no probs no one is making you.

This game is the best. This game is sooo GUCCI

I DIDNT WANT THE CATTT. I wanted the doggggggggggggg

Hooray, more subscriptions.. This app does one thing (display a tiny pixel animal on your screen) and it does it okay. Is it worth a monthly cost? Of course not. Could it be worth the cost in the future? Maybe, with huge improvements. When you have apps such Widgetsmith where the subscription cost gets you access to weather data, or Themify where it’s paying for a lot of customisation, the cost of this seems much too high.

you guys really cant complain about the subscription. the app is great, a few bugs here and there, and the fact that i can’t open the menu to feed the pets or anything with my iphone SE, but other than that great app. i see quite a few bad reviews here saying it isnt worth it and stuff, if you don’t want it, don’t get it, but its 20 bucks a year are yall really that poor?

Nice little pal. This surprised me how well this app works. They have great background customisation and the pals are very cute.

Great guy. Good luck!

YAY. YAY

Is this worth a subscription?. Christian, I’m an Apollo Pro and Ultra user. I paid for Apollo because I actively believe that it’s something that’s worth paying for. The subscription model makes sense in Apollo because I understand that it requires a server for constant upkeep that needs to be paid for somehow. I fail to see how this app, as cute as it is, makes itself worth a subscription. It doesn’t need constant upkeep, and would be much better off as a one time purchase because of that.

I lost all of my progress so a big bag nope. Woke up all GONE and I had all 3 hearts and 2 different morphs I am not happy🤬😡😡☹️

Cute and useless.. This has great potential but no real substance as yet. A widget that only ever shows the tail end of the "pet" frozen off the edge of the screen whenever I go past it, and also a "pet" to visit in the app, feed, and play ball with.... And that's it. It might be fun if you could use it out of the app, or if the little tiny animal did anything, but as it is it's not worth it. I look forward to when it does something.

Disappears from dynamic island once I close the app?. Disappears from dynamic island once I close the app?

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…. this is cute and fun but we need to pay for that no thx

Rip off. Just a cash grab. Not worth the $$.

UPDATE APP !!!. Black screen widget an so many bugs

Good in all the wrong ways😕. The best part for me is the little pet on top of the dynamic island doing things, but goes away the minute you close the settings page for Pixel pets… also I like that it’s a live activity, but I don’t want the notification hanging around on my lock screen

$20 per year lol. For a pixelated pet..

Fun app!. The widgets are so much fun by themselves, plus it’s cute to see a little pet on your Dynamic Island or Lock Screen. I’m docking a star because I think the pricing for premium is absurd. You could buy the whole GTA trilogy for around the same price as what this costs monthly, and you could almost buy a new AAA PS5 game for what the lifetime subscription costs.

Food disappeared. Cute app, but I’m on the yearly subscription and put in time to farm a lot of food just for it to disappear. Not impressed with that, my phone is all up to date as well nothing was changed with my cell software. Super lame.

Great app, Where did my progress go???. Great app I downloaded it yesterday the next day all my progress gone. Pet gone. Friends gone! Idk if it’s cause my iPad is a 6th gen or it’s just me

I love the cute little Rupert dog💓💓. So that’s all I wanted to say to u

Subscription = 🗑️. Dev should really consider making the app paid rather than paywalling 99% of the app’s functionality through a subscription.

Why is this a subscription?. Another goofy app that never needed to be a subscription.

Really Cute. Does this app use a subscription? Yes, it’s $20 CAD a YEAR… YEAR. Not a month but a year. That’s like 3 coffees but a cute little pal for a year. All these bad reviewers broadcasting how poor they are is weird, just keep it to yourself, we’re all struggling but maybe just move on if you can’t afford $20 a year for a little dopamine? Anyway, it’s a cute app. Really like the update with widget games! And glad to have more pets! And customizations! Gives me motive to play with the pets just to unlock the customizations. Always want more pets but that’s just me being greedy haha. Really really love the transparent widget too! Super cool. Thank you to the single person who runs this! Ps: for all the reviewers who say the app is hard to figure out you literally just have to go to settings and follow the instructions for what you want to do, unless you’re in a coma or just plain stupid you can easily figure out. The reviews makes me lose hope in “common” sense for the future of humanity lol. Love this app! Super cute and honestly sometimes I just use it for transparent widgets of the calendar and stuff 🫶🤍🤍🤍

great app, rip apollo. loved this on apollo, love it here. rip.

Doesn’t really work with ios17. So many glitches after I upgraded ios17. No longer able to do transparent background which I had initially subbed for. Only one of the 4 widgets retained it, but it is frozen and the buddy is not moving anymore. Others was blacked out no matter what I did. And after removing and reinserting the widgets the “transparent” option was not available for any of the options. Sad life…

Great app. Great app, payments are not worth it. But how do you change their names? On phone version easy but how do u have different names

Got to pay for this 🤣. Not worth $20 😵

Subscription?! Seriously?. The subscription cult is out of bloody control!!!!!! $20 a year for a pixel pal!? Are you people out of your got dang minds!?

The widget is just black. I am on iPadOS 17.0.2 and the widget is just blank black. When I want to add another pixel pals widget to the home screen, all of them just show the color black in the widget selector.

Rip off too expensive. Do you have to pay every year like bro it’s cute I know but you have to pay!?!? It’s OK game do you have to pay?

Subscriptions??. Cute app, would have gladly paid for it, but definitely not worth the 19.99 yearly sub.

Subscribe. Pixel pals works great. Only 3 stars because screw subscriptions. I would gladly purchase this app, but I’m not paying you monthly.

Waste. Used this only because I could not receive a refund for using Apollo and it said I could transfer over to using this. Only worked for maybe a week then stopped and tells me I have to pay for premium. Looks like I’m getting scammed twice from this. Great.

My Apollo Pet replacement!. I have ADHD and Hugo has been so helpful to me. A lot of other ‘stim’ pixel pets can be too boisterous or boring, and yet I just loved my Hugo from Apollo so much, from the get-go! The thought of never getting to see all the other new animals bummed me out so bad, and I’m so happy to have found this app to keep my Hugo boi plastered all over my Lock and Home Screen. Thank you, Christian, for changing hundreds of thousands of lives by connecting us through one of the greatest social media interfaces I have ever used in my 15 years of being terminally online. Prepare for my redirected Ultra dollars! Long live the memory of Apollo!

Bad. I don’t want to pay because it’s yearly or monthly but it’s too much and I don’t want to play to use an app like if you have to pay make it more the 1 cat and 1 dog and that’s it like coke on

Ill give it a zero if it was possible. whats the point of a free app if you can only use one pixel pal?? and everything is behind a paywall. Should have turned it into a paid app instead of click baiting people

Sus. Can’t feed or play with pet. Always brings it back to upgrading. Horrible.

This app sucks. Terrible

💰💰💰. Just make a paid app. You can’t do much without paying anyways 😒.

Pretty useless. You would think you could interact with you pixel pet like on the store page, but you can’t. It just opens the widget app. Having the pixel pal around needs an iPhone pro. This app isn’t compatible with the regular iPhones. Widgets are just for show. You can’t interact with those either. Not really sure what the point of the app is. The yearly subscription doesn’t make a difference.

Too expensive for what it is. The monthly and annual subscription fee it’s too expensive for what it says. Additionally, the instructions on how to set the widgets and lock screen are not intuitive.

Love this app. Sometimes it stops working but over all Pretty Awesome Love the Pets and the New Widgets There’s a Pet For Everyone! My Son and Husband Love the Dinosaur And my mother loves the pet rock. The only Pet missing that I would love is a Rainbow Unicorn.

Premium is Bod. Whyyy premium

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Nice app, but the subscription prices are insane. This is a nice app to just play around with, but the subscription fees are not worth it

Amusant. Bien amusant

I love this app. Heard about this on a podcast bought immediately! I love having a little guy.

Cute and fun!. It makes my home and lock screens so much nicer to look at, having a little fella. I like all the different widget and critter options, including our little retiree ;_; honestly $20 (Canada) a year isn’t so bad… costs less than a hamburger meal. My only complaint is landscape mode on the iPad, the Pixel Pals get shy I guess, they stop showing up at the bottom of the screen. No biggie, just kinda odd, seeing as they come back when flipped into portrait mode. Eager to see what else you do with it though!

Buggy and greedy company. Such a greedy app. Sub based and expensive. Also buggy as helll.. freezes.. only farenheit. Big regrets

Not worth it. The pet doesn’t stay on the dynamic island mayhe behind the pay wall? If not doesn’t give instruction on how to do it

It won’t let me add a widget. I tried to find the widget but it won’t let me :(

Not worth the money. I honestly wouldn’t mind paying the monthly subscription if the app actually worked, and I didn’t have to constantly relaunch the app to have my pets re-appear on the home screen and dynamic island. And I know it’s not my phone, as it’s less than a month old and is the 14 pro.

Fix App. Everyone I restart my phone I lose Pal heart progress so i am deleting the app until this is fixed. i even subscribed to use other pals but i am sadly leaving because it does not save progress and it is frustrating because i want to have all pals fully morphed but cannot unless i never restart my phone…

17$ per year. Monthly/yearly subscription ruins a good app, should’ve been a paywall or a paid app instead.

Mislead, but still great. I figured it would be the thing I saw online with the pet on top of the dynamic island. But that’s not the case. Never the less, still a great app concept. Would be amazing app. if it worked… after this new update I can’t change the widget pet, I can’t play with the pet, app crashes. Bug fixing needed

It’s paid to play. ….. what you’ve been given for “free” doesn’t even work you can’t do literally nothing with it💀

Taps open app all the time. I really wanted to love this app but anytime you double tap on one of the widgets or the Dynamic Island, it opens up the app. I literally opened it so many times by mistake that I couldn’t take it anymore. I was willing to pay for premium but it’s way, way too easy to open the app by mistake. Specially when widgets are supposed to be interactive, how can you have it so that double tap opens the app?

It’s calm. The games good overall especially with the update but they should definitely add more pals for free and expand the premium ones maybe add some mythical creatures like a phoenix or a dragon or anything else that could attack people also I think adding characters would be a good idea assuming they get a partnership

1 time app purchase. Wasn’t there a one time app purchase? Where did it go?

possible improvement idea. i dont mins paying for it, if they made it so that the pixel pal is on the island. like if you have the app open. id find that way more aesthatically pleasing

Pricing ruins this :(. No way am I paying $20 a year. A $20 purchase to unlock? Sure. Expansion packs? Sure. But I am not paying forever to access a digital pet on my phone.

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Deletes my progress every time my phone dies. I absolutely love this game and even pay yearly for the extra characters. But every time my phone dies it deletes all my progress, my characters morphs, the hearts, the food, the names, everything. So then I have to go back and rewrite each characters names and work on each of the characters all over again.

Amazing app!. Don’t listen to the bad reviews. The app has been updated and there are tons of interactive widgets, pets, activities, games…everything! There’s a 2048 game, weather widgets, pet widgets, games, keyboard clicky widgets….and inside those widgets are other things too! I just wish the Jarvis widget worked with °F. Right now it just shows Celsius even though the app setting is correct.

No Premium. I love this app sooo much! I just wish there was a way for us to have different pets. I get you kind of have to have the premium thing, but can that be for rare pets? Like what if I'm a cat person and I want a cat as my animal. Thank you so much 😊 I hope you have an amazing day and please take this into consideration..!

Disappointed. I feel like this app is not intended to be used on phones without dynamic island. I can barely tap my small little Apollo pet on the home bar, it’s so small. None of the features really work well, having him in a widget or as a live activity doesn’t add much. We don’t scroll together so that feature is a bust. Also don’t like how every time I open the app, I’m prompted with a premium subscription add on. I was a big Apollo fan and wanted to love this but it’s just not that engaging in my opinion.

It’s cute. I like the bat the most. I like that I don’t have to interact with it. Other apps make me interact & I like having it just for aesthetic reasons. Sometimes it is lagging, but not too bad. They seem to be adding more animals, they didn’t have much I liked at first I mainly wanted the bat. It would be cool if some animals had different color options. Or if they added mythical creatures. A tiny dragon would be adorable.

Great App!. The transparent background setting does not work. It would be better if the actives switched quicker when set to rotate randomly. Also sleep could be more animated. Other than that this is an incredible app! I absolutely love it and have shared it with all my friends. It reminds me of the cat from Stardew Valley! Very sweet to have on the phone

Pixel Pals. I like it quite a lot because they are cute pets that do things on your screen, but I do not like that you only have access to 2 pets and the rest you have to buy with premium, that kind of annoys me because a lot of the time it’s younger kids that will more than likely download this app, and they don’t have access to that. I’m just not a fan of having to buy everything, besides the money part and my background sometimes not filling in on the pixel pet, it’s a pretty good app.

Doesn’t save game progress. It’s very cute, and fun, but when pixel pals 2 was introduced, the app doesn’t save renaming pals. It also loses your hearts progress, resets the age back to 0. I spend weeks growing food on the farm, just to have the app reset EVERYTHING BACK TO ZERO. I have an iPhone 15, 1 TB memory, and IOS is always updated. It’s not my phone. My iPhone 13 did this, too. The developers need a much more stable platform to save progress. Or allow Cloud save, or to Facebook. Frustrated.

Unable to Enjoy to Full Capacity. For a couple of hours now, I haven’t had any of the options available to me that are advertised. I paid for the year subscription, but nothing like feeding or playing games or allowing your pal to be on the Dynamic Island are showing up for me. A little bummed because I paid for a year. Otherwise it’s adorable and I really would love to enjoy it to full capacity, but right now it’s looking like there is so much more work to do. 😔

I wanted to like this. The App Store description is advertising a sale but the IAP pricing doesn’t reflect the sale prices shown in the App Store. Having the pixel pal stay in my Dynamic Island is neat, but it causes the Dynamic Island to widen and overlaps with my signal strength. Live Activities must be activate for the Dynamic Island feature, which means my Lock Screen always shows a live “notification” with my pixel pal which is annoying. (This may be a limitation of iOS Live Activities) There are additional IAP options to spend real money on food for your pixel pal. That’s pretty shady. Especially for those already paying a yearly or monthly subscription. Cute but ultimately very disappointing. I’d expect better from the developer of the late, great Apollo app.

It’s ok. It’s a cute app and idea, and is quite simple to use but my problem is EVERYTHING is premium. You have access to the cat and dog, but the other 14 animals are all premium, and the info backgrounds are also premium. I’m sorry, but even if a monthly subscription is only $1.99, I really don’t want to spend that money to get a background and the premium animals

Very cute. This is so cute and fun to play with. I do notice a very huge bar on my lock screen that is shaped like a oversized dynamic island looking thing that is all black then has some glitches that come on then disappear leaving the black thing this is on the lock screen. It would be great to have this fixed.

Let Us Buy Individual Pets!. I think it’s ridiculous that you have to buy a subscription to get access to the cuter pets. I would pay the amount for a year long subscription just to get the bat pet for life. There is a lifetime membership but I won’t pay $31 just to get the pets I want, I would pay for a lifetime of one pet!!! Like come on. Please please change that. You can have my money if you do

Support for the developer. I only bought this app (and the pro) to support the developer after Apollo’s death, but I’m surprised at how much I love it. I can set up a useful weather widget that also has a cute little bat on it. It’s like a tamagotchi that I won’t end up killing.

battery is broken??. the widgets are very fun and cute. i love how you have the ability to hide the pixel pal and change the background of a widget. i also enjoy the fidget widgets a lot, especially the keyboard one. very cute and fun!!!! however, the battery widget doesn’t display the correct battery percentage most of the time. my phone’s percentage could be at 60% and the widget will say it’s still at 55%. other times the pixel pal widget will be one percentage behind. i’ve noticed this across all battery widgets from different apps. is it a problem with my phone?? or is this just a problem with the app itself?

Great app!. I don’t usually leave reviews but I wanted to share some love with the developer. I learned about Pixel Pals from the Apollo app and have loved using it! It is very cute to spice up your Home Screen and I am excited to purchase premium once I get the opportunity to. Amazing app, amazing developer! 💕💕💕

Don’t buy/want refund. Paid for the yearly subscription and I can’t use any of the features. I have the initial app which is Apollo and both aren’t really giving what it’s supposed to give. You won’t have a pet on the dynamic island unless scrolling through Apollo. You just get a widget for either home screen or lock screen where the time is displayed. Wish I could get a refund, but there isn’t a costumer service portal through the app. It almost seem like they didn’t want to be reached… Godspeed

AMAZING but 2 things... Ok so it works AMAZINGLY but 2 things, 1. I’m having trouble making the transparent background. It says stuff like “you haven’t set the transparent background” which kind of annoys me. 2. The pet on the app that you have to click to feed and play with is EXTREMELY SMALL so cute but could be better :)). im obsessed!!!

New version killed the app. I recently purchased premium to be able to take full advantage of the pets. But ever since the new update, the widgets are no longer working, no transparent widget feature displays, the Lock Screen widget displays the premium star, and trying to feed or play with my pet just opens the app and nothing else. I have emailed Support twice with no response, guess it’s time to request a refund. I really wanted to continue enjoying the app as it’s super creative and adorable but how if none of the features I am paying for work.

It's cute but. Soni subscribed to get the full experience and after feeding and taking care of the poor little guy the health went back to the beginning like it reset or something idk of it's something I did wrong or if it's supposed to do that but it seemed frustrating after a week of feeding and playing with it it reset back to it's oriningal health. I'll give it one more try before canceling again

Very Cute, BUT!. I would give this app five stars if not for the fact that, if your phone dies, you lose all of your progress with all of your pets. All morphs, all hearts, all food you’ve grown: gone. It’s very frustrating to know that if my phone ever runs out of battery, or potentially even if I ever have to restart it for some purpose, my progress will once again be lost. I don’t have much hope of getting back my former progress, but if I could get a guarantee that it won’t happen again, I would bump my rating back up to five stars. Because otherwise, the app is really charming.

Really cute to have, just wanting more characters to choose from or new interactions. Love this little app. It’s tamagotchi upgraded for me. The widgets are fun and very useful. A good time killer or chill out game plus educational options and utilities. I just really want some new characters to choose from or new things you can do with them. Either way, it’s worth the price for sure !

I like it, but could be better. At first I was very excited to get the game but then I realized I could only get certain things which is it was almost everything without having to buy something. and it just was really annoying because I couldn’t really do anything with the game. so basically I would like more things in the game to be free, not money.

Good!!☺️☺️. I love how cute the app is, it makes every so adorable!! But I do think that the premium should only be a one time fee, not a weekly thing or yearly or whenever it is, and for the Lock Screen when it’s transparent but I’m not sure if that’s just the Home Screen for apple. Other than that I love the widget I named my cat Clarence I think cute little things with old people names are so cutesy.

Pixel Pals. Pixel pals is a really fun app where you can play wi Ty your little pets all the time. However, you need to pay money for almost everything. Also when you tap the island you can feed your pet, play with it but it also says scroll together but when you scroll it does not show up so I wish it was easier to do that or if the developer could explain how.

Am I an idiot?. Christian, I added this back to Apollo and loved it then but shortly after all that went down, I lost support for the lock screen and home screen pals. And now when I get into the app, I see lots of new features promoted (Pixel Pals 2) but how do I get them? Is it only premium? Is my phone not compatible anymore? I miss pixel pals! Love your work and honestly your whole vibe, please help :(

This is an amazing little gem!. I heard so much about this app and it was the first thing I downloaded when I got my new phone. I wish there was a way you could add the smol pixel to the bar persistently but I’m sure that’s not possible. Not sure if you have this planned, I know you just released the app. But a few ideas - an option to match the pet animation to sync with night and day modes or by time so it would sleep when your phones settings are set to sleep and vice versa. - maybe add the option for users to add their own sprites? Not sure how doable that would be. Overall an amazing little app, keep up the great work!

THIS IS THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺. Honestly, Chichi the cat has been my best pixel pet ever, and also my only one that I really play with .-. This is the cutest thing ever I love it 🥰 💜 😊 But also, can you make it so that when I tap on the widget really fast, it won’t boot me into the app? Also, can you make some more free pets like a… Sloth? Or a… Bush Baby? Anyway, thanks for making this, it’s the cutest little thing I’ve ever had Before I explode you with loving emojis, can you also add a setting where it stays at the… White underscore at the bottom of your screen at all times, or make one of those little, umm, capsules where they live? Thanks! 🥰 ☺️🥺🐱🐶🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜💓💗💕💖❣️💘💝💟♥️🐕🐈🐈‍⬛🐕‍🦺🦮🐩

Big yikes.. Thought the idea of a virtual pet living on your Home Screen and dynamic island was really great, but I installed the app I couldn’t really believe what I got. It was a pixel dog just sleeping on the Home Screen, with no dynamic island interaction, no in app interaction (just a premium upsell screen) and a $15 / year subscription. For what? I’m lost. It doesn’t do anything. If you’re going to advertise a digital pet as a widget, it’d be nice if you could interact with it. It’d also be nice if it actually had dynamic island support. Also, the subscription is pretty mindblowing. Sell the pets individually.

Disappointed. Not sure if this app is made for a specific phone? But I have the iPhone 13 and literally can’t do anything. There’s no way for me to use any of the features it just simply does not give the option. I even took the time to update my phone and still nothing. It also has a bug with the transparent option. I did what it said and it keeps saying go to the app and select transparent. Please let me know if this only works on the 14? Very disappointing.

Dynamic island pixel pal. I really like this concept of pixel pals. I just wish the pal worked the same on the island as it does when the app is open. Also, for some reason if I decide to turn off the “live activity?” From the Lock Screen it automatically disables it from the island. Is there a way to fix this?

No out of app pet care with iPhone 11. Its a super cute idea. The widgets are adorable. I have a little panda named Sara who I can feed and play little games with. The only downside is I can only care for her in the app, I would love to have her sleeping or running around while I’m using other apps. I’m not sure if it’s possible, i would just love to have it as an option. I would also really like if there were more game options; there are lots of options in pets and food but only two mini games.

cute but..... I got this app and it was adorable but, I hate how when you try to click the wigit it sends you to the app. i wish i wouldn't do that. Also even tho the cat and dog are cute... ALL THE OTHER ONES COST MONEY! I wish they had more options that are free. Also on the wigit games it takes for ever to move at all. Other than that I love the app wigits are cute and there are tons to chose from. I suggest getting it.

Cute app to use but... So this app is really cute and a nice decoration for your ipad/iPhone! But the only thing i don't like is that when you restart your device, it logs you out of your account. And also it would be a 10/10 if you made the axolotl free to use and add a few for animals. Anyways i would rate it a 9/10.

Cute fun but needs some streamlining. I like this app but too often tapping a widget or pixel pal opens the settings -- i found myself in an annoying loop of being sent to settings when trying to use any of the features so i stopped using them and just leave it on as decoration mostly

One major issue.. I love this app. It’s super cute and I love taking care of my little axolotl. However, I’m disappointed because it keeps resetting my pet’s stats after forgetting I have premium for a few seconds. Just now, I had to start from square one because a bug reset my pet’s stats entirely. I spent money on premium, and I don’t want it to go to waste. Please fix this. I shouldn’t have to constantly fear my pet’s stats being reset.

Great but... I just downloaded this app and its pretty good so far. I have a cat widget on my lock screen, as well as a running dog (u can change it to running, chill, or sleep). Its pretty good if u want something simple but if u want more you have to pay. U can only use dog or a cat and u have to pay to get the other animals. It is overall a good app and im happy to keep it.

Cool but!. I think this is an amazing little thing to have, my suggestion is to make the little pal smaller so it is able to run back-and-forth and not one animation that is super pixelated. Make it so when you’re out of the app it runs and bounces and sleeps. so in order to make this animation work, you have to shrink the character, so be it I’d rather watch it do something then nothing at all, but wag its tail.

2.0 Overview - Pros and Cons Are Equal. I’ve been paying the annual subscription since version 1.0. I like my cat. I had him on a transparent 2x2 widget for almost as long as I’ve had Pixel Pals. Version 2.0.2 no longer has a 2x2 option for ONLY my pet. Okay. The 1x1 option won’t let me set a transparent background. Long press the widget, edit widget, no options. *sigh* Now I also need to buy (with real money) or farm food? With an annual subscription? I’m not excited about that. Christian has added some interesting new games and a plethora of new widget options. It’s worth checking out before paying though. I am disappointed that he removed the simple options and is now charging for extra food options other than a carrot especially for those of us with an annual subscription.

Keep losing progress!!!!. I had several pets maxed out, but randomly lost all of my data! I can’t find out a way to reclaim any progress, yet my pet is still on my friends device! Rather upset by this as this is the forth time this has happened. It didn’t bother me so much on the other times because it was new to me, but I wanted to unlock all pet evolutions, and paid to have access to the whole app- just to have it deleted….

Simple animation and oddly cute. I’m quite surprised at the negative reviews from users for such a simple and cute animation that adds a little warmth to your dynamic island. It’s a little glitchy but that’s ok. Seems some users given a toothpick to use would have negative reviews just to be obstinate. Get the app and little critter and move on with a smile :-)

So cute but... Love this and think it is so so cute! Recent updates have made it adorable and a great widget I have everywhere. I named my cat Beef and he is adorable. Only issue I have is that every couple of days (irregularly) he disappears and all the progress disappears, all the food and hearts, and he resets to a new cat (Hugo). Minor issue but I loved seeing the progress with Beef and had a ton of food and hearts built up. If they fixed that I would give 5 stars. Overall great but that bug is frustrating.

Free version is crippled. Let’s all stop this pandemic of developers listing the app as ‘free’, only so they can reach a wider audience. Yet, the ‘free’ version is highly crippled and they want you to subscribe to their monthly paid plan - such a dirty business model. In this ‘free’ version on my iPhone 12, there’s no interaction, you get a single pet, and that’s it. All the features you see on the screenshots are not applicable for the free version. Do I expect everything to be free? Of course not. Do I expect developers to be compensated for their work? Yes. But god almighty, don’t cripple the ‘free’ version so much that it’s essentially a useless app - yet it’s being advertised as FREE! Give the free users a reason to want to upgrade - give them 3, 5 let’s to choose from - not just 1! All the app does right now is drain my battery more quickly and takes up precious space for a single pixel pet to go back and forth with 0 interactions.

ADORABLE. It’s absolutely adorable. seeing the little animal on my lock screen when i check my phone is honestly a mood lifter 10/10 recommend. plus you can put a custom picture on the widget and pick from a bunch of animals. i love it

Awesome update, but one suggestion!. The latest update is cool and looks good. Look forward to see more new features!! But one dissatisfaction I had is the inability to feed or play with pixel pal without opening the app. Whenever I want to interact with pixel pal while scrolling on other app, it just directs me to the pixel pal app, which is annoying. Would like to see this feature considered, thanks!

All in one app. This app does everything you could ever ask for an app to do. Bathe your kids, wash your car, wake you up early for work without being groggy. Definitely buy this today, before the designer realizes what he’s got and increases the price to match.

Cute. I just got the 14pm and this is the cutest way to use the dynamic island. I love how it stays on even when your in other app and you can hide it whenever you want. My only con is that you have to pay monthly/annually to unlock the other pets, there should be a option where your able to purchase the pets individually/one at a time

Apollo was cancelled, why pay again?. I paid for the yearly subscription for Apollo. Now that Apollo is gone, they made this new app for anyone that wants to keep their pals and I wanted to, but you have to pay again basically to have a different animal when I already had a different animal due to the paid subscription. Point is, why have to pay again for those that had the subscription already?

I like this app. But my pet has a problem still. I feed him, play with him, give him heart but the amount of the heart is the same. It shows 12 and has never increased. Please fix the bug. I use the app on iPhone15 pro. Also the pet disappear often from the dynamic island even setting is always show. Please fix the bugs.

Amazing App!!!. This is literally the reason I own a 14 😭🤣 but what we really need from this app is the pets walking up top the island all the time. It would be really cool if in certain apps like for instance, the music app or the photo app, if they also walked along the time. But for most apps it should drop them down into the island itself. Just an idea! But amazing app. Good pass time for sure