# Pocket Zoo: Zoo Manager — Build a zoo, raise 89 species

> Build a zoo, raise 89 species (iPhone/iPad app by DongEun Shin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-zoo-zoo-manager/id6815546154 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [DongEun Shin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1747830910)
- Category: Games, Casual, Simulation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 26 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-26
- Data updated: 2026-10-06

## What is Pocket Zoo?

Pocket Zoo is a 3D zoo management game for phones and tablets, and it plays either way up — portrait with one hand, landscape for the wider view. Build your own zoo with cute blocky voxel animals and keep it running. An internet connection is required to play.

Meet 89 real species
Care for 89 real animals across seven regions, from savanna and rainforest to Asia, North America, Australia, polar lands, wetlands and reptiles. Lions, giraffes, elephants, pandas, polar bears, penguins, koalas, gorillas, tigers, crocodiles and many more can join your zoo. Raise your zoo rating and fame to unlock new species.

Build habitats your way
• Enclose exhibits with wood, wire mesh, concrete, stone or glass viewing walls.
• Paint grass, savanna, dirt, sand, jungle soil, snow and water ponds.
• Raise and lower terrain, lay paths, and place 14 kinds of plants and rocks.
• Add enrichment such as balls, logs, tire swings, climbing rocks, splash pools and scratching posts.
• Place food and water troughs and shape each exhibit around the animals that live there.

Animals are individuals
Every animal has needs for hunger, thirst, rest, play, social contact, space and terrain, plus its own happiness. Predators can hunt prey that share their exhibit. Weak or worn fences can break, letting animals escape until keepers tranquilize and return them.

Run the whole zoo
Guests need food, drinks, restrooms and places to rest, and they tell you what they think. Build burger, drink, ice cream and coffee stands, restrooms, a souvenir shop, info booth, benches, picnic tables, playground, photo spot, ATM and drinking fountains. You also set the admission price.

Hire staff for the work
• Keepers feed animals, clean exhibits and catch escapees.
• Handymen handle litter and fence repairs.
• Guides lead paid guided tours.

Breed better generations
Each animal inherits four stats: attack, defense, stamina and speed, graded from C to SS. Rare albino, melanistic and golden coats can appear. Inbreeding weakens offspring, breeding can be allowed or stopped with one tap, and you can rent a champion stud.

More ways to play
• Seven themed missions with different goals.
• Free play on four plot sizes.
• A zoo book collection and 25 achievements with titles.
• An animal market where you trade animals with other zoo keepers for medals earned in the game.
• Animal Sports Day with sprint, tug-of-war and balancing events by weight class, from the local cup to the championship.
• A Creature Lab where you combine body, head, legs, wings, horns, tail, colors and patterns to create a new species for your zoo.
• Visitor Mode lets you walk through your own zoo at eye level among the guests.

Languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.

## Is Pocket Zoo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pocket Zoo.

## Is Pocket Zoo legit?

Pocket Zoo: Zoo Manager appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pocket Zoo is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-02

Picking up a tool no longer freezes the game. The zoo opens in your phone's language. Sound plays with the ring switch down. Hearts show every time you drop something in a pen, and animals beyond your zoo's fame now cost what they are worth.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-27

아이폰 화면에 맞췄어요
• 노치·다이내믹 아일랜드·홈 바를 피해 화면이 놓입니다. 상단 자금·속도 버튼과 알림 줄이 더 이상 가려지지 않아요.

설정 · 컨트롤 추가
• 화면 돌리는 방법을 고를 수 있어요. 양옆 버튼, 또는 두 손가락으로 비틀어 돌리기.

편의시설 6종 추가와 명성 해금
• 츄러스·솜사탕 카트, 국수 가게, 물놀이 광장, 전망대, 코인 망원경. 동물처럼 명성이 오르면 하나씩 열려요.
• 기존 가게들도 카운터와 간판을 새로 만들었어요.

직원이 더 똑똑해졌어요
• 우리에 들어가면 그 안의 일을 끝내고 나가요.
• 동물이 탈출하면 가장 가까운 사육사가 달려가요. 정비공도 사체를 옮길 수 있어요.
• 울타리는 닳는 중에 미리 고쳐요.

그 밖에
• 물에 빠진 배설물이 사라지지 않던 문제, 사육사가 사체를 옮기다 사라지던 문제를 고쳤어요.
• 방문객이 울타리 한쪽에만 몰리지 않고, 쓰레기통을 찾아 버려요.
• 장난감·싸움 동작, 물놀이통 물 표현을 손봤어요.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-27

No release notes.

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