Penguin Aquarium vs Gecko Pet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penguin Aquarium
Nurture a penguin from a small chick to a larger bird. This game features simple care mechanics, requiring feeding every three days and weekly cleaning. Watch your penguin grow daily in a relaxed, real-time experience.
- Grow a penguin
- Real-time growth tracking
- Easy care operations
- Feed penguin regularly
- Clean penguin habitat
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This is the best penguin app. - You can grow a penguin. - You can know growth of penguin in real time. - Operation is very easy! Care is very easy. You should feed penguin once every three days, and clean up only once a week. Penguin is very small at first, but it will grow bigger little by little every day. Enjoy the growth of penguin in your daily life!
Gecko Pet
Raise a virtual gecko on your phone with simple care tasks like feeding and cleaning. Enjoy its smooth animations and relaxing music as it grows daily. This game is ideal for busy individuals or those new to gaming.
- Raise a virtual gecko
- Simple feeding and cleaning mechanics
- Real-time growth updates
- Customizable pet name
- Relaxing music and animations
- Notifications for care tasks
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Completely free! This is an application to make a gecko a pet. You can easily raise a cute gecko in your phone. The smooth animation of the gecko's cute movements will heal you. The music is also very relaxing. This game is an app to raise geckos in your phone. It's very easy to take care of them. All you have to do is feed it and clean it! It is recommended for people who are not good at playing games and busy people. Please enjoy watching the gecko grow day by day. The game's contents You can feed the gecko, clean it, and take care of it easily. The gecko grows a little bit every day. Touch the screen, and the gecko will come to that place. You can watch the gecko while listening to music. You can give the gecko a name of your choice. (The name can be changed at any time.) The size of the gecko is updated every second so that you can see its size in real time. When you start the app, it will report how much it has grown since the last time. Notifies you of the timing of feeding and cleaning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Penguin Aquarium at every 5 months against Gecko Pet's every 32 months. Gecko Pet's advantage is ratings volume (133 vs 42). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Penguin Aquarium against 4.7 for Gecko Pet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 133 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Penguin Aquarium's written reviews are positive against 83% of Gecko Pet's.
Penguin Aquarium ships an update every 5 months, Gecko Pet every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penguin Aquarium | Gecko Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (42 ratings) | 4.7 (133 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better | 82.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 | 133 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroki Yamada | sio honda |
Customer experience
Penguin Aquarium
Gecko Pet
In-app purchases
Penguin Aquarium
No in-app purchases
Gecko Pet
No in-app purchases
Questions
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