Tap Forward vs Merge Pet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tap Forward
Experience a simulated life journey from birth to old age. Make choices, upgrade your character, and encounter various life events. See how your decisions shape your future and try to reach the end of your life's path.
- Idle game mechanics
- Upgrades and power-ups
- Life events simulation
- Character progression
- Discover new faces
- Experience aging
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Have you even wondered what will happen to you in 30, 50 or 100 years from now? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to time travel? Now you can!! Tap tap tap your way into the future, TAP Forward! Game features: - Amazingly fun idle game mechanics - Upgrades & power ups to boost your progress - Get sick but try not to die! - Life events will tell you what's going on around your life - As you grow, you will discover new faces Grow and get old! Experience new things, and heck even get sick!! Try to reach your last breath AND don't let him die!! Enjoy.
Merge Pet
Discover the evolution of animals in this casual puzzle and simulation game. Merge pets of the same kind to create higher-level creatures, earn coins, and expand your pet city. Explore various animal stories and build your unique pet world.
- Pet evolution discovery
- Merge mechanics for higher-level pets
- Coin earning and idle gameplay
- Build and grow a pet city
- Multiple animal types to unlock
- Casual puzzle and simulation genre
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Discover the evolution of animal, Best New Free Game in 2019, All of them are now here in Merge Pet: Best Click & Idle Tycoon Game, this game is genre of Puzzle, Casual and Simulation game. This game suits both boy and girl and it’s free to play. Start your story in Merge Pet world to build your own pet city. More world and level you go through, you can see many stories of pet's evolution. Idle, Farm, Develop and Grow your pets. Chicken, Buffalo, Dragon, Snake, Dinosaur and many pet ’s Stories are waiting for you to find out. The gameplay is very simple. You have a lot of land in a big plain, your job is to build and grow proper pets in plain. Each pet can be merge with other pets of the same variety to form a new higher-level pet. Every pet built on the land will earn coin. So the bigger plain, the higher-level pet, the more coin you can earn. Use your spoils to discover new stories and draw your picture of YOUR PET WORLD. More pets you build and grow, more coin you get. Download now and discover where Merge Pet 2019 will take you! Use of this application is governed by D2M Studio's Terms of Service, found at https://d2mstudio.com/terms-and-conditions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Merge Pet at 4.4 against Tap Forward's 3.7. Merge Pet also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 39%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Tap Forward's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 10.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Tap Forward sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Merge Pet sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Merge Pet holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 36 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Tap Forward's written reviews are positive against 80% of Merge Pet's.
Tap Forward ships an update every 3 weeks, Merge Pet every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tap Forward | Merge Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (42 ratings) | 4.4 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 537 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FIVE BITS, INC. | D2M STUDIO COMPANY LIMITED |
Customer experience
Tap Forward
Merge Pet
In-app purchases
Tap Forward
- AutoClicker Small$0.99
- Small Time Travel$0.99
- Premium Spin$0.99
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- Tap Small$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Tap Medium$1.99
- AutoClicker Large$2.99
- Large Time Travel$2.99
- Idle Large$2.99
- Tap Large$2.99
Merge Pet
- 500 Diamonds$0.99
- Quick Merge$0.99
- Better Pet$0.99
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- 1000 Diamonds$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Time Devide 2$2.99
- Permanent 2X$2.99
- 3500 Diamonds$4.99
- Buy All At Once$8.99
- 7500 Diamonds$9.99









