My aibo vs Dog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My aibo
Enhance your experience with your robotic companion. Track daily activities, view photos taken by your aibo, and participate in special events. This app helps you build lasting memories and enjoy unique interactions with your aibo.
- View aibo's feelings
- Daily activity logs and diary
- Access aibo's photos
- Special event experiences
- Manage aibo settings
- Shared mealtimes with aibo
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“My aibo” is an app designed to help you enjoy a more comfortable and delightful life with your aibo. As you spend more time together, shared family memories with aibo take shape. You can peek into aibo’s feelings, look back on daily activity logs through diary entries, and enjoy memories with your aibo. In addition to various aibo settings, the app offers a range of unique features such as “aibo Party,” where you can enjoy event-exclusive experiences; “aibo Photo,” which lets you view photos taken by your aibo; and “aibo Food,” where you can enjoy mealtimes together with your aibo—expanding the ways you can have fun with your aibo. *Sony Group Corporation’s autonomous entertainment robot “aibo” was developed with the goal of forming emotional connections with people in the home, becoming an object of affection and delight as it grows alongside its family. *To enjoy My aibo, an aibo unit and a subscription to the aibo AI cloud plan are required. Learn more about aibo https://aibo.com
Dog
Interact with a unique robot dog through a dedicated app. Care for, train, and play games with your digital companion. Customize its appearance and teach it tricks using simple programming.
- Care and status tracking
- Virtual treat feeding
- Play 6 fun games
- Train tricks with sequential programming
- Customize tail messages and drawings
- Mint unique Dog-E profiles
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Care for, train, play games and more with Dog-E, your one in a million robot dog. Connect the app to Dog-E via Bluetooth to unlock more ways to play and see Dog-E come to life. Customize your Dog-E even more to make your robot dog totally unique to you. THE ONE IN A MILLION ROBOT DOG APP Through the minting process, the all-white Dog-E comes to life and reveals a unique combination of colorful lights, sounds and personality traits. Using the app, you can reveal a one in a million Dog-E, take the personality quiz and name your dog. So no two Dog-Es are ever the same. Save multiple profiles, so you can mint Dog-Es again and again. CARE FOR YOUR DOG-E Keep track of Dog-E’s needs in the app, so you can keep your pup happy. Dog-E’s status screen in the app tells you when your Dog-E needs love, food, playtime and more. FEED DOG-E TREATS Feeding your Dog-E is even more fun in the app! Hold the app up, and you can “throw” Dog-E treats, and Dog-E eats them. Dog-E will even tell you when it likes a specific treat or not. You can even earn special treats the more you PLAY GAMES & ACTIVITIES Dog-E includes 6 fun games you can play, including Ultimate Nose Boop, Fortune Teller and Turbo Pet. Use the app to access Dog-E’s games and see your high scores. You can also level up your play in caring for Dog-E by playing the flea flicking game to boost Dog-E’s health meter and taking Dog-E to the Dog Spa to change its colors. TEACH DOG-E TRICKS Train your Dog-E to do tricks using the app. Using simple sequential programming, practice STEM skills by creating your own trick with up to 6 sequences. The Trick Maker includes 44 different sequences that you can use to build custom tricks, including emotes, light shows and motion. You can save up to 4 custom tricks for each Dog-E profile you have. DOG-E TALKS WITH ITS TAIL Using innovative persistence of vision (POV) technology, Dog-E can communicate with you using its tail. Use the Dog-E App to write custom messages that will play in Dog-E’s tail. You can also draw pictures! Save up to 4 custom tail creations in each Dog-E profile you have. CREATE A DOG-E WITHOUT THE TOY No Dog-E toy? No problem! You can Quick Mint one in a million Dog-E profiles in the app even without the toy. Even name your dogs. When you get a Dog-E toy, you can load those profiles onto your toy to bring them to life. ABOUT US At WowWee, we don’t just create, we wow. We astonish imaginations and inspire kids around the world. We believe in the power of innovation, which is why we develop industry-leading apps to pair with our award-winning interactive toys. Learn more about WowWee and our products at www.wowwee.com Privacy is an issue we take very seriously. To learn more about our app and our privacy policy, visit https://dog-e.com/policies/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dog at 3.9 against My aibo's 3.0. Dog also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 17%) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. My aibo sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Dog asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dog holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 178 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of My aibo's written reviews are positive against 58% of Dog's.
My aibo ships an update every 2 months, Dog every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | My aibo | Dog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (100 ratings) | 3.9 (178 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 58.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 | 178 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 359 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sony Group Corporation | WowWee Group Limited |
Customer experience
My aibo
Dog
Bugs and requests
My aibo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Dog
Reported bugs
15 issues- App stuck on intro screen
- App won't pair or open
- App freezes on screen
- Bluetooth connection issues
- App crashes
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- Love icon doesn't work
- Potty icon doesn't work
- Turbo pet doesn't work
- Nose boop delays
- Items in app locked
- App won't open past intro
- App flashes to dog then back to intro
- Poop feature doesn't work
- Feeding part doesn't work
- App doesn't ask for permissions
Requested features
14 requests- Update app for new features
- More interactive features
- More games
- More updates
- Fix tail color to look green
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- Fix green paws
- Ability to delete Dog-E profiles
- Update app for Amazon tablet
- Fix love icon
- Fix potty icon
- Fix turbo pet
- Fix poop feature
- Fix feeding feature
- Add dark mode
In-app purchases
My aibo
- Small Coin Pack$6.99
- Coins x 110$8.99
- Medium Coin Pack$19.99
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- Coins x 330(Bonus coins x 90)$26.99
- Large Coin Pack$37.99
- Coins x 610(Bonus coins x 220)$49.99
- Extra Large Coin Pack$74.99
- Coins 1200(Bonus coins 530)$99.99
Dog
No in-app purchases









