Pixie the Pony vs TinkSnap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixie the Pony
Care for a virtual pony, including feeding, bathing, and health. Explore its world, grow food, collect butterflies, and play mini-games. Customize its home and create unique unicorn or galaxy pony looks.
- Virtual pony care
- Exploration and gardening
- Mini-games
- Customization
- Butterfly collection
- Veterinarian and dentist simulation
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Take a chance to have a virtual pony that you’ve always wanted. Your pony likes running, swimming, gardening, watching beautiful butterflies and, mostly, being a part of your life! Adopt the cutest pony in the world and make your dreams come true. Take care of your pet’s feeding, sleeping and health. Shower your pony under the waterfall or wash him in a lake. For a good and quiet sleep, put the pony in a stable and turn off the sun. Sometimes you have to take your pet to the animal hospital to heal his broken bones, cure his teeth or replace an old horse shoe. Train your doctor skills and enjoy being a veterinarian or horse dentist in your pony’s world. Explore pony’s green land, lake, prairie and steppe. Grow your own vegetables, cereals and fruits like carrots, wheat, apples and many more. Plant flowers to attract butterflies so you can fill all pages in your butterfly collection album. You can customize pony’s home, stable, castle and trees to create a dream world for your pony. Have fun playing different mini games, like Diamond Connect, Flying Pony, Pony Jumping and Pony Racing. Earn coins to do a pony makeover and unleash your creativity. Make a rainbow unicorn, galaxy pony, fairy pony and many others. Complete as many funny quests as possible to get super shiny rewards. Your cute pet needs some loving care. We promise you’ll have the best virtual pony in the world! This game is free to play but certain in-game items and features, also some of those mentioned in game description, may require payment via in-app purchases which cost real money. Please check your device settings for more detailed options regarding in-app purchases. The game contains advertising for Bubadu’s products or some third parties which will redirect users to our or third-party site or app. This game is certified compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by FTC approved COPPA safe harbor PRIVO. If you would like to know more about the measures we have in place for protecting child privacy please see our policies here: https://bubadu.com/privacy-policy.shtml . Terms of service: https://bubadu.com/tos.shtml
TinkSnap
This app allows children to build and animate creations using colorful shapes. Users can customize designs with various colors and textures, then bring their creations to life with playful animations. It offers both guided and open-ended building modes.
- Build with colorful shapes
- Customize colors and textures
- Bring creations to life with animations
- Satisfying snap effects
- Guided starter builds
- Open-ended creative mode
- Easy editing tools
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Build, snap, and bring your imagination to life with TinkSnap! TinkSnap is a playful creative building app where kids combine colorful shapes to make vehicles, creatures, characters, buildings, and anything else they can imagine. Drag shapes onto the canvas and watch them connect with satisfying magnetic style movement. Resize, rotate, layer, and duplicate pieces to create something completely unique. Make every creation your own by choosing from different colors and playful textures. Add bright patterns, fun finishes, and creative details to transform simple shapes into exciting designs. When your creation is ready, press "Bring to Life" to make it move! Choose from playful animations and watch your vehicle drive, your creature bounce, or your own invention dance across the screen. FEATURES: -Build with colorful shapes and decor Combine simple pieces to create vehicles, animals, characters, buildings, and more. -Customize colors and textures Give each shape a new look with colorful patterns, textures, and finishes. -Bring creations to life Choose fun animations and watch your finished designs move, bounce, float, shake, and play. -Satisfying snap effects Shapes connect with playful magnetic movement, sounds, and visual effects. -Guided starter builds Follow visual guides to create fun designs and learn how the building tools work. -Open-ended creative mode Build anything you can imagine with no scores, timers, or wrong answers. -Easy editing tools Move, rotate, resize, duplicate, layer, and remove shapes while you build. -Save and capture your creations Save favorite designs to continue building later, or take a picture of your finished creation and save it to your device’s photo library. -Designed for kids Simple controls, clear visuals, and a playful experience made for independent creativity. -Built with accessibility in mind Supports VoiceOver with accessible shape selection, movement, editing actions, helpful labels, and spoken feedback. TinkSnap is ad-free. Optional full access is available through a single one-time purchase, with no subscriptions or ongoing fees. Build something familiar, invent something silly, and bring your creations to life with TinkSnap!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TinkSnap at 5.0 against Pixie the Pony's 4.3. TinkSnap also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). Pixie the Pony's advantage is ratings volume (240 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Pixie the Pony sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and TinkSnap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TinkSnap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixie the Pony has 240 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pixie the Pony ships an update every 3 months, TinkSnap every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixie the Pony | TinkSnap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (240 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 240 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BUBADU information technology Ltd. | Cinder Code LLC |
Customer experience
Pixie the Pony
TinkSnap
In-app purchases
Pixie the Pony
- Pixie weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Pixie Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Pixie yearly Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Remove ads$0.99
- Buy 50 diamonds$1.99
- Unlock fairy pony pack$1.99
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- Unlock galaxy pony pack$1.99
- Unlock hospital pack$1.99
- Buy 150 diamonds$4.99
- Unlock all and remove ads$5.99
- Buy 650 diamonds$19.99
- Buy 1500 diamonds$39.99
- Buy 5000 diamonds$99.99
TinkSnap
- TinkSnap Premium Access$4.99





