Shake a Cat Feather Toy vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shake a Cat Feather Toy
Engage with a virtual cat in a simple, cute game. Flick the screen to make the cat jump and avoid losing the toy. The game ends when the toy is taken by the cat.
- Interactive cat gameplay
- Screen flicking controls
- Avoid losing the toy
- Cute cat animations
- Easy to learn
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Let's play with a cat and a toy. Six cats jump one after another. Flick the screen and avoid it well. Game over when toys are taken. It is an easy and cute cat game.
POOLS™
Explore, admire, and listen in this slow, reflective experience. It's an intentionally uneventful journey through uncanny and eerie environments, rewarding patience and quiet attention. Discover a world that subtly changes as you advance, inspired by internet phenomena like liminal spaces and The Backrooms.
- Exploration-focused gameplay
- Relaxing and reflective atmosphere
- Eerie and uncanny environments
- Slow-paced, uneventful experience
- World changes as you advance
- Six chapters, 10-30 minutes each
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Explore, admire and listen. That’s it. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. POOLS isn’t a traditional game. it’s slow, reflective, and intentionally uneventful, perhaps a bit like virtual museum. So take your time. Breathe. POOLS unfolds slowly, rewarding patience and quiet attention. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen. Yet it can feel oppressive at times by invoking quiet fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and the strange beauty of liminal space architecture. There's no typical story. But as you explore and advance further, you start to notice that the game's world changes around you, deeper you go… Rooms look and feel… different. Base game features six chapters, each lasting 10-30 minutes. Inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal spaces, Found footage and The Backrooms, especially the Poolrooms concept. One of the original artists behind the Poolrooms concept is Jared Pike.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: POOLS™ at 4.5 against Shake a Cat Feather Toy's 4.0. POOLS™ also leads on ratings volume (1.8K vs 1) and review sentiment (80% vs 71%). Shake a Cat Feather Toy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence 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. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shake a Cat Feather Toy asks for nothing beyond the download.
POOLS™ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Shake a Cat Feather Toy's written reviews are positive against 80% of POOLS™'s.
Shake a Cat Feather Toy ships an update every 3 weeks, POOLS™ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shake a Cat Feather Toy | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 80.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | naoji kawaguchi | Tensori |
Customer experience
Shake a Cat Feather Toy
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
Shake a Cat Feather Toy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
POOLS™
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to move on iPad Pro
- Glitches reported
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to different Backrooms-inspired themes
- Add a multiplayer mode
- Introduce more interactive elements (e.g., monsters, items to discover)
In-app purchases
Shake a Cat Feather Toy
No in-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
Questions
Is Shake a Cat Feather Toy free?
Is POOLS™ free?
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Do Shake a Cat Feather Toy or POOLS™ have ads?
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