GloomCipher vs Catgotchi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GloomCipher
This app provides a custom keyboard to translate unique glyphs into Latin letters. It's a simple tool for deciphering coded messages or exploring custom alphabets.
- Custom keyboard interface
- Glyph to Latin letter translation
- Decipher coded messages
- Explore custom alphabets
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Use the custom keyboard to decipher your glyphs to latin letters.
Catgotchi
Adopt and nurture a pixelated kitten in this retro-style simulation game. Feed, clean, and play with your virtual pet to help it grow and unlock new breeds and mini-games. Customize the game's appearance to your liking.
- Adopt and care for pixel kitties
- Feed, clean, and play with pets
- Unlock 12 adorable cat breeds
- Play 3 mini-games per pet
- Customize game colors
- 90s retro style graphics
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Kittens are waiting for you. Adopt and take care of your pixel kitty! Catgotchi is the next game of our retro-style simulation series. This time you take care of and play with 12 adorable kitties. The more you take care of your kitty, the happier it is. And happy cat means cat growing fast. Take your time, feed it, clean it and play with it - all depends on you now! At the beginning you have 3 unique breeds to choose. First 3 breeds are: Norwegian, Russian Blue and Persian! For every 2 cats reaching adult stage, 3 more become unlocked. They are waiting for you - uncover them all! Every cat has its own set of mini games that you unlock with progress. There are 3 games per pet (12 total). Customize whole game using colors you like. All this and more in 90s retro style!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Catgotchi at 4.7 against GloomCipher's 4.0. Catgotchi also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 50%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 4). GloomCipher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Catgotchi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GloomCipher asks for nothing beyond the download.
Catgotchi holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catgotchi has 1.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of GloomCipher's written reviews are positive against 85% of Catgotchi's.
GloomCipher ships an update every 4 months, Catgotchi every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GloomCipher | Catgotchi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 84.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucas Assis Rodrigues | Janusz Jankowski |
Customer experience
GloomCipher
Catgotchi
Bugs and requests
GloomCipher
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Catgotchi
Reported bugs
4 issues- Energy bar not increasing properly
- Buttons freezing during mini-games
- Pets getting stuck in certain states
- Crashes and app not launching for some users
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to pet or interact with cats
- Introduce more pet types like dogs or other animals
- Implement a widget for quick pet status checks
- Add background music or sound effects
- Improve energy recovery and reduce pet death
In-app purchases
GloomCipher
No in-app purchases
Catgotchi
- Remove ads$2.99
