elspet vs PAWBBY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
elspet
Control and manage your smart home devices with this comprehensive platform. Organize devices by room, manage family members with different access levels, and create personalized control panels. Seamlessly link different products for unified operation.
- Room-based device classification and control
- Family administrator and member management
- Modular functional design
- Personalized control panel creation
- Device linkage control
- Quick device access
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Elspet application is a general version control client for our company's smart home hardware products in the whole house smart scene, and it is an operating platform for users to control and manage smart devices. It is convenient to classify and control the intelligent hardware devices in the home according to the room. Supports setting up family administrators and ordinary members to achieve family authority management. At the same time, it adopts modular functional design, which can flexibly add different devices and panels; you can choose common components in the template library provided by our company, quickly build personalized control panels, and easily implement device access. Different products are connected to the same client to achieve linkage control, which is convenient to operate; eliminating the need for client development investment by brand manufacturers to achieve product intelligence faster.
PAWBBY
This platform offers smart pet care solutions, providing technological products for attentive pet raising. Connect your mobile device to smart pet accessories to gain insights and enhance your pet's well-being, making pet ownership a more joyful experience.
- Smart pet raising platform
- Technological pet care products
- Mobile app integration
- Pet information management
- Enhanced pet well-being
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Pawbby is a technology-smart pet raising platform. We provide professional technological products to give pets baby-like care and make pet raising a happier life. Through the Pawbby App, you can complete the convenient and fast interaction between the mobile phone and the pet smart device, and master more information about the pet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: elspet at 4.6 against PAWBBY's 1.2. elspet also leads on review sentiment (39% vs 2%) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 23). PAWBBY's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 16 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
elspet holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: elspet has 2.1K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of elspet's written reviews are positive against 2% of PAWBBY's.
elspet ships an update every 16 months, PAWBBY fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | elspet | PAWBBY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.1K ratings) — better | 1.2 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.8% of reviews — better | 2.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧 丁 | Beijing Kitten & Puppy Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
elspet
PAWBBY
Bugs and requests
elspet
Reported bugs
5 issues- Litter getting stuck in the middle
- Litter spilling out of the box
- Inability to fully empty the litter
- Unreliable app connection
- Malfunctioning features
Requested features
5 requests- Notify when litter box is full
- Ability to track multiple cats
- Longer cleaning cycle option
- Easier cleaning process
- Improved app functionality
PAWBBY
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
elspet
No in-app purchases
PAWBBY
No in-app purchases
