Comparison

CatFX vs Gotcha

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CatFX

Record and play custom sounds directly from your watch face complication. Add humor to any situation with quick access to your favorite audio clips. Easily record and manage sounds for instant playback.

Highlights
  • Record custom audio clips
  • Six programmable buttons
  • Watch face complication access
  • Quick playback
  • Sound management
Features
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CatFX is a fun custom soundboard app that lets you record an audio sample in each of the six buttons that are quickly accessible through a watch face complication! Make any situation fun by queueing your own sounds - crickets chirping, cartoon boink or throwing something on the ground! Swipe left to record sounds to all of the board buttons, then play them back in seconds!

About

Gotcha

Identify animals, birds, and bugs from photos to build and manage your own wildlife zoo. Collect over 2,200 species, design habitats, and attract visitors to climb the park leagues. Visit friends' parks and compete in weekly challenges.

Highlights
  • Identify animals from photos
  • Build and manage a zoo
  • Collect over 2,200 species
  • Design habitats and decorations
  • Visit friends' parks
  • Climb park leagues
  • Weekly challenges
Features
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Gotcha is a free animal identifier, bird identifier and bug identifier. Every photo you take becomes a species in your collection and an animal in the zoo you build. Gotcha is a free animal identifier app for iPhone. Photograph any animal, bird, insect, spider, snake, reptile, frog, butterfly or fish and it identifies the species, cuts it out of the photo, and adds it to your collection. Then the animals move into a wildlife zoo park you build and run as a tycoon. Gotcha turns the world outside your door into a collection game. See an animal, a bird, or a bug? Snap a photo. Gotcha cuts the creature out, identifies the species, and files it in your index. Then it moves into your park. NEW IN 2.0: BUILD YOUR PARK Every animal you photograph now has somewhere to live. You inherit an old zoo. Closed for years, grown over, forgotten by everyone except Kody. Clear the boulder out of the gateway, lay a path in from the gate, raise your first habitat, and move in an animal you photographed yourself. Then open the turnstiles and let the visitors through. - Every animal in your park is one you caught in real life - Build grassland and desert habitats, and feed your animals to grow them - Lay paths, place decorations, and clear land to make room for more - Keepers do the building, one job at a time. Gems finish any job right now - Your gate keeps taking ticket money while the app is closed CLIMB THE LEAGUES Your crowd is your score. Pull a bigger crowd and your park climbs eight leagues, from a roadside stop all the way to a world wonder. Every week brings a new twist that the whole game plays at once. VISIT YOUR FRIENDS Walk into a friend's park, see what they made of theirs, and leave one park your vote for the day. Fame is given, never taken. THE ZOO PASS A new season every 28 days, with a free reward track you fill by playing. Stars are earned by running your park, never bought. CATCH ANYTHING THAT MOVES - 2,200+ real species to find, across six rarity tiers - Snap any animal, bird, insect, spider, snake, frog or fish and get an instant identification - The creature is cut cleanly out of your photo, right on your device - Caught species fill in as color stickers. The rest wait as silhouettes - Food for your animals comes from one place only: out there, with your camera KODY SHOWS YOU AROUND Kody is your park's mascot, and he is the one who found the place. He walks you through opening day and turns up whenever there is something worth knowing. GOTCHA+ Gotcha is free to play. Gotcha+ is an optional subscription that adds the premium season track, a fourth keeper, unlimited catching, and a gate that holds a full day of takings. You can catch, identify, and build a park without it. So go outside. The park is not going to fill itself!

Screenshots

Gotcha4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gotcha at Free against CatFX's $0.99. Gotcha also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 21 months). CatFX's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Gotcha is free to download; CatFX costs $0.99 up front. Gotcha sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. CatFX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gotcha holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gotcha has 226 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of CatFX's written reviews are positive against 86% of Gotcha's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CatFX ships an update every 21 months, Gotcha every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
CatFX versus Gotcha: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCatFXGotcha
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (226 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better86.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1226 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB327 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimo VirokannasJurre de Ruiter

Customer experience

CatFX

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gotcha

All ratings226 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.6%

In-app purchases

None

CatFX

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Gotcha

Subscriptions3
  • Gotcha+$3.997 Days
  • Gotcha+$19.991 Year
  • Gotcha+3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • Grand Opening Pack$2.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Welcome Back Pack$4.99
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  • Keeper's Starter Pack$4.99
  • Autumn Bundle$9.99
  • Nightwatch Pack$9.99
  • Gotcha+$59.99

Questions

Is CatFX free?
CatFX costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gotcha free?
Gotcha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CatFX or Gotcha?
Gotcha is rated higher. CatFX averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Gotcha averages 4.7 from 226 ratings.
Do CatFX or Gotcha have ads?
Gotcha shows ads; CatFX does not.
Which is updated more often, CatFX or Gotcha?
CatFX ships an update every 21 months, and Gotcha every 4 days. Most recently, CatFX was updated on November 3, 2026 and Gotcha on November 7, 2026.

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