Cat Spa vs Capybara Spa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Spa
Manage a charming spa staffed by cat fairies, offering massages and personal care to animal customers. Decorate various rooms, unlock new services, and collect heartwarming stories from your clients and staff. Grow your business and maximize profits in this relaxing idle simulation.
- Manage a spa staffed by cat fairies
- Offer massages and personal care
- Unlock and decorate spa rooms
- Collect customer and staff stories
- Maximize profits and grow business
- Idle simulation gameplay
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Cat Spa is the adorable management simulation game your body has been aching for! Cat fairies will help you relax and remove all your worries at the furriest massage parlor and spa around. Be the boss! Hire a variety of cat fairies as your staff and watch the animal customers roll in. Unlock and decorate a variety of spaces including the main massage room (who doesn’t love getting a ‘couple’s massage’ with random strangers), a lounge for your staff to relax and recuperate, and even a hair salon for your fanciest animal guests! We may even add a restaurant in case you get hungry. Who knows?! Cat fairies do what cat fairies want. Listen carefully to your customers and employees to collect a variety of adorable snapshots and stories. A lot can happen in a massage parlor run by cat fairies! It’s all above board, we promise ;) There’s no slouching in this game. Delivering high quality massage and personal care services is hard work! Be sure to check in often and make sure you’re maximizing your profits to grow even bigger! Feel a wave of healing by living a new life in Cat Spa… with cat fairies~
Capybara Spa
A charming simulation game where you raise adorable capybaras. Keep your capybaras happy by feeding them their favorite foods and taking them to relaxing hot springs. Earn coins to expand your capybara family and unlock new companions.
- Feed capybaras their preferred foods
- Take capybaras to hot springs
- Earn coins to buy more capybaras
- Manage capybara happiness
- Collect various capybara types
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It's a game about raising capybaras! First, feed the capybaras. Capybaras have their own likes and dislikes, so feed them what they like and they'll be happy! After feeding them, take them to the hot springs! Capybaras love hot springs, so they'll be very happy! Take care of your capybara every day and earn coins to buy more and more capybaras!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cat Spa at monthly against Capybara Spa's every 3 months. Cat Spa also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 1K). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Cat Spa sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Capybara Spa sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Cat Spa against 4.7 for Capybara Spa. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cat Spa has 8.2K ratings behind it against 1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Cat Spa's written reviews are positive against 80% of Capybara Spa's.
Cat Spa ships an update monthly, Capybara Spa every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Cat Spa | Capybara Spa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | 80.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.2K — better | 1K |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 814 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seeplay Inc. | Shinichiro Ihara |
Customer experience
Cat Spa
Capybara Spa
User reviews
Cat Spa
From 8.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Cute and adorable graphics
- 🎨 Relaxing and calming gameplay
- 💎 Generous free-to-play model with optional ads
- 🕹️ Addictive and entertaining
- 🐱 Variety of unique animal characters
Room to improve
- ⏱️ Employees' rest times are too long
- 🛒 Expensive in-app purchases for some items
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
- 🔄 Repetitive gameplay loop
- 🤔 Similarities to other games like Animal Restaurant
Capybara Spa
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Cute capybaras
- 👍 Relaxing gameplay
- 🐻 Capybara care experience
- 💕 Enjoyable virtual pet
Room to improve
- 🐛 Capybaras running away
- ⏰ Slow progress/earnings
- 💰 Expensive to get new capybaras
- 🤒 Capybaras dying/disappearing
Bugs and requests
Cat Spa
Reported bugs
4 issues- Employees getting stuck in the break room
- Pool and floor customizations not saving properly
- Ads not working as intended or crashing the game
- Tutorial getting stuck or not progressing properly
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to customize employee uniforms
- More mini-games and side activities
- Expanded pool and salon areas
- Option to fire or replace employees
- Offline mode for playing without internet
Capybara Spa
Reported bugs
3 issues- Capybaras disappearing after missing a day
- Ads not loading properly
- Glitches with finding lost capybaras
Requested features
4 requests- More interactive features (brushing, playing)
- Ability to breed capybaras
- Longer grace period before capybaras run away
- More ways to earn currency without ads
In-app purchases
Cat Spa
- 100,000 Apples$0.99
- Crystals - Tiny Pack$1.99
- Space Package$1.99
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- Fuzzy Package$1.99
- Super Cheap Package$1.99
- Blackticket - Discount 80%$1.99
- Waterpark Package$3.99
- Fihsery Package$3.99
- Apples - Large Pack$4.99
- Crystals - Small Pack$4.99
- Super Cheap Package 2$4.99
- Massage Set - Frog$5.99
- Crystals - Medium Pack$9.99
- Crystals - Large Pack$19.99
Capybara Spa
- Find the escaped capybara$0.99
- Escape prevention support$2.99
- Remove ad (30 days)$3.99
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- Remove ad (90 days)$7.99
- Remove ad (permanently)$19.99
Questions
Is Cat Spa free?
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