Comparison

Hat Booth vs My Talking Pet

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

Head to head
About

Hat Booth

Easily add a wide variety of fun and wild hats to any photo. Virtually try on crowns, cowboy hats, and more, then adjust their size, placement, and rotation for a perfect fit. It's simple to use for all ages and allows for creative editing.

Highlights
  • Virtually try on over 170 fun hats
  • Add hats to photos from album or camera
  • Adjust hat size, placement, and rotation
  • Add multiple hats to a single photo
  • Advanced editing tools (eraser, blur, color)
  • Add text to photos for memes
  • Share edited photos via social media
Features
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Virtually try on fun and wild Hats using Hat Booth. Now you can add a King's Crown, Princess Tierra, Cowboy Hat, Top Hat and many many more hats to any photo! Add a fun hat to any picture. Try it on your pets, your family and your friends. Have even more fun putting these fun hats on a celebrity photo! Hat Booth is EASY to use and fun for the whole family! Simply load any photo into Hat Booth and start adding hats to the photo using simple touch and adjust logic. Load a photo from your photo album or take a new photo with the built in camera. Then scroll through all the hats, when you find one you want to try on simply tap the hat and it is added to your photo. You can adjust the placement, size and rotation of the hat so it will match your picture perfectly. Reviews - Featured in "Hat Life" magazine! - "Hysterical - Great variety of hats. Realistic looking hats. Very fun! Can't stop playing it! Would love a variety of American Indian head gear. Thanx!" - "Awesome - Nice easy to use interface, tons of fun hats. Worth every penny!" Features - Universal App for iPad and iPhone - Over 170 fun hats to choose from! - Choose from 8 different hat categories. - Load any photo from the photo album or take a new picture with the built in camera - Adjust the size and rotation of the picture. - Adjust the size, rotation and the placement the hat to make the hat match your photo. - Add multiple hats to your photo - Share via email, Facebook, Twitter, iMessage and Instagram - Save the picture to your photo album Advanced Editing Tools - Eraser, erase parts of the hats - Blur, blur the hat to match your photo - Color, adjust the color of the hat - Layers, access the different hats added to your photo through the layer menu - Flip, change the orientation of the hat - Opacity, make the hat see through, great for using with the eraser. - Brightness, adjust the brightness of the hat - Width and Height, adjust individually to make the hat fatter or taller. - ZOOM, zoom in to make fine edits - Add Text, easily meme your photo by adding text from our text editor, edit the text with the same great tools you use for your hat. Got Twitter? Follow us @appdicted

About

My Talking Pet

An app that animates your pet photos, making them speak with custom voices and accessories. Create funny videos to share with friends and family, or use them as digital assistants. Features include voice modulation, costume additions, and text overlays.

Highlights
  • Animate pet photos
  • Customizable voices
  • Add hats and accessories
  • Create memes
  • Digital assistant features
  • Video sharing
Features
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The #1 hit app as seen on TV! More than 10 million downloads so far. Bring photos of your pet to life. Make them speak realistically and share it as a video on Facebook, or email it as a special greeting to your friends and family. Packed full of features! - Lots of animals to choose from even if you don't have your own pet - Record your own voice or choose from hundreds of hilarious pre-recorded clips - Change the voice from big dog to little cat or anything in between - Add hats, glasses, moustaches and more to your pet - Turn your pet into a digital personal assistant. Have them tell you the weather forecast , news headlines , or even get them to remind you of your appointments - iMessage integration, send your messages using your talking pet - Advanced animation, your pet looks around in 3D - Add text to make your own memes *** SUBSCRIPTION TERMS *** My Talking Pet offers auto-renewing monthly and yearly subscriptions to 'My Talking Pet Pro'. My Talking Pet Pro has no limit on saving and sharing videos, has no watermark on videos, unlocks special modes for hats, glasses and filters, and unlocks more animals to use in addition to your own photos. My Talking Pet offers free trials, which auto-enrol into the selected subscription if not cancelled during the free trial period. Any unused portion of free trial periods, if offered, will be forfeited if you start a new subscription before the completion of your trial. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings but refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Privacy policy: https://mytalkingpet.app/privacy Terms of service: https://mytalkingpet.app/terms

Screenshots

Hat Booth4 screens
My Talking Pet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Talking Pet at Free against Hat Booth's $1.99. My Talking Pet also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 38%) and ratings volume (174K vs 1.1K). Hat Booth's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). On rating, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

My Talking Pet is free to download; Hat Booth costs $1.99 up front. My Talking Pet sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Hat Booth asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Talking Pet holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Talking Pet has 174K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Hat Booth's written reviews are positive against 73% of My Talking Pet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hat Booth ships an update every 4 months, My Talking Pet every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hat Booth versus My Talking Pet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHat BoothMy Talking Pet
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (1.1K ratings)4.8 (174K ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.2% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K174K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB322 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppdictedSharemob LLC

Customer experience

Hat Booth

All ratings1,106 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive38.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative57.8%

My Talking Pet

All ratings173,921 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews1,060 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative21.6%

User reviews

Hat Booth

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🤩 Fun and enjoyable
  • 💯 Realistic hats

Room to improve

  • 🙁 Limited hat selection
  • 🤔 Degrades image quality
  • 😕 Crashes and freezes

My Talking Pet

From 174K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Fun and entertaining
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🤗 Brings joy to friends and family
  • 🎨 Customizable features
  • 🐶 Great for pets

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🔒 Limited free features
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🔄 Inconsistent updates
  • 🤖 Robotic/unnatural voices

Bugs and requests

Hat Booth

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incompatible with newer iOS versions
  • Unable to load photos
  • App doesn't open after initial setup

Requested features

3 requests
  • More holiday and seasonal hats
  • Front camera support
  • Wider variety of hats (e.g. party, animal, occupational)

My Talking Pet

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sudden loss of paid features after app update
  • Inability to re-use saved voice settings
  • Inconsistent performance and crashes
  • Difficulty aligning face markers properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More voice options (accents, genders, ages)
  • Ability to use multiple pets in one video
  • Improved face tracking and mouth synchronization
  • Expanded costume/accessory options
  • Easier sharing/saving options in free version

In-app purchases

None

Hat Booth

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

My Talking Pet

Subscriptions9
  • Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • My Talking Pet Pro3 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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  • My Talking Pet Pro3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • My Talking Pet Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • My Talking Pet Pro3 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • Yearly1 Year trial$23.991 Year
  • My Talking Pet Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Hat Booth free?
Hat Booth costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Talking Pet free?
My Talking Pet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hat Booth or My Talking Pet?
My Talking Pet is rated higher. Hat Booth averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while My Talking Pet averages 4.8 from 174K ratings.
Do Hat Booth or My Talking Pet have ads?
Neither Hat Booth nor My Talking Pet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hat Booth or My Talking Pet?
Hat Booth ships an update every 4 months, and My Talking Pet every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hat Booth was updated on October 26, 2026 and My Talking Pet on October 27, 2026.

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