Comparison

While Waiting vs Cosmo

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

Head to head
About

While Waiting

A calming experience where you guide a bunny to catch drifting cherry blossom petals. Turn waiting into a beautiful moment with gentle visuals, haptic feedback, and a calming breathing exercise. Share your collected petals as a gift or release them with a kind wish.

Highlights
  • Guide bunny with tilt or tap
  • Catch sakura petals with haptic feedback
  • Breathe with a calming circle
  • Watch missed petals grow into a garden
  • Share collected petals as a gift
  • Release petals with a kind wish
Features
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While we wait, life still blooms. What we catch becomes a gift. What we miss becomes the garden. Nothing is ever lost. Turn waiting into a tiny moment of beauty. While Waiting is a calming little experience where you guide a cute bunny under a cherry blossom tree and catch the soft drifting petals. Breathe with the calming circle. Let your waiting become a quiet visual poem. When you meet again, share what you gathered. "Look what I collected while waiting for you." But not every petal needs to be caught. Some petals are yours for a moment. Some drift away with the wind. Some return to the earth and nourish what may bloom later. FEATURES + Tilt or tap to guide your bunny + Catch sakura petals with soft haptic feedback + Breathe with a gentle calming circle + Watch missed petals grow into a slow garden + See how long you waited and how many you caught + Turn your bouquet into a visual gift to share + Release a petal with a kind wish for someone else + Calming music · cherry blossom visuals THE LETTING-GO RITUAL Release a petal back to the wind with a kind wish for someone else. One small act of kindness, a reminder: releasing can feel as beautiful as collecting. OMNIA MUTANTUR, NIHIL INTERIT "All things change. Nothing perishes." Ovid, Metamorphoses XV.165 Time, beauty, energy, the petals we missed: none of it ever disappears. It only becomes something else. Apart, we still gather. Together, we share. http://twitter.com/tiw http://lucium.com Write a review. Tell us what would make your wait softer. \("v")/

About

Cosmo

Transform a photo of your pet into a charming pixelated companion that lives on your iPhone's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Watch your virtual pet sleep, play, and eat throughout the day, offering a delightful and low-maintenance digital friend.

Highlights
  • Create pixel pet from pet photo
  • Lives on Lock Screen
  • Appears in Dynamic Island
  • Pet animations (sleep, play, eat)
  • One-time purchase
  • iCloud backup
Features
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Take one photo of your pet — and it moves in. Cosmo turns that photo into a little pixel animal that lives on your Lock Screen and up in the Dynamic Island. It sleeps, stretches, plays and eats its way through the day, right where you look a hundred times anyway. No feeding, no chores, no streak to keep alive. HOW IT WORKS • Take a photo of your dog, cat or rabbit • Watch it turn into a pixel pet, frame by frame • Give it a name and let it move in WHERE IT LIVES On your Lock Screen — and in the Dynamic Island on the iPhones that have one. Even when the app is closed. YOURS, FOR GOOD One purchase, no subscription. Your pet is backed up to your private iCloud, so it survives a new phone.

Screenshots

While Waiting4 screens
Cosmo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: While Waiting at none against Cosmo's 1. While Waiting also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 70%). Cosmo's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Cosmo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. While Waiting asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

While Waiting ships an update every 2 months, Cosmo every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
While Waiting versus Cosmo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhile WaitingCosmo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuciumNiklas Albrecht

Customer experience

While Waiting

All ratings28 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.5%

Cosmo

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

None

While Waiting

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cosmo

One-time1
  • Pet Transformation$3.99

Questions

Is While Waiting free?
While Waiting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cosmo free?
Cosmo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do While Waiting or Cosmo have ads?
Neither While Waiting nor Cosmo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, While Waiting or Cosmo?
While Waiting ships an update every 2 months, and Cosmo every 8 days. Most recently, While Waiting was updated on November 2, 2026 and Cosmo on November 6, 2026.

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