Comparison

Puppet Pals 2 vs FishyPaint

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

Head to head
About

Puppet Pals 2

Unleash creativity by making animated cartoons with interactive puppets. Children and teachers can easily create high-quality animated stories, presentations, and educational content. Share finished projects via email, social media, or direct file transfer.

Highlights
  • Create animated cartoons
  • Interactive puppet show
  • Star in shows with built-in characters
  • Share finished projects easily
  • Engage students in learning
  • Create instructional videos
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• “Puppet Pals is an amazing app that lets you create animated cartoons.” -David Pogue (NewYork Times) Children unlock creativity with this easy to use (but hard to put down) interactive puppet show! Even young children can create high quality cartoons from their imaginations. Kids can even star in the show along side the built-in characters! Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog). • Create short instructional videos (in any learning area) • Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells • Help reluctant public speakers present to the class • Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills • Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!

About

FishyPaint

Bring your drawings to life as animated fish that swim and interact in a vibrant underwater world. Personalize your experience by adding your own artwork or photos as fish and even become the diver exploring the scene. Record and share your aquatic adventures with custom soundtracks.

Highlights
  • Animate custom drawings as fish
  • Interactive underwater world
  • Personalize with own photos
  • Selfie diver integration
  • Video and audio recording
  • Customizable fish shapes
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Your own artwork comes alive and swims with you in FishyPaint! Watch hand painted fish swim among the coral in this beautiful underwater world. Add your own fish by photographing any drawing, painting, or anything you want to use as a fish. Watch it come alive and swim inside the app! Featuring a diver - snap a selfie to see yourself as the diver, swimming alongside your own creations! Perfect for kids' artwork - realistic or abstract, anything can come to life and be a fish in FishyPaint. Touch the screen to see how the fish react and touch-drag to affect the diver too. Record video and audio too - you can tell a story about your fish, maybe sing a song, and a video of your scene is recorded to your Photo Library with that soundtrack! Features: * Animated fish swim, hide in the coral, and respond to screen touch. * Add anything as your own custom fish - a drawing you made, a toy, a photo of a real fish, or even a person. Why not? Use your imagination! * Photograph yourself to be the diver, or maybe a drawing, a friend, even your pet. Have fun with it! * Record video of your scene, with audio from the microphone. * Comes with colorful fish already in app. * Guideline of fish shape offers a starting point for custom fish, but you can also paint the shape of the fish yourself. Make it your own! * Hand painted look that mixes nicely with kids' artwork. How to use FishyPaint: Main underwater scene - Watch fish swim, and touch the screen to see them react. To add a custom fish - Tap Add Fish button. Snap a photo or import an image from your device. Your photo appears with a suggested fish cutout. Areas with blue overlay will not be part of your fish. You can move, scale, rotate, and flip your image. You can paint and erase the blue areas and create the exact fish shape you want, to fit the picture you're using. To add a custom diver - Tap Diver button. Snap a photo or import an image from your device. Your photo appears as the face of the diver. You can move, scale, or rotate your image to position it nicely within the diver's helmet. To record a video - Tap Record button. Now everything is being recorded, including audio through the device microphone. You can talk and make noise and touch the screen to affect the fish. Tapping Record button again stops the recording and saves this video to your Photo Library.

Screenshots

Puppet Pals 24 screens
FishyPaint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Puppet Pals 2 at 4.1 against FishyPaint's 2.0. Puppet Pals 2 also leads on ratings volume (123 vs 1) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). FishyPaint's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads and 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

Both are free to download. Puppet Pals 2 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. FishyPaint asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Puppet Pals 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puppet Pals 2 has 123 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Puppet Pals 2's written reviews are positive against 50% of FishyPaint's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puppet Pals 2 ships an update every 2 months, FishyPaint every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Puppet Pals 2 versus FishyPaint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuppet Pals 2FishyPaint
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (123 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings123 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size359 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPolished Play, LLCShmonster LLC

Customer experience

Puppet Pals 2

All ratings123 ratings
Positive76.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative16.3%
Written reviews216 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative26.4%

FishyPaint

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Puppet Pals 2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Saving issues causing loss of progress
  • Freezing and crashing when trying to access certain features
  • Audio and visual glitches during playback
  • Compatibility problems on newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more free characters and backgrounds
  • Implement better saving and autosave functionality
  • Allow for custom character creation and customization
  • Add more diverse themes and settings
  • Improve overall stability and reduce crashes

FishyPaint

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Puppet Pals 2

One-time10
  • North Pole Pack$0.99
  • Royal Hall Pack$0.99
  • Time & Tech Pack$0.99
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  • Saddle Up Pack$0.99
  • Vroom Vroom Pack$0.99
  • Civil Rights$0.99
  • Ptolemaic$0.99
  • Under The Sea$0.99
  • Custom Heads$1.99
  • All Access Pass$5.99
None

FishyPaint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Puppet Pals 2 free?
Puppet Pals 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FishyPaint free?
FishyPaint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Puppet Pals 2 or FishyPaint?
Puppet Pals 2 is rated higher. Puppet Pals 2 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 123 ratings, while FishyPaint averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Puppet Pals 2 or FishyPaint have ads?
Neither Puppet Pals 2 nor FishyPaint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Puppet Pals 2 or FishyPaint?
Puppet Pals 2 ships an update every 2 months, and FishyPaint every 3 weeks. Most recently, Puppet Pals 2 was updated on October 16, 2026 and FishyPaint on October 11, 2026.

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