Comparison

watch pet vs Pace Monster

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

Head to head
About

watch pet

Care for adorable virtual pets on your Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad. Nurture, feed, and play with them, enjoying a nostalgic pixel art style. This app also acts as a fitness companion, syncing with your Health app to reward your pet with your steps.

Highlights
  • Virtual pet care (feed, play)
  • Pixel art retro graphics
  • Apple Watch support
  • Fitness tracking integration
  • Multi-device sync
Features
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Take care of adorable virtual watch pets on your Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad in Poki – the cutest pet game for your wrist! Choose from lovable puppies, dogs, and cats. Nurture, feed, and play with them anytime, anywhere. Enjoy classic pixel art that brings a nostalgic tamagotchi feel to your wrist pet. Poki is more than just a virtual pet app – it’s a fitness companion too! Sync with your Health app and walk to earn hearts for your pet. The more steps you take, the happier your digital pet becomes. FEATURES: - VIRTUAL PET LOVE – Feed, play, and care for cute pets with classic idle game charm. - PIXEL RETRO VIBES – Enjoy charming 8-bit graphics like your favorite tamagotchi toys. - APPLE WATCH GAME – Full Apple Watch and watchOS support. Your pet is always with you! - STAY ACTIVE – Meet step goals to boost your pet’s happiness. Get fit while having fun. - MULTI-DEVICE SYNC – Play on Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. Download Poki – Watch Pet and start your journey with the cutest digital pet companion. Try it FREE today!

About

Pace Monster

Features
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A monster is always behind you. Pace Monster turns your iPhone's step counter into a chase. A cute monster walks at your daily step goal, all day, every day. Every step you take keeps you ahead of it. Sit still too long and it closes in. If it catches you, you lose a heart. Lose every heart in one day and it evolves into something scarier, and your streak breaks. A walking game for anyone who wants a reason to move. No workouts. No sessions. No GPS. Just walk. HOW IT WORKS • Pick your daily pace (2,000–12,000 steps) and how many hearts you get each day • Your iPhone's motion sensor drives the chase. Add the Home Screen widget and one glance shows how close it is • Wear an Apple Watch? Allow Apple Health and your watch steps join the chase. The watch app and complication show the monster on your wrist • The monster's face tells the story: oblivious when you're safely ahead, game face when it's gaining, genuinely scary when it's close • Hit your daily goal and the monster falls asleep until tomorrow. Nothing catches you after that • Win a day and it calms down a phase. Get wiped out and it evolves into a faster, meaner monster • Every day lands on your streak calendar. Tap any day to see how it went, hour by hour BUILT TO BE FAIR • Every 7-day streak earns a freeze token, and you can hold two. Sick, injured or traveling? Freeze the day and your streak survives • Pause everything, any time, penalty-free • Steps past double your pace earn nothing extra. This is a walking game, not a grinding game • Walking is always enough. Running is never required • Changes to your pace or hearts start tomorrow, so every day is played by the rules it started with YOUR DATA • No account needed. No GPS • Steps come from your iPhone's motion sensor and, if you allow it, from Apple Health (HealthKit), so Apple Watch steps count too. Pace Monster reads steps only, never writes to Apple Health, and processes them on your iPhone. Health data is never used for ads or shared with anyone • Create an optional account (Sign in with Apple, Google or email) to back up your streak and settings for a new phone • Export or erase everything from Settings • Two short video ads and nothing more: one before you spend a freeze token, and at most one a day when you open your streak history. Never when you get caught, and pausing is always ad-free Choose your pace. Stay ahead. Don't get caught.

Screenshots

watch pet3 screens
Pace Monster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pace Monster at none against watch pet's 1. watch pet's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. watch pet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pace Monster asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
watch pet versus Pace Monster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwatch petPace Monster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (42 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB24 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAjul RajGeorge Green

In-app purchases

1 purchases

watch pet

One-time1
  • Poki - Watch Pet Pro$4.99
None

Pace Monster

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is watch pet free?
watch pet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pace Monster free?
Pace Monster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do watch pet or Pace Monster have ads?
Pace Monster shows ads; watch pet does not.

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