Comparison

Pet vs Pawdometer

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

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About

Pet

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Transform your fitness journey into an adventure with Pet-Jam – the virtual pet that lives on your Apple Watch and thrives on YOUR real-world exercise! HATCH & EVOLVE Start with a mysterious egg that hatches based on your burned calories. Watch your pet grow through 6 life stages: Egg → Baby → Child → Teen → Adult → Elder. Each evolution is a milestone celebrating YOUR fitness progress! REAL WORKOUTS, REAL REWARDS Pet-Jam syncs with Apple Health to track your active calories. Every calorie you burn becomes food for your pet. Run, walk, swim, or lift – your pet eats what you earn! FEED TO KEEP ALIVE Burn 200+ calories to unlock food. Tap to feed your pet and maintain your streak. But be careful – neglect your pet for 3 days and it may not survive! TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Daily feeding streaks • Lifetime calories burned • Evolution milestones • Pet longevity records DESIGNED FOR APPLE WATCH Built natively for watchOS with: • Beautiful pixel-art animations • Haptic feedback for every interaction • Quick glances at your pet's status • Daily reminder notifications MOTIVATION THAT WORKS Unlike boring fitness trackers, Pet-Jam gives you an emotional connection to your workouts. You're not just burning calories – you're keeping your digital companion alive and happy! Perfect for: • Fitness beginners seeking motivation • Gamification enthusiasts • Nostalgic Tamagotchi fans • Anyone who needs that extra push to stay active Download Pet-Jam and turn every workout into a reason to care!

About

Pawdometer

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A pixel-art corgi who lives on your phone and gently nudges you to walk more, sleep better and stress less. WALK MORE Your steps feed your corgi. The first treat of the day arrives at 1,500 steps, and more follow as you keep moving, up to five a day. Close your Activity rings for a bonus treat and a bowl of water. Hit your daily goal to grow a streak, with rest-day shields so one quiet day never erases weeks of effort, and your corgi suggests a harder or easier goal when your last four weeks say it's time. SLEEP BETTER Wear your Apple Watch to bed and your corgi's energy becomes your own battery, charged by last night's sleep, your heart rate variability and your resting heart rate. It runs down through the day and suggests a bedtime for when your energy runs low. Tap the bar to see exactly what charged it. STRESS LESS Your corgi reads your watch's daytime heart readings against your own normal and notices a tense day. It comes and sits with you and invites you to breathe together for a minute; the minutes are saved to Health as mindful minutes and top up the battery. A CORGI TO LOOK AFTER - Feed it, fill its water bowl, clean the yard, play fetch and give belly rubs. - Walkies: watch it trot along in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen. Walks from your Apple Watch, the Fitness app or other apps count too. - The walk home: every kilometre brings your corgi closer, with a postcard from each stop in its own words, painted by Image Playground on iPhones with Apple Intelligence. - Sunbathing: 20 minutes outdoors in daylight and your corgi lies in the sun. - Share your streak, badges and postcards as story pictures, and look back on your year together in December. ALWAYS WITH YOU - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your corgi, its next treat, its battery and how calm you seem. - An Apple Watch app with Battery and Stress level pages and complications. - Made for iPhone Duo and iPad. - Gentle reminders, never more than two a day. KIND BY DESIGN Your corgi never dies and is never punished. On a quiet day it gets a little hungry and a little sad, and bounces back the moment you walk. A short night makes it tired, never sad, and a tense day brings it over to sit with you. ONE PRICE, FOREVER Try everything free for 7 days. Then adopt your corgi with a single purchase: no subscription, no ads, shared with your family. Your health data stays on your device. Pawdometer is a game, not a medical device.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pet at none against Pawdometer's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pawdometer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pet asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Pet versus Pawdometer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPetPawdometer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKenan FirmansyahDan Merlea

In-app purchases

None

Pet

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pawdometer

One-time1
  • Adopt your corgi$4.99

Questions

Is Pet free?
Pet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pawdometer free?
Pawdometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pet or Pawdometer have ads?
Neither Pet nor Pawdometer shows ads.

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