Ryugotchi vs Walkmon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ryugotchi
Adopt and nurture a virtual dragon from egg to adult. Engage in mini-games, explore biomes for treasures, and collect items. Features an iOS widget and smart notifications for offline play.
- Dragon evolution through 3 stages
- Play mini-games to earn XP
- Explore biomes and discover treasures
- Collect items and elemental essences
- iOS home screen widget
- Smart notifications
- 100% offline gameplay
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Raise your dragon. Grow your bond. Adopt a baby dragon and share everyday moments: feed, pet, wash and play together. Watch your companion grow into a teen and then an adult. 14 MINI-GAMES, ALL OFFLINE Memory, blocks, rhythm, dodging and word puzzles offer different ways to play and earn experience and materials. Unlock more mini-games as your dragon grows. NO ADS. JUST YOU TWO. Enjoy your time together without banners or video ads. A HOME THAT GROWS WITH YOU Follow the day/night cycle and share bath time: move the sponge over your dragon to scrub away the dirt. Adult dragons have a spacious mountain habitat of their own. EGGS AND ENCOUNTERS Discover refuges, visit dragons and hatch your eggs when you are ready. Keep your companion close with the Home Screen widget and optional care reminders. Gameplay and mini-games work offline. Game Center leaderboards require an internet connection.
Walkmon
This virtual pet game requires daily walking to keep your companion alive and fed. It tracks your steps to provide food and evolves based on your activity levels. Neglect leads to the pet's demise, offering a unique blend of fitness tracking and pet simulation.
- Virtual pet survival game
- Step-based feeding system
- Pet evolution based on activity
- Activity tracking integration
- Real-time pet needs decay
- Meaningful notifications
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Walk daily. Or it dies. Walkmon is a virtual pet that lives on your steps. Every 1,500 steps you walk becomes food. Food keeps it fed. Walking keeps it alive. Stop walking, and you'll watch it slowly stop. Part virtual pet game, part fitness companion, part activity tracker. A Tamagotchi for the step-counter era. A reason to take the long way home. A pet that notices when you sat on the couch all weekend. What you'll do every day: • Walk - your iPhone counts the steps, you don't have to open anything • Feed it - turn banked steps into meals • Play with it - short cooldowns, not endless tapping • Clean up after it - sedentary days create messes • Watch it grow - eggs hatch, hatchlings evolve into Active or Chill adults based on how you walked • Lose it eventually - pets die from neglect, or live to old age It's not a streak app. It's not a pedometer pretending to be cute. It's a small living thing that depends on you for real reasons. How it works: Walkmon reads your steps from Apple Health (HealthKit). 1,500 steps = 1 food item, capped at 20. Pets have hunger, happiness, health, energy, and weight, all decaying in real time even when the app is closed. A single skipped walk is survivable. A skipped week isn't. Notifications are rare and meaningful. No daily nag. No shame streaks. No paid revives. Open the app. Hatch a Walkmon. Don't let it die. — Walkmon Pro Subscription Walkmon requires a Walkmon Pro subscription to play. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your iPhone Settings under Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://walkmon.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://walkmon.app/terms Questions? hemposse@hotmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ryugotchi at 100% against Walkmon's 0%. Ryugotchi also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Walkmon sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Ryugotchi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ryugotchi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Ryugotchi's written reviews are positive against 0% of Walkmon's.
Ryugotchi ships an update monthly, Walkmon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ryugotchi | Walkmon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | anthony deniau | CARL MIKAEL OSSIAN HEMPEL |
Customer experience
Ryugotchi
Walkmon
In-app purchases
Ryugotchi
No in-app purchases
Walkmon
- Walkmon Pro Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Walkmon Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Walkmon Pro Lifetime$79.99








