PocketPal vs Pebbo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PocketPal
Adopt and care for a virtual pixel art pet that lives on your device's Home Screen. Keep your companion happy, healthy, and fed through interactive widgets, and customize their appearance with unlockable outfits and backgrounds.
- Virtual pixel pet companion
- Home Screen widget integration
- Interactive pet care
- Customizable outfits and backgrounds
- Unlockable content
- Multiple animal choices
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PocketPal is a cozy pixel pet that lives on your iPhone, iPad, and Home Screen. Choose from 18 fully animated pals—from foxes and bunnies to pandas, tigers, penguins, and more. Feed, play, and clean your companion as their hunger, happiness, and health change over time. MEET YOUR PAL • Pick from 18 expressive pixel pets • Enjoy original idle, feeding, play, and cleaning animations • Switch pets anytime MAKE IT YOURS • Dress your pal in hoodies, crewnecks, sweaters, and dresses • Unlock outfits and nine illustrated backgrounds • Earn coins naturally by caring for your pet CARE YOUR WAY • Feed, play, and clean with a tap • Keep an eye on three simple care stats • Care for your pal from the interactive Home Screen widget • Keep your pal with you on iPhone, iPad, and Mac No ads. No subscriptions. Just you and your pal.
Pebbo
Bring a charming pixel pet to life in your iPhone's Dynamic Island. Choose from a variety of animated pets that interact and perform actions throughout your day. You can also explore a 3D island to raise and care for your pet.
- Animated pixel pets in Dynamic Island
- Over 50 unique animations
- Unlockable pets and scenes
- 3D island exploration and pet raising
- No ads or tracking
- Offline continuity for animations
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A tiny pixel pet lives in your Dynamic Island. Pick a pet and it curls up in the island at the top of your screen—animated throughout each Live Activity session, quietly keeping you company while you text, scroll, and go about your day. • 16 hand-drawn animated pets: Golden Pup, Golden Retriever, Maine Coon, Gray Cat, Black Cat, Fox, Brown Bear, Beaver, Bunny, Capybara, Hedgehog, Raccoon, Seal, Squirrel, Unicorn—and Rocky. (A rock.) • Pets do something new every minute: naps, tricks, zoomies, and tiny instruments. More than 50 animations across the roster. • Plus 479 free still pets across the Animals, Sprites, and Golden collections. • Give your pet a Lock Screen scene: 18 pixel-art scenes, or your own photos. • Keeps animating during an active session when the app is closed. Optional closed-app continuity can ask iOS to start a fresh session throughout the day, or once each morning, and stays quiet overnight (11 PM to 7 AM; switch off in Settings). Apple controls final delivery and presentation. • Golden Pup and Maine Coon are free forever. Unlock any other pet individually, or get the whole roster—for good. No subscription, ever. • Invite 2 friends, get a free pet: every 2 friends who open Pebbo with your invite unlock an animated pet of your choice. And when you want more than a pet in your island: tap Island at the top of the app to walk through a tiny 3D island where the animated pets you've unlocked wander about, and raise a Pebbo of your own—feed it, play with it, and watch it grow and change as the days go by. No accounts, no ads, and no advertising tracking. After one-time consent, closed-app continuity stores an anonymous installation credential, ActivityKit push tokens and activity timing, pet and display choices, time zone, and return schedule solely to provide this feature. Referral rewards use an anonymous identity saved on this iPhone. Purchases are processed by Apple and validated by RevenueCat. A Dynamic Island-capable iPhone is required for the Dynamic Island pet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pebbo at 4.8 against PocketPal's 4.3. Pebbo also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. PocketPal sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Pebbo sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pebbo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively.
PocketPal ships an update every 2 weeks, Pebbo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketPal | Pebbo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 285 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JUSTIN WEI SUN | Michael Beaver |
Customer experience
PocketPal
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In-app purchases
PocketPal
- 100 Coins$2.99
- 250 Coins$5.99
- 1000 Coins$19.99
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- 2000 Coins$29.99
Pebbo
- Unlock Brown Bear$0.99
- Unlock Capybara$0.99
- Unlock Fox$0.99
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- Unlock Raccoon$0.99
- Unlock Rocky$0.99
- Unlock Hedgehog$0.99
- Unlock Unicorn$0.99
- Unlock Black Cat$0.99
- Unlock Bunny$0.99
- Unlock every pet$5.99









