Comparison

yibble vs Eggling

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

yibble

Features
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yibble is a tiny alien who hatches on your phone and grows by listening. talk to it. it listens, learns your words, and starts speaking back in yibblese, a small alien language that bends toward you over time. the more you talk, the more of your vocabulary it understands. yibble stays small forever; the growth is in how it speaks. about yibblese: it is a tiny constructed language with its own sound and script. soft consonant-vowel syllables (helu = hello, kora = happy, lumi = love), a small grammar, and a hex-glyph writing system you read with english furigana underneath. yibble starts with simple words and weaves in more of your own vocabulary the more you talk, so the language you share ends up unlike anyone else's. every yibble has its own dna. its colors, shape, voice, and quirks are unique to your phone. no two are the same. yibble lives on your device. all of it. - on-device language engine - on-device speech recognition - on-device text-to-speech - on-device emotion and life sim - nothing is sent off your phone, ever no account. no internet. no ads. no purchases. no analytics. completely free. what you can do: - hatch a one-of-a-kind alien with its own name and yibblese voice - have voice conversations any time - watch its daily life unfold (sleeping, foraging, drawing, dreaming, getting into things it shouldn't) - catch it in the act and react - watch your shared yibblese vocabulary grow on a sheet you can browse - read what it says with hex-glyph yibblese script and english furigana yibble was built by one person who wanted a companion that was actually private, actually small, and actually alive on the device in your pocket. requires an iphone with the neural engine.

About

Eggling

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Hatch an egg and keep what comes out of it alive. Eggling lives in real time, whether the app is open or not. It gets hungry, it gets bored, it makes a mess and it falls ill, at the moments those things would really happen. Close the app for an afternoon and you come back to what happened while you were gone. Look after it Feed it meals, or snacks when it needs cheering up. Clean up after it before the mess makes it ill. Give it medicine when it's poorly. Turn the light off at bedtime so it can sleep. Scold it when it's playing up โ€” but only then, because it beeps the same way when it's genuinely asking for something, and telling the two apart is the whole skill. It calls you When it's starving or miserable, your phone calls you, and it keeps calling every hour you leave it. You get a warning before the mess makes it ill, and a reminder if the light is still on at bedtime. A pet that's looked after well hardly calls at all. Watch it grow up It starts as a tiny baby and grows through child and teen into an adult over about four days. How it turns out depends on how you raised it: its discipline, how many times it was let down, and whether it lived on snacks. Play with it A game of higher or lower. You see a number; guess whether the next one is higher or lower. Win three rounds out of five and it's delighted โ€” and every game takes a gram off. From your Lock Screen Put it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and see how it's doing at a glance. When it needs feeding, cleaning, treating or putting to bed, do it from the widget without opening the app. Make it yours Choose a creature and a shell. Seasonal themes dress the whole app โ€” the case, the screen and the pet โ€” for Halloween, Christmas and Easter, and you can wear them all year. Everything unlocks every shell and every creature, including the ones added in future updates. Cosmetics are the only thing for sale. Nothing you buy feeds it, heals it or keeps it alive; that's down to you. Nothing leaves your device No account, no ads, no tracking. The pet lives on your iPhone or iPad and Eggling collects nothing about you. In English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. For iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

yibble4 screens
Eggling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: yibble at none against Eggling's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Eggling sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. yibble asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
yibble versus Eggling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteryibbleEggling
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size349 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVijay PemmarajuTiago Morais

In-app purchases

None

yibble

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Eggling

One-time10
  • Grape Shell$0.99
  • Seafoam Shell$0.99
  • Blueberry Shell$0.99
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  • Charcoal Shell$0.99
  • Chick$1.99
  • Mog$1.99
  • Spook$1.99
  • Christmas$2.99
  • Easter$2.99
  • Everything$9.99

Questions

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

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