Comparison

PTCG Simulator vs Snapplings

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

Head to head
About

PTCG Simulator

Experience the excitement of opening collectible card packs with realistic rarity. Track your progress, organize your favorite cards into binders, and build your ultimate collection.

Highlights
  • Realistic booster pack opening
  • Instant rarity feedback
  • Collection tracking
  • Set progress monitoring
  • Binder creation
  • Card search and filtering
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PTCG Simulator recreates the thrill of opening booster packs with realistic rarity distributions. Open packs, see instant rarity feedback, and build your collection with tools designed for collectors. ■ Open 5 free packs every hour! ■ Track set progress, mark favorites, and search/filter cards. ■ Create binders to store your favorites and show off your collection. PTCG Simulator is an unofficial fan application and is not produced, endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company, or GAME FREAK, Inc. All Pokémon-related names, logos, images, card artwork, symbols, and text appearing in this app are the copyrighted and/or trademarked property of their respective owners and are used for informational and entertainment purposes only. No claim of ownership or official affiliation is made, and all rights remain with the respective rights holders. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Snapplings

Transform everyday objects into unique collectible creatures using AI. Explore, battle, and trade your creations in a game that turns the real world into your personal monster-hunting ground.

Highlights
  • AI-generated creatures from real objects
  • Collectible creature art, stats, and lore
  • Gacha-style rarity system
  • Creature fusion for hybrids
  • Daily challenges and leaderboards
  • Trading and gifting with friends
  • In-game battles and team building
  • Order real merchandise of your creatures
Features
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Every day, everyone photographs the same everyday object — a mug, a jar, your dog — and AI turns each one into a different collectible creature. Yours goes on the public wall. Players vote. A champion is crowned at midnight. Then point your camera at anything else you like. TURN ANY PHOTO INTO A CREATURE Snap a real object and Snapplings mints an original collectible creature from it in about ten seconds, with its own art, type, stats, rarity and lore. No two are ever the same. Your grey tabletop might become Grainveil, the Whispering Timberlord. Your kitchen sponge might hatch a humble common, or a one-in-a-hundred shiny legendary. THE DAILY OBJECT One object a day, the same one for everybody, chosen fresh each morning. Catch it to put your creature on the daily wall and keep your streak alive. Miss a day and the streak breaks. It is the part you will not find anywhere else: a photo game where the whole world is pointing a camera at the same thing on the same day. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Photograph any object to mint a brand-new creature - Catch the Daily Object, join the public wall and build a daily streak - Vote for the best creature of the day and help crown a champion - Chase rare, legendary and shiny "prismatic" pulls (gacha-style rarities) - Fuse two creatures into rarer hybrids - Fill your Dex across 10 real-world realms and 8 creature types - Climb the weekly leaderboard - Trade and gift creatures with friends - Battle in SnapArena and build a team in SnapSide FC - Order real merch printed with YOUR creature PAINTED BY AI, NOT PULLED FROM A LIBRARY There is no pack of pre-drawn monsters behind this. Every creature is painted from scratch, from your photo, the moment you snap it. That is why the sponge on your sink and the sponge on somebody else's produce two different creatures. YOUR PHOTO IS NEVER STORED The camera image is used once, to work out what you photographed, then discarded. It is never saved, never shown on the wall, and never part of the card. Only the AI artwork and the card text are kept. Free to play. No sign-up. Works on phone, tablet and desktop. A creature-collector and monster-catching game where the hunting ground is your kitchen, your desk and your walk to work. Snapplings Supporter is an optional auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation and renews each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://snapplings.com/privacy

Screenshots

PTCG Simulator1 screens
Snapplings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Snapplings at free against PTCG Simulator's freemium. Snapplings also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). PTCG Simulator's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. PTCG Simulator sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Snapplings sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PTCG Simulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PTCG Simulator versus Snapplings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPTCG SimulatorSnapplings
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWild Encounter GamesDavid Perkins

In-app purchases

7 purchases

PTCG Simulator

Subscriptions1
  • Elite Trainer Pass7 Days trial$1.991 Month
One-time6
  • 1,000 Coins$0.99
  • 5,000 Coins$2.99
  • 10,000 Coins$4.99
Show 3 more
  • 50,000 Coins$19.99
  • 75,000 Coins$29.99
  • 100,000 Coins$39.99
7 purchases

Snapplings

Subscriptions1
  • Snapplings Supporter7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time6
  • 25 Sparks$1.99
  • 5,000 Glitter$1.99
  • 70 Sparks$3.99
Show 3 more
  • 15,000 Glitter$4.99
  • 200 Sparks$8.99
  • 50,000 Glitter$12.99

Questions

Is PTCG Simulator free?
PTCG Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snapplings free?
Snapplings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PTCG Simulator or Snapplings?
PTCG Simulator is rated higher. PTCG Simulator averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Snapplings averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do PTCG Simulator or Snapplings have ads?
Neither PTCG Simulator nor Snapplings shows ads.

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