Virtipet vs Ziggy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virtipet
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Your digital best friend, always by your side. Bring home an adorable virtual pet and watch it come to life in your hands. Feed it, play with it, customize its world, and help it grow from a tiny baby into a happy, thriving companion. Virtipet is designed for quick moments of joy, daily surprises, and endless cuteness.
Ziggy
This app allows long-distance couples to stay connected through a shared virtual pet, interactive scrapbook, and fun mini-games. Send digital gifts, doodles, and instant messages to maintain intimacy and create lasting memories together.
- Shared virtual pet that grows and reacts
- Interactive scrapbook for creating shared memories
- Digital flower bouquets and letters
- Instant messages and doodles
- Home screen widget for pet status
- Multiplayer mini-games
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Ziggy is a little dog that belongs to both of you. Feed him, play with him, and he grows. Forget him for a few days and he sulks — which turns out to be a surprisingly good reason to text someone. One pet, two phones, wherever you both are. A SCRAPBOOK OF THE TWO OF YOU Make books of your favourite days. Add photos, write on them, draw on them, stick things down. There are papers, frames, tape, torn paper, film strips, cut-out letters, and Ziggy himself in every mood he has. Both of you can work on the same page. Print a finished book as a PDF and actually hold it. SEND HER FLOWERS. ACTUALLY. Arrange a bouquet stem by stem — roses, tulips, sunflowers, lavender, whatever suits. Pick each flower's colour, turn them, layer them. Then write a letter, fold it into an envelope, and tuck it in. It arrives on their phone like a real one. THE LITTLE THINGS Doodle something daft and it appears on their screen. Send an Instant — a photo that shows up right away, no feed, no likes, nobody else. Tap a heart. Leave a note. Ask each other the question of the day. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Ziggy lives in a widget, so you see how he's doing without opening anything. When your partner sends something, he's the one who tells you. PLAY SOMETHING Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Dots and Boxes, Air Hockey, Memory Match, and a pizza kitchen where you both make one badly. ZIGGY FOREVER Ziggy is free. Everything above works without paying. Ziggy Forever is an optional subscription that lifts the limits: unlimited scrapbook books and pages, the whole sticker drawer, every brush, unlimited bouquets, every instant kept forever, saving to your photo library, and printing a whole book. One subscription covers both of you. • Monthly $5.99 / Yearly $29.99 — prices vary by region • The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation • Renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends • Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings • Nothing you have already made is ever taken away Terms of Use: https://manraisingh.github.io/swiftui-companion-app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://manraisingh.github.io/swiftui-companion-app/ Made for two people who miss each other.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ziggy at none against Virtipet's 2. Ziggy also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Virtipet's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. Virtipet sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Ziggy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Virtipet ships an update every 3 weeks, Ziggy every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtipet | Ziggy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Herman van Rooyen | Manrai Singh |
In-app purchases
Virtipet
- Soulkeeper - 1 Month$9.99
- Star-bound - 1 Month$14.99
Ziggy
No in-app purchases









