Comparison

Gotcha vs CatchCat

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

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About

Gotcha

Identify animals, birds, and bugs from photos to build and manage your own wildlife zoo. Collect over 2,200 species, design habitats, and attract visitors to climb the park leagues. Visit friends' parks and compete in weekly challenges.

Highlights
  • Identify animals from photos
  • Build and manage a zoo
  • Collect over 2,200 species
  • Design habitats and decorations
  • Visit friends' parks
  • Climb park leagues
  • Weekly challenges
Features
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Gotcha is a free animal identifier, bird identifier and bug identifier. Every photo you take becomes a species in your collection and an animal in the zoo you build. Gotcha is a free animal identifier app for iPhone. Photograph any animal, bird, insect, spider, snake, reptile, frog, butterfly or fish and it identifies the species, cuts it out of the photo, and adds it to your collection. Then the animals move into a wildlife zoo park you build and run as a tycoon. Gotcha turns the world outside your door into a collection game. See an animal, a bird, or a bug? Snap a photo. Gotcha cuts the creature out, identifies the species, and files it in your index. Then it moves into your park. NEW IN 2.0: BUILD YOUR PARK Every animal you photograph now has somewhere to live. You inherit an old zoo. Closed for years, grown over, forgotten by everyone except Kody. Clear the boulder out of the gateway, lay a path in from the gate, raise your first habitat, and move in an animal you photographed yourself. Then open the turnstiles and let the visitors through. - Every animal in your park is one you caught in real life - Build grassland and desert habitats, and feed your animals to grow them - Lay paths, place decorations, and clear land to make room for more - Keepers do the building, one job at a time. Gems finish any job right now - Your gate keeps taking ticket money while the app is closed CLIMB THE LEAGUES Your crowd is your score. Pull a bigger crowd and your park climbs eight leagues, from a roadside stop all the way to a world wonder. Every week brings a new twist that the whole game plays at once. VISIT YOUR FRIENDS Walk into a friend's park, see what they made of theirs, and leave one park your vote for the day. Fame is given, never taken. THE ZOO PASS A new season every 28 days, with a free reward track you fill by playing. Stars are earned by running your park, never bought. CATCH ANYTHING THAT MOVES - 2,200+ real species to find, across six rarity tiers - Snap any animal, bird, insect, spider, snake, frog or fish and get an instant identification - The creature is cut cleanly out of your photo, right on your device - Caught species fill in as color stickers. The rest wait as silhouettes - Food for your animals comes from one place only: out there, with your camera KODY SHOWS YOU AROUND Kody is your park's mascot, and he is the one who found the place. He walks you through opening day and turns up whenever there is something worth knowing. GOTCHA+ Gotcha is free to play. Gotcha+ is an optional subscription that adds the premium season track, a fourth keeper, unlimited catching, and a gate that holds a full day of takings. You can catch, identify, and build a park without it. So go outside. The park is not going to fill itself!

About

CatchCat

This app transforms your walks into a real-world cat-catching adventure. Use your camera to capture actual cats you encounter, turning each one into a unique sticker for your digital album. Explore your surroundings to discover new feline friends and track your collection on a personal map.

Highlights
  • Catch real cats with your camera
  • Collect unique cat stickers
  • Build a personal sticker album
  • Explore a map of your catches
  • Simple and quick gameplay
  • Designed for cat lovers
Features
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Every cat you pass is worth catching. Catemon turns an everyday walk into a cat hunt. Spot a real cat on the street, open your camera, and catch it. Each cat you catch becomes a sticker you keep forever, so your collection grows from the cats you actually meet, not made-up creatures. The more you explore, the more your album fills up. And now every cat you catch lands on your own map, your friends' maps, and the global online map. CATCH REAL CATS Point your camera at any cat you come across and catch it on the spot. The neighbor's cat sunbathing on a wall, the café cat curled up by the door, the bold stray that follows you down the street. Every one of them is a catch waiting to happen. Catemon is built around the real cats already living all around you. Not out for a walk? You can also upload cat photos straight from your gallery and add them to your collection. COLLECT STICKERS Every cat you catch turns into a sticker in your personal album. Build a growing collection one cat at a time and flip back through it whenever you want to see every cat you have found. Your album becomes a little diary of your walks, your trips, and the cats that crossed your path along the way. EXPLORE THE MAP See exactly where you caught each cat on your own map. Spot the streets and corners you have already covered and find new places nearby that are still waiting to be explored. A quick walk around the block can turn into a brand new page in your collection, and a trip to a new part of town can fill it up fast. CATCH TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS Build your inner circle and turn the hunt into something you share. Add friends, see their catches on a shared friend map, and go cat hunting together. Every cat you find shows up for your circle, so you can compare collections, discover each other's favorite spots, and race to fill your albums side by side. GO GLOBAL Curious what's out there beyond your own streets? Open the online map and see cats caught by people all over the world. Explore neighborhoods you've never visited, watch the map light up with catches everywhere, and feel part of one big worldwide community of cat catchers. SIMPLE AND QUICK Catemon keeps things easy. No complicated rules, no clutter, no long setup. Open the app, find a cat, catch it, and move on to the next one. It is made to fit into a normal walk, a coffee run, or a few free minutes outside. MADE FOR CAT PEOPLE If you smile at every cat you see, stop to say hello to strays, and take photos of cats you will never meet again, Catemon is built for you. It gives all those small everyday cat moments a place to live. Your neighborhood is already full of cats. Start catching them, sticker by sticker, with Catemon. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.appsera.net/appstore-catemon-privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Gotcha4 screens
CatchCat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CatchCat at none against Gotcha's shown. CatchCat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Gotcha's advantage is ratings volume (221 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Gotcha sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and CatchCat sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CatchCat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gotcha has 221 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Gotcha's written reviews are positive against 100% of CatchCat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gotcha ships an update every 4 days, CatchCat every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Gotcha versus CatchCat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGotchaCatchCat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (221 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings221 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size327 MB22 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJurre de RuiterRamazan Tugay Kahraman

Customer experience

Gotcha

All ratings221 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.6%

CatchCat

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Gotcha

Subscriptions4
  • Gotcha+$3.997 Days
  • Gotcha+3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Gotcha+$19.991 Year
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  • Gotcha+3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time13
  • Comeback Pack$1.99
  • Grand Opening Pack$2.99
  • Treat Bag$2.99
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  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Welcome Back Pack$4.99
  • Keeper's Starter Pack$4.99
  • Keeper Pack$6.99
  • Autumn Bundle$9.99
  • Nightwatch Pack$9.99
  • Sack of Gems$9.99
  • Expansion Pack$9.99
  • Wagon of Gems$49.99
  • Gotcha+$59.99
5 purchases

CatchCat

Subscriptions5
  • Catemon Plus Weekly2 variants$4.997 Days
  • Catemon Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Catemon Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Catemon Plus Annual$19.991 Year
  • Catemon Plus Annual$39.001 Year

Questions

Is Gotcha free?
Gotcha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CatchCat free?
CatchCat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gotcha or CatchCat?
CatchCat is rated higher. Gotcha averages 4.7 out of 5 from 221 ratings, while CatchCat averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Gotcha or CatchCat have ads?
Gotcha shows ads; CatchCat does not.
Which is updated more often, Gotcha or CatchCat?
Gotcha ships an update every 4 days, and CatchCat every 5 days. Most recently, Gotcha was updated on November 1, 2026 and CatchCat on October 24, 2026.

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