Pathlings vs Moonrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pathlings
This app transforms your daily steps into a gentle adventure with a virtual companion. Nurture your unique buddy, unlock new stages of growth, and complete daily quests to build a consistent routine. Goals are customizable to fit your lifestyle, making fitness fun and private.
- Virtual companion with unique personalities
- Daily step-based adventures and quests
- Unlockable growth stages and rewards
- Customizable step goals
- Collect in-game items
- Private and ad-free experience
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Meet the walking companion that makes reaching your daily step goal fun. Pathlings is a step tracker and walking game that transforms the steps already recorded on your iPhone into a rewarding adventure. Instead of simply watching numbers increase, you’ll raise adorable virtual companions, complete quests, unlock new evolutions, and build a walking habit you’ll actually want to maintain. Whether you’re trying to walk more, stay active, or build a healthier routine, Pathlings turns every step into meaningful progress. RAISE YOUR OWN PATHLING Choose from Sprout, Ember, or Bubble, three unique companions with their own personalities, habitats, and evolution paths. Walk every day to earn XP, help your Pathling evolve through five growth stages, and build a growing family of companions. TURN EVERY WALK INTO A GAME Every step recorded through Apple Health moves your Pathling forward. • Complete daily quests • Earn XP • Collect Rubies • Unlock rewards • Reach your daily step goal Instead of a traditional pedometer, Pathlings makes walking feel like an adventure. EXPLORE BEAUTIFUL TRAILS Send your Pathling on Trail Runs through unique environments filled with checkpoints and rewards. Each habitat offers its own atmosphere, collectibles, and surprises to discover. DECORATE YOUR HABITAT Customize your companion’s home with: • Plants • Toys • Snacks • Decorations • Structures • Lighting Watch your Pathlings play, explore, and relax inside the habitat you’ve created. BUILD A FAMILY OF COMPANIONS Once your first Pathling reaches its final evolution, adopt another. Your fully evolved companions remain in your habitat, allowing you to build a collection of adorable walking buddies. STAY MOTIVATED EVERY DAY Choose a daily step goal that fits your lifestyle. Whether you’re aiming for 5,000 steps or 15,000, Pathlings rewards consistency instead of perfection. Build streaks, earn bonus rewards, and use Rest Day Tokens to protect your progress when life gets busy. DESIGNED FOR PRIVACY • Uses your Apple Health step data • Your health data stays on your device • No subscriptions • No ads • No account required Whether you’re looking for a walking app, step tracker, walking motivation app, virtual pet, habit tracker, or a fun new way to stay active, Pathlings transforms every walk into an adventure.
Moonrain
Create personalized soundscapes for sleep, relaxation, or focus. Mix up to four ambient sounds with adjustable volumes, save your favorite combinations, and use the sleep timer for a gentle fade-out. Enjoy offline playback and lock screen controls.
- Offline sound mixing
- Mix up to four sounds
- Adjustable volumes
- Save favorite combinations
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Lock screen controls and widget
- 24 ambient sounds
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Tap play and drift off to rain on the window, ocean waves, a crackling fireplace, or deep brown noise. Moonrain is a calm, offline sound mixer for sleep. Layer up to four sounds, save the combinations that work, and set a sleep timer that fades everything out gently after you fall asleep. - 24 ambient sounds — rain, ocean, forest, fire, fans, trains, and pure noise - Mix up to four sounds with independent volumes - Sleep timer with gradual fade-out and screen dimming - Built-in presets like Deep Sleep, Cozy Cabin, and Heavy Storm - Plays all night with the screen locked; control from the Lock Screen - Siri: "Hey Siri, play Window Rain in Moonrain" - Calm animated scenes that honor Reduce Motion and dim in Low Power Mode - 100% offline: no account, no ads, no tracking, and no internet needed
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Moonrain at 5.0 against Pathlings's 4.3. Moonrain also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Pathlings's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Moonrain holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Pathlings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Moonrain's.
Pathlings ships an update every 6 days, Moonrain every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pathlings | Moonrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dave Mohan | Gurwinder Singh |
Customer experience
Pathlings
Moonrain
In-app purchases
Pathlings
No in-app purchases
Moonrain
No in-app purchases





