Ziggy vs Kinma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 who belongs to both of you. Feed him, play with him, love him, and he grows happier by the day. Forget him for a while and he sulks, which turns out to be a very good excuse to text each other. One pet. Two phones. Wherever you both are. WALK ZIGGY TOGETHER Step into a cosy 3D park and walk Ziggy side by side, even from different cities. You'll see each other walking, wave, show how you feel, and talk out loud as you go. Wander from Ziggy's Garden to Cherry Canal, Ziggy Town and the Blossom Park by Heart Lake. Pet the ducks, the bunny and the sleepy owl. Hide love notes along the path for your partner to find on their own walk, and watch golden hour turn into a night full of lanterns. When one of you arrives, the other gets a little nudge: come walk together. A SCRAPBOOK OF THE TWO OF YOU Make books of your favourite days. Add photos, then write and draw on them and stick things down. Pick from papers, frames, tape, torn edges, film strips, cut-out letters, and Ziggy himself in every mood he has. You can both work on the same page at the same time. When a book is finished, print it as a PDF and actually hold it. SEND THEM FLOWERS. ACTUALLY. Arrange a bouquet stem by stem: roses, tulips, sunflowers, lavender, whatever suits them. Choose the wrapping and the ribbon, angle every flower, then tuck in a note. It arrives on their phone like a real one. THE LITTLE THINGS • Doodle something daft and it appears on their Home Screen • Send an Instant, a photo just for them: no feed, no likes, nobody else • Answer the question of the day and see what they said • Tap a heart, leave a note, tell them you're thinking of them • Every moment is kept in your Memories, so nothing gets lost ZIGGY ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Ziggy lives in a widget, so you can see how he's doing without opening anything. When your partner sends something, he's the one who tells you. PLAY TOGETHER Ziggy Jump, Trace Together, Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Dots and Boxes and Memory Match. Live, two-player, with a scoreboard that keeps track of who's winning (it matters). MADE TO FEEL LIKE YOURS Two themes, sunny Dawn and cosy Midnight, carry through every screen and the widget. Pair with a private code and it's just the two of you. No public profiles, no strangers. ZIGGY FOREVER Ziggy is free to download, and everything above works without paying. Ziggy Forever is an optional subscription that lifts the limits: • Unlimited scrapbook books and pages • The whole sticker drawer and every brush • Unlimited bouquets • Every Instant kept forever, and saving to your photo library • Printing a whole book • More in the park: pet Ziggy, give him treats, play catch, and unlock extra moods and moves 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 of purchase • Renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings • Nothing you have already made is ever taken away The 3D park needs iOS 18 or later. 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.
Kinma
This companion app grows based on your real-life meals and social interactions. Photograph your food to feed your pet, or share meals with friends to foster connection and watch your companion evolve in unique ways.
- Pet grows based on real-life meals
- Recognizes dishes and cuisines
- Social dining with friends
- Pet evolves based on nourishment and sociability
- Records people shared meals with
- Cosmetics unlock with pet leveling
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Kinma is a little companion that grows on real life, not grind. Photograph what you eat, and Kinma recognizes the dish and cuisine, then grows a little from it. Eat with friends by starting a table and inviting whoever's with you, and Kinma grows a different way, through connection instead of calories. HOW IT GROWS Every pet tracks two things: Nourishment, from the meals you log, and Sociability, from the tables you share. Which one you lean into shapes how your pet evolves. Eat solo and often, and it grows one way; gather people around a table often, and it grows another; balance both, and it finds a third form entirely. FACES Kinma remembers who you've shared a table with, building a quiet little archive of the people you actually eat with. Not a feed, not a follower count. Just a record of real meals with real people. NO GRIND, NO ADS Cosmetics unlock as your pet levels up. Kinma doesn't run ads and doesn't sell your data. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Use Sign in with Apple, Google, or an email and password, or skip all of it and just start. You can always add a real login later from Settings, from any device, without losing your pet. A pet that eats what you eat, and thrives when you eat together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ziggy at 5.0 against Kinma's 4.0. Kinma's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Ziggy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Kinma asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ziggy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Ziggy ships an update every 2 weeks, Kinma every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ziggy | Kinma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manrai Singh | Brendan Pan |
In-app purchases
Ziggy
- Ziggy Forever Monthly$5.991 Month
- Ziggy Forever Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Kinma
No in-app purchases









