Malang vs FLY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Malang
This app helps users build and track habits with friends. It features a shared focus timer, customizable routines, and a virtual pet that grows as you complete tasks. Visualize progress with streaks, heatmaps, and calendar views.
- Shared focus timer with friends
- Customizable routine types
- Virtual pet growth system
- Progress tracking (streaks, heatmaps)
- Calendar and timeline views
- Home screen widgets
- Automatic health app integration
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Habits don't stick alone. Malangchedule is a free routine app where a little pixel friend and your real friends keep you going. Your focus time becomes Mallang's meal, and the study room shows who studied how much today. ■ Hold 0.6s, done Hold a card to check it off; a tap just opens details. No accidental check-offs in your pocket. Every habit completes its own way: once, counted, timed, or resisted. Steps, exercise, and sleep fill in automatically from the Health app. ■ Mallangotchi grows with you A pixel Mallang lives in a little device in the middle of your tab bar. Finishing routines earns dango to feed it, train it, and dress it up in outfits your friends can see too. It never dies when you are away. It grows exactly as much as you care. ■ Study side by side The study room tab shows who studied how much today, in running totals. Friends currently studying light up in color. The best study hall is a seat next to a hardworking friend. ■ A focus timer with friends 10, 15, 25, or 50-minute Pomodoro, with the study room right under the timer and your Mallang studying beside you. Records stack up in daily, weekly, and monthly stats. ■ A routine home friends drop by Connect as couple, friend, or family and visit each other's routine homes. Peek at a friend's Mallangotchi, and care for it when a heart runs empty. You choose which routines each person sees. Default is private. ■ For exam season D-day countdowns and one quote arriving every morning. Tomorrow, one more small thing. ― - Everything is free, themes and characters included - Health data is read only with your permission, and only to auto-complete routines - Works without an account (guests skip friend features) One small thing today, softly.
FLY
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A pet fruit fly driven by a model of its real brain. FLY runs a whole-brain model of Drosophila in real time on your phone: 138,639 neurons and 15 million connections from the FlyWire connectome, mapped with an electron microscope. When you drop sugar in the terrarium, touch the antennae or cast a shadow, the stimulus travels through the fly's actual wiring, and that decides whether it feeds, grooms or escapes. • 3D glass terrarium with a fly based on the NeuroMechFly model, walking with a real fly's step cycle • Live brain map: see which neurons are firing right now • Hunger, thirst, hormones and sleep: a hungry fly is more sensitive to sugar and sleeps at night • Your fly keeps living when the app is closed and lets you know when it gets hungry • Lab: watch the firing rates of the neurons behind feeding, grooming and escape Honestly: this is a scientific model, not an uploaded fly. The wiring is real, the neurons are simplified. Hunger, hormones, sleep and walking are simplified models based on the literature. The Science & Licenses screen explains what is what. Free, no ads, no tracking, no account. Data: FlyWire (Dorkenwald et al. 2024, Schlegel et al. 2024), brain model by Shiu et al. 2024, body from NeuroMechFly (Wang-Chen et al. 2024).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Malang at 17.0 against FLY's 27.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Malang | FLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SPROUTGROWLABS | Tadeas Urbanek |
In-app purchases
Malang
No in-app purchases
FLY
No in-app purchases









