Comparison

Wiggly Pet vs Dotling

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

Head to head
About

Wiggly Pet

Shape a unique pet's personality by answering daily questions for seven days before it hatches. Care for your hatched companion through feeding, playing, and chatting, with its responses reflecting the traits you instilled.

Highlights
  • Daily personality shaping questions
  • Unique pet hatching based on answers
  • Interactive pet care activities
  • Chat with your pet
  • Pet diary entries
  • Variety of pet species
Features
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Your egg hatches in 7 days. Talk to it every day until then. Wiggly Pet is a care app where what you say to your egg becomes its personality. Favorites, dislikes, values, way of speaking — everything you answer over 7 days builds into one unique character. Even the same species turns out completely different depending on who raised it. ■ 7 Days of Shaping a Personality · 3 new questions arrive every day — just answer them · Your answers build 5 personality traits, a way of speaking, and preferences · On Day 7, a baby animal hatches with the personality you gave it ■ Life Continues After Hatching · Feed it, wash it, play with it, put it to sleep · Chat with it — it talks back in the personality you shaped, and listens to what's on your mind · Couldn't visit for a few days? It goes on a little adventure alone and leaves a diary entry ■ Who You Might Hatch Dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits, foxes, raccoons, penguins, alpacas, capybaras, mini pigs — and even mythical creatures like haetae, dokkaebi, white tiger, nine-tailed fox, and phoenix. ■ Your Time Together, Recorded Day 7, Day 30, Day 365 — the days you've spent together become a little autobiography. ※ Chatting with your pet is not professional counseling.

About

Dotling

Relive the 90s with a digital pixel pet that lives on your screen. Care for your virtual companion, play mini-games, and watch it evolve. Widgets keep your pet close, even when the app is closed.

Highlights
  • Pixelated dot-matrix LCD display
  • Hatch, grow, and evolve through 5 stages
  • Multiple species and care-dependent adult evolutions
  • Interactive care: feeding, cleaning, discipline
  • Mini-games: Guess the Turn, Stop the Dot, Hi-Lo
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Generational traits and achievements
Features
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A pocket virtual pet that lives on a real dot-matrix LCD. No emoji, no cartoons: just 576 dots, a beeping little friend and the feeling of the keychain toy you carried in the 90s. HATCH IT • Start with an egg and watch it hatch, grow and evolve through 5 stages • Three species: Dotto the blob, Peep the bird and Nyx the cat • Adults evolve differently depending on your care: Classic, Radiant or Scruffy CARE FOR IT • Meals and snacks, cleaning, medicine, lights out at bedtime • Discipline it when it misbehaves, or it grows up wild • Gentle reminders, at most 3 a day, only when your pet really needs you • Vacation mode freezes all needs while you are away PLAY WITH IT • Guess the Turn: the classic virtual pet duel • Stop the Dot: a timing game that speeds up every round • Hi-Lo: will the next number be higher or lower? KEEP IT CLOSE • Home Screen widgets show your pet and its meters • Lock Screen widgets tell you at a glance when it is hungry or bored • LCD beeps and haptics, with on/off switches A REAL SIMULATION • Time passes while the app is closed, and it is handled fairly • Care windows are measured in hours, not minutes • Every pet passes a trait to the next generation • Records, a graveyard for every lineage and 8 achievements to unlock DOTLING PREMIUM Your first generation is free forever. Dotling Premium unlocks every later generation, the bird and cat species, and the Amber, Ice and Noir LCD screens. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dijitalpilot.com/uygulama-gizlilik/

Screenshots

Wiggly Pet4 screens
Dotling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dotling at 5.0 against Wiggly Pet's 4.0. Dotling also leads on ads (none vs shown). Wiggly Pet's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wiggly Pet sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Dotling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dotling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wiggly Pet ships an update every 2 days, Dotling weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wiggly Pet versus Dotling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWiggly PetDotling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKYUNGROK KIMDIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

Customer experience

Wiggly Pet

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dotling

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Wiggly Pet

One-time7
  • 1 Mongle$0.49
  • Cat Party Skin$2.99
  • Hamster Party Skin$2.99
Show 4 more
  • Dog Party Skin$2.99
  • 5 Mongles$2.99
  • Affection Booster 24h$4.99
  • 12 Mongles$5.99
2 purchases

Dotling

Subscriptions2
  • Dotling Premium$5.991 Month
  • Dotling Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Wiggly Pet free?
Wiggly Pet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotling free?
Dotling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wiggly Pet or Dotling?
Dotling is rated higher. Wiggly Pet averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Dotling averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wiggly Pet or Dotling have ads?
Wiggly Pet shows ads; Dotling does not.
Which is updated more often, Wiggly Pet or Dotling?
Wiggly Pet ships an update every 2 days, and Dotling weekly. Most recently, Wiggly Pet was updated on November 2, 2026 and Dotling on October 31, 2026.

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