Pawsies vs TamaShell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Pawsies
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Pawsies turns the pet you love into a tiny pixel companion who lives in a room that feels familiar. Add photos of your pet and room to create a personalized little world. Watch your companion wander, nap, eat, drink, play with toys, and settle into their own routines. Care continues while you are away, so every return feels like stepping back into a living space rather than restarting a game. MAKE IT THEIRS โข Create personalized pixel pets from photos you choose โข Transform a room into day, golden-hour, and night scenes โข Arrange bowls, beds, litter boxes, scratchers, and toys โข Keep multiple pets across multiple rooms SMALL MOMENTS, REAL PERSONALITY โข Each pet has independent needs, energy, mood, and preferences โข Pets explore, sleep, play, and visit useful items on their own โข Treats and hands-on play interrupt the routine in delightful ways โข Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep their care close PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Earn Pawprints through care and play to unlock room items. Optional consumable Paw Gems are used only when you choose to create an additional personalized pet or room. The base experience includes a default pet and room, and no social login is required. Pawsies is a cozy virtual-pet game. It does not provide real veterinary or animal-care advice. Privacy Policy: https://pawsies.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://pawsies.app/terms/ Support: https://pawsies.app/support/
TamaShell
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TamaShell is a virtual pet that lives entirely inside a fake computer terminal. Hatch an egg, then keep your pet fed, clean, rested, and happy using simple typed commands or on screen buttons. Your pet keeps living in real time, even while the app is closed, so a few days of neglect will actually catch up with you. Along the way there is a full day and night cycle, a coin economy you can earn by putting your pet to work, a shop for food and room decorations, and more... who knows what hides away in the terminal? If your pet dies, it does not just disappear. Reset and start the next generation. Raise a pet. Keep the terminal alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pawsies at weekly against TamaShell's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pawsies sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and TamaShell sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pawsies ships an update weekly, TamaShell monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pawsies | TamaShell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly โ better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 โ better | 17.6 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasin Eren Dursun | KAMIL BARCZAK |
In-app purchases
Pawsies
- 500 Paw Gems$3.99
- 1200 Paw Gems$7.99
- 2500 Paw Gems$14.99
TamaShell
- Cat Form$1.99
- Robot Form$1.99
- $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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- TamaShell Pro Set$5.99









