Comparison

Pawsies vs TamaShell

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

Head to head
About

Pawsies

Features
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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 โ€ข Create personalized pixel pets from photos you choose โ€ข Transform a room into day, golden-hour, and night scenes โ€ข Arrange bowls, beds, litter boxes, scratchers, and toys โ€ข Keep multiple pets across multiple rooms SMALL MOMENTS, REAL PERSONALITY โ€ข Each pet has independent needs, energy, mood, and preferences โ€ข Pets explore, sleep, play, and visit useful items on their own โ€ข Treats and hands-on play interrupt the routine in delightful ways โ€ข 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/

About

TamaShell

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pawsies4 screens
TamaShell4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pawsies ships an update weekly, TamaShell monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Pawsies versus TamaShell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPawsiesTamaShell
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size74 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYasin Eren DursunKAMIL BARCZAK

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pawsies

One-time3
  • 500 Paw Gems$3.99
  • 1200 Paw Gems$7.99
  • 2500 Paw Gems$14.99
4 purchases

TamaShell

One-time4
  • Cat Form$1.99
  • Robot Form$1.99
  • $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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  • TamaShell Pro Set$5.99

Questions

Is Pawsies free?
Pawsies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TamaShell free?
TamaShell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pawsies or TamaShell have ads?
Neither Pawsies nor TamaShell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pawsies or TamaShell?
Pawsies ships an update weekly, and TamaShell monthly. Most recently, Pawsies was updated on October 8, 2026 and TamaShell on October 20, 2026.

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