Pawsies vs Islo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side ā 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 ⢠Create personalized pixel pets from photos you choose ⢠Transform a room into day, golden-hour, and night scenes ⢠Arrange bowls, beds, litter boxes, scratchers, and toys ⢠Keep multiple pets across multiple rooms SMALL MOMENTS, REAL PERSONALITY ⢠Each pet has independent needs, energy, mood, and preferences ⢠Pets explore, sleep, play, and visit useful items on their own ⢠Treats and hands-on play interrupt the routine in delightful ways ⢠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/
Islo
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Tap an egg, meet a tiny baby and raise it right on your iPhone: in the Dynamic Island, on the Lock Screen, in StandBy and in widgets. Feed it, bathe it, play with it and watch it grow up. It never dies and never makes you feel guilty. HATCH IT AND WATCH IT GROW ⢠Tap the egg until the shell cracks and your baby pops out ⢠It grows from baby to child, teen and adult, celebrating each stage ⢠As an adult it shows a personality shaped by your care: playful, cuddly, foodie or sparkly EVERYDAY CARE ⢠Drag food right to its mouth and watch it munch with puffy cheeks ⢠Clean up little poops with one tap ⢠Rub it with bubbly foam at bath time ⢠Pet it, tickle it, boop its nose ⢠Tuck it in and turn the lights off for a starry night PLAY TOGETHER ⢠Playroom mini-games: Which Way?, Catch the Snacks, Pop the Bubbles ⢠Teach tricks with praise: a big jump, spin, bow and dance ⢠It dances along when you play your music COINS, SHOP AND ALBUM ⢠Earn coins with daily tasks and open a gift box every day ⢠Buy treats, toys and decor for the room ⢠A memory album keeps the hatching, every stage and each learned trick IT LIVES ON YOUR IPHONE ⢠Sleeps on your schedule and wakes up with you ⢠Celebrates your step goal and hides from the rain ⢠Curls up on the charger and puts on a tie before a meeting ⢠Feed, pet and play from the widget or the Live Activity without opening the app NO GUILT, EVER Your creature never dies and never runs away. A basic daily ration always refills, so it never goes hungry. On a frosty day it may catch a cold, which is just a sneeze and a cup of tea. Gentle reminders are cheerful, and skipping one changes nothing. PICK YOUR FRIEND Puff is a warm fluffy ball, Drop is a calm little slime philosopher, Chirp is a quick curious spark of a bird. Dress them in hats, scarves and new outfit packs, and preview every item on the Dynamic Island, the Lock Screen and widgets. VISITS Send your creature to a friend for an hour. They see it in their own Live Activity after they accept the visit. PRIVATE BY DESIGN ⢠No sign-up ⢠Steps stay on your device ⢠Only the start times of calendar events are read, never titles or guests ⢠Every data source is off until you turn it on, and Islo is complete without any of them ⢠No ads ISLO PRO Pro grows your family: a second creature and new generations hatched from eggs, up to four together. It adds real-time weather and calendar reactions from our server, a livelier Live Activity, flip and roll tricks, a double daily gift, your own photos in the album and exclusive items. Item packs are one-time purchases. Coins and food baskets are optional purchases. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://isloapp.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://isloapp.web.app/privacy
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Verdict
Pawsies and Islo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pawsies sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Islo sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Pawsies | Islo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 ā better | 17.2 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasin Eren Dursun | Yevhenii Bruchkovskyi |
In-app purchases
Pawsies
- 500 Paw Gems$3.99
- 1200 Paw Gems$7.99
- 2500 Paw Gems$14.99
Islo
- A handful of coins$0.99
- Animal pack$1.99
- Party pack$1.99
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- Sweet basket$1.99
- Spooky pack$2.99
- Story Heroes pack$2.99
- Tokyo & Seoul pack$2.99
- A pouch of coins$2.99
- Feast basket$3.99
- A chest of coins$5.99








