Pawsies vs Cryptid Pets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — 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/
Cryptid Pets
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Cryptid Pets is a cozy virtual pet game in the spirit of the classic keychain pets. Feed your cryptid, play mini games with it, and tuck it in to sleep under a starry night sky. Each pet gets hungry, bored and sleepy in real time, and the campsite gets messy, even while the app is closed, so check in often. MEET THE CRYPTIDS • Mothman, from a starlit meadow near Point Pleasant • Nessie, splashing on the shore of a moonlit Loch Ness • Bigfoot, wandering the misty redwoods of Bluff Creek • The Flatwoods Monster, under a hovering UFO in the West Virginia hills • Chupacabra, in a Puerto Rican rainforest full of chirping coquà frogs • The Jersey Devil, deep in the Pine Barrens (watch for eyes in the trees) HOW TO PLAY • Feed: keep the food meter topped up • Play: catch glowing fireflies with any cryptid, or play your cryptid's own unique games as they grow • Clean: sweep up crumbs, leaves and litter before the campsite gets messy. A tidy camp keeps your cryptid happier • Sleep: tuck your pet in to restore its energy while the campfire burns low • Grow: every cryptid starts as a baby. Keep it fed, played with, rested and tidy, and after some good care, it grows up into its adult form, with a little celebration to match. Growing up unlocks a third mini-game for that cryptid and earns it a gold star in your Field guide: • You can also name your pet! Give each cryptid a nickname by tapping its default name • Tap your pet for a wave and a little heart This game has no ads. It requires no accounts. There is no data collection. Even better, play from the train as it works completely offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cryptid Pets at none against Pawsies's 3. Cryptid Pets also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pawsies sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Cryptid Pets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pawsies ships an update weekly, Cryptid Pets daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Pawsies | Cryptid Pets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasin Eren Dursun | Brittany Woods |
In-app purchases
Pawsies
- 500 Paw Gems$3.99
- 1200 Paw Gems$7.99
- 2500 Paw Gems$14.99
Cryptid Pets
No in-app purchases









