Comparison

PixelBay vs Eggling

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

Head to head
About

PixelBay

Features
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Welcome to Pixel Bay, a relaxing game that brings together aquarium care, charming pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Build Your Pixel Aquarium Collect clownfish, blue tangs, puffers, and angelfish. Feed them, interact with them, and keep their water clean as they grow from young fish into adults. Meet Every Companion Give each fish a name and discover its age, personality, growth status, and companionship level. The longer you stay together, the closer your friendship becomes. Decorate Your Underwater Home Collect seaweed, coral, treasure chests, and castles. Move decorations freely and create a pixel aquarium that feels completely your own. Play Starry Match-3 Puzzles Swap neighboring tiles, create matches, trigger cascades, and collect stars before you run out of moves. Earn shells and fish food, then bring your rewards back to the aquarium. Relaxed, Pressure-Free Care Your fish continue progressing while you are away. Low conditions may pause growth, but fish never die and you never suffer permanent loss. Keep Your Progress Safe Fish status, names, decorations, resources, and high scores are saved automatically on your device. Optional iCloud saves let you back up and restore your progress. Helpful Reminders Choose whether to receive care alerts, growth updates, companionship milestones, or a gentle daily reminder. Return to Pixel Bay and meet your first underwater companion today.

About

Eggling

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Hatch an egg and keep what comes out of it alive. Eggling lives in real time, whether the app is open or not. It gets hungry, it gets bored, it makes a mess and it falls ill, at the moments those things would really happen. Close the app for an afternoon and you come back to what happened while you were gone. Look after it Feed it meals, or snacks when it needs cheering up. Clean up after it before the mess makes it ill. Give it medicine when it's poorly. Turn the light off at bedtime so it can sleep. Scold it when it's playing up โ€” but only then, because it beeps the same way when it's genuinely asking for something, and telling the two apart is the whole skill. It calls you When it's starving or miserable, your phone calls you, and it keeps calling every hour you leave it. You get a warning before the mess makes it ill, and a reminder if the light is still on at bedtime. A pet that's looked after well hardly calls at all. Watch it grow up It starts as a tiny baby and grows through child and teen into an adult over about four days. How it turns out depends on how you raised it: its discipline, how many times it was let down, and whether it lived on snacks. Play with it A game of higher or lower. You see a number; guess whether the next one is higher or lower. Win three rounds out of five and it's delighted โ€” and every game takes a gram off. From your Lock Screen Put it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and see how it's doing at a glance. When it needs feeding, cleaning, treating or putting to bed, do it from the widget without opening the app. Make it yours Choose a creature and a shell. Seasonal themes dress the whole app โ€” the case, the screen and the pet โ€” for Halloween, Christmas and Easter, and you can wear them all year. Everything unlocks every shell and every creature, including the ones added in future updates. Cosmetics are the only thing for sale. Nothing you buy feeds it, heals it or keeps it alive; that's down to you. Nothing leaves your device No account, no ads, no tracking. The pet lives on your iPhone or iPad and Eggling collects nothing about you. In English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. For iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

PixelBay4 screens
Eggling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PixelBay at none against Eggling's 10. Eggling's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Eggling sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. PixelBay asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixelBay ships an update every 2 weeks, Eggling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
PixelBay versus Eggling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelBayEggling
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS16.6 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅฟ—่ทƒ ็Ž‹Tiago Morais

In-app purchases

None

PixelBay

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Eggling

One-time10
  • Grape Shell$0.99
  • Seafoam Shell$0.99
  • Blueberry Shell$0.99
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  • Charcoal Shell$0.99
  • Chick$1.99
  • Mog$1.99
  • Spook$1.99
  • Christmas$2.99
  • Easter$2.99
  • Everything$9.99

Questions

Is PixelBay free?
PixelBay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eggling free?
Eggling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PixelBay or Eggling have ads?
Neither PixelBay nor Eggling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PixelBay or Eggling?
PixelBay ships an update every 2 weeks, and Eggling daily. Most recently, PixelBay was updated on October 4, 2026 and Eggling on October 5, 2026.

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