Comparison

PixelBay vs My Little Window

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

Head to head
About

PixelBay

A relaxing game combining aquarium care, pixel art, and match-3 puzzles. Raise and decorate your underwater world, nurture fish, and enjoy pressure-free gameplay. Your fish grow and progress even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Build and customize pixel aquariums
  • Collect and care for various fish species
  • Decorate underwater environments
  • Play match-3 puzzle mini-games
  • Relaxed, pressure-free gameplay
  • Automatic progress saving
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

My Little Window

Cultivate a serene windowsill garden in real time, watching seeds sprout and bloom. Collect rare plant variants, decorate cozy rooms, and enjoy a peaceful, pressure-free experience with no ads or failure.

Highlights
  • Real-time plant growth
  • Collect rare plant variants
  • Decorate virtual rooms
  • Cross-breed seeds
  • Progress through themed homes
  • Dynamic day/night cycle
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Grow a tiny garden on a sunlit windowsill. Plant a seed, watch it sprout in real time, and come back to a bloom. No ads, ever. My Little Window is a gentle idle garden that grows even while the app is closed. There is no failure here. Nothing withers, nothing rushes you, and every plant is happy to wait. GROW IN REAL TIME Seeds mature on their own schedule, from a one minute pothos to a full day jade. Water them, mist them, give them sun. Well tended plants sell for more. COLLECT THEM ALL Every home has twenty species for your Plant Book, 240 in all, and every one hides a rare variant with its own look. Open seed packs, chase rares, and cross-breed two seeds for a chance at something special. A JOURNEY OF LITTLE HOMES Complete a home to travel down the path to the next: twelve homes across four chapters, each with its own window, its own plants and its own rooms. • The Meadow: a woodland cabin, a suburban flower garden and a farmhouse kitchen garden. • Warm Shores: a beach cottage, a harbor and a lighthouse, where messages in bottles wash up on your sill. • Country Lanes: an English cottage garden, a prairie homestead and a hillside burrow, where bees visit your blooms and leave new seeds. • Sun & Stone: a Tuscan vineyard house, a Moroccan riad and a desert adobe, where every bloom you sell becomes a tile for a mosaic wall. More homes are on the way. MAKE IT YOURS Coins from your blooms furnish five cozy rooms in every home. Every armchair, shelf, and lamp gives your garden a lasting boost, from faster growth to luckier packs. A LIVING WINDOW Morning light, golden hour, starry nights, and quiet rain move across your window through the day. Animal friends wander by. A daily gift waits each morning, and streaks make it sweeter. KIND BY DESIGN No ads. No energy bars. No pressure. Gems can speed things up, but everything in the game can be earned for free. Pull up a chair by the window. Your garden is already growing.

Screenshots

PixelBay4 screens
My Little Window4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PixelBay at none against My Little Window's 6. PixelBay also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). My Little Window's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Little Window sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. PixelBay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PixelBay against 5.0 for My Little Window. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixelBay ships an update every 3 weeks, My Little Window weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PixelBay versus My Little Window: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelBayMy Little Window
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志跃 王Nathan Orton

Customer experience

PixelBay

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

My Little Window

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PixelBay

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

My Little Window

One-time6
  • Handful of Gems$0.99
  • Starter Bundle$1.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
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  • Bag of Gems$9.99
  • Chest of Gems$19.99
  • Vault of Gems$49.99

Questions

Is PixelBay free?
PixelBay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Little Window free?
My Little Window is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PixelBay or My Little Window?
PixelBay and My Little Window are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do PixelBay or My Little Window have ads?
Neither PixelBay nor My Little Window shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PixelBay or My Little Window?
PixelBay ships an update every 3 weeks, and My Little Window weekly. Most recently, PixelBay was updated on October 29, 2026 and My Little Window on October 31, 2026.

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