PixelBay vs MiMascota
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
MiMascota
Raise a virtual pet from egg to senior, caring for its needs and playing mini-games. Your pet's life unfolds in real-time, even when the app is closed, with notifications to keep you updated. Unlock more pet slots and earn medals for your dedication.
- Hatch and raise virtual pets
- Real-time care and needs management
- Mini-games for interaction
- Pet growth and life stages
- Notifications for pet needs
- Unlockable pet slots
- Game Center medals
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Your pet. Your care. In real time. MiMascota is a classic virtual pet for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Hatch an egg, feed, cuddle and play – and watch your pet grow up in its own little 3D room in a cheerful comic style. Four Species. Four Characters. • Mochi – a cuddly cat, perfect for getting started • Pip – an early bird that needs lots of food and attention • Nube – a little ghost that sleeps by day with the lights on and haunts by night • Draco – a night-owl dragon with a big appetite and a long life All species are free – choose the one you like. Raise a senior of every species, and two secret ones await. From Egg to Senior Your pet hatches, grows from baby to child and teen, and becomes an adult. How well you care for it decides what kind of adult it turns into: radiant, cozy or cheeky. Eventually it grows old – and every pet finds its place in the graveyard, with its date of birth and farewell. Care for Your Pet • Meal: fish, veggies or fruit • Affection: a snack, a cuddle or a gift • Care: clean up, give medicine, go for a walk • Turn off the lights when it sleeps (Nube wants them on), and scold it when it misbehaves • Hunger and happiness are shown in four hearts that empty quarter by quarter • Each choice shows how much it helps at your pet's current life stage – a baby loves cuddles, an adult wants walks Mini Games • Directions: guess which way your pet will look • Cups: your pet hides a treat under one of three cups and shuffles them – follow the treat! Every round gets faster. • Echo: your pet shows a row of symbols – remember them and repeat them in the same order! Every round adds one more. It Lives On – Even When the App Is Closed Your pet keeps living in real time. When it is hungry, sad or sick, misbehaves, needs the lights switched or makes a mess, you get a notification with a picture of your pet. Ignore its calls for too long and it counts as a care mistake – too many, and its life gets shorter. Uncleaned poop and too many snacks make it sick. More Pets, More Fun • One pet slot is free • Unlock up to three more slots to raise up to four pets at the same time • Going away? Send all your pets on vacation for a day or a week: their care pauses, they don't grow older and need nothing until you're back • Bring a pet to the shelter to make room for a new egg Game Center Medals • Earn a medal for every species: it fills up a bit more with every life stage your pet reaches, until it becomes a senior • More medals for a big family, a full life and perfect care – and a few hidden ones waiting to be discovered In-App Purchases MiMascota is free to play: all species, all actions and all three mini games are included, and one pet slot is free. Optional in-app purchases: • Pet Slots 2 to 4: unlocked one after the other, each lets you raise one more pet at the same time. A one-time purchase that is yours for good – available on all your devices with the same Apple Account and restorable at any time. • Vacation for a Day or a Week: all your pets rest, starting right with the purchase. Each vacation is used up when it ends and applies to the pets on this device. There are no subscriptions. Made for Every Device • iPhone, iPad and Mac • Keyboard shortcuts on the Mac and iPad • 26 languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Chinese No account, no ads, no tracking: your pets stay on your device. Hatch your egg today! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://80h.de/mimascota/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PixelBay at 5.0 against MiMascota's 4.0. PixelBay also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). MiMascota's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. MiMascota sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. PixelBay asks for nothing beyond the download.
PixelBay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PixelBay ships an update every 3 weeks, MiMascota fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PixelBay | MiMascota |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志跃 王 | Sebastian Egbers |
Customer experience
PixelBay
MiMascota
In-app purchases
PixelBay
No in-app purchases
MiMascota
- Vacation for a Day$0.99
- Pet Slot 2$1.99
- Pet Slot 3$1.99
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- Pet Slot 4$1.99
- Vacation for a Week$4.99









