Comparison

Choposo vs Dotling

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

Head to head
About

Choposo

Features
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A tiny creature that lives on your Lock Screen. Choposo is a pet-raising app that lives on your iPhone's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Every time you glance at your phone, a small creature is walking around. ■ Care for it right from the Lock Screen Feed and clean up without opening the app. On supported devices, it walks around inside the Dynamic Island. ■ The bed decides who hatches There are 52 beds. Which one you place determines what hatches from the egg. A donut bed, a tree stump, a seashell. ■ Food shapes how it grows The same creature grows differently depending on what it eats. Feed it the food tied to its bed, or stick to the basics — each lineage has three possible adults. ■ Five days, one lifetime Egg, juvenile, adult, then old age and a new egg. One generation takes about five days. Every creature you've said goodbye to stays in your album. ■ Visit your friends' nests Trade friend codes and drop by their room. Visiting exchanges a souvenir food. Your creature appears on their Lock Screen for one hour. ■ A world made of paper Every image is made from construction paper, crayon, and craft. 209 creatures, 52 beds, 100 pieces of furniture, 30 backgrounds. And one bed that only five people in the world will own.

About

Dotling

Experience a digital pet that mimics the feel of 90s keychain toys with a dot-matrix LCD display. Care for your evolving pixel friend, play mini-games, and keep it close with home and lock screen widgets. Enjoy a realistic simulation with a focus on nurturing and lineage.

Highlights
  • Dot-matrix LCD display
  • Evolving virtual pet
  • Interactive mini-games
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Vacation mode
  • Generational lineage system
Features
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A pocket virtual pet that lives on a real dot-matrix LCD. No emoji, no cartoons: just 576 dots, a beeping little friend and the feeling of the keychain toy you carried in the 90s. HATCH IT • Start with an egg and watch it hatch, grow and evolve through 5 stages • Three species: Dotto the blob, Peep the bird and Nyx the cat • Adults evolve differently depending on your care: Classic, Radiant or Scruffy CARE FOR IT • Meals and snacks, cleaning, medicine, lights out at bedtime • Discipline it when it misbehaves, or it grows up wild • Gentle reminders, at most 3 a day, only when your pet really needs you • Vacation mode freezes all needs while you are away PLAY WITH IT • Guess the Turn: the classic virtual pet duel • Stop the Dot: a timing game that speeds up every round • Hi-Lo: will the next number be higher or lower? KEEP IT CLOSE • Home Screen widgets show your pet and its meters • Lock Screen widgets tell you at a glance when it is hungry or bored • LCD beeps and haptics, with on/off switches A REAL SIMULATION • Time passes while the app is closed, and it is handled fairly • Care windows are measured in hours, not minutes • Every pet passes a trait to the next generation • Records, a graveyard for every lineage and 8 achievements to unlock DOTLING PREMIUM Your first generation is free forever. Dotling Premium unlocks every later generation, the bird and cat species, and the Amber, Ice and Noir LCD screens. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dijitalpilot.com/uygulama-gizlilik/

Screenshots

Choposo3 screens
Dotling4 screens

Verdict

The call

Choposo and Dotling are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Choposo sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Dotling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choposo ships an update every 4 days, Dotling every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Choposo versus Dotling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoposoDotling
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size484 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTsuyoshi HashimotoDIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Choposo

One-time6
  • 150 Gems$3.99
  • 220 Gems$4.99
  • 500 Gems$9.99
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  • 1500 Gems$29.99
  • 2500 Gems$39.99
  • 5500 Gems$79.99
2 purchases

Dotling

Subscriptions2
  • Dotling Premium$5.991 Month
  • Dotling Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Choposo free?
Choposo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotling free?
Dotling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Choposo or Dotling have ads?
Neither Choposo nor Dotling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choposo or Dotling?
Choposo ships an update every 4 days, and Dotling every 5 days. Most recently, Choposo was updated on October 25, 2026 and Dotling on October 25, 2026.

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