TamaShell vs Ghostagotchi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TamaShell
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TamaShell is a virtual pet that lives entirely inside a fake computer terminal. Hatch an egg, then keep your pet fed, clean, rested, and happy using simple typed commands or on screen buttons. Your pet keeps living in real time, even while the app is closed, so a few days of neglect will actually catch up with you. Along the way there is a full day and night cycle, a coin economy you can earn by putting your pet to work, a shop for food and room decorations, and more... who knows what hides away in the terminal? If your pet dies, it does not just disappear. Reset and start the next generation. Raise a pet. Keep the terminal alive.
Ghostagotchi
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A small ASCII ghost that lives on your phone. Feed it. Play with it. Boop it from your lock screen. It has its own personality — a drifter, a clingy one, a chaotic gremlin, a sensitive poet, or a zen monk — and it floats around its underwater-space world doing its own thing. • 53 tiny ten-second games against your ghost • Evolve from WISP to WRAITH • 50+ glowing skins to collect • GHOST FM — tune the dial through 42 stations of ghostnaps music and watch your ghost react to every song • Home & lock screen widgets — boop without opening the app • Daily streaks and gifts on release days Your ghost never dies. But ignore it too long and it drifts away… one tap calls it back. No accounts. No ads. Free. Made with love in Boston, MA by ghostnaps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ghostagotchi at none against TamaShell's 4. 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. TamaShell sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ghostagotchi asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | TamaShell | Ghostagotchi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | KAMIL BARCZAK | Richard Lathrop |
In-app purchases
TamaShell
- Cat Form$1.99
- Robot Form$1.99
- $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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- TamaShell Pro Set$5.99
Ghostagotchi
No in-app purchases









