Comparison

TamaShell vs Ghostagotchi

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

Head to head
About

TamaShell

Features
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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.

About

Ghostagotchi

Features
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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.

Screenshots

TamaShell4 screens
Ghostagotchi4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TamaShell sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ghostagotchi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
TamaShell versus Ghostagotchi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTamaShellGhostagotchi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKAMIL BARCZAKRichard Lathrop

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TamaShell

One-time4
  • Cat Form$1.99
  • Robot Form$1.99
  • $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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  • TamaShell Pro Set$5.99
None

Ghostagotchi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TamaShell free?
TamaShell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghostagotchi free?
Ghostagotchi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TamaShell or Ghostagotchi have ads?
Neither TamaShell nor Ghostagotchi shows ads.

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