Gingerbean vs Eggling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gingerbean
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Meet Gingerbean, your cozy virtual cat companion. Gingerbean: Cozy Cat is a gentle virtual pet game about caring for a cat, sharing small daily moments, and creating a warm room to call home. Feed, groom, play, and rest together. Your cat reacts with visible moods, expressive animations, and a personality that grows familiar over time. CARE FOR YOUR CAT Adopt a kitten and learn what it needs. Feed your cat when it is hungry, groom its fur, play with favorite toys, and help it rest. Tap to pet Gingerbean and watch for the little reactions that make your companion feel present. A CAT WITH A REAL PERSONALITY Gingerbean can be happy, hungry, sleepy, sad, grumpy, or unwell. You can understand how your cat feels by watching its expression, movement, and behavior, not by staring at a wall of numbers. Good care brings brighter moods and more playful moments. DECORATE A COZY CAT ROOM Build a room that feels like yours. Collect rugs, furniture, plants, toys, bowls, wallpaper, and other decorations. Arrange items around your cat and change the atmosphere as your home grows. SHARE SMALL DAILY MOMENTS Take a walk, visit the vet, enjoy a treat, groom together, or settle in for a nap. Daily goals and activities give you simple reasons to check in without turning care into a chore. A VIRTUAL PET GAME THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME There are no ads, energy timers, or loot boxes. Play at your own pace. Your cat is a companion, not a demand on your schedule. Optional content packs and supporter items let you add more personality and decoration when you want to. If you enjoy cozy games, virtual pets, cat care games, pet simulators, room decorating, or gentle daily routines, Gingerbean is ready to meet you.
Eggling
Care for a virtual pet that lives in real time, requiring feeding, cleaning, and attention. It will call you when it needs help and grows into an adult over several days, with its development influenced by your care. Customize its appearance and play mini-games.
- Real-time pet care
- Interactive calling system
- Pet growth and development
- Mini-game for interaction
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable pet and shell
- Seasonal themes
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Hatch an egg and keep what comes out of it alive. Eggling lives in real time, whether the app is open or not. It gets hungry, it gets bored, it makes a mess and it falls ill, at the moments those things would really happen. Close the app for an afternoon and you come back to what happened while you were gone. Look after it Feed it meals, or snacks when it needs cheering up. Clean up after it before the mess makes it ill. Give it medicine when it's poorly. Turn the light off at bedtime so it can sleep. Scold it when it's playing up — but only then, because it beeps the same way when it's genuinely asking for something, and telling the two apart is the whole skill. It calls you When it's starving or miserable, your phone calls you, and it keeps calling every hour you leave it. You get a warning before the mess makes it ill, and a reminder if the light is still on at bedtime. A pet that's looked after well hardly calls at all. Watch it grow up It starts as a tiny baby and grows through child and teen into an adult over about four days. How it turns out depends on how you raised it: its discipline, how many times it was let down, and whether it lived on snacks. Play with it A game of higher or lower. You see a number; guess whether the next one is higher or lower. Win three rounds out of five and it's delighted — and every game takes a gram off. From your Lock Screen Put it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and see how it's doing at a glance. When it needs feeding, cleaning, treating or putting to bed, do it from the widget without opening the app. Make it yours Choose a creature and a shell. Seasonal themes dress the whole app — the case, the screen and the pet — for Halloween, Christmas and Easter, and you can wear them all year. Everything unlocks every shell and every creature, including the ones added in future updates. Cosmetics are the only thing for sale. Nothing you buy feeds it, heals it or keeps it alive; that's down to you. Nothing leaves your device No account, no ads, no tracking. The pet lives on your iPhone or iPad and Eggling collects nothing about you. In English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. For iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Eggling at daily against Gingerbean's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Gingerbean sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Eggling sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gingerbean ships an update every 3 weeks, Eggling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gingerbean | Eggling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zakaria Ouhra | Tiago Morais |
In-app purchases
Gingerbean
- Small Purse$1.99
- Cozy Wallet$4.99
- Big Treasure$9.99
Eggling
- Lemon Shell$0.99
- Blueberry Shell$0.99
- Charcoal Shell$0.99
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- Bun$1.99
- Chick$1.99
- Mog$1.99
- Spook$1.99
- Christmas$2.99
- Easter$2.99
- Everything$9.99









