Comparison

Pawwi vs Dotling

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

Head to head
About

Pawwi

Hatch, raise, and care for a unique virtual pet with a growing personality. Decorate their home, play minigames, and connect with friends. Trade pets and compete in battles.

Highlights
  • Hatch diverse pet species
  • Daily care and interaction
  • Customize pet appearance
  • Decorate pet's home
  • Multiplayer and chat
  • Minigames for coins
  • Pet trading marketplace
Features
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Pawwi is a warm, pocket-sized virtual pet game. Hatch a companion, care for it every day, and watch a tiny personality grow. HATCH YOUR COMPANION Crack open an egg and meet one of 10 species — cat, dog, dragon, fox, frog, lizard, panda, penguin, rabbit, and raccoon — each with its own rarity, favorite treats, and personality. REAL CARE, REAL ATTACHMENT Feed them, help them rest, play together, and keep an eye on their health and happiness. Every check-in shapes how your pet feels — this isn't a game that plays itself. MAKE THEM YOURS Collect expressive skins across four rarity tiers per species, and decorate their home with cozy houses, from a starter room to a medieval castle. Mix and match to give your pet a look that's entirely its own. PLAY TOGETHER Add friends, chat, and check out each other's pets. Climb the leaderboard with your best-raised companion, or challenge another player to a 1v1 PvP battle. MINIGAMES FOR EVERY SPECIES Each pet has its own minigame to earn coins and experience — because raising a pet should be fun, not a chore. TRADE AND SHOP Buy and sell pets on the marketplace, and spend your coins and gems in the shop. Eggs — the only source of a new pet's rarity — are always coin-only, never a real-money loot box. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE Pawwi is fully localized in English, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and follows your device's language automatically. Gentle reminders keep you from missing a feeding or a bathroom break, so your pet is never neglected just because you stepped away. Your pet is waiting. Come raise it.

About

Dotling

Relive the 90s with a digital pixel pet that lives on your screen. Care for your virtual companion, play mini-games, and watch it evolve. Widgets keep your pet close, even when the app is closed.

Highlights
  • Pixelated dot-matrix LCD display
  • Hatch, grow, and evolve through 5 stages
  • Multiple species and care-dependent adult evolutions
  • Interactive care: feeding, cleaning, discipline
  • Mini-games: Guess the Turn, Stop the Dot, Hi-Lo
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Generational traits and achievements
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

Pawwi4 screens
Dotling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dotling at none against Pawwi's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Pawwi sells 3 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pawwi against 5.0 for Dotling. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pawwi ships an update every 10 days, Dotling weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pawwi versus Dotling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPawwiDotling
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size288 MB13 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAli KalesDIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

Customer experience

Pawwi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dotling

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pawwi

One-time3
  • Handful of Gems$0.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Chest of Gems$9.99
2 purchases

Dotling

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

Questions

Is Pawwi free?
Pawwi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotling free?
Dotling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pawwi or Dotling?
Pawwi and Dotling are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Pawwi or Dotling have ads?
Pawwi shows ads; Dotling does not.
Which is updated more often, Pawwi or Dotling?
Pawwi ships an update every 10 days, and Dotling weekly. Most recently, Pawwi was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dotling on November 10, 2026.

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