Comparison

Pixel Islet vs Bichinho

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

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Pixel Islet

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A tiny pixel pet moves into a cozy 3D room on your iPhone. Feed, play, rest, clean, and pet. The way you care decides which adult form it grows into. Raise it differently and you get a different result: a relaxing idle pet game where the goal is to complete the whole collection. ▼ Features 【Live together in a 3D room】 The room has real depth. Tap the floor and your pet walks over, pet it and it beams, and it lets you know when it is hungry. When the room gets messy, you can actually see the dust and stains, so you know when to clean. The light shifts from morning to noon, dusk, and night, and at bedtime your pet lies down in its bed and sleeps. 【Grown-ups relax on a 3D island】 Once a pet reaches its adult form, you can let it live on the island. Spin the island with a swipe and watch your friends wander between the trees and the pond. At night, everyone sleeps. 【Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets】 Put the pet you're raising on your Lock Screen or a small widget to see its mood and progress at a glance. A wide widget shows your island friends (up to 8). 【They also live in the Dynamic Island (supported models)】 On supported iPhones, your pet stays in the Dynamic Island at the top of the screen and shows what it is up to at a glance: the time left on an outing, a souvenir waiting for you, napping, or feeling hungry. Even with the app closed, it switches on its own when your pet comes home or goes to bed. 【Your app icon becomes your pet】 Choose "Current pet" in Settings and the app icon on your Home Screen becomes the pet you are raising right now. When it evolves, the icon changes too. 【Evolution shaped by your care】 Forest, flame, water, star... the way you care decides which adult form a child grows into. The same species can end up looking completely different. 17 species plus one secret, and 84 forms to complete the collection. In the collection you can spin each 3D figure with your finger, read every pet's little story, and see its postcards. 【Bonds and the island】 Even after growing up, petting keeps raising the bond. Let a favorite live on the island and it brings you coins every day according to its bond level: a warm little economy. 【Minigames】 - Fruit Catch: catch falling fruit on your pet's head in the 3D room (while your pet is out or asleep, an island friend catches in its place) - Expedition: pick 2 to 4 island friends for an auto battle you watch unfold (3D) - Memory Match: a card-matching game with pets from your collection (unlocks at 4 registered forms) 【Outings and travel postcards】 Send your pet on an outing and it comes back later with coins, XP, and a souvenir. While it is out, it is not in the room, and it always comes home by bedtime. There are 20 souvenirs to collect. Each trip also brings a postcard of your pet, sometimes with island friends, at one of 12 places, from flower fields to hot springs. Time of day and weather vary, and rare ones show rainbows, whales, auroras, and more. Favorite, save, and share them in the Postcards tab. 【Daily task】 Clear one task a day for coins and XP. Watch a video to double the reward. ▼ Play at your own pace - Hunger and happiness fall slowly, and a short absence never kills your pet (only 48 hours of complete neglect does) - If hunger and happiness have never hit zero, a gentle notification lets you know before they do (until your pet grows up, when notifications are on) - No penalty for coming back after a while. The design is "oh, welcome back" - When a pet is fully grown, choose whether it graduates into a memory or keeps living on the island - Tap "Back up now" in Settings to save to iCloud and continue after switching phones or reinstalling Spend a little time with a little life on a little screen. Free to play with ads; a one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off. Put Pixel Islet in your pocket today. Privacy Policy: https://rinblog.org/apps/pixel-pocket/support/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://rinblog.org/apps/pixel-pocket/support/terms/

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Bichinho

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Feed it. Play with it. Clean up after it. Talk to it. Ignore it, and it gets sick. Ignore that, and it dies. Bichinho is a virtual pet the way they were in the 90s — a tiny creature that keeps living while you're not looking. No pause button. It runs in real time: hungry at lunch, sleepy at bedtime, calling for you at 3 in the afternoon whether your phone is in your hand or in your pocket. NOW IT TALKS Hold the mic and say anything. It listens, thinks, and answers out loud in its own little voice — squeaky as a baby, grumpy if it grew up grumpy. It greets you when you come back, complains when it's hungry, mumbles in its sleep and texts you when it misses you. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence its lines are written fresh on your phone; everywhere else it has hundreds of its own. Nothing is ever sent to a server. IT HATCHES IN A MINUTE Tap the egg to hurry it along. The first hour is the newborn hour: it wants feeding every few minutes, it poops constantly and it never sleeps. Survive that, and things calm down. IT GROWS UP HOW YOU RAISED IT Pingo the baby becomes Bolota the child becomes Zóio the teen. What it grows into after that depends on how well you looked after it — a sun-maned Jubão if you were attentive, a chill Sossegado if you were mostly around, a grumpy Rabugento if you weren't. HAND-PAINTED WORLDS Play on the classic green LCD with pixel art and square-wave beeps, or in the colour world, where every pet, item and world is hand-painted like a storybook. Travel through six eras, from the Stone Age to Space, under a sky that follows the real time of day, with painted nights, weather and visitors, and holidays in every era: Halloween, Christmas, Carnaval, Festa Junina, Easter and more. DRESS IT UP Keep its daily streak to unlock hats, spend era coins on costumes, and pick up outfit packs like Dino, Pirate, Unicorn and Football. Every outfit is painted on every pet. BICHINHO WORLD • Walk together — your real steps are its exercise • Food camera — show it real food and watch it react • Dream diary — every morning, what it dreamed last night • Jokenpô — rock, paper, scissors against your pet ALWAYS WITH YOU It lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets show how it's doing at a glance. Ask Siri: "Feed Bichinho" or "How is Bichinho?" MADE TO BE LEFT ALONE — A BIT No account, no ads. Set its bedtime to match yours and a night away is fine. A whole day of neglect is not. BICHINHO PRO One purchase, no subscription: keep the colour world after the free days, remember every pet you've raised in the Hall of Past Pets, and keep every dream in the diary. The classic green screen is free forever. Bichinho is what these were called in Brazil: bichinho virtual, the little creature everyone had on their backpack. This one is built from scratch — original creatures, original art, the same rules of care. Every Bichinho is one of a kind. Name it well.

Screenshots

Pixel Islet4 screens
Bichinho4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bichinho at none against Pixel Islet's shown. Bichinho also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Pixel Islet's advantage is iOS requirement (16.2 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pixel Islet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bichinho sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Islet ships an update every 10 days, Bichinho every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Pixel Islet versus Bichinho: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel IsletBichinho
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB157 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperSho IwasakiManfred Junior Evald Ferdinand Walter Zedazi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Islet

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$5.99
10 purchases

Bichinho

One-time10
  • Netherlands Pack$0.99
  • France Pack$0.99
  • Portugal Pack$0.99
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  • Germany Pack$0.99
  • Italy Pack$0.99
  • Japan Pack$0.99
  • Spain Pack$0.99
  • England Pack$0.99
  • USA Pack$0.99
  • All 12 Nations$4.99

Questions

Is Pixel Islet free?
Pixel Islet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bichinho free?
Bichinho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Islet or Bichinho have ads?
Pixel Islet shows ads; Bichinho does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Islet or Bichinho?
Pixel Islet ships an update every 10 days, and Bichinho every 3 days. Most recently, Pixel Islet was updated on October 31, 2026 and Bichinho on October 26, 2026.

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