Dotling vs Eggling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dotling
Experience a digital pet that mimics the feel of 90s keychain toys with a dot-matrix LCD display. Care for your evolving pixel friend, play mini-games, and keep it close with home and lock screen widgets. Enjoy a realistic simulation with a focus on nurturing and lineage.
- Dot-matrix LCD display
- Evolving virtual pet
- Interactive mini-games
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Vacation mode
- Generational lineage system
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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/
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 Dotling's every 5 days. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Dotling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Eggling sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dotling against 5.0 for Eggling. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Dotling ships an update every 5 days, Eggling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dotling | Eggling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | Tiago Morais |
In-app purchases
Dotling
- Dotling Premium$5.991 Month
- Dotling Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Eggling
- Lemon Shell$0.99
- Grape Shell$0.99
- Seafoam Shell$0.99
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- Blueberry Shell$0.99
- Charcoal Shell$0.99
- Bun$1.99
- Chick$1.99
- Mog$1.99
- Spook$1.99
- Christmas$2.99
- Easter$2.99
- Everything$9.99









