Pixel Pet Paradise vs Shapling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Pet Paradise
Care for a virtual pixel pet through its entire life cycle, from baby to elder, over 100 days. Engage in mini-games, customize your pet with earned items, and explore a vibrant world with hidden surprises. Enjoy a cozy, ad-free experience focused on nurturing your digital companion.
- Virtual pet care and growth
- Eight engaging mini-games
- Extensive customization with earned items
- In-game garden for free food
- Explorable environments with day/night cycle
- Hidden secrets and surprises
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Adopt a pixel pet and give it the best life you can. Pixel Pet Paradise is a cozy virtual-pet game about raising a little friend from its first day to its last. Feed it, play with it, keep it clean and rested, and watch it grow through four life stages over a 100-day journey. CHOOSE YOUR PET Dog, Cat, Dragon, Bunny, or Dino — each with its own look at every stage and its own favorite snack. EIGHT MINIGAMES Tap Attack, Food Catch, Pet Flight, Frisbee Catch, Laser Chase, Pet Pairs, Picture Puzzle, and a full game of Solitaire with your pet's face on the cards. Every one earns coins. A SHOP WORTH SAVING FOR 40 items — toys, outfits, hats, collars and room decor. Mix and match accessories: a top hat, sunglasses, a scarf and a sparkling magic wand all at once. Nothing is locked behind a paywall. Everything is earned by playing. GROW A GARDEN Plant carrots, sweet potatoes and golden apples. Water them, harvest them, and feed your pet for free. EXPLORE Wander between the bedroom, bathroom, yard and park. Play fetch, chase a laser, watch the seasons change — rain, snow, and a full day-and-night cycle. FIND THE SECRETS There are hidden surprises tucked all over this game. Tap things. Hold things. Try the odd thing. Some of them were designed by my sons. WATCH THEM GROW A framed growth chart on the bedroom wall tracks exactly how tall your pet has gotten, day by day, from baby to elder. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. Nothing is collected — your pet lives entirely on your device. Made by a dad and his two boys.
Shapling
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A puppy who remembers you – and shows it. Shapling is a cozy 3D dog game and virtual pet: one puppy who knows how you treat him. Like a real dog, he tells you without words – in how he greets you, what he keeps for you and the habits he picks up from your days together. HE REMEMBERS YOU • Every greeting is different. Back after a few days? He comes flying. Back after lunch? A polite hello. And if his needs were ignored while you were right there, he hangs back a moment – crouch down, wait, and he forgives you. • Leave the ball on the grass and he’ll bury it. Come back a day later and he digs it up for you. • Every “first time” – first fetch, first nap next to you – grows into a flower where it happened. On its anniversary, he goes back and sits beside it. • He learns his name. Come at the same time often enough and he waits for you by the gate. • A journal writes your days down: today’s fetch count, the day he first came when called, a butterfly leading 1–0. PET, PLAY, LOOK AFTER HIM • Pet him with a tap, scratch him with a swipe – his tail tells you the rest. • Throw the ball. He brings it back… most of the time. • Feed him, brush him, let him nap as day turns to night. • Teach him four tricks, one at a time: Sit, Shake, Spin and Play dead. Each one takes practice. • Pick his coat, his name and whether he’s a he or a she. • He has a personality – more playful or more obedient – and it shows in everything he does. A LITTLE SOMETHING EVERY DAY • A basket hangs on the park gate every day. Nobody knows who leaves it; he has a theory. Each one adds a stamp to a card of seven; the days needn’t be in a row, and the card never resets. • From day two he has ideas: up to three suggestions for play. None are required, and none expire. • Now and then, mid-sniff, he finds a four-leaf clover. Statistics disagree. He doesn’t do statistics. • Play on consecutive days and his medallion gets an engraving: a star, a heart, a moon, a sun. One rest day a week doesn’t break the streak. • After 30 days in the park he gets a party hat, and autumn brings turning trees and piles of leaves. DRESS UP YOUR PUPPY AT THE HONESTY STALL • By the gate stands a stall of scarves, hats, glasses, collars and balls – plus things for the park: a new roof, a bowl with his name on it, a blanket he’ll happily nap on. • Try everything first – on him or in the park. He’ll let you know what he thinks. • You pay in clovers, found and earned by playing. Everyday care earns none – petting him is not a job. • Some things can’t be bought at all. They’re earned with stamps, friendship and time together. KIND BY DESIGN • He never dies and never punishes you for having a life. While you’re away his needs drop slowly, and only so far. • At most one gentle notification a day, never at night, always about him – never about offers. Leave them unopened and they pause on their own. • Plays offline; only ads and purchases need a connection. • No ads in care. No subscription. No account. ADS AND PURCHASES – YOUR CHOICE In three places – the basket, the ideas and the stall – you can choose to watch a rewarded ad for a few extra clovers, at most four a day. From day two, a short ad may also pop up now and then at a pause – announced a moment before, at most four a day, never while you care for him. The ad network only starts if you agree. Purchases are optional and never touch care or play: the Golden Collar (every ad reward instantly, no ads at all), No Pop-up Ads and eight cosmetic bundles – Welcome Bundle, Rainbow, Starry Night, Park Scarves, Cottage, Lanterns, Autumn Bundle and Winter Bundle. After any purchase, ads never pop up again. No random rewards. Your puppy’s save stays on your phone. Ads come through Unity LevelPlay and its partners, who use data from this device to show and measure ads (details in the privacy policy). Your ad choice is always in Settings › Privacy and ads. Languages: English and Serbian (Latin).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixel Pet Paradise at none against Shapling's 10. Pixel Pet Paradise also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Shapling sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pixel Pet Paradise asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Pixel Pet Paradise | Shapling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Estrada | Djordje Subotic |
In-app purchases
Pixel Pet Paradise
No in-app purchases
Shapling
- Welcome Bundle$1.99
- Park Scarves$1.99
- Autumn Bundle$2.99
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- No Pop-up Ads$2.99
- Rainbow$2.99
- Starry Night$2.99
- Lanterns$2.99
- Winter Bundle$2.99
- Golden Collar$3.99
- Cottage$4.99









