Comparison

Eggling vs Nubi

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Nubi

Features
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Nubi is a virtual pet that lives in real time. It gets hungry while you are at work, sleepy at night, and a little bored when you forget it. Come back a few times a day and it grows up right in front of you. A PET THAT ACTUALLY GROWS • Day by day milestones: a first hair, a first tooth, braces, a growth spurt • 50 forms to discover in the album, shaped by how you care for it • Four traits, Gourmet, Sparkle, Dreamer and Rascal, that change its look and mood • Bond that builds over weeks, not minutes CARE THAT FEELS REAL • Feed from a pantry of snacks and meals • Wash with real lather: scrub, rinse, sparkle • Tuck it in for a nap and let energy refill • Pet it, talk to it, keep its streak alive SIX MINI GAMES Catch snacks, match pairs, hunt socks, repeat the rhythm, stack blocks, spot the odd one out. Every round fills Fun and pays coins by score. Two free rounds per game every day. DAILY TASKS AND COINS Three small tasks each day. Finish them for coins and a bond bonus. Spend coins on 14 hats, 5 buddies, 8 room decorations and 7 rooms. Coin packs are optional and there are no ads, ever. ON YOUR WRIST Nubi comes with an Apple Watch app. Check how your pet is doing, feed it or pet it straight from your wrist. Add a complication and your pet sits right on your watch face, changing as it grows. WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your pet and its needs, and let you snack or pet it without opening the app. SHARE Story and post cards with today's numbers, ready for Instagram. Made for anyone who misses their Tamagotchi. Free to play, offline friendly, no account needed. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bamstudio.dev/privacy/nubi/

Screenshots

Eggling4 screens
Nubi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Eggling at daily against Nubi's fortnightly. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Eggling sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Nubi sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eggling ships an update daily, Nubi fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Eggling versus Nubi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEgglingNubi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiago MoraisElif Aleyna Alparslan

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Eggling

One-time12
  • Lemon Shell$0.99
  • Grape Shell$0.99
  • Seafoam Shell$0.99
Show 9 more
  • 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
4 purchases

Nubi

One-time4
  • 100 coins · Handful$0.99
  • 300 coins · Pouch$2.99
  • 800 coins · Bag$6.99
Show 1 more
  • 2000 coins · Chest$14.99

Questions

Is Eggling free?
Eggling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nubi free?
Nubi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Eggling or Nubi have ads?
Neither Eggling nor Nubi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eggling or Nubi?
Eggling ships an update daily, and Nubi fortnightly. Most recently, Eggling was updated on October 31, 2026 and Nubi on October 31, 2026.

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