Comparison

Eggling vs Cryptid Pets

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

Cryptid Pets

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Cryptid Pets is a cozy virtual pet game in the spirit of the classic keychain pets. Feed your cryptid, play mini games with it, and tuck it in to sleep under a starry night sky. Each pet gets hungry, bored and sleepy in real time, and the campsite gets messy, even while the app is closed, so check in often. MEET THE CRYPTIDS • Mothman, from a starlit meadow near Point Pleasant • Nessie, splashing on the shore of a moonlit Loch Ness • Bigfoot, wandering the misty redwoods of Bluff Creek • The Flatwoods Monster, under a hovering UFO in the West Virginia hills • Chupacabra, in a Puerto Rican rainforest full of chirping coquí frogs • The Jersey Devil, deep in the Pine Barrens (watch for eyes in the trees) HOW TO PLAY • Feed: keep the food meter topped up • Play: catch glowing fireflies with any cryptid, or play your cryptid's own unique games as they grow • Clean: sweep up crumbs, leaves and litter before the campsite gets messy. A tidy camp keeps your cryptid happier • Sleep: tuck your pet in to restore its energy while the campfire burns low • Grow: every cryptid starts as a baby. Keep it fed, played with, rested and tidy, and after some good care, it grows up into its adult form, with a little celebration to match. Growing up unlocks a third mini-game for that cryptid and earns it a gold star in your Field guide: • You can also name your pet! Give each cryptid a nickname by tapping its default name • Tap your pet for a wave and a little heart This game has no ads. It requires no accounts. There is no data collection. Even better, play from the train as it works completely offline.

Screenshots

Eggling4 screens
Cryptid Pets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cryptid Pets at none against Eggling's 10. Cryptid Pets also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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 10 one-off in-app purchases. Cryptid Pets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Eggling versus Cryptid Pets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEgglingCryptid Pets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiago MoraisBrittany Woods

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Eggling

One-time10
  • Lemon Shell$0.99
  • Blueberry Shell$0.99
  • Charcoal Shell$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Bun$1.99
  • Chick$1.99
  • Mog$1.99
  • Spook$1.99
  • Christmas$2.99
  • Easter$2.99
  • Everything$9.99
None

Cryptid Pets

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eggling free?
Eggling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cryptid Pets free?
Cryptid Pets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Eggling or Cryptid Pets have ads?
Neither Eggling nor Cryptid Pets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eggling or Cryptid Pets?
Eggling ships an update daily, and Cryptid Pets daily. Most recently, Eggling was updated on October 31, 2026 and Cryptid Pets on November 13, 2026.

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