Mimlo vs Shapling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mimlo
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A dog, a cat or a hare. A little home, everyday rituals and a story that grows with you. In Mimlo, adopt a 3D virtual companion and make time for the simple moments you share. YOUR LITTLE FAMILY, UNDER ONE ROOF Start with one companion, then welcome up to three pets into your home through additional adoptions sold separately as in-app purchases. They live together, while each keeps their own name, needs, personality and memories. Choose the companion you want to care for. LITTLE EVERYDAY RITUALS Serve some Mimlo Miam, offer a gentle stroke, play with the ball or make time for rest. Your companion heads to the bowl, takes breaks and responds to your care. The dog and cat lie down to sleep, then wake up to carry on with their little day. A HOME TO MAKE YOUR OWN Choose rugs, beds and food bowls. Three styles are included: First days, The blue hour and Soft earth. Mix individual items and preview your room before keeping your choices. Extra decorations and a larger home are optional in-app purchases. The starter home can accommodate all three companions: you do not need the large home to adopt more pets, and pet adoptions are not included with it. YOUR COMPANION, IN YOUR WORLD Bring your pet into augmented reality, at home or in the park. Place them on a surface, find your angle and take a photo. Keep the moment in your journal, save it to Photos or share it. A LITTLE FRESH AIR TOGETHER Start a walk with your iPhone. With your permission, Mimlo counts steps taken on that outing, without GPS routes or a required goal. Return home to your walk summary and sometimes a little discovery. A GROWING BOND Discover your companion’s personality through affection, play and walks. Your relationship develops through five stages. The album keeps your first meeting, meaningful moments of care, discoveries and the photos you choose to save. A SHARED HOME WITH SOMEONE WHO MATTERS Invite your partner or a friend to care for a companion in a household for two people. Find your shared care, activities, walks and photos you choose to share with the household. Your personal story stays separate. A shared household currently supports one pet. You cannot create one while your personal family includes several companions. A STORY TO COME BACK TO Your progress is saved on your iPhone. Sign in with Apple to enable automatic online backup or save manually, then recover your story on another iPhone. Personal journal photos stay on the device where you saved them. AT YOUR OWN PACE Personal care, decoration and memories remain available offline. Choose your reminders, household notifications, sounds and haptics in settings. Mimlo supports French and English and includes no advertising. In-app purchases are permanent and optional, with no subscription. The second and third companions, the large home and extra decorations are sold separately. Eligible purchases can be restored with the same Apple account. Online features require Internet access and Sign in with Apple; augmented reality requires a compatible iPhone. Terms of use: https://mimlo.mcsedition.org/en/terms/ Privacy: https://mimlo.mcsedition.org/en/privacy/
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 ads: Mimlo at none against Shapling's shown. Shapling's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 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
Both are free to download. Mimlo sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Shapling sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Mimlo | Shapling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | mcsEdition | Djordje Subotic |
In-app purchases
Mimlo
- Morning glow$1.99
- Garden pause$1.99
- Little treasures$1.99
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- Cozy home$2.99
- A second companion$3.99
- A third companion$3.99
- The large home$3.99
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








