Pip vs Petwhile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pip
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Meet Pip, a cozy pocket pet that hatches on your iPhone and grows up with you. LOOK AFTER PIP • Tap its head for a pat, tickle its tummy, and stroke it until the hearts fly. • Hand-feed it from the food tray: kibble, berries, a carrot (expect a face) and the odd cookie. • Muddy after playing outside? Scrub, rinse and watch Pip shake itself dry in the bath. • Tuck it in at bedtime. Pip never dies, and its needs drift gently while you're away. SIX GAMES TO PLAY TOGETHER • Zoomies: dash down the garden path, hop over flower pots, duck under washing lines and go around hedges. • Bounce: climb from the garden to the stars, float up on balloons, and let a leaf catch a fall. • Kickabout: tilt to dribble and shoot past Pip, who's in goal. • Hide and seek: look for peeking ears and listen for giggles, even with the lights out. • Pond Slide: a brain puzzle. Slide Pip across the ice and home in as few moves as you can. • Paw Trail: a brain puzzle. Draw one path through every clover patch and into bed. Both puzzles adapt as you play: solve cleanly and the next level gets trickier; get stuck and it eases off. ON YOUR WRIST AND IN YOUR SPACE • Apple Watch: check on Pip, feed it, pat it and tuck it in, and turn the Digital Crown to roll its ball. Add Pip to your watch face to see how it's doing. • Apple Vision Pro: set Pip on your table in 3D, or step into Pip's World, a twilight garden where you play hide and seek all around you. MAKE IT YOURS • Earn coins by caring and playing, then dress Pip up and decorate its room. • Power-ups for every game, bought with coins or in packs. • Optional packs of outfits, furniture, room themes and new friends. What you see is what you get: nothing is random. ALSO • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with a Feed button. • Say "Feed my Pip" to Siri. • A scrapbook of photos and milestones. • Plays on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, and your pet syncs through iCloud. Packs you buy work on all of them. • No ads. No tracking.
Petwhile
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What do your pets get up to when you're not home? Now you can find out. Peek at the pet cam and catch them napping in odd places, chasing each other from room to room and staring very hard at a bird. Then walk in the door to the happiest hello of your day. Petwhile is a cozy pixel art world of cats and dogs with minds of their own. THE BEST PART OF YOUR DAY Come home and they come running. Tails up, hearts flying, and maybe a little gift left on the floor just for you. THEY NEVER SIT STILL Zoomies. Sunbathing. Knocking things off shelves. Your pets keep busy whether you're watching or not, and every time you come back there's a story of what you missed. WHO'S THAT AT THE WINDOW Cardinals on the sill. A raccoon in the yard. A shy stray who keeps coming back. Win their trust and they might just move in. MAKE IT YOURS • Adopt cats and dogs, each with a personality you uncover over time • Dress them up in hats, collars and scarves • Move from a city apartment to a cabin, a house and a big old barn • Fill your Field Guide with every visitor you spot • Fill your Scrapbook with every first • Toss treats, blow bubbles and roll a ball right from the camera • Keep an eye on them from your Home Screen with the Room Cam widget MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open the phone and watch two cameras side by side. NO PRESSURE, EVER A few minutes a day is plenty. No streaks to lose. No guilt. Miss a day and your pets are just happy to see you. No ads. No account. Optional in-app purchases for kibble and item bundles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Petwhile at every 2 days against Pip's every 4 days. Pip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Pip sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Petwhile sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pip ships an update every 4 days, Petwhile every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pip | Petwhile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strategy loom llc | Lanely Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
Pip
- Bounce Power Pack$0.99
- Zoomies Power Pack$0.99
- Hide & Seek Power Pack$0.99
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- Kickabout Power Pack$0.99
- Royal Wardrobe$1.99
- Seaside Room$1.99
- Ember$2.99
- Cozy Room$2.99
- Holiday Set$2.99
- Power-Up Big Box$4.99
Petwhile
- Scoop of Kibble$0.99
- Starter Bundle$1.99
- Bubble Day Bundle$1.99
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- Little Surprise Bundle$1.99
- Bag of Kibble$2.99
- Cozy Night Bundle$2.99
- Autumn Bundle$2.99
- Sack of Kibble$5.99
- Pantry of Kibble$9.99









