PatternMaker vs Playing with Puffer fish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PatternMaker
Create unique, personalized pattern wallpapers using your name. This app offers a simple, one-click process to generate custom designs for icons or crests.
- Create original pattern wallpapers
- Use your name for designs
- Simple one or two character input
- One-click creation
- Suitable for icons and crests
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You can make your original pattern from your name. It's good for icon and good for crest. Very easy to make. Just put one or two character from your name. And click "Create" button. Very easy !! Try this now !!
Playing with Puffer fish
Interact with adorable pufferfish by touching them on screen. Improve their mood by playing and feeding them. Earn points to unlock new backgrounds and watch your pufferfish grow over time.
- Interactive pufferfish gameplay
- Mood management system
- Feeding mechanics
- Unlockable background images
- Pufferfish growth over time
- Ad-supported gameplay
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An app that can be raised to be able to touch cute Puffer fish. Let's heal with a cute Puffer fish. ■ By sliding the screen you can play with Puffer fish in the sense that you put your finger in the water. When playing with Puffer fish "Mood" goes up. When the "mood" is low, it swells and bulges. ■ When "mood" is bad, Puffer fish does not eat food. Let's give food after touching and improving "mood". Feeding can be given with a sense that actually feeds food with tweezers. Drag tweezers and you want Puffer fish to feed I will rush but I will give you a point You can get at high speed. Sometimes I threw a rush, Let's feed with Puffer fish while playing points. ■ You can get the background image at the point you did. Puffer fish will grow day by day even when you exit the application so let's enjoy it while enjoying it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Playing with Puffer fish at 4.2 against PatternMaker's 3.4. PatternMaker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Playing with Puffer fish holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of PatternMaker's written reviews are positive against 63% of Playing with Puffer fish's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PatternMaker ships an update every 2 months, Playing with Puffer fish every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PatternMaker | Playing with Puffer fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (7 ratings) | 4.2 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.6% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sho Kurozumi | Yamabus |
Customer experience
PatternMaker
Playing with Puffer fish
In-app purchases
PatternMaker
No in-app purchases
Playing with Puffer fish
No in-app purchases
Questions
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