PeTalk vs Tekno/Teksta Kitty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PeTalk
This app displays your pet's thoughts in a speech bubble, facilitating inter-species communication. View your pet on screen with their thoughts via your device's camera and share these amusing insights with friends. Compatible with Apple Watch, Mac, and Alexa devices.
- Pet thought bubbles
- Camera view with speech bubbles
- Dog and Cat Modes
- Share pet thoughts
- Apple Watch app
- Mac app
- Alexa skill
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Wondering what your pet is thinking? Try PeTalk! PeTalk reveals your pet's inner thoughts in a speech bubble, easing your inter-species communication. Your pet is even on the screen with their speech bubble using your camera! It's a real tail wagger for dog lovers, and purr-fect for cat lovers! Simply open the app, choose Dog mode or Cat mode, and put your pet perfectly in frame. Then select the paw print to learn what your pet is thinking-- it's that easy! You can even share your pet's hilarious thoughts with your friends: once you have your pet in the perfect pose with the perfect thought, select the camera button and share away! Plus, with our Apple Watch app, you can know your pet's thoughts while you're on the go, and our Mac app lets you use your computer to capture your pet's inner musings-- and you can enable the PeTalk skill for Alexa devices too! “Finally! A fun and easy way to unleash my inner Dr. Doolittle!” - Laura Amy Schlitz, two-time Newbery winning author. If you find a bug, want to see a feature in PeTalk, or just want to say hi, use the PeTalk Support form at bit.ly/PeTalkSupport.
Tekno/Teksta Kitty
This app brings a smart and funny virtual pet to life, allowing you to interact with it through various commands and activities. You can teach it tricks, feed it, and even have it wake you up with an alarm. It's designed to mimic the behavior of a real kitten.
- Sing & Dance
- Bark Control
- Motion Control
- Teach Tricks
- Custom Animations
- Compose Melodies
- Set Alarm
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Get TEKNO / TEKSTA Kitty and you will find he is amazingly smart and funny! With this app, he can do even more!! App Features Sing & Dance – Start the Kitty to sing and dance! Bark Control – Choose how often the Kitty will roar. Motion Control – Choose how often the Kitty will walk. Tricks – Choose from the list and teach the Kitty some tricks. Feeding – Choose a foods for your Kitty to eat! Robotic Friends - Call to a Kitty friend for your Kitty. Animation - Choose custom actions for Kitty. Piano - Compose a melody for your Kitty to sing. Set Alarm - Set a alarm and the Kitty will wake you up. More features will be included in future updates. Works with iPad®. (Note: Not all functions of the app work with older devices.) For best performance, make sure: • your tablet’s speaker is facing TEKNO/TEKSTA • your tablet’s volume is not mute and turned all the way up • your tablet’s other apps are turned off • the environment is not too noisy More about the TEKNO/TEKSTA product TEKNO/TEKSTA is a real robot who responds to your voice, actions, motions, lights, sounds and even this app. Thanks to his artificial intelligence program, the Kitty will bark, cry, whine and change his eye patterns in ways to show how he's feeling. He also has state-of-the-art sensors to know if he's being pet, fed, talked to, and played with. He will fall asleep when the sun goes down and will wake up happy to see you. In short, he acts just like a real Kitty. The Kitty features hand gesturing control. With simple movements of your hand, you can command him to stop, sit, and throw a bone. But, deep inside his programming, TEKNO/TEKSTA is still an 8 week old Kitty.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tekno/Teksta Kitty at 5.0 against PeTalk's 4.2. Tekno/Teksta Kitty also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). PeTalk's advantage is ratings volume (445 vs 3) and review sentiment (43% vs 20%). On price and ads 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. PeTalk sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tekno/Teksta Kitty asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tekno/Teksta Kitty holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PeTalk has 445 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of PeTalk's written reviews are positive against 20% of Tekno/Teksta Kitty's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PeTalk ships an update every 4 months, Tekno/Teksta Kitty every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PeTalk | Tekno/Teksta Kitty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (445 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 445 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 191 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tech-A-Potamus | Innomind Solution Company Limited |
Customer experience
PeTalk
Tekno/Teksta Kitty
In-app purchases
PeTalk
- Kind Donation$0.99
- Generous Donation$2.99
- Magnificent Donation$4.99
Tekno/Teksta Kitty
No in-app purchases
Questions
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