Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game

Name: Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game
Rating: 4.6 (36566 reviews)
Author: Christian Selig

by Christian Selig

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 30 Aug 2026

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At a glance: From $1.59/mo
Free to download
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Graphics & Design
Lifestyle

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Key functions

Function	Availability	Access	Scope	Evidence
Family Sharing	Yes	Unknown	App Store	Store published
Free app	Yes	Free	—	Store published
In-app purchases	Yes	Limited free	—	Store published

Screens

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14 store screenshots

Pricing & paywalls

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Pixel Pals Premium Monthly BF — $1.59/month
Pixel Pals Premium Monthly BF — $11.99/year ($0.99/mo)
Pixel Pals Premium (Monthly) — $1.99/month
Pixel Pals Premium (Monthly) — $14.99/year ($1.24/mo)
Food Pack Large — $4.99
Food Pack Small — $0.99
Pixel Pals Premium (Lifetime) — $49.99
Premium Lifetime Black Friday — $48.49

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

Ratings & reviews

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4.6 36566 ratings · App Store

5/5Was cute before update, now even better
Before this recent update, all you got for free was just the virtual pet gif that kind just drifted around its little box. Was very mediocre and not unique. But now??? Holy cow I love this thing. It’s like a little tamagotchi on your phone, I freaking love it. I made a virtual version of my cat and I love how many options there are for interactions. They also added a ton of other widgets, the infinite scroll I don’t really understand, but the world explorer widget is so cute and fun. The pixel art has been upgraded and is so much cuter now, so much more detail. I freaking love this thing, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT FREE. Love it, very rarely you find an app you really like that isn’t constantly trying to squeeze a couple bucks outta you. Good on this app, well done. Only thing I don’t like that if you tap the screen too fast it will open up the app asking for money. Super annoying, especially for the infinite scroll game and the world explorer, like you want to move faster than 1 square a move but if you tap too fast it opens up the app and makes the game go away, super annoying.

killtherich666 · 30 Aug 2026
3/5Unfortunately buggy for iPad
As an avid Apollo user, I was excited to check out this app after the shutdown. I had never really bothered with the Pixel Pals feature baked into Apollo, but figured it was worth a shot anyway. I had no interest using this app on my iPhone, since I like to keep a minimal home screen, but figured this app would be perfect for my iPad, since widgets there aren’t required to have an eye-searing label telling you the name of the app under them. Upon installing the app, I was disappointed to see that most of the features were locked behind a subscription, but figured it was worth paying the couple bucks to check it out, at least. However, I ran into a few bugs that soured the experience for me. Unfortunately, while the photo background feature works fine, the “transparent” background seems to be completely borked on iPad. I tested it on my iPhone and it worked just fine, so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t at least try to apply the background. Additionally, I could never get certain information widgets (particularly Four Square) to work properly. Bugs aside, I wish there was a little more to do with the pets. I don’t expect a full Nintendogs-style pet sim but at least having something to do with them aside from looking at them would be nice, especially since the app is using a paid subscription model. Ultimately, I wanted to like this app a lot more than I did, and assuming that some of these issues can be fixed, I would love to put my Pixel Pal back on my home screen.

anonymous93104 · 30 Aug 2026
3/5Really Awesome, a couple things though (updated to 3)
Hi! I recently got the app and loved it immediately. The cat (Hugo) looked exactly like my cat at home! However, the first thing I see when I open the app is the chance to buy premium. I don’t think much of it, and look for the button to close the screen. Now, I’m not sure if this is just my (discontinued) iPod Touch’s fault, but the top part was completely cut off, so if there was a close button, I wouldn’t have seen it! I had to forcequit the app just to add the cat to my screen. After that, it was smooth sailing except for the fact that anytime I opened the app, it kept asking me to rate it! Like, once in a while is fine, but after I was gone for literally 5 seconds? Not cool. Eventually, I decided to just hit the button and write a review, when I saw in the description that I can change the name of my pet. Again, not sure if this is my device’s fault, but I could not figure out how to do this. Finally, I noticed that the actions are basically the same thing. Walk and run are the same, as well as lie down and crouch. Only sleep is unique, and the only difference between that and lie down is the Z’s that float from the pet’s head. Anyway, that’s why I gave it 3 stars. Overall an amazing app, just a few bugs that need to be worked out!

Amanwholoves · 30 Aug 2026
2/5Would like more free options
First things first I do like this game. It is a super cute accessory for my phone! But I have an Axolotl Irl (pink dirty face named Noodle if anyone cares🤣) And I was really exited to have a virtual version of her on my phone! But nope. I have to pay to have a lil dinky Axolotl on my phone. I feel you should be able to have a few more options or all of them to be free. Or (I know people won’t agree with me) but to watch an ad or two (possibly more) to get the pal of your choice! I would give this more stars after I explore the game a bit more but it’s just a little bit frustrating for me. This has a ton of potential but I wish it was more affordable. Fix this and I will happily consider not deleting. Thank you for reading! 🫶 Edit: I wish I could play and feed my pet from the Home Screen rather than going back to the app. I also feel the opening screen to the app is overwhelming and flashy. I know I am being critical but please fix these! Edit 2: morph. I unlocked a morph for kit (Hugo) and I don’t know how to access it. If it is a premium bonus I don’t see why it should be. Please make this more accessible I am not very happy with the game(I have grown attached to kit so I’m keeping it😅😂)this was ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Now I think it falls at a ⭐️⭐️1/2 so pretend it is😅 3 okay still two and one half but WHY CAN YOU ONLY ACSES (I know it’s spelt wrong🤫MORPH THROUGH WIDGETS!!!??? My friend is a bigminimalist so she doesn’t love widgets she ended up deleting the app. I hate how this works and the only reason I’m keeping it is cuz Kit looks like my Cat and I love her 😅😂

🫶TwirlyGirly🫶 · 30 Aug 2026
4/5A nice accessory
I’ve been looking for a widget pet for a while now that is easy to check on and this is it. On most other apps you have to open the app and physically take care of the pet and watch adds to get food and I really don’t want a care pet game more so than just a cute widget add on. I usually don’t write reviews but I figured if I was looking for something that take seconds to take care of and is just overall not much of a care game than someone else probably is too. While the car is super easy there is a decent bit to do that keeps me coming back if I am in more of a mood to care for it for a longer period of time than needed. It’s the little things that matter and this game keeps me coming back because you don’t just log on to bathe and feed it and have 3 adds littered between all of those to get the items necessary for it. If you don’t feel forced to pay your more apt to do it and I probably will.

xXTheQueenBeeXx · 30 Aug 2026

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Versions

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1.12.11
Fixes a bug that could occur with widget info backgrounds not displaying/showing up
1.12.12
Fixes a weird crash that could occur
1.2.10
Fixes a bug where backgrounds sometimes wouldn’t show in widgets
1.2.8
Fixes a bug that could come up with the Apollo Pixel Pal
1.2.9
Accessibility improvements
2.0
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! - Christian
2.0.10
Fixes a few bugs that could occur in the widget
2.0.11
Fixes a few more bugs around widgets and implement Black Friday deal details
2.0.12
Adds a new interactive widget: Trivia Pal!
2.0.13
Fixes a bug with the new Trivia Pal widget
2.0.14
This version of Pixel Pals includes a bunch of iOS 18 improvements, from watchOS Live Activity support, to tinted icons, and tinted widgets!
2.0.15
This version of Pixel Pals includes a bunch of iOS 18 improvements, from watchOS Live Activity support, to tinted icons, and tinted widgets! 2.0.15 specifically includes fixes for iOS 17 devices.
2.0.16
Fixes bug with iOS 18 and widgets/Live Activities!
2.0.17
Fix for widgets and Live Activities on iOS 18
2.0.18
Live Activities/Dynamic Island bug fixes plus minor widget tweaks.
2.0.19
Fixes for widgets and Live Activities.
2.0.2
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.2 fixes a few bugs that were reported, thank ya!) - Christian
2.0.20
Introduces some fixes for newer iPhones, improves transparency support for widgets on home screen, makes pals slightly larger in Dynamic Island, supports dark mode for Language Pal (thanks SiQing!), as well as other misc bug fixes!
2.0.21 · 11 Nov 2025
iOS 26 fixes and a few little quality of life improvements!
2.0.3
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.3 fixes some bugs with StandBy Mode, the Apollo pal disappearing for some folks, and a few other fixes to bugs folks were kind enough to report!) - Christian
2.0.4
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.4 fixes some bugs with StandBy Mode, the Apollo pal disappearing for some folks, improves the live activity when the phone locks, boundary detection in PixelQuest, lets you go further in Eternal Stroll. Improved widget background support coming soon!) - Christian
2.0.5
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.5 adds back widget background customizing, fixes some bugs with StandBy Mode, the Apollo pal disappearing for some folks, improves the live activity when the phone locks, boundary detection in PixelQuest, lets you go further in Eternal Stroll, fixes some issue with pal colors, how currency is displayed, sheep being shy in standby mode, and pals sometimes showing up as a pure white color in the widget gallery) - Christian
2.0.6
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.5 adds back widget background customizing, fixes some bugs with StandBy Mode, the Apollo pal disappearing for some folks, improves the live activity when the phone locks, boundary detection in PixelQuest, lets you go further in Eternal Stroll, fixes some issue with pal colors, how currency is displayed, sheep being shy in standby mode, pals sometimes showing up as a pure white color in the widget gallery, and an issue with transparency mode) - Christian
2.0.7
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.5 adds back widget background customizing, fixes some bugs with StandBy Mode, the Apollo pal disappearing for some folks, improves the live activity when the phone locks, boundary detection in PixelQuest, lets you go further in Eternal Stroll, fixes some issue with pal colors, how currency is displayed, sheep being shy in standby mode, pals sometimes showing up as a pure white color in the widget gallery, an issue with transparency mode, and an issue with the calendar widget) - Christian
2.0.9
Welcome to Pixel Pals 2.0, upgraded in every way! - New fully interactive home screen widgets, from a full virtual pets experience, to 2048, to full exploration games, fidget spinners, mechanical keyboards, and more! - Ability to add friends and see their Pixel Pals on your home screen too, and even fight them! - StandBy Mode support, so you can count sheep as you sleep, or hang out with your Pixel Pals as your phone charges on your desk. - New animals and Morphs! The more your Pal loves you, the more Morphs you can unlock! - Farming and seeds to grow food! Hope you love the update! (2.0.9 adds Language Pal, an interactive language learning widget, as well as a bunch of bug fixes, like making more options visible for the small Pixel Pals home screen widget, and fixes a weird loading issue that could occur) - Christian

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          "title": "Was cute before update, now even better",
          "body": "Before this recent update, all you got for free was just the virtual pet gif that kind just drifted around its little box. Was very mediocre and not unique. But now??? Holy cow I love this thing. It’s like a little tamagotchi on your phone, I freaking love it. I made a virtual version of my cat and I love how many options there are for interactions. They also added a ton of other widgets, the infinite scroll I don’t really understand, but the world explorer widget is so cute and fun. The pixel art has been upgraded and is so much cuter now, so much more detail. I freaking love this thing, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT FREE. Love it, very rarely you find an app you really like that isn’t constantly trying to squeeze a couple bucks outta you. Good on this app, well done. Only thing I don’t like that if you tap the screen too fast it will open up the app asking for money. Super annoying, especially for the infinite scroll game and the world explorer, like you want to move faster than 1 square a move but if you tap too fast it opens up the app and makes the game go away, super annoying.",
          "author": "killtherich666",
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          "body": "As an avid Apollo user, I was excited to check out this app after the shutdown. I had never really bothered with the Pixel Pals feature baked into Apollo, but figured it was worth a shot anyway. I had no interest using this app on my iPhone, since I like to keep a minimal home screen, but figured this app would be perfect for my iPad, since widgets there aren’t required to have an eye-searing label telling you the name of the app under them. Upon installing the app, I was disappointed to see that most of the features were locked behind a subscription, but figured it was worth paying the couple bucks to check it out, at least. However, I ran into a few bugs that soured the experience for me. Unfortunately, while the photo background feature works fine, the “transparent” background seems to be completely borked on iPad. I tested it on my iPhone and it worked just fine, so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t at least try to apply the background. Additionally, I could never get certain information widgets (particularly Four Square) to work properly. Bugs aside, I wish there was a little more to do with the pets. I don’t expect a full Nintendogs-style pet sim but at least having something to do with them aside from looking at them would be nice, especially since the app is using a paid subscription model. Ultimately, I wanted to like this app a lot more than I did, and assuming that some of these issues can be fixed, I would love to put my Pixel Pal back on my home screen.",
          "author": "anonymous93104",
          "date": "30 Aug 2026"
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          "body": "Hi! I recently got the app and loved it immediately. The cat (Hugo) looked exactly like my cat at home! However, the first thing I see when I open the app is the chance to buy premium. I don’t think much of it, and look for the button to close the screen. Now, I’m not sure if this is just my (discontinued) iPod Touch’s fault, but the top part was completely cut off, so if there was a close button, I wouldn’t have seen it! I had to forcequit the app just to add the cat to my screen. After that, it was smooth sailing except for the fact that anytime I opened the app, it kept asking me to rate it! Like, once in a while is fine, but after I was gone for literally 5 seconds? Not cool. Eventually, I decided to just hit the button and write a review, when I saw in the description that I can change the name of my pet. Again, not sure if this is my device’s fault, but I could not figure out how to do this. Finally, I noticed that the actions are basically the same thing. Walk and run are the same, as well as lie down and crouch. Only sleep is unique, and the only difference between that and lie down is the Z’s that float from the pet’s head. Anyway, that’s why I gave it 3 stars. Overall an amazing app, just a few bugs that need to be worked out!",
          "author": "Amanwholoves",
          "date": "30 Aug 2026"
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          "body": "First things first I do like this game. It is a super cute accessory for my phone! But I have an Axolotl Irl (pink dirty face named Noodle if anyone cares🤣) And I was really exited to have a virtual version of her on my phone! But nope. I have to pay to have a lil dinky Axolotl on my phone. I feel you should be able to have a few more options or all of them to be free. Or (I know people won’t agree with me) but to watch an ad or two (possibly more) to get the pal of your choice! I would give this more stars after I explore the game a bit more but it’s just a little bit frustrating for me. This has a ton of potential but I wish it was more affordable. Fix this and I will happily consider not deleting. Thank you for reading! 🫶 Edit: I wish I could play and feed my pet from the Home Screen rather than going back to the app. I also feel the opening screen to the app is overwhelming and flashy. I know I am being critical but please fix these! Edit 2: morph. I unlocked a morph for kit (Hugo) and I don’t know how to access it. If it is a premium bonus I don’t see why it should be. Please make this more accessible I am not very happy with the game(I have grown attached to kit so I’m keeping it😅😂)this was ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Now I think it falls at a ⭐️⭐️1/2 so pretend it is😅 3 okay still two and one half but WHY CAN YOU ONLY ACSES (I know it’s spelt wrong🤫MORPH THROUGH WIDGETS!!!??? My friend is a bigminimalist so she doesn’t love widgets she ended up deleting the app. I hate how this works and the only reason I’m keeping it is cuz Kit looks like my Cat and I love her 😅😂",
          "author": "🫶TwirlyGirly🫶",
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          "body": "I’ve been looking for a widget pet for a while now that is easy to check on and this is it. On most other apps you have to open the app and physically take care of the pet and watch adds to get food and I really don’t want a care pet game more so than just a cute widget add on. I usually don’t write reviews but I figured if I was looking for something that take seconds to take care of and is just overall not much of a care game than someone else probably is too. While the car is super easy there is a decent bit to do that keeps me coming back if I am in more of a mood to care for it for a longer period of time than needed. It’s the little things that matter and this game keeps me coming back because you don’t just log on to bathe and feed it and have 3 adds littered between all of those to get the items necessary for it. If you don’t feel forced to pay your more apt to do it and I probably will.",
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