Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game Hack 2.0.9 + Redeem Codes
Cute dynamic standby animals
Developer: Christian Selig
Category: Graphics & Design
Price: Free
Version: 2.0.9
ID: com.christian.PixelPals
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Description
Pixel Pals is an incredible app for customizing your Home Screen and Lock Screen, as well as Live Activities, allowing you to place adorable pets called Pixel Pals that you can customize and enjoy as you swipe through your apps or unlock your phone, making each interaction just that much happier!
They're beautiful pixel art renditions of animals, a nostalgic art style that's really delightful to take in.
Pixel Pals includes a variety of animals for you to customize and enjoy:
- Dog (named Rupert)
- Cat (named Hugo)
- Hedgehog (named Chortley)
- Fox (named Finnegan)
- Axolotl (named Mochi)
- Otter (named Nugget)
- Bat (named Fu-Fu)
- Parrot (named Kiwi)
- Tiger (named Herbert)
- Platypus (named Penny)
- Panda (named Poe)
- Raccoon (named Oliver)
- Butterfly (named Freya)
- T-Rex (named Rory)
- Bunny (named Thumper)
- Red Panda (named Bao)
- Pet Rock (named Dwayne)
- Penguin (named Bubbles)
You can also change any of the names!
The dog and cat are included for all, and Pixel Pals Premium includes the other pals, as well as the option to pin two animals at once for supported devices.
This app offers subscriptions for "Pixel Pals Premium". They're available (in United States pricing) for $1.49 monthly or $9.99 yearly. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period (and charged to your iTunes account). You can turn off auto-renew/manage subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use can be found at https://pixelpals.app/terms and Privacy Policy can be found at https://pixelpals.app/privacy
They're beautiful pixel art renditions of animals, a nostalgic art style that's really delightful to take in.
Pixel Pals includes a variety of animals for you to customize and enjoy:
- Dog (named Rupert)
- Cat (named Hugo)
- Hedgehog (named Chortley)
- Fox (named Finnegan)
- Axolotl (named Mochi)
- Otter (named Nugget)
- Bat (named Fu-Fu)
- Parrot (named Kiwi)
- Tiger (named Herbert)
- Platypus (named Penny)
- Panda (named Poe)
- Raccoon (named Oliver)
- Butterfly (named Freya)
- T-Rex (named Rory)
- Bunny (named Thumper)
- Red Panda (named Bao)
- Pet Rock (named Dwayne)
- Penguin (named Bubbles)
You can also change any of the names!
The dog and cat are included for all, and Pixel Pals Premium includes the other pals, as well as the option to pin two animals at once for supported devices.
This app offers subscriptions for "Pixel Pals Premium". They're available (in United States pricing) for $1.49 monthly or $9.99 yearly. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period (and charged to your iTunes account). You can turn off auto-renew/manage subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use can be found at https://pixelpals.app/terms and Privacy Policy can be found at https://pixelpals.app/privacy
Version history
2.0.9
2023-10-18
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
- 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
2.0.7
2023-10-05
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
- 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
2.0.6
2023-10-03
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
- 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
2.0.5
2023-10-03
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
- 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
2.0.4
2023-09-29
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
- 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
2.0.3
2023-09-26
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
- 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
2.0.2
2023-09-22
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
- 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
2023-09-21
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
- 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
1.12.12
2023-08-11
Fixes a weird crash that could occur
1.12.11
2023-08-02
Fixes a bug that could occur with widget info backgrounds not displaying/showing up
1.2.10
2023-07-29
Fixes a bug where backgrounds sometimes wouldn’t show in widgets
1.2.9
2023-07-25
Accessibility improvements
1.2.8
2023-07-24
Fixes a bug that could come up with the Apollo Pixel Pal
1.2.7
2023-07-24
Fixes a bug that could occur with unlocking the Apollo Pixel Pal.
1.2.6
2023-07-23
Fixes a bug that could happen with the Apollo Pixel Pal!
1.2.5
2023-07-19
Fixes bugs with “mini” phones
1.2.4
2023-06-30
If you have pixel pals in Apollo, you'll be able to update the app over there and now migrate them into here! Also adds a fun easter egg as a result!
1.2.3
2023-06-18
Fixes a bug that could occur when playing with Thumper.
1.2.2
2023-04-09
Introducing Thumper the bunny, a new friend to grace your device who has hopped all the way here from distant lands, just in time for Easter!
1.2.1
2023-02-01
This update adds three new Pixel Pals to the family!
- Kermy the Borzoi (fun easter egg in his stats screen!), an adorable dog of recent fame and fanfare for their long, cute faces
- Freya the Butterfly, a beautifully colorful and the first insect to join the party!
- Rory the T-Rex has emerged from what many thought to be extinction to be your friend
This update also addresses a few bug fixes that folks reported, and adds a Lifetime unlock option for Premium at the very bottom if that's your jam.
- Kermy the Borzoi (fun easter egg in his stats screen!), an adorable dog of recent fame and fanfare for their long, cute faces
- Freya the Butterfly, a beautifully colorful and the first insect to join the party!
- Rory the T-Rex has emerged from what many thought to be extinction to be your friend
This update also addresses a few bug fixes that folks reported, and adds a Lifetime unlock option for Premium at the very bottom if that's your jam.
1.2
2023-02-01
This update adds three new Pixel Pals to the family!
- Kermy the Borzoi (fun easter egg in his stats screen!), an adorable dog of recent fame and fanfare for their long, cute faces
- Freya the Butterfly, a beautifully colorful and the first insect to join the party!
- Rory the T-Rex has emerged from what many thought to be extinction to be your friend
This update also addresses a few bug fixes, and adds a Lifetime unlock option for Premium at the very bottom if that's your jam.
- Kermy the Borzoi (fun easter egg in his stats screen!), an adorable dog of recent fame and fanfare for their long, cute faces
- Freya the Butterfly, a beautifully colorful and the first insect to join the party!
- Rory the T-Rex has emerged from what many thought to be extinction to be your friend
This update also addresses a few bug fixes, and adds a Lifetime unlock option for Premium at the very bottom if that's your jam.
1.1.19
2023-01-26
A few bug fixes to how the animals dance about.
1.1.18
2023-01-23
In addition to Oliver the delightful raccoon, this update also features some bug fixes.
1.1.17
2023-01-23
A few bug fixes to make Oliver even happier.
1.1.16
2023-01-21
A few more bug fixes.
Cheat Codes for In-App Purchases
| Item | Price | iPhone/iPad | Android |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pixel Pals Premium (Yearly) (Yearly subscription to Pixel Pals Premium) |
Free |
JC113572171✱✱✱✱✱ | 4A28782✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Pixel Pals Premium (Monthly) (Monthly subscription to Pixel Pals Premium) |
Free |
JC591442984✱✱✱✱✱ | F611903✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Premium Lifetime Black Friday (Unlocks Pixel Pals Premium for lifetime) |
Free |
JC239332845✱✱✱✱✱ | 0D9D3BC✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Food Pack Small (A small pack of food for your pal) |
Free |
JC872912557✱✱✱✱✱ | FB43B7A✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Food Pack Large (A large pack of food for your pal) |
Free |
JC751858499✱✱✱✱✱ | F76FA8B✱✱✱✱✱ |
| Pixel Pals Premium (Lifetime) (Lifetime unlock for Pixel Pals Premium) |
Free |
JC591679307✱✱✱✱✱ | 3247DEF✱✱✱✱✱ |
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Ratings
4.6 out of 5
17.8K Ratings
Reviews
PBcolts23,
Great use of the Dynamic Island
Christian is known for making wonderful, useful, intuitive apps (like Apollo…RIP) and this app is no exception. He made it super easy to pick any pixel pal you want (of which there are many), name it, and it’ll hang out in the dynamic island waiting for you to interact with him/her while you go about your day - you can feed it, play games together, or just scroll the web and other apps and your little buddy is right there with you in the dynamic island the whole time. I’m looking forward to watching this app mature but it’s already really wonderful, and with Christian at the helm I’m sure it’ll only get even better with time.
Amanwholoves,
Really 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!
RaevynReaper,
Suuuuuuuper buggy right now
Edit to 3*- After the most recent updates, it looks like the subscription bug is fixed. I’m personally still having syncing issues between Apollo and Pixel Pals, where it’s not showing the right pet or stats. However, it’s light years better than it was when it released. It’s actually working smoothly aside from the syncing issue.
There’s still the concern of losing all of our food and progress from Apollo usage, and I haven’t heard if that will or can be rectified. At least the food… That was a LOT to lose.
We’re losing the Pals that we have already grown through Apollo, losing the food that’s been gained, losing all of our stats, and there’s issues with the subscription process. It’s just bug laden right now. I know it will get fixed, but for the time being, I’ve gotta give it 1 star. Definitely wait for another update if you’ve already put time in to Pixel Pals via Apollo. Even if you haven’t, I would still wait so you don’t have a headache with the subscription issue.
There’s still the concern of losing all of our food and progress from Apollo usage, and I haven’t heard if that will or can be rectified. At least the food… That was a LOT to lose.
We’re losing the Pals that we have already grown through Apollo, losing the food that’s been gained, losing all of our stats, and there’s issues with the subscription process. It’s just bug laden right now. I know it will get fixed, but for the time being, I’ve gotta give it 1 star. Definitely wait for another update if you’ve already put time in to Pixel Pals via Apollo. Even if you haven’t, I would still wait so you don’t have a headache with the subscription issue.
xXTheQueenBeeXx,
A 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.
Brenda2817,
So cute!! Very minor issues
I got this app because of the pixel pals added onto the iphone 14 and was jealoussss!
I never write app reviews but this app is brand new so I’d like to take my time to do a first impression review and list my personal pros and cons about the new app.
Pros:
- super cute and works great!
- haven’t found any weird unfixable glitches or bugs so far
- perfect for those who want pixel pals without getting a whole new phone
Cons:
Purchases and small bug:
- you only have access to the cat and dog. If you want the other animals you have to pay either monthly or annually. As of right now they have a little sale for the prices so I was able to pay $10 for a year instead of the usual $15
- if you get premium, restart your phone to access the other animals in widgets. If you don’t a text will appear saying to buy the premium instead of your little buddy. This may be a bug but a fix is as simple as restarting your phone!
Personally preferences:
-pixel pal only shows in this app or on widgets, not always on your phone while using other apps like on the iphone 14 (i have a 13 pro)
-they are super small on the app which I think they could be a little bigger but cute none the less!
Other than that I have no complains! I tested out transparency backgrounds and it works perfect, super easy to set up. I hope this review helps and if I encounter any issues I will update!
I never write app reviews but this app is brand new so I’d like to take my time to do a first impression review and list my personal pros and cons about the new app.
Pros:
- super cute and works great!
- haven’t found any weird unfixable glitches or bugs so far
- perfect for those who want pixel pals without getting a whole new phone
Cons:
Purchases and small bug:
- you only have access to the cat and dog. If you want the other animals you have to pay either monthly or annually. As of right now they have a little sale for the prices so I was able to pay $10 for a year instead of the usual $15
- if you get premium, restart your phone to access the other animals in widgets. If you don’t a text will appear saying to buy the premium instead of your little buddy. This may be a bug but a fix is as simple as restarting your phone!
Personally preferences:
-pixel pal only shows in this app or on widgets, not always on your phone while using other apps like on the iphone 14 (i have a 13 pro)
-they are super small on the app which I think they could be a little bigger but cute none the less!
Other than that I have no complains! I tested out transparency backgrounds and it works perfect, super easy to set up. I hope this review helps and if I encounter any issues I will update!
joshvickerson,
Pointless Without Dynamic Island
The concept here is pretty good, but the execution is not great right now, particularly if you don’t have a device with the dynamic island. Without the dynamic island, the pets can only live in a widget outside of the app. Since widgets aren’t interactive, and don’t really allow animations, your pet will mostly sit there, unmoving.
The experience in the app is extremely limited, at the time of this review. I had a very difficult time figuring out how to interact with the pet at all, and it only lives on the home indicator at the bottom of the screen. You can feed and play with it, but there’s no real interaction after you choose what to feed it, or give it a ball or whatever. I understand this is a port of a feature built for Apollo (the Reddit app), but with the freedom of a dedicated app I expect much more, particularly when a paid subscription is involved.
As of this writing, it also doesn’t reliably sync Pixel Pals stats between Apollo and this dedicated app. At least if it could do that I’d be able to enjoy my Pixel Pal in Apollo as well, but since the stats don’t sync, it kinda defeats the point.
Overall there’s a ton of potential here, and if you have a device with the Dynamic Island I’m sure the experience is much better, but without it, there’s virtually nothing on offer here. Maybe after a few updates I’ll give this another try, but until then, this was a waste of $10.
The experience in the app is extremely limited, at the time of this review. I had a very difficult time figuring out how to interact with the pet at all, and it only lives on the home indicator at the bottom of the screen. You can feed and play with it, but there’s no real interaction after you choose what to feed it, or give it a ball or whatever. I understand this is a port of a feature built for Apollo (the Reddit app), but with the freedom of a dedicated app I expect much more, particularly when a paid subscription is involved.
As of this writing, it also doesn’t reliably sync Pixel Pals stats between Apollo and this dedicated app. At least if it could do that I’d be able to enjoy my Pixel Pal in Apollo as well, but since the stats don’t sync, it kinda defeats the point.
Overall there’s a ton of potential here, and if you have a device with the Dynamic Island I’m sure the experience is much better, but without it, there’s virtually nothing on offer here. Maybe after a few updates I’ll give this another try, but until then, this was a waste of $10.
DUCKEEZ..,
Adorable app!! But…
Don’t me wrong..this is such an adorable idea for the new phones, they look cute on your island! But mine doesn’t stay on my island at all times it stays for maybe 15-20 minutes then I have to go back into the app so it will go back on(I have always stay on island on, there’s just no difference) Another thing is I wish more of the other animals were free or at least a little less(really liked the otter) the animals that aren’t free cost $13/a year or $2/ a month, I would much rather spend like $5 or even $10 to keep them forever and I feel like more people would feel the same way and I’m sure more money would be brought in if the people actually got to keep them forever instead of having to buy monthly or yearly. That is just my personal opinion, thank you for reading☺️
SonikSky,
Cool idea, nothing much more.
This almost feels like something that should be free. The price is a bit overboard for something that you can experience within 1 minute. There’s not much to do with your Pixel Pal. He doesn’t grow or do anything. You can’t randomize the animations so you need to manually set them each time. The pixel pal app doesn’t seem to connect to my pixel pal in Apollo. So now I have two separate Pixel Pals? I’d expect the Pals to maybe react to things on your phone. Like, when you get a notification why can’t your pixel pal be the one to notify you? I see so many missed opportunities and at a $9.99 a month more features should be there. Cool idea. Feels like a quick cash grab. Would be great if it actually had more function than watching a sprite animate for $9.99 a month. What a joke.
Not to mention I encounter numerous bugs within 5 minutes of using the app. It’s kinda garbage.
Not to mention I encounter numerous bugs within 5 minutes of using the app. It’s kinda garbage.
Callierose12317,
It was okay
All the good thing cost money which was annoying and the only pixel pal you could use was a cat and dog and they were kinda ugly in my opinion but I don’t really recommend this app a lot but I use the cat because it more cute then the dog and I liked how to cat sleep and walk around my phone and everything I do recommend but at the same time I don’t recommend it like in the middle you can get the app for cuteness but the biggest bummer is that all the good stuff cost money and everything and I know the creators are trying to make money but like the only things that doesn’t cost money is the cat and dog so something I want to say to the creators is can you try not to like only make two things that are free and try more thing that are free thank you.
Grayson6739297291,
Too much behind paywall
I’m coming from the Apollo app shutdown, and to try and support the developer I decided to give pixel pals a try. Seems like a cool app, worth giving it a chance — and that’s all it got from me. Immediately after launching the app, it tried to push premium on me, a $15 yearly subscription. I wasn’t interested, so I closed it and navigated around the app. And wow, so much of the advertised functionality is behind this premium paywall. You only get two pets for free, and to have any sort of dynamic background, a feature that’s heavily promoted in the app, well that’s behind premium. I would love to support the app for a one-time payment of maybe $5 or $10, but I can’t justify a subscription, much less one that more or less gives the app 80% of its charm/functionality. A shame but at least I gave it a try.
