Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game Reviews

Hi! I recently got PixelPalsWidgetPetGame and loved it immediately. The cat (Hugo) looked exactly like my cat at home! However, the first thing I see when I open PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame just to add the cat to my screen. After that, it was smooth sailing except for the fact that anytime I opened PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , 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!

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.

I got PixelPalsWidgetPetGame because of the pixel pals added onto the iphone 14 and was jealoussss!

I never write app reviews but PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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!

The idea is really cute but when I can only interact with it by tapping a UI element smaller than a grain of rice - on another UI element that my phone uses for navigation - what’s even the point? I can only actually activate it maybe one out of four or five attempts. Why is there no larger UI section in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame to “play” with it? I have to squint to watch it do anything like eat food or play with a ball, which is actually all it can do lol. I don’t have dynamic island yet, maybe that will totally revolutionize it, but for now I’m feeling disappointed. And why can’t the widgets be larger?

Further, $15 annually for the ability to change the pets is ridiculous. They don’t do anything other than just hang out. I’d pay maybe $15 lifetime if this was an actual digital pet of some kind, but it’s not. $50 lifetime, are you actually joking? I really loved Apollo and wanted to support this but wow, it’s not even half-baked. This is a proof-of-concept that wants more money than any app I’ve ever used for doing the bare minimum. Christian, you can do better than this.

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . Since widgets aren’t interactive, and don’t really allow animations, your pet will mostly sit there, unmoving.

The experience in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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.

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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☺️

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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.

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . It’s kinda garbage.

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , it tried to push premium on me, a $15 yearly subscription. I wasn’t interested, so I closed it and navigated around PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , well that’s behind premium. I would love to support PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 80% of its charm/functionality. A shame but at least I gave it a try.

I wish there was an option to buy individual pixel pals. I would genuinely pay like $1 to just unlock 1 or 2 pets that I really want. Even though I know realistically it's very little for a subscription, knowing that if I ever stop for some reason will lose the two other pets I want stresses me out a lot, but I still wanna support Christian after everything he's done.

If in the future there will be more options in the subscription I may still get it, but it would still be nice to have a few more pets available in the meantime.

Apps very awesome everything about it is spontaneous. I just have one thing more like an idea I know there’s an option to always show on the island but instead of a floating animation in the island I think it’s be better if it’s constantly running around up there not only when you’re on the opened app ya feel me? and long press to feed and watch it eat while being on your Home Screen. and maybe play idk how the wand would work but definitely when feeding and playing with a ball I would say.

This is probably the only review for an app that I will ever write. I’ve been a Reddit user for nearly a decade now and the only time I’ve been on there consistently is when using the Apollo app. I honestly feel like I’ve lost part of my community by losing it. The Reddit interface is so poorly designed and populated by ads that it is no longer worth it to me to be a user. Thank you Christian for all that you’ve done and I’m glad I could at least carry over my pixel pals to my main screen.

Got PixelPalsWidgetPetGame because the developer created Apollo. The idea of a cute interactive virtual pet is fun! The price point is I’d say is unrealistic. Now i’m no expert on what a virtual screensaver like pet should cost but 15 dollars per year or 2 dollars per month is not worth it to me.

The pets are varied and cute with some level of interaction that I can only speculate about with the free version (which only gives you a basic widget and nothing else)

PixelPalsWidgetPetGame is still getting a like from me since its the same developer as Apollo so I’m definitely biased but I hope it makes a one time purchase option. That or allow a little more interact-ability on the free version to learn a little more about it.

Especially since the competitor app Pixel Pets allows more options in the free option and a one time purchase option for just 10$

I’m not someone who likes Pixel Pals enough to do more than play with it for a week. BUT, I just bought a lifetime sub to give Christian Selig, the dev, some money to help offset the insane cost he’s got ahead of him with Reddit financially forcing him to stop development and support of Apollo, his Reddit app, and potentially having to refund a ton of Apollo users.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman (u/spez) has put extreme greed ahead of any sort of sense, and now every Reddit client app is being forced out of existence, including the premium Apollo app. (Apple mentioned them several times in their recent WWDC presentation.

So while I’m not a pixel player, I so appreciate what dev Christian Selig has done to make Reddit a fantastic place over the years that I’ve bought PixelPalsWidgetPetGame to show him some love.

I hope you consider doing the same.

Was hoping the ability to feed/play with the pet would happen on the phone's island or widget without opening PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , but it does not seem to do so. I long press to feed and it opens PixelPalsWidgetPetGame itself. Furthermore if I close PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , the pet stops eating. I don't seem to be able to interact at all without opening PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . It's cute to have him on the screen, but it seems like that's all I can do.

I also wish PixelPalsWidgetPetGame had some one-time purchases, so I could support the dev without a subscription--even if it only unlocked something small.

Update:
I have to update my review. This most recent version is incredibly buggy and stops working at random. I have an iPhone 14 pro max and the latest version of iOS. I cannot recommend that anyone purchase a subscription to PixelPalsWidgetPetGame under the current circumstances.

So far it’s pretty cool to have these little guys hanging out in the dynamic island. That said, this isn’t a one-time charge, the developer has chosen to make this a reoccurring subscription. That’s perfectly fine, but with that comes the added expectation that this will be constantly updated with new features and cool options. If that happens then great, otherwise this will be a disappointing purchase.

I got PixelPalsWidgetPetGame due to Apollo’s closure and wanting to support the dev. Got a lifetime subscription. The pets are so cute 🥰 there are a few bugs like the widgets needing to be manually refreshed occasionally and the pet animations glitching out when eating. Sometimes the pets don’t show up in the dynamic island and I have to return to PixelPalsWidgetPetGame to get them to show up again as well. But overall it’s a very cute aesthetic for my phone and I’m excited to see future updates and features!!

Love PixelPalsWidgetPetGame. Just having the tiny little cat run around at the top of my phone when I check the time or look for messages warms my heart and makes me think about the tiny kitty I have waiting for me at home.

Love PixelPalsWidgetPetGame. Love this developer.

Everything is organized so well in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame and helps people like me who aren’t so good at keeping up with iPhone updates and widget accessibility. Totally worth the year sub I just got.

Don’t download this if you use pets in Apollo. It will reset all of their stats, and wipe out any food you already earned. A lot of hard work all gone now. And who in their right mind would pay $15/year for a subscription to PixelPalsWidgetPetGame? Seems like a broken and untested app was rushed out to try and cash in on some quick $$$.

Edit: changed to 4 stars from 1 since the developer fixed the pet stat bug and gave us a way to get our stuff back. But I still think PixelPalsWidgetPetGame is way overpriced.

I am so sorry about Apollo. I was a regular user of PixelPalsWidgetPetGame for a better part of two years, and the whole month leading up to this api change was an incredible thing to witness. Despite Reddit’s quadrupling down on their bogus changes, I wanted to continue my support! I never played with the pixel pals aspect of Apollo but now I felt obligated. Plus it looks kinda neat! Good luck on your future endeavors whatever they may be!

Super cute, I love the details that already exist. I wish the pal could stay above the island instead of being moved to the black island when not in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . I personally would love to keep it above the island when the phone is vertical then have it jump inside the island when the phone is horizontal.

I'd also love to have interactions take place outside of PixelPalsWidgetPetGame when iniation starts outside of it. it would be nice to have more pal interactions that would make it like a tamagotchi. I'd pay extra for any addition or to beta test additional features to see if they'll function smoothly. 😊

I tried the premium features during a trial. The information backgrounds were hit or miss, mostly miss. They wouldn’t load, and if they did, they wouldn’t update. I had a calendar + time medium widget that went two days without updating. Most would just be a beige or blank tile with no pet. Hardly got any chance to use the trial.

I love the design, the information backgrounds, and the Pixel Pals themselves. I hope there are new pets too (maybe a Polar Bear?). When the bugs get worked out, I’ll gladly pay for premium. The information backgrounds are useful and there are lots of design options. As it stands, however, the broken premium features takes it down a couple stars.

I like the creative design and it’s a really cool app, simple easy to use and figure out. I just would like to select and purchase the bat without the paying for premium feature I don’t want to use and more than likely never use, and if possible could y’all add exotic pets? Like a scorpion ( my first top recommendation) or sugar gliders and stuff like that and maybe a cool idea maybe give animals/creatures based on horoscopes, have seen that yet and I’m sure would make PixelPalsWidgetPetGame even more popular! For now I guess I’ll settle for the dog lol thanks for reading if y’all do!

I really love this! I have premium and I have an entire screen dedicated to widgets for pixel pals (weather over the week, weather over the day, monthly calendar, and quote of the day). There have been bugs, but they’ve been fixed. The only bug I’ve encountered that hasn’t been fixed so far is that I’ve set one of my pals to sleep and stay in the bottom left corner, but it seems to still switch and move around. It’s sort of annoying because I can’t fully read the quote because the pal will be in the way. Also, there’s no place to report a bug directly from PixelPalsWidgetPetGame (you have to send an email).

Before the 2.0 update this was still a great simple tamagotchi app with well designed pixelated animals and great looking widgets. Worth supporting if you were a fan of Apollo or had some extra beer money and wanted a pal other than the cat/dog

The 2.0 update has stacked PixelPalsWidgetPetGame with features and incredible widgets which are as fun as they are gorgeous. Christian has such a great understanding of how to make an iPhone app look and feel like it belongs on the phone. More iOS developers need to take notes. Once again, Christian has knocked it out of the park!

Developer added many more features to premium version and killed the most important feature for free version. Background wallpaper is no longer available and was purposely disabled until you update to newer version which now forces you to pay. And what’s this new trend for subscriptions on everything? Just charge $5 or $10 for this ONCE. Photo apps are now plagued with the same ridiculousness. PixelPalsWidgetPetGame isn’t a service like gps, etc. So I mean this with all my heart to the developer who did spend time to wip up this cute little app on their spare time, “stop being so business-trendy!” Seems greedy for a digital tamagotchi that was $3.99 on a keychain in 1996. 🥱

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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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.

You guys should probably add a reminder when the free trial ends. Many apps have the courtesy of letting you know when the free trial is over so it won’t charge you like it did to me. I understand it’s not your responsibility but it would be very appreciated. Also it can get very annoying to play since everytime I tap the widgets it takes me straight to PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , I just want to be able to play in peace without having to exit PixelPalsWidgetPetGame every 5 taps. Another thing the friend invitation doesn’t really work, my friend and I have tried playing together and it never seems to work, we can never find each other. And one last thing, fighting can get very frustrating when every few taps it again takes you to the main app. Just constructive criticism since PixelPalsWidgetPetGame charged me almost $15 and it’s no different then the free trial besides that I can change characters.

Christian is known for making wonderful, useful, intuitive apps (like Apollo…RIP) and PixelPalsWidgetPetGame 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 PixelPalsWidgetPetGame mature but it’s already really wonderful, and with Christian at the helm I’m sure it’ll only get even better with time.

I love PixelPalsWidgetPetGame and I think it's so fun to have a little pet in my dynamic island. Although there has been one thing that has just really been bugging me lately, that being how if you accidentally click on a different pet in the big grid of pets in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame , it completely resets all progress of the pet you were on before. This has happened to me a few times, and I just find it really annoying. I think it would make PixelPalsWidgetPetGame much more enjoyable if there could be some sort of update for this, maybe a save button for the pet you are on, or giving a pop up to confirm switch of pets?

I really loved PixelPalsWidgetPetGame- I’ve had it for about 2 years now and it was wonderful! It was a very fun and cute accessory to my phone. I loved the new widgets in the recent updates. It was a very fun way to pass my time and I love my little pet! However I have an issue where the game automatically resets my pal and removes all my friends. This disappointed me greatly after my pet of over a year disappeared. I’ve had my second pet for a few months and that one just reset as well. I’m tired of spending time building friendship with the pets just for it to reset to the default pet. I tried reaching out via email to see if I could get an answer but I never received a response which was disappointing. It makes me sad to give PixelPalsWidgetPetGame a not-so-great rating because the concept and gameplay is adorable and I really like it! It just makes me so sad to see my poor pets keep disappearing :(

Sooo, i had PixelPalsWidgetPetGame before and i didnt really like it and couldnt figure out how to use it. i saw an ad tho and realized that pixel pals had a HUGE glow up! its sooo fun having lil wiggles the cat on my dynamic island and on my home screen! i also luv how you can feed him and play with him! sooo cute! like a little tamagotchi on your phone! i totally recommend!!! <3333 ............................................ update: i loved my pet little wiggles the cat and i took care pf him all day by feeding and playing. i restarted my phone to put on a new screen protector and wiggles is gone. all i have is stupid hugo. all my friends are gone on PixelPalsWidgetPetGame . am very upset and really hope i can get wiggles back. :(( R.I.P. 🩵Wiggles💙...................................................
another upd: It happened to my friend too. i think its happening bc our phones are reastarting bc her phone died and her progress was lost too. really hope this can be resolved. :(( R.I.P. Alegria

I’ve honestly had a great time while using PixelPalsWidgetPetGame. The widgets are fun and I added my friends, which was also cool because in the widget, you can see your friends pet! I thought that was awesome. Also the taking care of your pet unlocks morphs was amazing<3 I choose the free cat (Hugo) and named him “Remi”—-however my phone died after it was at low battery for awhile the day after, and I’m not sure if it’s related or not but it’s almost like every in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame reset, my pet was changed back to Hugo and I lost the morph I got, like my entire progress was reset, and i didn’t have my friends friended on there anymore. I’m not sure if it was a glitch with PixelPalsWidgetPetGame or something that happened on my side. Have a good day/afternoon/night though and thank you for reading this.

This is a very cute and fun app to have, but if you don’t have an iPhone that has Dynamic Island, then you have to either have the widget or be in PixelPalsWidgetPetGame but that’s fine. The only reason I am rating this only four stars are because of the major bugs that need to be fixed! For example, every time your phone shuts down or restarts, it resets ALL your progress, including the name, pet, love meter, hunger (but not the farm for some reason), and live activity. Also, sometimes after you shut down, the monsters on the widget are just frozen 🥶. There are also tiny bugs but those are fine.

I just want to see my my my character and I want to change it to axolotl and the game doesn’t let me you should not charge me for using something. I just want to be a cute pet and axolotl and you have me having a text and I can’t even see it and I can’t even change the name. I want the name to be Hugo I want, but I want I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want you guys to not charge people forstuff and and I really want to pet axolotl and I want to be able to change the name I give you five stars but I wish you didn’t charge people. I might give you a lower score than that.

I love the new update and all the things!!!!!

My one and only complaint, if you tap too fast (on the infinite scroll for example) it opens up PixelPalsWidgetPetGame which is extremely frustrating. I kinda like the idea of the infinite scroll for when my brain wants stimulation from my phone but I don’t want to get stuck doom scrolling social media. I could just infinite scroll until I think of something better to do. But I absolutely would want to hit that button as fast as possible to see how quickly/how far little dude can go. Which is impossible when PixelPalsWidgetPetGame keeps opening and kinda makes it unusable at the moment:/ but I really really like the idea and hopefully this isn’t something too complicated to fix (I know sometimes these seemingly simple things can actually be very annoying to change behind the scenes).