Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game
Cute dynamic standby animals
Free · In-App Purchases
Customize your device with adorable virtual pals!
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
more iOS 26 fixes and a few little quality of life improvements!
2.0.21 11/11/2025
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!
2.0.20 06/12/2024
Fixes for widgets and Live Activities.
2.0.19 22/09/2024
Live Activities/Dynamic Island bug fixes plus minor widget tweaks.
2.0.18 22/09/2024
Fix for widgets and Live Activities on iOS 18
2.0.17 20/09/2024
Fixes bug with iOS 18 and widgets/Live Activities!
2.0.16 20/09/2024
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.
2.0.15 18/09/2024
This version of Pixel Pals includes a bunch of iOS 18 improvements, from watchOS Live Activity support, to tinted icons, and tinted widgets!
2.0.14 17/09/2024
Fixes a bug with the new Trivia Pal widget
2.0.13 25/11/2023
Adds a new interactive widget: Trivia Pal!
2.0.12 24/11/2023
Fixes a few more bugs around widgets and implement Black Friday deal details
2.0.11 22/11/2023
Fixes a few bugs that could occur in the widget
2.0.10 22/11/2023
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
2.0.9 18/10/2023
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
2.0.7 05/10/2023
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
2.0.6 03/10/2023
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
2.0.5 03/10/2023
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
2.0.4 29/09/2023
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
2.0.3 26/09/2023
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
2.0.2 22/09/2023
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 21/09/2023
Fixes a weird crash that could occur
1.12.12 11/08/2023
Fixes a bug that could occur with widget info backgrounds not displaying/showing up
1.12.11 02/08/2023
Fixes a bug where backgrounds sometimes wouldn’t show in widgets
1.2.10 29/07/2023
Accessibility improvements
1.2.9 25/07/2023
Fixes a bug that could come up with the Apollo Pixel Pal
1.2.8 24/07/2023
iOS 26 fixes and a few little quality of life improvements!
more Version 2.0.21 11/11/2025
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