Overview

Features & Capabilities

A pocket virtual pet that lives on a real dot-matrix LCD. No emoji, no cartoons: just 576 dots, a beeping little friend and the feeling of the keychain toy you carried in the 90s.

HATCH IT • Start with an egg and watch it hatch, grow and evolve through 5 stages • Three species: Dotto the blob, Peep the bird and Nyx the cat • Adults evolve differently depending on your care: Classic, Radiant or Scruffy

CARE FOR IT • Meals and snacks, cleaning, medicine, lights out at bedtime • Discipline it when it misbehaves, or it grows up wild • Gentle reminders, at most 3 a day, only when your pet really needs you • Vacation mode freezes all needs while you are away

PLAY WITH IT • Guess the Turn: the classic virtual pet duel • Stop the Dot: a timing game that speeds up every round • Hi-Lo: will the next number be higher or lower?

KEEP IT CLOSE • Home Screen widgets show your pet and its meters • Lock Screen widgets tell you at a glance when it is hungry or bored • LCD beeps and haptics, with on/off switches

A REAL SIMULATION • Time passes while the app is closed, and it is handled fairly • Care windows are measured in hours, not minutes • Every pet passes a trait to the next generation • Records, a graveyard for every lineage and 8 achievements to unlock

DOTLING PREMIUM Your first generation is free forever. Dotling Premium unlocks every later generation, the bird and cat species, and the Amber, Ice and Noir LCD screens. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your account settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dijitalpilot.com/uygulama-gizlilik/

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
DIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Version:
1.6 Last updated: 2026-11-08
Version code:
894821967
Creation date:
2026-08-20
Bundle ID:
com.dijitalpilot.dotling
Compatible devices:
Size:
12.71MB
Email:
in*****@dijitalpilot.com
Website:
Privacy policy:
Support:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-11-09
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Developed by:
DIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotling-retro-virtual-pet/id6802696539
Email:
in*****@dijitalpilot.com
Website:
https://www.dijitalpilot.com/

User Reviews

I have some suggestions for this app so right now the app only sends up to three notifications a day at most and I know there is a widget, but there is one thing I would like to address the widget doesn’t like refresh or update reliably while the app is closed, I have to open the app like to make the widget refresh. I think this could be a bug or this could be something an actual design this should be fixed or changed and if people don’t want the wyat I was thinking maybe you could make the app send notifications whenever the pet is acting up and needs discipline and whenever it stops acting up and needs discipline and whenever a care window has started and I was thinking I know when I care window starts there’s like a certain amount of time you have before it’s miss maybe like when that happens a live activity could show up on the lock screen showing like how long until the care window is dismissed and then like when the pet stops acting up and and like stops acting like just stop acting up and you never disciplined it. A notification could come up and like I could just send you a notification and then also for a notification when the pet needs cleaning and medicine, and if people don’t want all these notifications, maybe in the settings in the notifications section users can configure which notification they want like by default all the notifications comment or maybe by default those just those like the important ones come in but like allow people to configure it and then I was also thinking for that for the sleeping situation for the creature for the pet sleep. It could actually sleep at real night time like it could sleep at a predetermined time or it could sleep when the user sleeps if you choose that time make it adapted to where like you can like set multiple different sleep schedules for different days of the week if you choose the predetermined time I think that the creature should have its own sleep schedule as it grows for people who have varied sleep schedules. Another suggestion I have is for the pet to die of old age. Most retrovert pets lived anywhere from if they were well taken care of depending on the device you had and it’s mechanics 11 to 25 days and sometimes up to a month. I also think that the plus subscription instead of instead of a recurring subscription, it should be a lifetime subscription where you pay once or if you don’t want that if you can do this, if if your pet dies on the free version, you can watch an ad to start a new generation probably don’t wanna do that though because of no ads and a suggestion I have for notifications. I think they should. The notification sound should be a square wave LCD beeping sound instead of the normal iPhone sound for more nostalgia

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