Pockling: Cute Virtual Pet

There's a tiny friend waiting behind your screen.

Pick an egg, tap until it cracks, and meet your Pockling: a very small, very fluffy creature with enormous eyes who has decided that you are the best thing that has ever happened.

ALL THE LOVE Stroke it and it purrs, and you feel the purr in your hand. Boop its nose. Tickle its tummy until it rolls over laughing. Hold it for a cuddle. Pull it and it stretches. It presses its nose on your screen and fogs up the glass. Sometimes it licks it.

FEED IT Drag a snack up to its mouth and watch it nibble. Every pet has favorites, and one food it can't stand. You'll find out which.

BATH TIME Soap it into a ball of bubbles, rinse it, then rub it dry until it poofs up twice its size. Squeak the duck. Stay for the rainbow.

WALKIES Hold your finger and it trots along on a little lead through the park. Berries to find, flowers to sniff, butterflies to chase, muddy puddles it will absolutely jump in, and other Pocklings to say hello to. At night there are fireflies.

PLAY Flick the ball and it tears off to fetch it. Catch falling snacks in Snack Drop. Play Hide and Seek, where it is very bad at hiding.

IT TALKS BACK Say something and your pet says it right back in a squeaky little voice, lips moving in time.

GROWS WITH YOU It lives on the real clock. The sky through its window follows your day, and when it's sleepy you tuck it into bed under a star projector. Look after it and it grows from a baby to a kid to all grown up. Come back each day to fill your stamp book, and spend your berries on 15 outfits, 6 rooms and plenty of treats.

SIX KINDS TO HATCH Kitling, Bunling, Puppling, Cubling, Foxling and Drakling, each in four coats.

KIND BY DESIGN No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No timers that nag you. Nothing you say or do leaves your device. And your pet can never die or run away: if you've been gone, it's just very glad to see you.