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WatchieBesti
Virtual Pet & Step Counter - a cute pet on your watch
WatchieBesti is your virtual watch pet. A pixel art pet that sparks joy as you move — all from your wrist, with zero ads, zero subscriptions, and zero accounts. - Pet mood and growth driven by your real fitness data (steps, heart rate, stand time) - Completely private — all data stays on-device - No ads, no subscriptions, no account required - Pixel art pet with idle animations and mini-games to boost brain - Designed to spark joy through the day as you move
My daughter had a little pet app on her watch that she loved, then one day it stopped working. My wife asked if I could find another one, but I’d already tried most of them and none of them really fit. Some were too boring, some were too pushy, and a lot of them felt like habit trackers with a pet bolted on. I also didn’t want another app built around subscriptions, coins, gems, passes, and numerous drip-feeding tiny purchases after the kid is already attached.
So I started prototyping one myself. I had a decent idea of what we wanted by then: something cute, supportive, fun to check in on, and tied to movement without turning activity into homework or guilt. At first it was small, just a pet on the watch with moods and some activity reactions. Then my daughter started giving feedback, beta testers had ideas, and it grew from there.
That became WatchieBesti. The goal is still pretty much the original one: a cute Apple Watch virtual pet that responds to movement and gives us a small extra reason to be active, without being annoying about it and without nickel-and-diming them through IAP. Mostly I built it because my kid missed her watch pet, and I thought I could make one she would like better.
Works for me (I take the stairs more often than the elevator!) and for her, let me know how you're enjoying WatchieBesti 😄
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About WatchieBesti on Product Hunt
“Virtual Pet & Step Counter - a cute pet on your watch”
WatchieBesti was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #148 on the daily leaderboard. WatchieBesti is your virtual watch pet. A pixel art pet that sparks joy as you move — all from your wrist, with zero ads, zero subscriptions, and zero accounts. - Pet mood and growth driven by your real fitness data (steps, heart rate, stand time) - Completely private — all data stays on-device - No ads, no subscriptions, no account required - Pixel art pet with idle animations and mini-games to boost brain - Designed to spark joy through the day as you move
WatchieBesti was featured in Indie Games (7.1k followers), Games (98.6k followers) and Fitness (1.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 30.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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