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Merge it. Discover what it turns into. Then send your Petlings off on an adventure!\n\nHATCH AND MERGE\n• Tap Hatch to summon a new starter pet onto your farm.\n• Drag any pet onto any other and watch them merge into something new.\n• Every discovery joins your Collection, gathered into habitat sets. Can you find them all?\n\nGROW YOUR FARM\n• Earn coins while you play, and while you’re away.\n• Spend coins on upgrades: faster hatching, a bigger coop, luckier eggs and more.\n• Check back each day for free eggs and a daily reward!\n\nBATTLE ON THE STORY MAP\n• Pick your team and adventure through story stages full of enemy creatures and bosses.\n• Every petling has its own attacks and a signature special move.\n• Team up three pets from the same habitat for a bonus in battle.\n• Forge weapons in the Armory and fuse them into stronger gear.\n\nPLAY WITH FRIENDS\n• Add friends with your friend code or an invite link.\n• Send each other a free gift every day.\n• Race your friends on the Egg Leaderboard, and visit their farms.\n\nCOMPETE AND DRESS UP\n• Climb the weekly Egg Leaderboard: the top three in each group win diamonds.\n• Join limited-time events for a trail of rewards, costumes and more.\n• Dress up your pets in costumes from the Shop and from events.\n\nPLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE\n• Play right away, no account needed.\n• Optional sign-in backs up your progress across devices, and lets you add friends and climb the leaderboards.\n• Short sessions or long ones, your farm keeps progressing.\n\nPetlings is free to play. Optional in-app purchases are available for diamonds, a one-time Starter Pack, the Egg Pass (30 days once, or a monthly subscription that renews automatically until you cancel it in your App Store account settings), an Event Pass during events, and the Ad-free rewards pass (Instant Rewards Pass), which grants video rewards without watching ads. Optional reward videos give bonuses.\n\nQuestions or feedback? Use Contact Support in Settings.\n\nTerms of Use: https://playpetlings.com/terms/\nPrivacy Policy: https://playpetlings.com/privacy/","facts":{"developer_id":6781296237,"developer_url":"https://playpetlings.com","first_released":"2026-09-30T07:00:00Z","support_url":"https://playpetlings.com/support/","privacy_url":"https://playpetlings.com/privacy/","website_url":"https://playpetlings.com/","app_version":"1.0.10","release_notes":"What's new:\n• Wild Trek: a new weekly adventure opens November 2 for players who have cleared Story stage 150! Take two pets down a new trail each week, fight wave after wave, pick power-ups, recruit animals at the Trading Post, beat the guardians, open weekly chests and race other players on the Trek board.\n• A new sign on the Farm shows your next goal and its reward.\n• Story stages 20 and 25 now give higher-tier eggs.\n• General bug fixes and improvements.","rating_current_version":4.81707,"rating_count_current_version":82,"star_counts":[1,1,0,8,71],"genres":["Games","Casual","Strategy"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":["Frequent/Intense Contests","Loot Boxes","Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence"],"device_families":["iphone","ipad"],"made_for_iphone_duo":false,"chart":{"name":"top-free Strategy","position":157}},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-11-04T22:50:13.222Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-11-04T21:46:13.303Z","reviews_checked_at":"2026-11-04T23:06:13.018Z","summary_written_at":"2026-11-04T19:50:12.930Z","placed_at":"2026-11-05T01:07:12.892Z","scored_at":"2026-11-07T06:53:13.064Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"A free merge and battle game where you hatch pets, combine them into new creatures, and send them on story-map battles.","what_is":"Petlings is a free iOS game in the Games genre. 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