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Brush your friend’s teeth, play with the bubbles and have fun popping them to unlock jigsaw pieces. Your friend needs you to help complete all of his funny jigsaw puzzles.\n\nInteract with Ginger! You can pet, tickle and talk to your funny friend. Turn on your microphone and say hello to Ginger. This cat loves to chat, he’ll repeat anything you say back to you in his own voice for fun!\n\nTake care of your friend before bed and look after his needs to unlock new puzzles! Make fun memories and enjoy classic tamagotchi features:\n- Play with your tamagotchi friend to hear his cute laugh\n- Say hello and the cat will talk back to you!\n- Shower him, brush his teeth and take care of his fur\n- Pop toothpaste bubbles, roll down the toilet paper and play the jigsaw puzzle game\n- Collect jigsaw puzzles from your friend’s funny dreams\n\nPlayers who love tamagotchi games, pet games and dress up games will love Talking Ginger, too!\n\nThis app is PRIVO certified. The PRIVO safe harbor seal indicates Outfit7 has established COPPA compliant privacy practices to protect your child’s personal information. Our apps do not allow younger children to share their information.\n\nThis app contains:\n- Promotion of Outfit7's products and contextual advertising\n- Links that direct customers to our websites and other Outfit7 apps\n- Personalization of content to entice users to play the app again\n- Watching videos of Outfit7's animated characters via YouTube integration\n- The option to make in-app purchases\n\n\nTerms of use: https://talkingtomandfriends.com/eula/en/\nPrivacy policy for games: https://talkingtomandfriends.com/privacy-policy-games/en\nCustomer support: support@outfit7.com","facts":{"developer_id":351110111,"developer_url":"https://talkingtomandfriends.com/apps","first_released":"2012-08-22T23:04:48Z","support_url":"https://talkingtomandfriends.com/support/","privacy_url":"https://talkingtomandfriends.com/privacy-policy-games/en","website_url":"https://talkingtomandfriends.com/apps","app_version":"3.7.2","release_notes":"Bug fixes and minor gameplay improvements.","rating_current_version":4.25739,"rating_count_current_version":37628,"star_counts":[2678,1677,2960,6264,24035],"genres":["Entertainment"],"languages":["AR","EN","FR","DE","IT","JA","KO","PT","RU","ZH","ES","ZH","TR"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["ipad"],"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-15T03:51:53.108Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-13T09:32:58.516Z","reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-12T19:21:52.752Z","placed_at":"2026-10-12T18:16:04.633Z","scored_at":"2026-10-21T08:40:13.013Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"A free virtual pet cat game for iPad where you brush teeth, play bubble and jigsaw games, and talk to the cat.","what_is":"Talking Ginger is an Entertainment app in which you care for a virtual cat named Ginger. 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