AppTierList › All lists › Animal Simulation
Best Animal Simulation Apps for iPhone (2026)
Dog Life Simulator ! is the top-ranked of 40 animal simulation apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 180,854 ratings.
- 1
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 180,854 ratings · score 97 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 116,281 ratings · score 96 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 94,432 ratings · score 95 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 18,454 ratings · score 94 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 62,704 ratings · score 93
What belongs in this list
Play as a wild animal and live its life in a simulated world.
Not here: a general simulation game with no animals alone; an animal tracking or wildlife identification app alone; a gun or hunting simulation alone; a human life simulation alone; animal pictures or skins alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 180,854 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 116,281 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 94,432 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 18,454 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 62,704 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 28,588 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 41,640 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 11,264 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,324 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 201,842 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 275,653 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 164,834 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 10,695 ratings · score 79 · good - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,661 ratings · score 77 · good - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 30,923 ratings · score 76 · good - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 16,792 ratings · score 76 · good - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 4,918 ratings · score 74 · good - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 7,617 ratings · score 74 · good - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 631,962 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 42,891 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 77,872 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 44,910 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 18,463 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 24
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 8,468 ratings · score 67 · situational - 25
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 10,870 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 26
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 14,378 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 33,967 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 28
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,408 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 29
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 5,090 ratings · score 64 · situational - 30
Free · ★ 4.3 · 3,358 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional - 31
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,270 ratings · score 63 · situational - 32
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 3,302 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional - 33
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 15,555 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional - 34
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 3,380 ratings · score 62 · weak · provisional - 35
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,270 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 36
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 7,712 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 7,443 ratings · score 59 · weak · provisional - 38
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 2,861 ratings · score 52 · weak · provisional - 39
$0.99 · ★ 4.3 · 3,272 ratings · score 49 · avoid - 40
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 15,094 ratings · score 44 · avoid · provisional
Beyond the top 40
New in the last 30 days
- Cat Simulator 3D - Animal Life (S)
- Wolf Tales - Online RPG Sim 3D (A)
- Cat Sim Online: Play With Cats (A)
- The Tiger Online RPG Simulator (A)
- Dog Sim Online: Build A Family (B)
- Wolf: The Evolution Online (B)
- My Wild Pet Online (B)
- Cat Simulator 2 (B)
- Eagle Bird Wild Life Sim Games (B)
- Lion Hunting Simulator Game (B)
- Baby Unicorn: Pony Simulator (C)
- Dog Simulator 3D - Animal Life (C)
- Horse Paradise: My Dream Ranch (C)
- My virtual pet Cat Games (C)
- Dog Simulator 2022 (C)
- Animal Kingdoms: Wolf Sim MMO (C)
- Flying Squirrel Simulator Game (C)
- Dinosaur Legacy Jurassic Game (C)
- Animal Online: Cat Hunt-ing Sim-ulator (C)
- Dino Family Adventure Game (D)
- Dog Simulator Puppy Pet Hotel (D)
- The Cursed Dinosaur Isle Games (D)
- The Wild Wolf Life Simulator (D)
- Survival Underwater Shark Game (D)
- Parrot Simulator: Pet World 3D (D)
- Wild Animal Simulators (D)
- Jurassic Dinosaur Online Sim (F)
Questions people ask
- What is the best animal simulation app for iPhone?
- Dog Life Simulator !, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.7 by 180,854 people.
- Which animal simulation apps are free?
- 39 of 40 are free to download: Dog Life Simulator ! (S), WildCraft: Wild Sim Online (S), The Wolf: Animal Game MMORPG (S), Cat Simulator 3D - Animal Life (S) and more. 26 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
- Which animal simulation app has the best App Store rating?
- I Am Monkey - original game at 4.8 from 164,834 ratings.
- How many animal simulation apps reach S or A tier?
- 12 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
Related lists
- Best 3D Matching Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Action Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Action RPG Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Adventure Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Airplane Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Aquarium Game Apps for iPhone (2026)12 ranked