All six Pockling kinds: 24 coats and the food each one loves

The six Pockling kinds are Kitling, Bunling, Puppling, Cubling, Foxling and Drakling. Each comes in four coats, 24 in all, and each has one food it loves and one it spits straight back out. You choose the kind by choosing its egg, and the coat is a surprise, picked at random from that kind’s four. A Pockling grows from Baby to Kid on the second day you care for it and to Grown on the seventh.

Pockling is the tiny virtual pet we make at 9io for iPhone and iPad. It’s free on the App Store, and the same game plays free in your browser if you’d like to try it first. This guide covers every kind, coat and food, how Pocklings grow, what everything costs in berries and what keeps a Pockling happiest. Every number comes from the game’s own code, or is worked out from it, as of 6 November 2026.

How the egg decides your Pockling’s kind and coat

The first screen shows six eggs, one for each kind. Kitling’s egg has spots, Bunling’s hearts, Puppling’s paw prints, Cubling’s stars, Foxling’s zigzag stripes and Drakling’s scales. Tap an egg and the game shows the kind’s name and personality line, so you always know what you’re hatching. Tap Hatch this egg, then tap the egg six times to crack it open.

The game then picks one of the kind’s four coats at random, an even one-in-four chance each, and tells you what you got (“It’s a ginger Kitling!”). The tufts of its fur come from a random number picked at the same moment, so another Ginger Kitling won’t look quite like yours. You can type a name of up to 12 characters or tap one of four suggestions, and a Pockling left unnamed gets one of the game’s 30 names at random.

A new Pockling starts with Tummy at 72, Clean 92, Energy 88, Fun 62 and Love 45, all out of 100, and you start with 30 berries and the Peach room. A coat can’t be changed. To try for another you’d use Start over with a new egg in Settings, which deletes your Pockling and everything you’ve collected. The browser version keeps your Pockling in that browser on that device, so clearing the browser’s data also starts a new egg.

All six Pockling kinds and their personality lines

The game shows these lines when you tap each egg.

The kinds differ in shape as well as colour. Kitlings have pointed ears, whiskers and a curled tail. Bunlings have long ears and a pompom tail, and Cublings round ears and a smaller pompom. Pupplings have floppy ears and a stubby tail, Foxlings big fox ears and a bushy tail, and Draklings little horns, wings and a spade-tipped tail. Pupplings, Foxlings and Draklings show a small fang when their mouths open. Each kind chirps at its own pitch, from Bunlings, the highest, down to Cublings, and only Draklings sneeze sparkles and stars. The rest sneeze bubbles.

Your own Pockling also earns a word for its card, as in “Cuddly Peach Kitling, baby”. The word follows what you do most. Walks lead to Adventurous, baths to Squeaky-clean, bedtimes to Sleepy, games to Playful, talking to Chatty, meals to Snacky and stroking to Cuddly. A walk counts three times as much as a meal, and the word stays Curious until one of them has 3 points.

Pockling coats: all 24 and their markings

A coat’s name tells you its colour, and some coats add a marking painted over the fur.

Draklings carry a second colour on their wings instead. Mint has pink wings, Sky pale yellow, Plum mint green and Ember gold, and all four have pale yellow horns.

Pockling favourite food and what every food does

Twelve foods sit in the tray. Four are free and always there, and the other eight are treats that cost berries each time you serve one. Tummy and Fun are what each food adds, out of 100.

Every meal also adds 1.5 Love. A favourite adds 6 more Fun on top of its own, gives 5 Love instead of 1.5 and earns 5 points toward the next love level instead of 3. A Kitling’s Fishy, for example, gives Tummy 26, Fun 9 and Love 5 for 3 berries. The first time it eats its favourite the game says so (“Mochi LOVES fishy!”), and the tray marks that food from then on. Pupplings, Bunlings and Foxlings love a free food, so their favourite never costs a berry.

The hated food gets one nibble and a face before it’s spat out. You aren’t charged, but Fun drops by 2, the meal doesn’t count as care, and from then on your Pockling pouts and turns away when you bring that food near. Kitlings and Cublings both hate Broccoli, which takes 3 Fun even from the kinds that eat it. Fishy, Carrot and Hot chili are each one kind’s favourite and another kind’s worst.

Once Tummy reaches 97 it won’t eat (“Mochi is full!”). In the Snack Drop game, the falling food that costs you a heart is your Pockling’s hated one, so a Bunling dodges Fishy and a Drakling dodges Ice cream.

How Pocklings grow from Baby to Kid to Grown

Babies and Kids also have bigger eyes for their size, and shorter ears and tails.

A day of care is a calendar day, from midnight on your device’s clock, on which you do at least one caring thing. The first one each day adds the day, and your Pockling grows the moment the count reaches 2 or 7, with a banner to say so. The days don’t have to be in a row, and a day you miss takes nothing away. Care for it every day from the day it hatches, and it’s a Kid the next day and Grown six days after hatching.

These count as care:

• A meal it eats.
• Stroking, tapping or holding it, once your touches add up to 10 Love (nine taps, or a hold of about two and a half seconds).
• A bath you finish.
• Putting it to bed.
• A game you finish.
• A walk, however short.
• Talking to it, when it says your words back.

Opening the app doesn’t count on its own, since that only earns the day’s stamp. Nor does a food it spits out, a meal or bedtime it refuses, or a game you leave early.

Pockling outfits, rooms and treats, with every berry price

A Pockling wears one thing on its head, one on its face and one round its neck. Each outfit is bought once and kept, and your first 30 berries cover the Pink bow or the Daisy.

All 15 outfits come to 850 berries and the five rooms you buy to 560, so everything costs 1,410. The treats are the eight foods with a price in the food table, from Hot chili at 2 berries to Birthday cake at 12, paid each time.

Where berries come from

The first time you open Pockling on a calendar day, you get a stamp in the book with the berries. Miss a day and the streak starts again from 1, though the game promises your Pockling “will never hold it against you”. The sticker, one of 28, is picked by the date, so everyone who opens Pockling that day gets the same one.

Games pay when they end, and a game you leave early pays nothing. Fetch is five throws, scored in metres per catch, with 10 extra for a catch in the air. Hide and Seek is four rounds, worth 4 points for a find at the first try, down to 1. Snack Drop lasts 45 seconds with three hearts, and gold stars are worth 5. There’s no daily limit, but each game costs 9 Energy and 5 Tummy.

The park is laid out the same way on every walk, so the berries and puddles are always in the same places. On a phone held upright, the first 150 m hold 8 berries and two muddy puddles, the first at about 80 m. Love level 2, shown in the heart at the top of the screen, comes at 30 points, level 3 at 90, level 4 at 180 and level 5 at 300. Berries can’t be bought, since Pockling has no in-app purchases.

How to make your Pockling happiest

Its five needs are Tummy, Clean, Energy, Fun and Love, each out of 100, shown as rings at the top of the screen. Happiness is their average. At 78 or more, with no need below 30, your Pockling is joyful, and only then does it dance, chase its tail and press its nose to the glass. At 55 or more it’s content, and below that it’s okay.

A need under 30 turns its ring red, and your Pockling asks for whichever need is lowest. A thought bubble pops up now and then (an apple, a moon, bubbles, a heart or a ball), and the matching button turns pink and wiggles, whether that’s Feed, Sleep, Wash or Play. Loneliness has no button, so stroke it or hold it.

From full, Tummy is the first to drop under 30, after about 12 hours awake, and Energy and Fun follow at 14. Time away never takes a need below 14.

A shorter walk gives less, down to Fun +10 and Love +3 for a walk that goes nowhere, and each Pockling you meet on the way adds 4 Love.

A routine that follows these rules:

1. Open Pockling once a day for the stamp, and do one caring thing so the day counts toward growing up.
2. Feed its favourite when Tummy drops, and leave the food it hates in the tray.
3. Walk 150 m for the full Fun and Love, then run a bath, since it jumps in any puddle it reaches when it isn’t busy.
4. Play Fetch when you want berries. It pays 40 every time.
5. Put it to bed when Energy is low. It sleeps until Energy reaches 100, about 3.6 hours from the floor of 14.
6. Stroke or hold it when Love is low. A hold adds 1.6 Love about every third of a second.

Where these numbers come from

We read the browser version’s public code on 6 November 2026. The kinds, coats, foods, outfits, rooms and growth stages are in catalog.js, the needs, care days, berries and love levels in state.js, and the eggs and coats in hatch.js. The App Store app is the same game in a small native layer, which adds a purr you can feel and an optional evening reminder, and its 1.1 update that day lists only new sounds. The walk figures assume a phone held upright; on an iPad the puddles come a few metres sooner. We haven’t timed anything on a device, so the hours here are worked out from the rates in the code.

For how hatching, care and growing up work day to day, see Pockling’s launch post. For how the game paints every kind and coat in code, see our engineering post.

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