Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app
And Waddle World isn’t the only weird app it’s launched lately.
by Robert Hart
Oct 28, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC
Image: Meta / Apple App Store
Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.
Meta has launched a “tamagotchi-style” pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations.
According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the “16-bit pet care game” is not really a game, but “a daily journal disguised as a pet.” Users should talk, not type, with their pets, the description says, as well as play “cozy games” like stacking groceries or word games. The Play store description says:
A little friend that listens. A cozy world that’s yours. Waddle World is a cozy 16-bit world where...
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