Pixel Wild: Nature Discovery
Make every walk an adventure
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Point your camera at a sidewalk weed, a beetle on your balcony, a bird in the park — Pixel Wild names it, turns it into original pixel art, and drops it into a wild little world that's yours to build.
Naming the thing is where it starts, not where it ends. Every species you find becomes something you can place, grow, level up, and keep.
COLLECT THE WILD
• Snap a photo or a short video — we identify it and draw it as pixel art
• Every discovery levels up as you learn about it, find it again, and care for it
• Fun facts, size and habitat, and a spinnable globe of everywhere it's been seen
• Filter your collection by scientific classification, kingdom down to species
• New species added weekly
• Daily and weekly quests
• Achievements and milestones rewards
BUILD YOUR SANCTUARY
• Place your discoveries in a pixel world you shape tile by tile
• Raise ground into cliffs and plateaus, lay paths, rivers and themed block sets
• Water and feed your inhabitants to help them grow
• Set the weather and the soundtrack
• Arcade cabinet for your sanctuary
BRING YOUR FRIENDS
• Fly to a friend's world, sign their guestbook, care for their inhabitants
• See what everyone's finding on the friends map
• Climb the Ranger levels and compare on the leaderboards
MAKE IT YOURS
• A home-screen widget with your own discoveries
• Imprint a discovery onto your avatar
• Dark mode
Nature enthusiast, casual explorer, photographer, hiker, parent, student —
or just someone looking for a reason to spend more time outdoors.
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more New ability at level 26: Use free text as an emote on inhabitants.
1.8.10 2 days ago
Bug fixes and optimizations
1.8.9 4 days ago
Resolve a crash happening when new discoveries are being added while actively in a discovery card.
1.8.8 5 days ago
We’ve improved support for iOS 27. Also, reaction labels are now displayed.
1.8.7 6 days ago
When imprinting your avatar, the active discovery sprite will now be imprinted. We’ve also updated the reactions feature and added reaction support to fun facts also. Plus, we’ve made some discovery optimizations and final tweaks to the Halloween event!
1.8.6 14 Sept
We’ve added the ability to shift blocks and inhabitants along the X and Y axes for more precise placement. Walls can now have a drip effect, and we’ve made various bug fixes to rooms. Please check our previous version for updates to the pipe block and rooms.
1.8.5 9 Sept
A new sanctuary block unlocks at level 25! The new pipe block lets you travel to another room in your sanctuary. We’ve also added auto weather support, new controls for light brightness and spread, and more blocks. We’ve made some bug fixes and optimizations too. And as usual, we are continuing our preparations for the upcoming Halloween event!
1.8.4 9 Sept
A new swim pose, more blocks and boats can now wear outfits too! Plus, we’re continuing groundwork for our upcoming Halloween event!
1.8.3 5 Sept
A new level 38 ability - Link! You can now configure the AUTO sky mode to use certain skies at certain hours of the day. Polaroids can now pin a spot in a sanctuary making it easy to share a favorite area with fellow Rangers. We’ve also been preparing the groundwork for the upcoming Halloween event!
1.8.2 4 Sept
We’ve made some minor improvements to letters and land purchasing, increased the maximum level of discoveries beyond 20, and added more blocks and skies to customize your world. We’ve also added more achievements to unlock, along with various bug fixes and performance optimizations.
1.8.1 1 Sept
Rangers can now unlock abilities as their connection with the Wild grows! These include abilities like sending letters to other Rangers, instantly growing inhabitants to full maturity, and setting trails for inhabitants to follow. We also added some quality-of-life improvements like making it easier to view your discovery details by just swiping through the discovery card and added more sanctuary mechanics like moving multiple blocks and inhabitants at once, stack blocks, and mirror mode. Plus more blocks, music, skies, and weather to bring your sanctuaries!
1.8.0 29 Aug
Explore more with Sanctuary Tours, where Gentoo can take you on a tour of other Rangers’ sanctuaries. Customize Gentoo with a new wardrobe and star your favorite fun facts to show on your profile. You can also adjust the roam speed of your inhabitants, rotate inhabitants and blocks in 45-degree increments, preview blocks before purchasing, and fences and beach chairs now have perspective configurations.
1.7.4 26 Aug
This update fixes growth paths for certain families and restores missing lineage details for some species. We’ve also made identification optimizations and added Sanctuary update logs, so you can see what your friends have been working on. You can now set a Sanctuary to be visible only to you, perfect for preparing a special Sanctuary for an event. Plus, various bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.7.3 19 Aug
In this update, we’ve increased the experience gained from each care tap, fixed several bugs, and improved performance. We're also gearing up for our first Halloween event! Send in in-app sprite requests for species you would love to see costumes on! Hope you’re all enjoying the game!
1.7.2 14 Aug
We're quickly building on top of 1.7.0 with this update.
You can now view leaderboards, favorite your discoveries, gain more achievements and increase experience gained from learning about your discovery making your discoveries get to level 10 easier. You can also fine tune your public location setting and also set default privacy settings in Settings -> Privacy. Finally, you can switch any sanctuary to become the "main" where it'll become the sanctuary where Rangers land on first.
Finally, fun facts and quizzes will receive over-the-air updates over the next 7 days. Once a species is migrated, fun facts and quiz questions will substantially improve. Thank you for your patience with this one!
Thanks again for all the feedback and have a great adventure exploring the wild with us!
1.7.1 13 Aug
Every discovery levels up now. Find a species somewhere new, read its facts, watch its video, care for it — anything you do with that species raises its level, all the way to 20. Higher levels let its inhabitants grow further, and turn the discovery card itself into a shimmer at 15 and a hologram at 20. Your ranger level is the sum of it all, plus what you get up to in other rangers' worlds.
There's a home-screen widget too: your own discoveries, your sanctuary behind them, and a fresh fun fact every day.
We rebuilt a lot of the app around you. Profiles, species pages, discoveries and filters, and sanctuary land expansion have all been redesigned. There is also a new typeface and dark mode support! Plus new achievements to chase, including five for the branches of the tree of life you've collected.
1.7.0 8 Aug
This update brings a big expansion to Sanctuaries! Upgrade your boat into a Flying Boat and visit the worlds of your fellow Rangers. While you’re there, sign their guestbook or lend a hand by caring for their inhabitants.
We’ve also added weekly quests, quick action controls for catching fast-moving critters, support for viewing common names alongside species, and improved fun facts to make learning about the life around you even more enjoyable.
Premium blocks now have new animated effects, including spinning pinwheels and windmills, plus flowing rivers.
Oh… and a mysterious console has appeared in Settings. We wonder what that’s for…
1.6.3 30 Jul
This update improves identification accuracy by allowing more shots per capture, giving our AI more details to work with. We’re also preparing a new Flying Boat upgrade that will let you visit other players’ Sanctuaries soon!
1.6.2 22 Jul
This update improves reporting, discovery accuracy, and sharing controls. Misidentification reports now show alternative suggestions from our AI, making corrections easier. You can now add Field Notes before identification to provide more context and improve accuracy. You can also adjust privacy settings for each capture directly from your Discovery view, giving you more control over how your discoveries are shared.
1.6.1 17 Jul
Thank you for an amazing first week and for helping Pixel Wild reach the top of the Best New Apps list! Throughout version 1.6, we’ll be rolling out quality-of-life improvements, starting with an easier way to communicate with our team through You → My Reports, available on both iOS and the web. We’ve also temporarily removed Community Maps while we improve privacy, but you can still explore your own discoveries and those shared by your friends. We have many more exciting updates planned and will continue shaping our roadmap based on your feedback.
1.6.0 15 Jul
Pixel Wild now supports offline mode, so you can continue exploring and recording your discoveries even without an internet connection.
1.5.6 28 Jun
We’ve added a fourth elevation level for flooring in Sanctuaries, along with lighting effects that make day and night transitions feel more dynamic and immersive.
1.5.5 27 Jun
Sanctuaries continue to evolve with new improvements and quality-of-life updates. Gento can now be found on every island, controls have been refined for a smoother experience, and you can now place as many inhabitants of the same species as you’d like after capturing them just once. We’ve also added new city-themed blocks for even more creative building options, a compass in the map view for easier navigation to community discoveries, improved video trimming, and various bug fixes and performance optimizations.
1.5.4 21 Jun
Sanctuaries continue to evolve with new improvements and quality-of-life updates. Gento can now be found on every island, controls have been refined for a smoother experience, and you can now place as many inhabitants of the same species as you’d like after capturing them just once. The map view now includes a compass to help you navigate to community discoveries more easily, and video trimming has been improved for a better capture experience.
1.5.3 20 Jun
Sanctuaries will continue to receive updates throughout the 1.5 release series as we expand and improve the experience. This update introduces raised ground support, new building blocks, and customizable base ground options in Atmosphere Settings, making it easier than ever to create the perfect landscape for your sanctuary and its inhabitants. Need inspiration? Sail to Gento’s Island to see what’s possible and discover new ideas for your own creations.
1.5.2 16 Jun
New ability at level 26: Use free text as an emote on inhabitants.
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