Friends is a social AI companion app with cute virtual pets you grow over time – alone or together with real-life friends.
Raise AI companions, share moments, and build routines for focus, self-care, and connection.
Friends turns everyday life into something more personal, social, and fun. Your AI companions learn from you, adapt to your routine, and evolve based on your interactions over time.
Social AI Companions That Evolve With You
Friends is social by design. Raise companions on your own or together with someone you care about — share progress, moments, and playful interactions along the way.
Every action shapes their personality, unlocks new behaviors, and creates small surprises over time.
Choose Your AI Companion
Each companion supports a different part of your day:
Pengu – A Shared AI Companion for Two People
Pengu is a shared AI companion you raise together with a partner or close friend. Two people shape Pengu’s personality through conversations, choices, and shared interactions over time. Designed for couples, close friends, and siblings who want to build something together.
Mellow – AI Study Buddy & Focus Companion
Mellow is your calm AI study and focus companion.
Mellow helps you stay on track with studying, homework, and daily tasks – adding gentle structure, reminders, and encouragement without pressure.
Bao – AI Self-Care & Habit Companion
Bao is your self-care AI companion for healthy habits and well-being.
The more consistent you are, the more Bao develops – designed to make self-care feel motivating, rewarding, and easier to stick with.
Raise Companions Together
Raise companions with friends, send reactions and gifts, celebrate milestones, and enjoy a shared digital space that grows with your relationships.
Often compared to a new generation of Tamagotchi-style experiences, Friends goes further by combining AI characters, real utility, and shared experiences with people you care about.
Customize and Create
- Personalize your companions and their world:
- Outfits and accessories
- Wallpapers and themed rooms
- Visual upgrades that reflect personality and progress
Friends Widgets
Stay connected from your home screen.
Check in on Pengu, Bao, or Mellow, interact with them, and see what they are up to with a quick glance.
Built on AI That Learns Over Time
Friends is powered by AI designed to make companions feel more personal the longer you use them.
Your companions learn from how you interact, adapt to your habits, and respond differently over time — remembering past moments and reacting to progress.
Your AI Friends, Your Way
Download Friends and see how Pengu, Mellow, and Bao grow with you over time.
Social AI companions designed to support you, connect you, and make everyday life more fun.
Subscription Information
- Friends is free to download and use, and that will never change for our main features. If you want more from the experience, you can subscribe to our optional product Friends Plus.
- We currently offer Pengu Pass. Prices may vary by country and are subject to change without notice. Prices are clearly displayed in the app.
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
- You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings in the App Store.
- If offered, and you choose a free trial, any unused portion of the trial will be forfeited upon subscription.
- If you choose not to subscribe, you can continue using Friends for free.
Privacy & Terms
Your personal data is securely stored on Friends. Please review our policies:
Privacy Policy: https://web.penguapp.co/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://web.penguapp.co/terms
Omg this game is so fun basically you have a penguin and you get a decorate it and you could choose if it’s a girl or a boy you could also raise it with one of your friends or family or your partner. It is so cool. Also, you could buy clothes we can buy food and those mini games for me. I like this one called drill cause like it’s like so cool cause you just like all the nails and try to get like everything out. It’s so cool and more level up the more you unlock things and you can message like message text everybody not everybody but like the person that you’re raising your Pengu with and you have quest to level up and you could also feed it and if you want to sleep, it goes to sleep whenever you’re not active onto the game so you don’t even have to worry about putting it to sleep but yeah I love this game five star. I would definitely recommend one thing I would like is when you’re paying mini games could you like do it one many game cause like I get like three ads and annoying cause like I’ll be about a win and then here comes in so also maybe raise up the amount of going to get because like I’ve been struggling to afford food for but like OMG like everything is awesome. My love this game and you should definitely get it like just get it just get it. Just get it already. Do not miss out, but yeah bye
Great game but always has minor bugs
Killiankalin
I honestly love this game. The only thing I don’t like it that even with every upgrade I still have a bug of some sort. With the most current upgrade I can’t see anything in the store as the boxes are all squished to the left side of the screen. Not sure which versions previously but have also had to deal with watching ads to open the free chest and then getting an error message and playing games when the entire app suddenly fully closes out like not even an my apps open screen. Again minor bugs but still annoying. That’s really the only reason I’ve taken off one star because even with the minor bugs with every update they are easy to deal with. Love using this to learn so much about raising kids with my love. The games are fun although I think the rewards should be higher than 2 coins for anything I’d have to play 50 levels just to get 100 coins. Also just updated it and the app now won’t load at all. The widget is showing not my Pengu nor the initials of me and my partnerI am adding that I don’t update often due to how many bugs there always seem to be but I hadn’t updated in a few months so I updated the app yesterday and now none of the games are working. These kind of bugs make it impossible for me to enjoy the app. I can’t play games, I can’t earn or spend money other than cuddling and feeding. And even at that, soon I’m going to run out of money and my Pengu is going to die from starving. This needs to be fixed asap!!!
Was fun at first
pinhead276
Ive been playing this for a long time, so this review comes from a pretty deep-felt place. This game started off cute and simple. You feed your pengu, pet it, and play mini games to help level it up. Unlock in game currency through this to buy cute outfit accessories etc, pretty standard stuff for mobile apps But over time the app has become excessively buggy, and intrusive with ads. To the point I had to turn off system notifications and events because they were using the dynamic island to push sales for skins and the pengu pass, mind you, that had an EIGHT DAY timer. So if i didnt turn it off, it would always be in my dynamic island. The system ads (via notifications) got to a point where it was every couple of hours it would ping your phone, and then when you opened the app you would be hit with 2-4 pop ups for ads or the pengu pass. This is exhausting. If the devs read this, you need to understand that as a consumer the fastest way to make someone lose interest to using your app (and subsequently giving you real money) is to hinder the user experience at ever turn. A clean UI, with non intrusive ads that offer an improved experience over blatant cash grabbing, is the point. And finally, they are using AI generated art now instead of paying artists. So yeah, the game has fallen off tremendously. Truly a shame, will probably uninstall along with my girlfriend as well, and we have money invested in the game.
Great game just a couple bugs
Fellow pengu parent
There’s a couple things I would like to address. It’s an amazing way to teach responsibility but if the other parent is unable to get on the app at a time of need for our penguin the other parent should be able to have a little more liberty to help it. For example I have a friend that can’t always take care of the penguin because they can’t be on their phone 24/7, so I usually take most of the care during those times but I can’t do much do to the fact that it stops me from giving love and cuddles. Another thing I would be very grateful if you took a good chunk of the time limit for cuddles an hour is a bit larger than to be expected. Here’s another thing that I think can be helped, is when I’m going to bed; we should have a sleep reminder or a schedule button on the app so that the penguin goes to sleep as well. I’m getting notifications in the middle of the night “your penguin needs you” I can’t tend to the penguin half sleep. When I wake up me and my friend’s penguin is on the Verge of death! I can only do so much with being one parent, that circles back to what I introduced in the beginning. If there is anyway possible to do a little fix on the fun and interactive game, this would be greatly appreciated!-Fellow pengu parent.
You've been invited to raise your cute Pengu, Bao and Mellow!
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 2.2.45
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Information
Seller
SLAY GmbH
Size
601.3 MB
Category
Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.