Pocket Ponds
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Pocket Ponds! Developed by the innovative team at TriggerWave LLC, this Entertainment game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 12+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 7th May 2017, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 15th May 2017.
Are you a fan of Entertainment, Family, or Simulation games? Then Pocket Ponds is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Pocket Ponds
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How Much Does Pocket Ponds Cost?
Good news! You can download Pocket Ponds on your iOS device absolutely free!
Pocket Ponds Release Date
Eager to know when Pocket Ponds first graced the App Store? It was launched on 7th May 2017.
When Was Pocket Ponds Last Updated?
The latest version of Pocket Ponds was updated on 15th May 2017, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Pocket Ponds?
To get started with Pocket Ponds, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Pocket Ponds
An interactive Zen Garden Experience.
Relax. Enjoy a completely ad-free koi pond in your pocket. Feed the koi, run your finger through the water or sand. Hold your finger still and they’ll nibble it.
Create your own zen experience by breeding new, rare koi and decorating your pond to make it beautiful.
Visit other ponds to experience new ambiences and get ideas.
You can even fish for new koi in the Mystery Pond.
Features:
- Interactive ponds
- Collect thousands of rare koi
- Fully customizable ponds and patios
- Interactive decorations like wind chimes and sandboxes
- Fish for new koi in the Mystery Pond
- Visit ponds for decorating ideas
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Pocket Ponds updated on 15th May 2017:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Lots of bugfixes
User Reviews on Pocket Ponds
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Pocket Ponds below:
We’ve been playing this game for several years. Granted we dont have the best fish, or the best ponds. Our fish have died several times but we can always revive them. This game gives us a sense of responsibility and compassion for our little fictional fish lol. We name them and care for them. We sit on this game for hours and grind out the wheel so we can get more fish so our original ones dont get lonely. Overall, dont listen to the 1 stars on here, yall are doing great :)
We are really enjoying this. Relaxing, at your own paxe.
This game is better than having a REAL koi pond! And yes we used to own one! Sorry we could not find a koi emoji, but.
Hallelujah, it works! And it’s great! Love all the new features and graphics!
This is hands down one of the best games out there. It’s peaceful and calming and fun. Great for any age. Five Stars!
We open Pocket Pond (the original app) every morning to start our day. We had this app for over 8 years, through 4 different iPhones. We just enjoy the calmness of feeding and watching the fish before we start our hectic day. Thank You and we hope the company keeps updating the app for new OS platforms.
Fun collecting game. Although we always run out of money on the gambling wheel! Haha! The fish are fun to interact with and care for!
We LOVE THIS GAME such a fantastic time waster and we love all the vibrant colors.
WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!! THANK YOU- THANK YOU- THANK YOU- DEVELOPERS!!!!! This was DEFINITELY WORTH THE WAIT!!! This is one BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING, GORGEOUS, RELAXING, & ZEN- LIKE APP!!!!! We can’t thank you enough for fixing this!!! This is a DEFINITE KEEPER!!! The POND CHOICES are GORGEOUS! The GRAPHICS ARE CRISP, SHARP, and STUNNING!!! The DECORATIONS, the frogs, the turtles, the SOUNDS, the LIGHTING!!!! WOW WOW WOW!! SUCH AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DECORATIONS and POND CHOICES– JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS JUST LOVELY!!!! We will spend a HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME WITH THIS APP!!! Thank you so very much again– for ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS APP!!!! We ABSOLUTELY JUST LOVE IT!!!!
We enjoy this game. Although we do not think it has been updated in a long time. If you know how to do it right. You actually can make money to buy fish with the fish. But it can be time consuming. We do not think this works for the new iPhone 14 though.
Downloaded this game after playing Ponds 2 and running out of things to buy. This one has great variety and we thoroughly enjoy the relaxing effect of the koi. This one is more challenging to earn money and the prices are higher for the items than in Pond 2. But with patience and breeding skills we should have 6 ponds in 2 weeks. It is very relaxing and fun to watch the growth. Our granddaughter enjoys feeding and catching new koi.
We bought 70 coins and tried to get the best bait and they didnt give it to us because it crashed.
We love the way this app gives you a feel of really looking into a pond. We wish that A) it was easier to win coins/credits/points… The way to move up is sooo slow and the shortcuts of spending money are sooo expensive. B) there should be a hibernation option so that if you have to leave for a few days, you dont come back to a pond full of dead fish and a hefty fee to revive them. Thanks!
We enjoy both the old and new games.
Pros: prettier graphics, can sell things you discover you don’t like, frogs & turtles more interactive, birds less annoying, not required to use Facebook to interact with other players. Cons: buggy. Your internet connection needs to be solid, or the app will crash, or lose your changes. Also, we can’t do anything to our oval pond b/c it crashes every time we try to change anything about it other than fish, turtles or frogs. We can’t even sell it. Differences: The fish look less real to us than the ones in PP2, so we don’t find them as interesting. It’s harder to make game coins, but it’s still possible, and takes longer. Sometimes we like all the patio options. Sometimes we don’t. Either way, we find the game can be very soothing after a long, stressful day.
Our wife loves fish (aquariums, hatcheries, in ponds, in lakes, etc.) and finds this app (Pocket Ponds) fun and relaxing. Heres what she told me: Im not big on in-app purchases and have plenty of patience, so Im enjoying the daily gifts for slowly building up various points and things. Watching fish is relaxing, and since we dont have space for an awuarium, we searched for an app and found this one. Our one disappointment is that it doesnt take advantage of the iPhone haptics to allow a vibration when you let the fish nibble your finger. Its fun to breed the fish and see what the new ones look like, and we love that they get bigger over time. And we like how they get playful at times, flipping over and swimming faster and slower. We also like how you can see the algae (?) building up if you dont clean the filter. We look forward to eventually visiting other ponds, but mostly we just like watching, feeding, and playing with our fish.
We really like this game. The graphics are unique and beautiful. It seems very hard to get koins at first, but once you get enough to start spinning the wheel then you can easily win 10 koins at the cost of 3 about 90% of the time. Once you start accumulating koins easily, you can actually enjoy the game by decking out your pond and patio as well as breeding for the type of koi fish you want. However, you also need a lot of credits to get nice things, and the best way to get tons of credits is to fish for the most expensive koi in the mystery pond and then sell them. Its easy and fun once you get started. We GIVE THIS GAME A 4/5 STARS BECAUSE we wish there were more environmental options. :) overall a nice game; we love our fish!
We are enjoying this. We are trying to turn our bad morning habit of aimlessly scrolling through the Google news feed to a quick check on our pond, feed the fish, clean the filter, get the daily gift and then get up and live our real life, not goof around on our phone. It is really worthwhile to do the daily gift every day. It gets you free koins and points and only works if you do it for 5 days in a row. We have not had problems with the app crashing. Sometimes the quoted prices for selling a fish are not accurate and that is a little frustrating. It is very pretty and the nature sounds are soothing. There is not that much to do, especially if you are not willing to spend real money to get game koins. As a person who can sucked into spending way more time than we meant to on games, we find that kind of a good thing. In some ways its like a real goldfish bowl. You watch the fish, but not much to do. One downside is that its hard to find instructions on what to do. You have to figure it out as you go, in terms of feeding the fish, keeping them happy, cleaning the filter. If you neglect the app for a few days, the pond turns green with algae, the fish die and you have to pay to revive them. We were surprisingly sad when we let that happen.
The game is fun but theres not much to the store. Theres very little to buy.
It crashes all the time and lately it wont even load. Trouble connecting with server. Id be more annoyed if we paid for it.
Recently developed a connect issue. Please fix!
UPDATE: Apparently the app is connecting to the server (miracle?) our fish were all dead. Cost us all of our coins & had to buy more to revive them. We wouldnt mind it if the developer WOULD UPDATE THIS APP!!! Seriously! A bit of compensation would be nice! :/ really disappointed. (Original)-My fish are going to die. We cant get into our account. The app keeps crashing or wont connect to the server. We’ve been taking care of our pond for almost a year & now its going to be a total waste. Really disappointed.
We want to at least migrate our points and coins from a game that we have played (and spent real money on) to the new game. We can see the new fish are beautiful and the game, though somewhat the same will take a little adjustment time but it’s just different, not harder. There should be a way to migrate things from the old game to the new – since we’ve invested a lot of time in the old game – maybe because the graphics are so different we can’t migrate the old fish, but we should be able to get credit for them – some of our fish are 3 years old and worth a lot of coins. Give us a way to save at least in some fashion what we have and we would rate this 5 stars, but without that, it’s only 3, at least from a player who is frustrated with losing 8 ponds, 64 fish and multiple levels.
Im using an iPhone 11 Pro Max. That being said the patio function does not want to work at all. Ill drop a patio decoration and lost will just vanish. We have a pond and its floating in a sea of large turtle shells or other random leftovers from a Grateful Dead acid trip. We’ve reached out on the Facebook group for help and didnt get any. Hoping we can get help here. We dont terribly mind not being able to access the patio fun. But we are a little upset at the waste of coins to figure out what we cant use. Would be nice to have an update to fix this part of the app. But we do love the fish.
Very expensive ( credits)to breed fish,buy items, buy fish. Why soooo many freaking credits?! Little glitchy, Im getting fish swimming through border, game doesn’t always acknowledge that we have done things on friends ponds, bought bait never got fish, game crashed, lost coins and fish.
We love the game, but the offline mode does not seem to work. This makes it very difficult to check on our koi daily. Secondly, koins are so hard to earn, and so scarce. Maybe you could think about making them a bit easier to earn? Or start out with 20 of them, so you have something to go by? This has really set us back a good bit, and we are only level 4. Otherwise we love this game, it is really relaxing.
Update Feb. 2, 2019 Im very upset because our game started crashing yesterday every time we tried to open it. We can login to the game on our wifes phone, but not on our phone. We’ve tried every possible suggestion made to fix it, but nothing works. We contacted the app guy, but havent heard back. We’ve spent some money on this game and want to keep playing. We absolutely love this game and play it way too often! Its really fun visiting other peoples ponds and feeding their fish. One thing we hate is the way fish die if not cared for enough. Its depressing visiting ponds that sometimes are full of dead fish. Please change this!!! We also wish it were easier to accumulate coins without buying them. Its frustratingly slow to move ahead in this game without spending money and Im getting close to discontinuing because of this. Please lower the price of coins needed to move ahead. Also, it would be great to get coin rewards for helping take care of other peoples fish. In spite of all this, Im addicted to this game!!!!
Still calming and very slow to earn koins if you dont have money to spend.
To laggy and wont let us play past the first instruction.
We got Pocket Ponds when we found out there were no new updates to PP2. We had PP2 for 7 yrs and was at a high level and had a very nice pond. We bought a new IPhone and when we got the game from the cloud we had lost all our sound effects. How disappointing. Sadly we had to delete it. We felt almost like we were killing our fish. We now have Pocket Ponds and we have worked up to level 12. However we have few coins or points as early on in the game we had accepted other people and one had gifted us some rare fish. We accepted what we thought was a nice gift in our small pond to find out we had to use our coins to receive them. Then when we received them we found out They were worth nothing we couldnt breed them without spending more coin they were only giftable for more coin and they filled up our pond. We eventually let them go and kept only our common fish. We go to other ponds to see that they have 4-6 ponds and tons of neat things around them. One person in our group has so many gnomes, frogs, turtles, ponds, fish, bird houses with birds and butterfly grass with butterflies,I wonder how they got them as some of these items are spendy and no one earns enough coins or points to buy that much. We still dont have enough coins to purchase items that we would like even though Im at a level in the game Id be eligible to. We’ve played other games where you friend enough people that when you visit their garden, farm etc, you earn points, give free gifts of things for their farm, garden and accept gifts for your own as well. This game is not like that at all. Evidently all one can do is like their pond and clean their pond. If you go to your pond, your fish are happy, and healthy. Then 10 hours later, they are still pretty healthy but no longer happy. So you make them happy, but the next day they are dead because they went from healthy to dead in less than 12 hours. So frustrating.
We just admit, we prefer Pocket Pond 2 to the new (improved ?) Pocket Pond. We hesitate to guess how much we have sunk in the old game, without hope to transfer to the new one. We like buying food and distributing withultiple taps from several fingers at a time. We like our phone vibrating when we pet a koi. Developers, please heed the suggestions in other reviews and incorporate the fun in the new Pocket Pond quickly, before time runs out.
The fish cost too much and so does the decorations for the ponds shorten the prices;)
Ok, what happened to this app. We have been using it for a long time. Now, all of a sudden, the app wont connect to the servers at all! We have it on three different devices and none of them run any more. Since we still see it available here maybe it is just broken. Nice job! Addendum: So here we go. The server is back up. All of our very rare fish are dead and you are wanting a ton of money to revive them. This is your fault not ours so why am we being charged so much to get back to where we were. You had better correct this or we for one will be dumping your app forever!
Our fish are dead now, all because yalls server was down and we couldnt get into the app. We cant afford to revive them because its so hard to get koins. We are not happy.
Really like this game but it messes up a lot. Severs go down so you cant log in for days, your fish die through no fault of your own and the app makers do not respond to anyway you contact them, social media, but reports, email etc. Use at your own risk but dont put any money into it!!
Sluggish and not better than Pocket Pond 2. Wheel spin takes our coins and just keeps spinning. You owe us 6 coins.
Im enjoying the app and we feel like it helps our anxiety. However, when we try to open the app right now it says that it cannot connect to the server. If we cant get in pretty soon our koi will die and if we have to spend koins to revive them because of yalls mistake we will not be too happy. Also we tried to buy bait and fish for koi, and we accidentally hit the button to throw the fish back. We lost 15 koins and got no koi in return. It would be nice if there was a way to fix a mistake like that… Overall its a good app, we just wish we could get in and feed our koi before they die.
Bug fixes galore?? Must be even more. Call Orkin or something. STILL Won’t Open…
VERY GLITCHY! Especially the bait shop. Freezes constantly. We even have to restart both phones ,iPhone 8s just to get out of bait shop! Bad enough you need to spend a ton of real money just to get ahead.
When we heard that pocket ponds 2 would no longer work without an update when the next iOS comes out we were sad but the the new pocket ponds came out and we thought great the updated it, but this is not an update it is a new game. You can’t transfer stuff from the old game so all your fish, joins, points , etc are gone! The graphics aren’t a whole lot better either. The fish now have male and female but all the females are navy blue and some other combo( boring) and the patterns lack imagination as well. You also have to feed and play with your fish multiple times a day instead of once a day like the old game. The fish movement is very unnatural as well. You can’t get ahead because fish cost almost as much to breed as to sell so you always just break even. The loin spin after 5 days of playing is pathetic and the daily gift is rarely joins . Don’t waste your time and seriously do not buy anything because you will never get anywhere in this game.
We paid for a coin pack, the app glitches then crashes. We reload the app and no coins. Sent email and there is no response from this company. Will update if anything changes.
We were playing this game a few years ago and kinda liked it, so recently we decided to reinstall and replay it on our new iPad. Got to level six and decided to purchase some coins, mistake! Just as soon as the purchase went through the game crashed and wont open back up and we’ve tried everything! We even turned off our device and tried to reopen it, and it still wont. This is ridiculous! Way to steal money off of people, you outta be ashamed of yourselves! Fix your app!
How am we supposed to progress in this when we’re not given anything to progress with? Definitely not a ‘free’ game, if you want it to go anywhere. One of the cheaper quality games we’ve ever downloaded, probably low budget, if we had to guess. Nice try though.
You can’t get ahead. The fish mature to the same or less than you bought them for. It’s awkward to play. The features are nice like an expanded area to decorate, but I’d have to keep buying coins to play. We want the old game back.
Apple updated IOS. Pocket Ponds started crashing. Now Pocket Ponds cant be accessed. Constantly crashes so you cant get into the app at all. Worthless. We’ve written multiple times but we never get an answer. Apple needs to start kicking apps with no support out of the store.
When it first came out it was a relaxing pond app that let you add fish, frogs, bugs , rain and thunder noises free. We comeback after some years and the old app no longer exist. Replaced by some trash cash grab glitch fest that hasnt fixed anything in 6 years.
Lovely game but keeps crashing and now we can’t get into the game at all! No response from developers when contacted!! So annoying. No star rating!! Don’t bother with this game, you’ll get frustrated.
We tried to contact Trigger Wave. NO tech support., & has NO tech support. We get False notifications. Waste of time, no fun. Update June 30, 2020: There is a fatal & reproducible problem connect ing to the server. We’ve made too-numerous-to-count attempts, see the logo for 2 seconds, then Im unceremoniously dumped to our desktop. We even rebooted our iPad with no change. It behooves the developer to support users of the product. If you are unwilling or otherwise unavailable, Apple should remove your apps from the AppStore, Permanently. Update August 26, 2020. Trigger Wave programmer hasnt updated app in 3 years! No customer support. Just collect money from players to buy items. Apple should kick these deadbeats out of the Apple Store. Apple should refund the money we’ve spent on this game. Update October 11, 2020. Finally able to login. All fish dead. Our earlier comments stand. Update October 13, 2020. We decided to revive a few fish, only to see the play koins & PAID for were taken, but the revive or cancel screen, & even when we rebooted, the fish remained dead. We must protest that this is tantamount to THEFT. We will report this to Apple since this does not belong in their store.