Maozai press kit

Maozai (猫在) is a virtual pet kitten for iPhone and Apple Watch that lives through your day with you. It gets hungry at your mealtimes, moves when you move, writes one diary line a night about the day you actually had, and goes to bed when you should.

Download

Press kit, 9 MB zip: fact sheet, app icon at 1024 px, eight iPhone screenshots, three Apple Watch screenshots and a 54-second video (16:9).

Facts

• App Store name: Maozai: Virtual Pet Cat (called Maozai: Your Pocket Cat until version 1.2) (App Store)
• Developer: Will, an independent developer in Los Angeles, formerly a software engineer at Tencent. Maozai is his first app.
• Released: October 19, 2026 (version 1.0). Version 1.0.1 adds My Cats and six mystery-box breeds; version 1.2 (October 23) lets you give a mystery box to a friend.
• Platforms: iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and Apple Watch with watchOS 11 or later
• Languages: English and Simplified Chinese
• Price: free to download, with six kittens and every feature free. Maozai Plus ($4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US) lifts the daily limit of 20 AI chat messages. Six more breeds come in mystery boxes at $1.99 each, with the odds shown before purchase and no duplicates.
• Privacy: no account, no ads, no tracking. Health data and the diary stay on the device. Chat goes to an AI language model only after the person agrees, is processed in the United States and is not stored.

Art

The kitten images and video clips were generated with AI for this app.

Contact

Will, wangweivei@gmail.com