PawCatch · The pet-catching card game

Real pets.
Legendary cards.

Spot a cat or dog, win a playful catch, and PawCatch's on-device magic lifts a perfect die-cut sticker from your photo — minted into a numbered holographic trading card that's yours to keep.

Free on iPhone & Android All magic on-device 8 languages
MYTHIC Nimbus the cat as a die-cut sticker
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Move your pointer — catch the foil ✨

How it works

From street corner to collector's card

Three playful steps — no photo skills required.

01

Spot

Point the camera at a real cat or dog. PawCatch finds the body and face live, and locks the guide when your new friend is framed.

02

Catch

Release in the sweet spot to win the catch. Treats widen the zone, lures tilt the odds — and rare pets wriggle harder.

03

Mint

Your phone's own AI cuts a perfect die-cut sticker right on the device and mints a numbered holographic card on the spot.

The catch

A fair fight, whiskers included

The camera reads the scene while you line up the shot — body framed, face visible — then the sweet-spot minigame decides if your new friend joins the album.

  • ✓Live detection — body and face found in real time, right in the viewfinder.
  • ✓Lures & treats — Moon Tuna, Velvet Mouse, Ribbon Bell. Each bends the game its own way.
  • ✓Really real pets — pointing at a screen won't fool it. PawCatch checks a live pet is in front of you.
PawCatch camera locking onto a tuxedo cat, with the sticker being lifted from the photo

New · Living Stickers

It was a sticker. Now it moves.

Send any catch to the PawCatch studio and your cutout comes to life — a seamless loop of the very same cat, still die-cut, still transparent.

Sticker
Kettle the tuxedo cat as a static die-cut sticker

Kettle, caught

One perfect frozen frame

Video
The same cat, now animated — looking around and grooming a paw in a seamless loop

Kettle, alive

A loop that never ends

01

Three tiny scenes

The studio films your pet three times — a look around, a little motion, a settle back down.

02

Die-cut every frame

Each frame is cut out again, so the animation stays a transparent sticker — never a video box.

03

Closes the loop

The last frame lands exactly on the first, so it plays forever without a seam.

Tap Sticker or Video in your Journal to switch between the two — the animation above is a real generation, untouched.

The cards

Every pet becomes a legend

Each catch mints a one-of-a-kind holographic card — your photo as the art, wrapped in an art-nouveau foil frame that shimmers as you tilt your phone.

  • ✓Tilt-to-foil — the rainbow sheen follows your phone's motion, just like a premium TCG pull.
  • ✓Numbered & seasonal — every card carries a mint number and season mark.
  • ✓Levels & moves — recatch your regulars to level them up and reveal signature moves.
A Mythic holographic card of Fig the calico cat

Four rarities, four moods

The real pet matters — breed and coat feed the rarity roll.

Common card frame — warm parchment and gold

Common

The everyday heroes

Uncommon card frame — cool silver filigree

Uncommon

A pleasant surprise

Rare card frame — deep blue holographic

Rare

Worth the chase

Mythic card frame — cosmic purple and rainbow foil

Mythic

Appears after midnight

The album

Your binder, your story

Every catch slides into a collector's binder — filter by species or rarity, favourite your stars, and watch the collection grow street by street.

  • ✓Binder view — rarity-framed cards side by side, like the real thing.
  • ✓Same cat, same card — PawCatch recognises the pets you've met before and levels them up instead of duplicating them.
  • ✓Name them — 100+ name suggestions tuned to each pet's look.
The album binder with Marmalade, Nimbus, Fig and Kettle cards

The wardrobe

60+ ways to dress them up

Cowboy hats, heart shades, gold chains, balloons — drag, scale and spin each piece exactly where it belongs. Your styled pet shows up on cards, in the album, and on the map.

  • ✓Five slots — head, face, neck, held and a sparkling effect layer.
  • ✓The Türkiye set — nazar boncuğu, fez, simit and a glass of çay, of course.
  • ✓Free placement — pinch, rotate and drop every accessory just so.
Dressing up Nimbus with a party hat, monocle and bow tie

The map

Your city, pinned with paws

Pin a catch right where it happened and your neighbourhood slowly turns into a pet atlas — every pin a real animal, wearing its real outfit.

  • ✓Friends' pins too — see where your crew is catching, cat by cat.
  • ✓Privacy first — pins are fuzzed about 50 metres and visible to friends only.
  • ✓Optional — pinning is always your call, catch by catch.
A map dotted with pet-face pins from you and your friends

Friends & trading

Trade cards for keeps

Add friends with a six-character code, race them on the weekly leaderboard, then swap cards one-for-one — or send one as a gift, no strings attached.

  • ✓The photo travels — trade a card and its real photo moves with it.
  • ✓Gifts — ask for nothing in return and make someone's day.
  • ✓Leaderboards — weekly, monthly and all-time, friends or global.
A completed trade — Nimbus received, Marmalade sent

Sticker packs

Send them to your friends

Your pets don't have to stay in the app. Pick a few favourites and PawCatch builds them into a sticker pack you can use in any chat.

  • ✓iMessage & WhatsApp — pick 3–30 pets and send the pack straight over.
  • ✓Fully dressed — whatever they're wearing in your album comes along.
  • ✓Still die-cut — real transparent stickers, not photos in a box.
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✦ PawCatch Plus

For the serious collectors

Everything in PawCatch is free to play. Plus is for people who want their collection backed up, gilded, and a little more alive.

Cloud backup & sync

Your album lives beyond one phone — restore it any time.

Monthly stipend

Coins and treats land in your bag every month.

Gilded frame & badge

A golden frame on every card you mint, and a badge on the leaderboard.

Photo Studio

Pose your pets on a stage, dress them just for the shot, add props, and share the picture.

Plus exclusive

A free Living Sticker

Yearly members get one generation on the house — bring a favourite to life.

Yearly
7 days free on the yearly plan Monthly and yearly options, cancel any time. Prefer to pay once? The one-time PawCatch Supporter still gets you the gilded frame and the Golden Top Hat.
A storybook illustration of an Istanbul street full of happy street cats, Galata Tower in the distance

Our roots

A love letter to Türkiye's street cats ♥

PawCatch is built in Berlin, but its heart belongs to the streets where cats own the town and everybody feeds them. That love is baked into every card, every costume — and a fully localized Turkish edition.

Good to know

Questions, answered

Is PawCatch free?

Yes — free to download and free to play. Optional coin packs and a one-time Supporter Pack exist for collectors who want a golden touch, but nothing about catching, collecting or trading is paywalled.

What do I get with PawCatch Plus?

Cloud backup and sync for your album, a monthly stipend of coins and treats, a gilded frame on every card plus a leaderboard badge, and the Plus-exclusive Photo Studio. Yearly members also get one free Living Sticker generation, and the yearly plan starts with 7 days free. Catching, collecting, dressing up and trading all stay free without it.

What languages does PawCatch speak?

Eight: English, Turkish, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Thai. The app follows your phone's language automatically.

Do I need an account?

No. You can play entirely as a guest, on-device. Signing in (with Apple) only becomes useful when you want friends, leaderboards, the shared map and trading.

Cats only, or dogs too?

Both! PawCatch recognises cats and dogs. Version one is lovingly cat-flavoured — dogs get more of the spotlight with every update.

Where do my photos go?

The magic — detection, cutout, rarity — runs on your phone: Apple Vision on iPhone, ML Kit on Android. Photos only leave your device when you choose to share a card, add friends or trade.

Can someone see where I live?

Map pins are optional per catch, fuzzed by roughly 50 metres, and visible only to accepted friends — never to strangers.

What if I point it at a picture of a cat?

Nice try! PawCatch checks that a live pet is actually in front of the camera — screens and photos politely get told "no sticker".

Your neighbourhood is full of legends.

Catch your first card today — the cats are already waiting.

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