# Meta quietly launches Waddle World, an AI pet journal app

> Original title: Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

- Source: The Verge · AI
- Published: 2026-10-28T11:27:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/d1xt0wpnoyi2cd3vzq6x2x038
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1020410/meta-launched-ai-pet-journal-app-waddle-world

## Summary

Meta has launched Waddle World, a free 16-bit "tamagotchi-style" pet app that lets users talk with virtual creatures that create doodles to illustrate their conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the app is available only to adults in the Philippines. Meta has not said whether it plans to release Waddle World in the US or elsewhere.