Animalis: Catch Real Animals

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About this game

Welcome to Animalis — a real-world nature game that gets you outside, exploring, and discovering the wildlife around you.

ANIMALIS UNLIMITED
Animalis is a paid game. Catching animals needs Animalis Unlimited: £3.99 a month or £24.99 a year (auto-renewing — cancel any time in Google Play), or a one-time lifetime unlock. Prices vary by country; the exact price is shown in the app before you buy. No ads, no coin packs, nothing else to buy.

CAPTURE REAL ANIMALS BY PHOTO
Step outside, spot a creature, and snap a photo. Animalis identifies the real species and adds it to your encyclopedia — from the beetles in the grass to the foxes on your evening walk.

BATTLE, LEVEL UP, GROW
Build a team of six and take on wild animals in turn-based battles. Across 11 animal types, every species has its own strengths, moves, and matchups — train your team, level them up, and grow them through their real life stages into stronger forms. Sexes, castes and colour forms are the real ones too.

A WORLD BASED ON YOURS
You photograph the real animals around you, so your collection is whatever genuinely lives where you are — a city park, a forest, a beach, and a riverside each turn up different species. Travel somewhere new and so does the wildlife.

CLAIM GYMS, EARN BADGES
Real-world parks are home to Gyms. Beat a gym's defenders to earn its Badge, then leave your own team to hold it. A held gym earns Leaves every day, and any challenger your team beats forfeits their stake. Gym leaderboards run by country, continent and world.

CLIMB THE CANOPY
The animal family tree, as a ladder you battle up — species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom. Install a team on a rung you own, beat the position below to unlock the next, and hold positions for badges, rank rewards and Leaves every day. Playable from anywhere, no park needed.

FOLLOW THE SEASONS
Hundreds of limited-time wildlife events around the world, matched to what is really happening in nature near you — migrations, births, insect emergences, the rut. Each names a real animal, a real region and its real dates. Catch it while it is in season to earn its badge and reward.

BATTLE AND TRADE WITH FRIENDS
Add friends with an invite link or QR code, spot each other on the map, and go head-to-head in player-versus-player battles. Trade animals to round out your collection — and invite a friend and you both earn Nets.

HEAL AT REAL LANDMARKS
Visit a real-world place of worship — church, temple, or mosque — to heal your team for free at a Health Centre. Drop into a real supermarket to find a Shop and stock up on Nets, Potions, and Revives.

BUILD YOUR ENCYCLOPEDIA
Every capture fills your personal encyclopedia with taxonomy, habitat, and conservation status. Earn bonus Leaves for finding threatened species — and a little more awareness of the natural world. Browse every animal players have found at playanimalis.com/encyclopaedia.

GET OUTSIDE
A clean, considered game that gets you out in nature and rewards you for exploring.

Download Animalis and start your nature journey today.
Photograph real animals to catch them, battle & claim gyms. Paid game, no ads.
Updated on
Sep 10, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Photos and videos, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

11 reviews
Gabe Crawford
July 8, 2026
This game is so fun! The fact that you have to get pictures of real animals has made my usual walk in the park much more exciting and inspires me to get out on some hiking trails for higher level animals. I'm not really a video game guy but this game actually gets me outdoors and "touching grass" more than before! In a world of apps that are free with ads, it is well worth the money for this game with no ads!
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rcwhiteley
July 8, 2026
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I wanted to make it simple, just pay and play. We have a discord (it's in the link at the bottom of the app Menu) or feel free to email support with any feedback. I am making improvements and adding features almost every day.
Mike Nijenkamp
June 30, 2026
The idea of having all the animals around you as possible creatures to catch and use like Pokemon is nice. The execution is very rough, the game is roughly in an alpha stage at best. The recognition of creatures is often incorrect. It seems like an idea has been created and developed mainly with AI, as a developer myself, I know this shouldn't have as poor of a performance as it does. Hopefully updates will elevate the performance in the future.
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rcwhiteley
July 5, 2026
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I am open to any ideas, could you send any specific comments you have to: support@playanimalis.com ? The animal identification is somewhat limited by the latest technology, but should improve over time, or if the game gets large enough then can train my own model, in theory.
Taylor Bloomfield
July 3, 2026
My husband and I are having a blast with this game! it's still really new so it has some bugs to be defeated like the wrong species popping up when you catch an animal or the amount of nets reseting to 10 every day even if you bought more. Regardless its still a fun time.
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rcwhiteley
July 5, 2026
I didn't know about the net reset bug, let me fix this. Feel free to send any feedback to support@playanimalis.com. Thanks for the review!