Meta has launched Waddle World, an AI virtual-pet app now available on iOS and Android in the Philippines, with wider availability unconfirmed. Users hatch and care for a pixelated companion in a 16-bit style, feeding it, playing with it and watching its mood change.

The twist is conversation: users talk or type about their day, and the pet — which remembers what they share — turns those conversations into illustrated journal entries. The store listing describes companions with moods such as happiness, hunger, sleepiness and boredom, learning more about the user's routines over time, and specifies users must be at least 18.

Waddle World is one of several experimental consumer AI apps Meta has shipped in recent months, alongside Style Sketch, Pocket and Vibes. Meta has not confirmed any wider release or said whether the app connects to its broader Muse AI companion work.