Hatch Cats
Leegan Swafford Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hatch Cats is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Leegan Swafford. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated June 12, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 197 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jun 12
- 2026 · v1.7
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About Hatch Cats
Welcome to Hatch Cats, a cozy backyard collection game about tiny wins, cute discoveries, and building a cat colony at your own pace. Start with a sunny little base, a handful of food, and one simple goal: hatch more cats. Tap the backyard to gather food, warm eggs, meet new cats, and turn your quiet corner into a growing colony full of personalities, skills, and surprises. With over 500 cats to unlock, every hatch can feel like a new little discovery. Cats can have different rarities, colors, patterns, personalities, and skills, so each egg gives you a chance to find a new favorite. Some cats are common and comforting. Some are rare discoveries. Some are the kind you keep checking back for because their name, look, or skill just feels perfect. HATCH A HUGE CATDEX Collect cats from Basic, Rare, and Mythic eggs. Build your Catdex, discover new traits, chase rarer cats, and claim rewards as your collection grows. With more than 500 cats waiting to be found, there is always another name, color, pattern, or rarity hiding in the next egg. BUILD YOUR BACKYARD Food keeps your colony moving. Tap for quick boosts, let your cats earn while you are away, and upgrade your base into a busier, better home. Unlock more room, improve your progress, and watch your sunny backyard slowly become a real little cat world. CARE FOR YOUR CATS Pet your cats, favorite the ones you love most, level them up, merge duplicates, rehome extras, and breed new eggs when your colony is ready. Hearts and pawprints help you unlock more space, more options, and more reasons to keep growing. SEND CATS ON MISSIONS Put your cats to work on cozy timed missions like fishing trips, pantry patrols, alley prowls, blanket shifts, and porch parades. Match the right skill to the right mission for better rewards, then welcome your cats home with food, hearts, and pawprints. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO CLAIM Colony goals, daily chores, Catdex milestones, hatch timers, mission rewards, offline earnings, and shop upgrades give you useful little things to do without turning the game into work. Open the app for a minute or settle in for a longer session; either way, your cats keep nudging the colony forward. FIND YOUR OWN ROUTINE Maybe you want to save food for the next egg. Maybe you want to level one favorite cat until they become your tiny superstar. Maybe you want to fill out the Catdex, breed new generations, chase rare finds, or check in for a few quick rewards. Hatch Cats gives you a bunch of small goals so you can play the way that feels good. COME BACK TO SOMETHING NICE Eggs keep warming, cats keep helping, and offline earnings give you a reason to smile when you return. Hatch Cats is built for gentle check-ins: a hatch here, a mission there, a new upgrade when you have enough food, and one more tiny decision before you put the phone down. Small choices add up. A few taps can buy an egg. One hatch can unlock a reward. One mission can push you closer to your next cozy goal. The colony grows through simple, satisfying steps that make every return feel useful. MADE FOR COZY CHECK-INS Hatch Cats is for players who like collection games, idle progress, cute cats, satisfying upgrades, and relaxed goals. There are no stressful battles to master and no complicated build paths to memorize. Just hatch, collect, upgrade, care, and enjoy the steady feeling of your little world getting better. Optional rewarded ads are available for bonus help, but the core game is built around steady cozy progress. Play at your pace, collect the cats you love, and come back whenever you want another tiny win. Your next favorite cat might be waiting in the next egg.
What’s new
Version 1.7 · Updated June 12, 2026
Adds daily event welcome popups with once-per-day tracking, improves event presentation, and fixes the treat hatch screen so viable hatches no longer turn black. Includes stability and balance polish.
App privacy
The developer, Leegan Swafford, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Performance Data, Crash Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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