Cat Test

Three free plays a day. The count resets at midnight, on your phone's own clock. A two-player match counts as one play, not two.

All three modes share the same pool. A solo test, a two-player match and a Zoomies run each cost one of your three. Restarting Zoomies after the cat naps or walks off costs one as well.

A one-time purchase of A$1.99 that removes the daily limit for good. It is not a subscription — you pay once, on one Apple Account, and it stays unlocked.

Prices in other countries are set by Apple's regional pricing and may differ.

This is almost always a new device, a reinstall, or a different Apple Account. To fix it:

• Play until the paywall appears (or run out of today's plays).
• Tap Restore Purchases.
• Make sure you're signed in to the same Apple Account that made the purchase — check in Settings → your name → Media & Purchases.

Restoring needs a network connection. If it still won't unlock, email us with the date of purchase and we'll sort it out.

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us — we never see your payment details and can't issue one directly. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

If something in the app is genuinely broken, tell us anyway so we can fix it.

Score a clean 100% on the solo test. You'll be offered the crowned icon just after the fanfare, and from then on a crown button sits next to the speaker on the menu so you can switch back and forth whenever you like.

Only the solo test counts. In pass-the-phone there's no telling whose phone it is.

That alert comes from iOS itself, and it appears on every icon change in every app. There is no public API that lets a developer suppress it. Sorry — we find it annoying too.

• Check the speaker icon in the corner of the start screen — it mutes and unmutes the app.
• Check your phone's Silent switch (or Focus modes) and the volume rocker.
• Every meow, mrrp and hiss is generated live as square-wave chiptune, so if another app has grabbed the audio session, closing it and reopening Cat Test usually clears it.

Haptics follow your system setting: Settings → Sounds & Haptics → System Haptics.

One phone, passed between two people. Both players answer the same five questions in turn, because "who is more cat" only means something if the test was identical.

Nothing is revealed mid-match on purpose — no running score, no feedback, and the same neutral thunk whichever way you answer. It all lands at the end: both scores, the verdict, a crown for whoever is more cat, and a taunt sized to the gap. Ties get their own.

Questions arrive one at a time on a clock that starts at 4 seconds and loses 0.16s every round, down to a floor of 1.25s. Answering the cat-like way hands back 0.4s — being a cat is finally worth something mechanically.

There are two ways to lose. Let the clock run out and the cat falls asleep on you, or answer like a human five times and it walks off with its tail up. Either way you keep the rounds you lasted, and your best run is saved on your device.

Everything the app remembers is stored on your device only — there's no account and no cloud sync. Deleting the app (or "Offload App" followed by a reinstall in some cases) clears your Zoomies best, your daily count and the crowned icon.

The one thing that does survive is Nine Lives: it's tied to your Apple Account, so Restore Purchases will bring it back.

Cat Test is a joke. It is entertainment, not a medical, psychological, veterinary or zoological diagnosis, and its verdicts have no standing in any jurisdiction we're aware of.

If it says you're a cat, that's between you and the cat.