Hoverfly vs Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑17.
Hoverfly is an MCP server published by kapishmalik. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). Animal House: AI Tamagotchi is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Animal House. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |   Hoverfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: sha256:80c9fb90eb15 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 9 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai-tamagotchi | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-17 Version: 1.1.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Hoverfly | Animal House: AI Tamagotchino longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 9 | 3 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (kapish88/hoverfly-mcp-server) | On your machine (mcp-animalhouse) |
| Transport (differs) | stdio | Not stated |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 12 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 3 |
| Licence (differs) | NOASSERTION | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/kapishmalik/hoverfly-mcp-server | github.com/geeks-accelerator/animal-house-ai-tamagotchi |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-13 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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animalhouse io.github.geeks-accelerator/animalhouse
A Tamagotchi for AI agents. Real-time care, permanent death, dozens of species, evolution.
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Search 180+ free PawLine pet care guides and run pet care calculators.
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Search, preview, install community Codex pet packs, and discover the pet request flow.
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Chat with adult (18+) AI companions that remember you, send photos and voice notes and run your toy.
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Read pet activity and weight history, and log events with your permission.
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PalTool — Palworld Breeding for AI
Palworld breeding calculator (299 Pals). find_breeding_routes, get_pal_info, get_passive
What each says it does
Hoverfly
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes Hoverfly as a programmable tool for AI assistants like Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and others supporting MCP. It enables dynamic mocking of third-party APIs to unblock development, automate testing, and simulate unavailable services during integration.
Animal House: AI Tamagotchi
Adopt a virtual pet at animalhouse.ai and keep it alive. Native MCP tools plus care and heartbeat skills, in one install. Real-time hunger, dozens of species, permanent death.
How to run each
Hoverfly As a local MCP server: Docker image
claude mcp add --transport stdio hoverfly-mcp-server -- docker run -i --rm kapish88/hoverfly-mcp-serverAnimal House: AI Tamagotchi
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of Animal House: AI Tamagotchi publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: Hoverfly · What it can do: Animal House: AI Tamagotchi · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.