PouHow to Get the Most Free Coins in Pou
In Pou everything is paid for with coins: food, clothes, furniture and potions. You earn them by playing the arcade minigames, hitting achievements and looking after your pet regularly every day.
What is the fastest and most efficient way to get Coins in Pou?
Pou has a simple, closed economy. Coins are the only real currency and they come from minigames, achievements and daily care; with them you buy food, which is the resource that keeps the pet's bars topped up and, along the way, the one that grants experience when you feed it. There is no second premium currency in the style of other mobile games: what exists are optional coin pack purchases. That means progression depends on time played, not on spending.
Every day
- The main source; the reflex games pay more per minute
The arcade minigames
The arcade brings together games of skill, aim and memory, and each run pays coins based on what you achieve inside it. The reflex games with an escalating score, along the lines of high jumps or catching falling objects, pay considerably more per minute than the turn-based ones, because a single long run stacks up a lot. The efficient routine is to pick two or three you are good at and repeat them, rather than rotating through all of them and scoring badly in each.
- A small fixed extra after every minigame
The ad bonus at the end of a run
When a minigame ends, the option appears to watch a video for a fixed amount of coins. It is especially useful when the run went badly, because the ad bonus can beat what you earned by playing. Availability depends on ad inventory, so some days there are more than others. If a child is playing, it is worth having operating system purchases blocked: between one ad and the next you get links to other apps and to stores.
- Small amounts, but they cost seconds
Daily care and the fun bar
Feeding, bathing, putting Pou to bed and playing with it keeps its bars high and avoids falling into the loop of spending coins on emergency food. Petting your pet when the fun bar is not full drops loose coins, and sleeping restores energy at no cost at all. It is the least profitable part per hour, but it is what holds everything else up: a neglected Pou eats more food and forces you to buy more, which is exactly where your earned coins disappear.
Every week
- A reward for every completed level
Level up by feeding and playing
Experience goes up when you feed Pou and when you play, and every completed level hands over coins on top of unlocking shop items. Early on the levels come quickly and then they stretch out, so in the medium term level is a consequence of playing rather than a goal to chase separately. Cheap food goes further for experience per coin spent than expensive dishes, so filling the bar with the budget options is the sensible route.
- Savings rather than income
The lab, potions and keeping spending in check
The lab lets you brew potions that change Pou's size, energy or hunger. Some of them solve situations that would otherwise cost coins in food, and others are purely cosmetic fun. The useful decision is separating the functional from the decorative: clothes, hats and furniture give no advantage at all and are the biggest coin sink in the game. If the player is a child, this is a good moment to explain that saving up for a specific item beats buying on impulse.
One time only
- One-off payouts, sometimes far larger than a normal run
Game achievements
Every minigame and every activity has goals attached, of the reach-a-certain-score, chain-actions or repeat-a-task-a-number-of-times variety. Meeting them pays out coins one time only. It is worth going through the list and checking which ones you are halfway to: many are completed in a single session focused on one game, and the payout makes the time worthwhile. Since they do not repeat, treat them as objectives rather than as recurring income.
What does not work
No generator can add Coins to your Pou account: the balance is handled on the game’s servers and there is no way to touch it from outside. If you arrived looking for one, we explain in detail how they work on the inside and why they always end the same way.
See why Coins generators are a scam →Frequently asked questions
How do you earn coins faster in Pou?
By repeating the reflex minigames you already score well in, instead of rotating through the whole arcade. One long run in a game you have mastered pays more than several short ones in new games. On top of that you have the bonus for watching an ad at the end and any pending achievements, which give significant one-off payouts. Keeping the bars topped up avoids emergency food spending, which is where your earnings go.
What is worth buying first with saved-up coins?
The cheap food that raises experience and keeps the bars up, because that is what lets you keep playing without getting stuck. After that, the items that unlock activities. Clothes, hats, wallpapers and furniture are purely cosmetic: they speed nothing up and give no advantage in the minigames. Leaving those treats for last avoids the cycle of running out of coins just when you need to feed your pet.
How does experience work and what do you get for levelling up?
Experience builds up mostly by feeding Pou, and also by playing. Every percentage of food added counts, whether the bar is full or not, so budget food yields more experience per coin than expensive dishes. Completing a level pays out coins and opens new items in the shop. The first levels go by quickly and then the pace stretches out considerably.
What precautions make sense if a child is playing?
Disable in-app purchases or protect them with a password in your phone's settings, because coin packs are bought in two taps. It is also worth going through together that the ads appearing after minigames lead to other apps and stores, and that no site promising unlimited coins is real: those pages ask for data or downloads and give nothing back. Playing with the sound on and without rushing avoids accidental taps.
