Buy an iPhone game and donate to charity

In the ShiveringKittens iPhone game players rescue kittens from freezing in the winter by arranging blocks.

(Credit: GiantCrayon Games)

An iPhone app developer is donating to a nonprofit for each sale made, in what is believed to be a first.

Appropriately, the app is called ShiveringKittens and the charity is the ASPCA, which works to protect cruelty to animals.

For every sale of the $2.99 app during March and April the developer, GiantCrayon Games, will donate $1 to the ASPCA.

In the game, players arrange falling blocks to rescue animated kittens who are stuck in a Minnesota winter and win points. A video preview is on YouTube.

If only rescuing real kittens were that simple.

[Ben Feldman]

There are (and have been) several applications in the Android Market that donate their proceeds (the 70% they keep) to charities. It almost seems to be a mini-meme. A number of different people creating several different applications that each donate to a different cause.

There's no real way to prove that the money is actually donated, I guess, but at least in the Android apps' cases, they're generally only $0.99 (and this iPhone app is $2.99), so you don't really have that much to lose.

[Dylan_Wisor]

Hearing about charities for animals makes me think of hurt puppies and kittens. That makes me sad.

[LOGANslade]

$1 is not much bc not many ppl are buying iphones now

[jwissick]

ASPCA is a scam. They operate NO shelters. They care for ZERO animals. They are a far left group that has been taken over by people the likes of PETA.