# Prune+ — user reviews > 124 indexed App Store user reviews of Prune+ by Joel McDonald LLC, rated 4.40/5 from 233 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prune-plus/id1585602549/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prune-plus/id1585602549.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 168 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Prune+? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful visuals - 🧘‍♀️ Calming and relaxing gameplay - 🧠 Clever and challenging puzzles - 🎶 Soothing audio design - 👍 Intuitive and easy to learn **Cons** - 🤯 Frustrating camera movement - 🐢 Suboptimal frame rate - 🔍 Lack of clear objectives or instructions - 🔚 Short length and limited content **Commonly reported bugs** - Occasional crashes and performance issues - Camera automatically zooming in/out unexpectedly **Most requested features** - More levels and content - Customizable camera controls - Sandbox mode for free-form tree growing - Ability to save progress and resume later ## Newest reviews (17 of 124) ### 5/5 — So calm *2024-10-17, version 1.0.2* Im only on the 3rd world and the game is just so soothing listening to the flowers come up and i actually feel scared when it hits the red circle lol ### 5/5 — - *2024-09-14* Великолепная ### 3/5 — Another old app *2024-08-18, version 1.0.2* Apple Arcade you’ve done it again. Bravo. Given us a 3 star rated game which hasn’t been updated in six months. Come on! There are thousands of fantastic creators out there who make games worth playing. Give us long term content such as RPG games or point and click and ovx all the diff puzzle games etc. give us a varieth pls. PS Prune Deva this isn’t your fault. I’ve posted this comment as I’ve know way of letting them know. Take care now ### 5/5 — Different & Amazing! *2024-08-18, version 1.0.2* I’m usually into really hard/fast word games, or fast and/or complex legit puzzle games… I can’t remember how this game came across my search, but the aesthetic and mysterious look of it is what grabbed me and had me download it. Boy, this game didn’t disappoint! It’s a bit different and it took me a little getting used to, but I absolutely LOVE this game! The cherry on top is that you get a great screenshot of your bloom at the end of each level, if you choose to take one. I’ve used a couple as my iPad wallpaper bc it has an abstract look with neutral colors with simplicity to boot! If you’re looking for something fun, relaxing and unique/different, I recommend downloading this game and giving it a shot! 🩶 ### 5/5 — so relaxing *2024-08-07* so… I always try to find games or apps that help me relax before bedtime or at anxious times. Prune is the best one so far. So soothing. I hope they make more levels…! ### 3/5 — calming but gives no direction *2024-07-15, version 1.0.2* i am not good at games would be nice with some type of tutorial because im a couple rounds in and still completely unsure of what my objective is or how to complete that objective. also the loading screen took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get into the game ### 3/5 — What *2024-06-10, version 1.0.2* Really. ### 5/5 — Prune + is not a fast play *2024-05-05, version 1.0.2* Reviews that complain about limited or fast play don’t get it. There is many opportunities to take a deep dive in to levels that players have completed superficially. Great game play and great utilization of the Apple Pencil ### 5/5 — Goofy ahh *2024-03-22, version 1.0.2* Love this game the story is long and silent but is loud it’s strong and I hope you get to make a part 2 of that game to all of those people who hate to see the game end like I said I love the game the story ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2024-01-26, version 1.0.1* Great game! My only complaint is that I was so addicted to it that I beat all the levels already!!! Gimme more!!!!! ### 5/5 — Relaxing at first... *2023-10-13, version 1.0.0* A super chill pruning game at first, but with the introduction of saw blades and lava, that's when I realized my casual pruning abilities wouldn't be enough. The later levels required a lot more skill and trial and error. I loved the game, I just wish I hasn't beaten it so soon. I'll have to replay levels, apparently there are bonus challenges I haven't attempted yet. I loved the sounds of the winds, they were #fire, or is it #wind?? ### 3/5 — Wish I read the reviews first *2023-06-02, version 1.0.0* I absolutely loved this game and played all of the way through in less than two hours. This stunning game is like any other. At the end, I genuinely felt a bit of melancholy, what now? It’s over? I played it on iPhone and I might re-play it on iPad again sometime. The story, the simply but beautiful visuals, the actual puzzle play: love and melancholy. From a video game. Wild. ### 4/5 — ну прикольно *2023-05-11* не поняла, как эта игра снимает стресс.. я, как достигатор и очень нервный человек, не разглядела здесь какого-либо "релакса" или чего подобного. но очень красиво, согласна) и сос мыслом, конечно. ### 5/5 — Loved it *2023-04-28, version 1.0.0* awesome ### 5/5 — Never thought I’d cry at a puzzle game *2023-04-03, version 1.0.0* Lovely storytelling and concept. Great work ### 5/5 — Great but short *2023-03-16, version 1.0.0* I loved the game, but really wish it was longer. I beat the levels in just 2 days. ### 5/5 — Oddly Relaxing *2023-03-06, version 1.0.0* I didn’t think I would enjoy this game that much initially. It is all based on one very simple albeit interesting original mechanic. The art style is very minimalist and simple. I found myself playing it all the way to the end. It was strangely relaxing and very pleasant with a good level of challenge. Sometimes you need to just start over with a tree u till it seems possible but that’s fine. It feels very organic. Nice job developers! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Boring as can be *2023-04-28, version 1.0.0* If it were anymore boring I’d fall asleep. You just put “a seed” in the ground & cut the branches not getting light. Uninstalled after 6 levels of the same boring crap. Can’t even change the type of tree. ### 1/5 — What am I supposed to do. *2022-11-07, version 1.0.0* I have zero idea as to what I’m supposed to do! ### 1/5 — Langweilig *2022-06-20* Mir erschließt sich der Sinn nicht und einen Unterhaltungswert finde ich auch nicht. ### 1/5 — Hello, la validation d’Apple ?!! *2022-05-28* L’adaptation à Apple Arcade la pire du monde ! Aucun effort. Non adapté à l’iPad 11 pouces. Comment avez-vous fait pour passer la validation de l’AppStore ? ### 1/5 — Meh *2022-05-10, version 1.0.0* Gameplay is short and the game has a lot of difficulty with scrolling around. Not very many levels and very difficult to change between scrolling and cutting the tree. There should be more levels with smoother gameplay and better directions. You have to figure out how to play pretty much on your own after the first two levels. Also crashed multiple times during the hour I was playing ### 1/5 — Pas de Tuto *2022-05-01* On ne comprend pas grand chose ### 1/5 — Watching grass grow *2022-04-30, version 1.0.0* This re-release of an existing rebadged game into Apple arcade is utterly thrilling non-stop action, supported by a banging music score /s ### 2/5 — A sad, sad game. *2024-10-31, version 1.0.2* I don’t get this game. It’s trying too hard to be all meditative. Don’t. ### 2/5 — Sadistic and Not Zen *2023-11-26, version 1.0.0* Basically you prune/deform/twist trees into unnatural poses by decapitating most of the limbs…talk about ‘kill your darlings’! This is a disturbing game, beware. ### 2/5 — Would be amazing if it were not so frustrating :c *2022-12-08, version 1.0.0* I have played through the first 3 groups of levels plus a couple more on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. I am also an artist and developer myself. Here are my thoughts: Aside from the problems I will explain below I think this could be a stellar work of interactive art and a very fun game to play. The mechanics are very intuitive and engaging. I find the growth of the tree to have just the right balance of chaotic uncooperativeness and suggestability. I find the visuals to be very beautiful and love the way they create an elegant and minimal-feeling but still detailed design. I am into printmaking so I particularly appreciate the theme of black block on paper with red accents. That said, there are a couple issues that make the game unenjoyable for me. Camera Movements The camera moves around a lot on it's own. I find that it is actually more of a challenge to make accurate cuts with my average size (for a male) fingers while the camera is wandering around than it is to get the tree to grow how I want it to. Keep in mind that I have effectively the biggest phone screen you can play this game on. I get that the camera is trying to keep you aware of where your tree is growing into, but when I set the camera to a certain spot to look at an area or make a cut, I don't want the camera moving around. I don't often express frustration outwardly, but the camera movement was so annoying that I found myself involuntarily exclaiming in frustration a couple times *per level* by the time I stopped playing. This problem alone was sufficiently game-breaking to prevent me from continuing to play. This is the primary reason for such a low rating. A less significant (but still annoying) complaint with the camera movement is that zooming and panning works in an unintuitive way. The play field does not anchor itself to the fingers performing the gestures, but instead it feels like the way your fingers move is merely a suggestion for how the camera moves. I sort of get the feeling that it is done this way to make the game feel more cinematic, but in my opinion it does not have this effect. I suggest adhering the camera movement more closely to the user's finger movement to make panning and zooming feel more controllable. Frame Rate My second major complaint is that the game runs at ~a cinematic~ 20-25 fps or so. I can only guess that this is intentional for the purposes of a cinematic feel due to the frame rate consistency and high computing power in all the devices I have played the game on. However, I find that it ends up just being distracting and unpleasant to look at. Part of the reason film-makers can get away with such a low frame rate is that their films have motion blur to smooth out the transitions between frames, which this game does not. Medium and fast moving objects like the saw blade and wind particles as well as faster camera pans and zooms are unpleasant to look at, making it feel like I am running the game on a dinosaur's smart phone. I feel that this issue significantly limits the game's artistic potential and makes the game somewhat unpleasant to play. I would certainly give this game a 5 star rating if all the issues above are addressed. I hope to be able to change my review for the better soon. Keep up the good work! c: ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Lovely *2026-07-14* Short but gorgeous game. So simple but very hauntingly relaxing ### 5/5 — Fabulously Phenomenal. *2026-07-12, version 1.0.2* I love it I love it I love it so much I don’t write reviews often but this game is sooooooo fabulously phenomenal that it’s impossible not to spread the word of it’s absolutely amazing everything. Just get it. You won’t regret it. And the game needs more levels by the way that’s the only thing I don’t like. ### 5/5 — Lindo e relaxante *2026-06-04* Você precisa desenvolver uma planta conforme a luz e o vento, parece simples mas não é ### 5/5 — Beautiful game *2026-02-23, version 1.0.2* :) ### 5/5 — I Don’t Normally Write Reviews *2025-11-04, version 1.0.2* …but this game is good enough to make me write one. Incredible emotional storytelling through deceptively simple and addictive gameplay. It’s a game where you grow trees, pruning them to make them expand in size, until they bloom when they hit the sunlight. That’s it. But how the game allows YOU to naturally figure out the mechanics and puzzle-solving is simply magical and immersive for a minimalistic puzzle game. You learn what to do with scarce instructions, but exploring the mechanics and understanding the game’s language is part of the enjoyment. For example, there’s an obstacle in the game that’s literally just a…giant red circle. But how the game presents it as a threat, as ominous, foreboding, is effective; even the plaintive, soothing music changes to an eerie track that elicits utter panic when your trees interact with it. It becomes even more terrifying once you become immersed and see what it does to your beautiful tree. :( The pruning aspect is the key function of the gameplay, and mastering it is simple, yet tricky. It involves timing, strategy, and forethought. You will spend the game swiping, watching the results, then swiping again. Like pruning in real life, it takes patience. But the dopamine that hits you when you reach the sunlight after all the manicured growth is great. After playing for awhile, you begin to realize that the game is telling you about how to find the light even when you’re cast in dark places. About removing parts of you that are holding you back, preventing YOUR growth…and how to avoid giant evil red orbs. Just see for yourself, it’s unlike any other phone game I’ve played. (Which admittedly, is not many) ### 5/5 — Short post apocalyptic puzzle game where in the latter half trees work together to find light. *2025-08-17, version 1.0.2* The early game isn’t that interesting but the other 4 chapters are great ### 5/5 — A very soothing game *2025-06-29* Fun ### 5/5 — Мощь *2025-02-23* Стильная игра, учит создавать и поддерживать рост. Спасибо! ### 5/5 — Wow *2025-01-05, version 1.0.2* I have played this all the way through 3 times now. I have never done that with any mobile game. I have dreams about this beautiful app. I want to prune every tree I see in the wild. I’m obsessed. I want more! ### 5/5 — Gg *2024-12-12, version 1.0.2* The simplest games have the best stories --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*