Comparison

FailArmy vs YearTree

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FailArmy

Discover and watch a vast collection of hilarious fail videos, pranks, and comedy clips. This app lets you celebrate life's absurd moments and laugh off any failure.

Highlights
  • Hilarious fail videos
  • Prank compilations
  • Comedy clips
  • Shareable content
  • Celebrate absurd moments
Features
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Celebrate life’s absurd moments through hilarious fail videos, pranks, and comedy. Why take failure too seriously? Laugh it off!

About

YearTree

Cultivate a unique digital bonsai tree where each day represents a year of growth. Make mindful choices about pruning and light to shape its development. Experience contemplative play focused on patience and restraint, not competition.

Highlights
  • Daily year progression for tree growth
  • Interactive pruning and light adjustment
  • Unique tree development based on choices
  • Contemplative gameplay, no scores or timers
  • Collect and share finished bonsai trees
  • Offline play
Features
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YearTree is a bonsai garden for your phone. Each day you open the app is one year in the life of your tree. You see what grew overnight. You make one choice... prune a branch, shift the light, or leave the tree alone. Then the year ends. Growth happens in your absence. This is how real bonsai works. The Japanese word for tending bonsai is "seishi"... to restrain life. A bonsai master does not build a tree. They remove what is unnecessary. They wait. They decide when to stop. YearTree puts that practice in your hands. Your tree is unique. No two trees start the same way and no two trees grow the same way. Light compounds over years, bending branches toward the sun. Pruning redirects energy. Doing nothing has consequences. Surface roots emerge with age. Growth slows over centuries. Every decision accumulates. Every absence matters. This is contemplative play... a space between games and meditation where meaning comes from patience, not performance. There is no score. No timer. No way to win. Just the slow unfolding of something shaped by your attention and your restraint. When your tree feels finished... not when the game tells you, but when you feel it... place it on the shelf. A collection of trees you chose to stop touching. Share a snapshot of what you have grown. Start another. One pot. One tree. Many years. Free: one year per day, full mechanics. Pro: unlimited years per session. $4.99, one time, forever. No ads. No subscriptions. No accounts. No data.

Screenshots

FailArmy4 screens
YearTree4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: YearTree at 100% against FailArmy's 54%. YearTree also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). FailArmy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 4). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. YearTree sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FailArmy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

YearTree holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FailArmy has 1.7K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of FailArmy's written reviews are positive against 100% of YearTree's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FailArmy ships an update every 3 months, YearTree every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
FailArmy versus YearTree: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFailArmyYearTree
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB17 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperJukin Media, Inc.Justin Neuman

Customer experience

FailArmy

All ratings1,669 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.6%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews182 reviews
Positive54.4%
Neutral8.2%
Negative37.4%

YearTree

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

FailArmy

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Videos fail to load
  • App crashes on volume change
  • Categories and collections don't work
  • Blank screens and loading issues
  • Compatibility problems on tablets

Requested features

5 requests
  • Full-screen mode
  • Ability to rewind live videos
  • More video categories
  • Offline viewing option
  • Improved search functionality

YearTree

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FailArmy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

YearTree

One-time1
  • YearTree Pro$4.99

Questions

Is FailArmy free?
FailArmy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is YearTree free?
YearTree is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FailArmy or YearTree?
YearTree is rated higher. FailArmy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while YearTree averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do FailArmy or YearTree have ads?
FailArmy shows ads; YearTree does not.
Which is updated more often, FailArmy or YearTree?
FailArmy ships an update every 3 months, and YearTree every 3 weeks. Most recently, FailArmy was updated on October 15, 2026 and YearTree on October 8, 2026.

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