FailArmy vs YearTree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Hilarious fail videos
- Prank compilations
- Comedy clips
- Shareable content
- Celebrate absurd moments
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Celebrate life’s absurd moments through hilarious fail videos, pranks, and comedy. Why take failure too seriously? Laugh it off!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. YearTree sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FailArmy asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | FailArmy | YearTree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jukin Media, Inc. | Justin Neuman |
Customer experience
FailArmy
YearTree
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
FailArmy
No in-app purchases
YearTree
- YearTree Pro$4.99









