Comparison

Flower vs Kitty Q

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

Head to head
About

Flower

Control the wind and explore beautiful, interactive environments. This award-winning game offers a unique and emotional journey, accessible to all players. Experience a peaceful escape and find harmony.

Highlights
  • Control the wind with motion controls
  • Explore beautiful, lush environments
  • Interact with and change the environment
  • Simple tilt-based gameplay
  • Immersive and emotional experience
Features
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"It's an experience that anybody can appreciate and one that offers hope for video games' potential to stir the soul." - TIME "Flower represents an important moment in the development of interactivity and art." - The Smithsonian American Art Museum "An experience that is unique and enthralling." - Wired "Flower is a remarkable and exquisitely crafted piece of work that transcends the medium effortlessly." - The Telegraph Experience award-winning Flower, now available on the App Store. Originally developed by thatgamecompany, Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments using motion controls. Journey through varied landscapes at your own pace, interacting with and changing the environment as you go, and find balance and harmony in your surroundings. This is an interactive escape that takes you on an emotional journey like no other game you've ever experienced. Key Features: • Simple Gameplay Controls – Controlling the game is as simple as tilting your device in the direction you want to go. • Lush and Interactive Environments – Vast grassy fields, blowing in the breeze, create a lush, immersive environment. • Immersive and Emotional – Accessible to gamers and non-gamers alike, the game takes players on an incredibly personal and emotional experience.

About

Kitty Q

Embark on a quantum adventure to solve puzzles and help a cat escape superposition. Explore the bizarre rules of the quantum world with guidance from a physicist's descendant. Discover over 20 scientific facts about quantum physics through engaging challenges.

Highlights
  • Quantum physics puzzles
  • Explore quantum world rules
  • Learn scientific facts
  • Character guidance
  • Unique cat adventure
Features
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What the heck? Unsuspecting, you open the front door wide to find a box containing … a half-dead cat!? Using smart puzzle skills and clever outside-the-box thinking, you can help Kitty Q to escape her peculiar quantum superposition!   Don’t worry—Anna is there to help you. She’s the great-granddaughter of the world-famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Erwin Schrödinger. She will help you guide Kitty Q out of the crazy quantum world. Inside the box, everything follows its own curious rules. It really is an odd world here as Anna explains, but together you get to explore her great-grandfather Erwin Schrödinger’s specialist subject: quantum physics. Every puzzle in the game refers to observations, experiments, or phenomena from this totally unbelievable field of science. It’s a whole new world to discover!   So, you’ll get to know… · why some tiny particles absolutely contradict all the rules at times, · which letter will make your math teacher sweat, · how you look in a selfie with a self-styled, half-dead cat!   In Kitty Q, you will discover more than 20 scientific facts about quantum physics that will amaze everyone.  The quantum adventure Kitty Q has been developed in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence* ct.qmat and is completely free and without ads or in-app purchases—thanks to the funding of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the initiative ‘Research in Germany’.   *A Cluster of Excellence is a team of outstanding scientists who explore new challenges and unsolved puzzles. The answers that they find could have a crucial impact on our lives in the future. For ct.qmat, quantum physics takes center stage.

Screenshots

Flower4 screens
Kitty Q3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Kitty Q at Free against Flower's $4.99. Kitty Q also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (91% vs 55%). Flower's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 13 months) and chart position (#49 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Kitty Q is free to download; Flower costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kitty Q holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 336 and 398 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Flower's written reviews are positive against 91% of Kitty Q's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flower ships an update every 3 months, Kitty Q every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Flower versus Kitty Q: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowerKitty Q
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (336 ratings)4.9 (398 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews91.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings336398 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#49 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.111.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size900 MB1.3 GB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAnnapurna Games, LLCPhilipp Stollenmayer

Customer experience

Flower

All ratings336 ratings
Positive73.2%
Neutral9.8%
Negative17.0%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive54.8%
Neutral17.8%
Negative27.4%

Kitty Q

All ratings398 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews362 reviews
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.0%

User reviews

Flower

From 336 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌼 Beautiful graphics and visuals
  • 🎶 Relaxing and calming music
  • 🌳 Immersive nature-inspired experience
  • 💤 Helps with stress and relaxation

Room to improve

  • 🎢 Frustrating or unintuitive controls
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🤯 Causes motion sickness for some
  • 💤 Gets repetitive or boring after a while

Kitty Q

From 398 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🐱 Cute cat character
  • 💡 Interesting quantum physics concepts
  • 👍 Engaging puzzles
  • 🚀 No ads or in-app purchases
  • 🎨 Lovely art style and design

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Game is too short
  • 🤔 Some puzzles can be challenging
  • 📚 Lack of language options (only English)

Bugs and requests

Flower

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes or crashes, especially on certain levels
  • Graphical glitches or visual issues
  • Controls become desynchronized

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more levels or content
  • Improve control options (e.g. joystick)
  • Implement a save/progress system
  • Allow listening to own music

Kitty Q

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on startup for some users
  • Difficulty choosing between live or dead cat ending

Requested features

3 requests
  • More levels or chapters
  • Ability to reset the game
  • Multilingual support

In-app purchases

None

Flower

No in-app purchases

None

Kitty Q

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flower free?
Flower costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kitty Q free?
Kitty Q is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flower or Kitty Q?
Kitty Q is rated higher. Flower averages 4.1 out of 5 from 336 ratings, while Kitty Q averages 4.9 from 398 ratings.
Do Flower or Kitty Q have ads?
Neither Flower nor Kitty Q shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flower or Kitty Q?
Flower ships an update every 3 months, and Kitty Q every 13 months. Most recently, Flower was updated on September 26, 2026 and Kitty Q on September 25, 2026.

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