Farmside vs Pocket Love!+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Farmside
Cultivate a seaside farm, growing crops, raising animals, and crafting unique recipes. Decorate your farm and avatar with hundreds of unlockable items. Expand your land and fulfill orders from townsfolk.
- Plant crops and harvest produce
- Raise farm animals
- Craft recipes from farm goods
- Decorate farm and avatar
- Expand farm land
- Fulfill town orders
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******Build your dream farm!****** * Place plots, plant crops, harvest, and repeat * Build beautiful orchards filled with your favorite fruit trees * Raise chickens, cows, and other animals who produce agricultural products * Use the produce from crops, orchards, and animals to craft and cook unique recipes! * Fill orders from townsfolk * Buy seeds from Dunn’s seed stand ******Decorate!****** * Everything on the farm can be placed freely and they all have their own characteristics, such as fences that will stop chickens from running around, street lights that automatically light up the farm at night, and pavement that provides safe walkway for your avatar. * Change the color your barn, house, and other key farm locations with decals * Customize and dress your avatar! * Unlock hundreds of unique decorations as you complete quests and level up ******Expand!****** * Start with a quaint farm by the beach, and expand into the island interior
Pocket Love!+
Design your dream home, customize your couple, and adopt pets in this cozy life simulator. Express your style with a vast wardrobe and enjoy relaxing gameplay. Expand your house and create a perfect pocket-sized world.
- Avatar creation for couples
- Interior design and home expansion
- Pet adoption and care
- Extensive fashion wardrobe
- Relaxing idle gameplay
- Mini-games
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Design your dream home, dress up your perfect couple, and adopt cute pets in this cozy sim, now on Apple Arcade! Welcome to the most wholesome life simulator in town! Shrink down to pocket size and move into a cute new home with your partner and your favorite pet. Everything is smaller, sweeter, and more adorable in the world of Pocket Love!+ Whether you love interior design, dressing up in kawaii fashion, or just need a relaxing game to escape into, this pocket-sized world is waiting for you. -Create Your Perfect Couple: Start your journey with an avatar maker that lets you be exactly who you want to be! Customize skin tones, hairstyles, and outfits to create a reflection of yourself and your partner. Whether it’s a romantic date or a chill day at home, create the ultimate your own cute couple and write your own story. -Design Your Dream Home: Unleash your inner interior designer! Start with a small space and expand your house into a dream mansion. Decorate with thousands of furniture items and build cozy bedrooms, a bustling kitchen, or even an 80's arcade! -Adopt & Nurture Pets: A house isn’t a home without a four legged companion! Adopt a loyal dog or a cuddly cat to join your family. Create a special space just for them. Dress Up & Fashion: Express your style with a massive wardrobe and mix-and-match clothing. From comfy hoodies to elegant evening wear, becoming a fashion icon has never been this cute. Relaxing & Wholesome Gameplay: Pocket Love!+ is the ultimate idle game for relaxation. Watch your characters interact in everyday activities, take them on exciting dates, play mini-games, and enjoy the simple pleasures of a digital life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Love!+ at 4.7 against Farmside's 4.0. Pocket Love!+ also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 54%) and ratings volume (4.6K vs 334). Farmside's advantage is device support (5 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocket Love!+ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Love!+ has 4.6K ratings behind it against 334, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Farmside's written reviews are positive against 90% of Pocket Love!+'s.
Farmside ships an update every 5 weeks, Pocket Love!+ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Farmside | Pocket Love!+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (334 ratings) | 4.7 (4.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 90.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 334 | 4.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 652 MB | 781 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Team17 USA | HyperBeard Inc. |
Customer experience
Farmside
Pocket Love!+
Bugs and requests
Farmside
Reported bugs
5 issues- Character getting stuck in corners
- Inability to exit edit mode for structures
- Visitors requesting items player cannot make
- Disappearing resources after harvesting
- Inconsistent save data and progress loss
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to zoom out further
- Option to automate repetitive tasks
- More diverse character customization
- Expanded farm areas and decorations
- Multiplayer co-op and community features
Pocket Love!+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Farmside
No in-app purchases
Pocket Love!+
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Farmside free?
Is Pocket Love!+ free?
Which has better reviews, Farmside or Pocket Love!+?
Do Farmside or Pocket Love!+ have ads?
Which is updated more often, Farmside or Pocket Love!+?
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