Comparison

Sprout Valley vs Potion Permit

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

Head to head
About

Sprout Valley

Step back from busy life and grow your dream garden in this charming farming simulator. Play as a cute cat, find friends, and uncover secrets while gathering resources, crafting, and exploring new islands. Enjoy a captivating story and a hand-crafted experience.

Highlights
  • Grow crops and forage fruits
  • Gather resources from nature
  • Craft and furnish your island
  • Travel to other islands
  • Experience a cute story with dialogues
  • Procedurally generated levels
Features
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Sprout Valley is a charming farming simulator game where you can step back from the busy life and grow the garden of your dreams. Captivating story, hand-crafted experience. You play as the main character, cute cat Nico, who tries to find a peaceful place to live in. Nico will find friends along the way and discover interesting events. Help him to learn what secrets Ostara holds. The goal will be to gather resources and improve your island life. You can grow the plants and harvest the environment for additional resources. You can sell and buy resources you have gathered. Use your tools to accomplish your goal of living a peaceful life with harmony and nature. Levels are procedurally generated, so there are virtually endless combinations. Each level has a "seed" and in future can be shared with other players to recreate islands and share them across the player base. There is a dynamic weather system in place to bring some dynamics to the world environment. There will be some additional mechanics that are connected to the weather like the ground getting wet when it rains, etc. The game has many fantastic events that tie to weather or the daytime. Key Features — Turn your overgrown island into a lovely farm! Raise crops, forage fruits, gather resources from nature. — Craft and furnish your island. Make your island your own, personal hideout. — Travel to another islands. Sail to other unknown parts of the world. Who knows what adventures await you there! — Dialogues and cute story. Meet our cute characters and experience the story together. — Over 15 hours of story mode

About

Potion Permit

Step into the role of a chemist tasked with healing a town that distrusts modern medicine. Diagnose illnesses, gather ingredients, and brew potions to cure the townsfolk. Build relationships, upgrade the town, and live the life of an apothecary in a charming, colorful world.

Highlights
  • Diagnose and cure illnesses
  • Gather ingredients and brew potions
  • Upgrade buildings and expand areas
  • Build relationships with townsfolk
  • Find love with a sweetheart
  • Team up with a loyal dog
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The town of Moonbury has always been wary of the outside world's medical advances, preferring to rely on its traditional healing methods. However, when the mayor's daughter falls ill and the local witch doctor can do nothing to help her, they are forced to look outside their small community for help. The Medical Association decides to send their most accomplished chemist - you - to help cure the mayor's daughter and convince the residents of Moonbury of the wonders of modern alchemy. Gain their trust and tend to each person when they fall ill in this open-ended sim RPG! FEATURES - Take care of Moonbury’s inhabitants: diagnose their illnesses, gather ingredients and brew potions to cure them. - Heal the town : Upgrade buildings, expand your gathering area and transform the townsfolk’ lives in many ways. - Build relationships with Moonbury’s inhabitants, earn their trust and eventually find love with your chosen sweetheart! - Team up with your loyal dog that follows you wherever you go and helps you in your work. - Relax in a wholesome, colourful world and live the apothecary life you want! CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface - Game Center achievements - Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices - Compatible with MFi controllers - iPhone 15 Optimization (including pro max) If you run into a problem, please contact us at https://playdigious.helpshift.com/hc/en/12-playdigious/ with as much information as possible on the issue.

Screenshots

Sprout Valley4 screens
Potion Permit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sprout Valley at Free against Potion Permit's $6.99. Sprout Valley also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Potion Permit's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (553 vs 54). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sprout Valley is free to download; Potion Permit costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Potion Permit holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potion Permit has 553 ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Sprout Valley's written reviews are positive against 40% of Potion Permit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, Potion Permit every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Sprout Valley versus Potion Permit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSprout ValleyPotion Permit
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating3.3 (54 ratings)4.5 (553 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.6% of reviews — better40.3% of reviews
Number of ratings54553 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#90 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB477 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVadzim LiakhovichPlaydigious

Customer experience

Sprout Valley

All ratings54 ratings
Positive53.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive43.6%
Neutral13.7%
Negative42.7%

Potion Permit

All ratings519 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive40.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative43.0%

Bugs and requests

Sprout Valley

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Potion Permit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to exit certain menus
  • Fishing mini-game not functioning properly
  • Potion quests not triggering correctly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more customization options for player character
  • Implement a manual save feature
  • Improve performance and reduce crashes

In-app purchases

None

Sprout Valley

No in-app purchases

None

Potion Permit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sprout Valley free?
Sprout Valley is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potion Permit free?
Potion Permit costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sprout Valley or Potion Permit?
Potion Permit is rated higher. Sprout Valley averages 3.3 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while Potion Permit averages 4.5 from 553 ratings.
Do Sprout Valley or Potion Permit have ads?
Neither Sprout Valley nor Potion Permit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sprout Valley or Potion Permit?
Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, and Potion Permit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sprout Valley was updated on November 3, 2026 and Potion Permit on November 3, 2026.

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