Comparison

Sprout Valley vs Tiny Garden Days

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 in this charming farming simulator. Grow your dream garden, gather resources, and improve island life. Discover secrets, make friends, and enjoy a captivating story with endless island combinations.

Highlights
  • Grow crops and forage fruits
  • Gather resources from nature
  • Craft and furnish your island
  • Travel to other islands
  • Engage in dialogues and a cute story
  • Experience dynamic weather events
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

Tiny Garden Days

A charming gardening simulation where all elements are crafted from felt. Plant, water, and harvest a variety of crops, fulfill neighborly requests, and expand your farm. Enjoy a peaceful, ad-free experience with progress saved locally.

Highlights
  • Felt-themed visuals
  • Planting and harvesting crops
  • Fulfilling neighbor orders
  • Farm expansion with chickens and mill
  • Decorative items
  • Offline progress saving
  • One-time premium unlock
Features
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Tiny Garden Days is a cozy gardening game where everything is made of felt: the beds, the plants, the tools – and Pip, the little hedgehog who shows you around. IT'S THIS EASY • Plant: pick a seed and put it in a bed – from radishes to pineapples. • Water: rainwater from the barrel makes everything grow. Sometimes a rain shower helps too. • Harvest: sell your crops, fill your neighbors' orders and grow your garden. A GARDEN THAT GROWS WITH YOU • 16 plants: vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and grain • Five areas: Little Bed, Flower Patch, Orchard, Greenhouse and Farm • Special orders: your neighbors celebrate weddings and festivals – deliver in time and earn more • A farm with chickens, a mill and an oven – from grain to bread • Decor that makes your garden prettier and shortens the wait • A daily gift and small goals that guide you step by step • Your garden keeps growing even when the app is closed CALM AND FAIR • No ads – ever. • No subscription, no account, no tracking. Your progress stays on your device. • Short sessions for in between: a few minutes are enough. START FOR FREE, UNLOCK ONCE The Little Bed and the Flower Patch are free – plenty to get to know the game at your own pace. With the one-time "Premium" purchase you unlock the whole garden: Orchard, Greenhouse and Farm, plus the market, the rooster and twelve more decorations. Buy once, keep forever. In English, German and French. For iPhone and iPad. Questions or ideas? Write to us: hallo@salzwerk.app

Screenshots

Sprout Valley4 screens
Tiny Garden Days4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tiny Garden Days at 100% against Sprout Valley's 44%. Tiny Garden Days also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Sprout Valley's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (54 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Tiny Garden Days sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sprout Valley asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Garden Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sprout Valley has 54 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Sprout Valley's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tiny Garden Days's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, Tiny Garden Days every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sprout Valley versus Tiny Garden Days: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSprout ValleyTiny Garden Days
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (54 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings54 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVadzim LiakhovichMichael Salzer

Customer experience

Sprout Valley

All ratings50 ratings
Positive52.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative38.0%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive44.1%
Neutral13.5%
Negative42.3%

Tiny Garden Days

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sprout Valley

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiny Garden Days

One-time1
  • Premium – der ganze Garten$2.99

Questions

Is Sprout Valley free?
Sprout Valley is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Garden Days free?
Tiny Garden Days is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sprout Valley or Tiny Garden Days?
Tiny Garden Days is rated higher. Sprout Valley averages 3.3 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while Tiny Garden Days averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Sprout Valley or Tiny Garden Days have ads?
Neither Sprout Valley nor Tiny Garden Days shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sprout Valley or Tiny Garden Days?
Sprout Valley ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tiny Garden Days every 4 days. Most recently, Sprout Valley was updated on October 27, 2026 and Tiny Garden Days on October 26, 2026.

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