Daily Shift Simulator vs Gardening Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Shift Simulator
Build and manage your own grocery store empire. Serve customers, earn money, hire staff, and expand your business to become the ultimate grocery tycoon. Create the best shop in the world.
- Build a grocery shop
- Serve customers
- Earn money
- Hire workers
- Grow your business
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Start your own butcher shop and grow it into a thriving business! Cut, trim, and prepare quality meat to keep your customers happy. Run your counter efficiently, complete orders on time, and reinvest your earnings to grow. Level up your tools, add new products to your menu, bring on staff, and turn your modest meat stand into a booming market empire. Do you have what it takes to meet the town's demand and become its top butcher?
Gardening Lab
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Perfect garden making! Merge right ingredients. Find the best combination. Hi! I’m Carrie, eco-lab researcher. Looks like you’re our new boss! We grow greens here and sometimes make unusual hybrids… for sale. Those people are eager to taste really weird things and they are ready to pay for it! Let’s start! Reuse old bottles to grow fruits and berries in them. Merge greens to create new plants. What will happen depends on you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Shift Simulator at none against Gardening Lab's 1. Gardening Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 52 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Gardening Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daily Shift Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Shift Simulator ships an update every 52 months, Gardening Lab every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Shift Simulator | Gardening Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 52 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 355 MB | 203 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brew Games | Cedar |
In-app purchases
Daily Shift Simulator
No in-app purchases
Gardening Lab
- No Ads$3.99
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