Comparison

Grass vs Second Life

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

Head to head
About

Grass

This app simulates a field of grass that reacts to your breath, touch, and device orientation. Experience interactive breathing exercises, gentle wind simulations, and tactile feedback.

Highlights
  • Breath-guided breathing exercises
  • Microphone-controlled wind simulation
  • Compass-oriented field direction
  • Touch-based grass combing
  • Customizable scenes and wind intensity
  • Individual blade simulation
Features
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A field of grass that breathes with you. Breathe with it. Tap BREATHE and a pacer leads you through a slow breath — in, hold, out — and the whole field follows. The grass draws in toward you as you inhale and a gust rolls away from you as you exhale, so you pace your breath by watching a meadow instead of a shrinking circle. Three patterns: a long-exhale 4·6 for settling, box breathing, and 4·7·8 for sleep. Blow on the OUT to push the gust harder. The app keeps a quiet count of your sessions and breaths — no streaks, no reminders. Blow on it. Grass listens to the microphone — but only for breath. It knows the low rush of air on the mic from a voice or a song, so talking, music, and a noisy room leave the field still; a breath rolls a gust up through it. Blow hard and it flattens; stop and it settles back. Nothing is recorded — the app measures the moment and throws the sound away. Turn it. The wind comes from north. Real north — Grass reads your compass, so the field is oriented to the room you're standing in. Turn slowly and the blades swing to keep leaning away from magnetic north. Turn all the way round and the whole field lies down the other way. Comb it. Blades bend away from your finger and stay bent, and the field remembers every path you've traced through it. Use several fingers at once; each one combs its own way. Make it yours. Four scenes — a midsummer meadow, a dry straw field, a moonlit night, a first frost. A wind slider from dead calm to blustery. A breath sensitivity control. The pacer pattern. All behind a single quiet MENU. It moves in layers, not sheets. Long blades are a longer lever with more sail area, so they catch far more of a gust than short ones. The tall stuff lies over while the low stuff only stirs — the same reason a real field ripples instead of tilting all at once. Tens of thousands of blades, each one simulated individually, on the GPU. Between your breaths the natural wind is barely there — a field at rest, waiting for you. No score. No streak. Nothing to finish, nothing to miss. Grass makes no network connection of any kind, has no account, and collects nothing. Microphone and compass readings never leave your device.

About

Second Life

Explore a vast 3D virtual world, meet new people, and express yourself through customizable avatars. Interact with the environment, attend virtual events, and connect with friends globally. This pioneering social platform offers endless possibilities for exploration and connection.

Highlights
  • Avatar customization and appearance editing
  • Explore 3D virtual spaces
  • Interact with the environment
  • Stream audio at virtual clubs
  • Global social interaction features
  • Mobile virtual world exploration
Features
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Second Life - Social Virtual World & Avatar App Now available to all users! Meet new people and chat with friends from around the world in thousands of exciting community-created 3D spaces with Second Life, the pioneering virtual world - now on mobile! Whether you’re at home or on the go, you'll never run out of places to explore and people to meet. With the Second Life app, you can: * See your avatar & edit appearance by changing outfits * Explore a virtual world of fashion, clubs, art, and roleplaying via the Destination Guide, mobile showcase, own favorites * Interact with the world through avatar movement (walk, run, fly, sit, stand) and object interactions (touch, sit) - or park your avatar and explore via flycam * Enjoy streaming audio at virtual clubs * Socialize and stay connected (nearby chat, group chat, IM, group notices, find contacts, inspect profiles) Second Life is always wonderful, sometimes weird, and 100% wow-worthy.

Screenshots

Grass3 screens
Second Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

Grass and Second Life both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Grass's written reviews are positive against 34% of Second Life's. Grass also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Second Life's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 95 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Second Life sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Grass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grass holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 202 and 454 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Grass's written reviews are positive against 34% of Second Life's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grass ships an update every 95 months, Second Life every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grass versus Second Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrassSecond Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (202 ratings) — better3.5 (454 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.7% of reviews
Number of ratings202454 — better
Update frequencyEvery 95 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB302 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCW&TLinden Research, Inc.

Customer experience

Grass

All ratings202 ratings
Positive67.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative29.2%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Second Life

All ratings448 ratings
Positive58.5%
Neutral12.1%
Negative29.5%
Written reviews478 reviews
Positive33.7%
Neutral15.3%
Negative51.0%

Bugs and requests

Grass

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Second Life

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues
  • Inability to close group chats
  • Unresponsive joystick controls

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create new accounts
  • Access to full inventory and object interaction
  • Improved camera controls
  • Background app functionality (notifications, etc.)
  • Support for more device types

In-app purchases

None

Grass

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Second Life

One-time5
  • 100 Linden Dollar Bundle$0.99
  • 800 Linden Dollar Bundle$4.99
  • 1650 Linden Dollar Bundle$9.99
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  • 3400 Linden Dollar Bundle$19.99
  • 8750 Linden Dollar Bundle$49.99

Questions

Is Grass free?
Grass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Second Life free?
Second Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grass or Second Life?
Grass is rated higher. Grass averages 3.7 out of 5 from 202 ratings, while Second Life averages 3.5 from 454 ratings.
Do Grass or Second Life have ads?
Neither Grass nor Second Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grass or Second Life?
Grass ships an update every 95 months, and Second Life every 2 weeks. Most recently, Grass was updated on October 22, 2026 and Second Life on October 23, 2026.

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