Comparison

Grass vs SmallTube

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

SmallTube

A native iOS client for watching videos, offering ad-free viewing with picture-in-picture and background playback. Enjoy a streamlined experience for embeddable content.

Highlights
  • Ad-free viewing
  • Picture-in-picture playback
  • Background playback
  • Native iOS experience
  • Embeddable video support
Features
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A simple and native YouTube client for iOS with no ads, picture-in-picture, and background playback. For picture-in-picture to work, toggle it while in fullscreen and then exit to home. After that, background playback will also work! Limitations: - Only embeddable video can play (most songs and copyrighted material are not available) - The app requires an API key from the YouTube Data API. You can easily create one for free.

Screenshots

Grass3 screens
SmallTube1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grass at 100% against SmallTube's 0%. Grass also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (202 vs 1). SmallTube's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 95 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grass holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grass has 202 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Grass's written reviews are positive against 0% of SmallTube's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grass ships an update every 95 months, SmallTube every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grass versus SmallTube: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrassSmallTube
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (202 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings202 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 95 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCW&TIoannis Notaris

Customer experience

Grass

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

SmallTube

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Grass

No in-app purchases

None

SmallTube

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grass free?
Grass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmallTube free?
SmallTube is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grass or SmallTube?
Grass is rated higher. Grass averages 3.7 out of 5 from 202 ratings, while SmallTube averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Grass or SmallTube have ads?
Neither Grass nor SmallTube shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grass or SmallTube?
Grass ships an update every 95 months, and SmallTube every 2 days. Most recently, Grass was updated on October 22, 2026 and SmallTube on October 18, 2026.

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