Comparison

Grass vs Popcons

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. It offers guided breathing exercises and allows for creative interaction with a dynamic, responsive meadow.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises with visual pacer
  • Breath-reactive wind simulation via microphone
  • Compass-based orientation for realistic wind direction
  • Finger-based combing and drawing on grass blades
  • Optional voice recording while interacting
  • Multiple visual scenes and customization options
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. Breath is measured in the moment and thrown away — not recorded. 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. Talk to it. Turn on RECORD WHILE COMBING in the menu and the field becomes a voice recorder: Grass records while a finger is combing the grass, up to thirty seconds a stroke, and stops the moment you lift. Notes stay on your phone — in Files, under Grass — and you can share or delete them from the menu. Off by default. Fold it. On iPhone Duo the field spans the whole inner display and survives every fold and unfold — nothing re-plants, your combing stays. Half-shut the phone and flap it: the hinge fans a gust across the grass. Cards and the pacer step clear of the crease. 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, and any voice notes, never leave your device.

About

Popcons

Transform your collection into a personalized light show. Create and manage custom light board compositions, choose from a wide range of colors and animations, and control everything from your phone. Future updates will add character scanning capabilities.

Highlights
  • Create and organize light board compositions
  • Customize colors and animations
  • Intuitive and straightforward controls
  • Future character scanning feature
  • Personalized light shows
Features
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POPCONS App is the companion app made for Popcons enthusiasts who want to do more with their collection. Connect your board, take control of your lights, and turn your collection into a fully personalized light show — right from your phone. Manage Your Compositions Create and organize your light board compositions with ease. Build the perfect setup, save your configurations, and switch between them whenever you want. Your board, your rules. Customize Colors & Animations Choose from a wide range of colors and dynamic lighting animations to match your mood, your room, or your style. Fine-tune every detail directly from the app — no limits to how you express yourself. Simple, Intuitive Controls POPCONS App is designed to be straightforward from the first tap. Whether you're setting up for the first time or tweaking an existing composition, the interface keeps everything clear and accessible. More Coming Soon Future updates will introduce character scanning — point your camera at your characters and let POPCONS App recognize and add them to your collection automatically. Stay tuned. POPCONS is just getting started. Download it today, connect your board, and see what your collection can really do. Download POPCONS App and light it up.

Screenshots

Grass3 screens
Popcons4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Grass at 3.7 against Popcons's 1.0. Grass also leads on ratings volume (203 vs 5). On price, 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

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 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grass has 203 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grass versus Popcons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrassPopcons
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (203 ratings) — better1.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings203 — better5
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCW&TZuru_Tech

In-app purchases

None

Grass

No in-app purchases

None

Popcons

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grass free?
Grass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Popcons free?
Popcons is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grass or Popcons?
Grass is rated higher. Grass averages 3.7 out of 5 from 203 ratings, while Popcons averages 1.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Grass or Popcons have ads?
Neither Grass nor Popcons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grass or Popcons?
Grass ships an update monthly, and Popcons monthly. Most recently, Grass was updated on November 10, 2026 and Popcons on November 9, 2026.

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