Comparison

Daisy vs Windborne

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

Head to head
About

Daisy

Nurture a virtual pet and engage in daily self-care activities to improve your mood and reduce stress. Explore mental health knowledge, personalize your pet with costumes, and discover inspiration for a balanced mind.

Highlights
  • Virtual pet companionship
  • Daily self-care activities
  • Mental health knowledge base
  • Pet customization with costumes
  • Mood boosting exercises
  • Stress reduction techniques
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Daisy is a pixel-art dog who gets happier when you keep up your daily habits. Drink some water, take a walk, jot a line in your journal, and your pup earns treats, XP and levels. Miss a few days and it shows. It's a virtual pet that grows with your routine. MEET YOUR PUP • Adopt a German Shepherd, Golden Retriever or Siberian Husky • Dress it up in costumes and decorate its room with furniture and backgrounds • Hatch mystery eggs into tiny mini-pets that keep it company • Watch it from your home screen with the Daisy widget PLAY TOGETHER • Four minigames: Fetch, Rollover, Tail Chase and Meal Catch • Send your pup on city adventures and see what it brings home • Bark, catch and roll over for hearts and XP BUILD A ROUTINE • Daily activities: mood check-in, journal, water, a walk, veggies, a shower, a nap • Add your own habits and tick them off each day • Daily quests, achievements and a streak that rewards showing up • Bedtime mode, so your pup rests when you do FRIENDS • Invite friends with a code, wave at their pups, send treats and visit their rooms • Share a GIF of your pup's room straight from the app DAISY PLUS (optional) Adopt Daisy, the exclusive pup, and get 20 gems a day, streak protection for a missed day, a weekly mystery egg and daily journal prompts. Monthly or yearly, with a free trial on the yearly plan. Cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://brightco.my.canva.site/daisy#privacy-policy

About

Windborne

Experience a calming one-tap sky runner game. Guide an origami bird through five beautifully hand-painted worlds, enjoying a stress-free and mindful journey. Play offline with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • One-tap controls
  • Five hand-painted worlds
  • Stress-free gameplay
  • Offline play
  • No ads or timers
  • Mindful moments
Features
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Lift off and let the wind carry you away. Windborne is a healing one-tap sky runner where stress melts into clouds. Guide a tiny origami bird through five hand-painted worlds — from clear morning blue to golden deserts, from willow whispers to a sea of starlight — and let every run calm your mind. ONE TAP, TOTAL FLOW Touch to rise, release to glide. No complicated controls, no punishing difficulty — just the pure joy of riding the wind between soft coral clouds and shimmering bead trails. FIVE HAND-PAINTED SKIES · Clear Sky — a fresh morning over endless blue · Willow Grove — soft green breezes and floating leaves · Golden Dunes — warm light at the edge of the desert · Starry Night — glide beneath a glowing moon · Windborne Sea — dive through ocean-blue currents Each world is drawn entirely in code with layered gradients, paper-cut textures and living particles — zero stock images, every pixel original. LIVING, BREATHING ATMOSPHERE Three layers of parallax drift by as you fly. Ambient particles dance around your wings, radiant beads sparkle along the path, and golden bursts trail every catch. MADE FOR MINDFUL MOMENTS No ads flash in your face. No timers rush you. A forgiving five-heart shield lets you learn at your own pace. Start a run, breathe, and find your rhythm — Windborne is the game you open to unwind, not to grind. 33 LANGUAGES, FOLLOWS YOUR SYSTEM Windborne speaks your language the moment you install it, following your system language automatically. YOUR DAILY POCKET OF PEACE Three minutes in the clouds is all it takes. Free, offline, and always ready to gift you a quiet sky. Take a breath. One tap. Fly.

Screenshots

Daisy4 screens
Windborne4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Windborne at none against Daisy's 5. Windborne also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Daisy's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Daisy sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Windborne asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Windborne holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daisy has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Daisy versus Windborne: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaisyWindborne
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (54 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings54 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerry ZhaoBeijing 1023 Technology CO., Ltd

Customer experience

Daisy

All ratings54 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Windborne

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Daisy

Subscriptions2
  • Daisy Plus 1 Month3 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Daisy Plus 1 Year7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time3
  • 200 Gems$3.99
  • 300 Gems$4.99
  • 650 Gems$9.99
None

Windborne

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daisy free?
Daisy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Windborne free?
Windborne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daisy or Windborne?
Windborne is rated higher. Daisy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while Windborne averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Daisy or Windborne have ads?
Neither Daisy nor Windborne shows ads.

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