Wasteland Orchard vs GridSync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wasteland Orchard
Cultivate resilient trees and harvest valuable fruit in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Manage your orchard, scavenge resources, and research abilities to survive storms and radiation. Your trees grow even when you're offline, offering daily rewards and permanent upgrades.
- Grow resilient trees
- Harvest valuable fruit
- Explore and scavenge
- Craft items and build
- Research abilities
- Permanent upgrades
- Idle progression
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Survive a wasteland ravaged by storms and radiation by growing the strongest, most resilient trees with the most valuable fruit! Select fruit with the ideal properties to plant more trees and expand your orchard! Explore the map each run, scavenge for resources, craft items, build structures, trade with and receive gifts from townsfolk, research powerful abilities, and use rare golden seeds for permanent upgrades! Your trees in Wasteland Orchard continue growing while you're away so check back daily to harvest, purchase upgrades, and expand your orchard!
GridSync
Engage your mind with a strategic tile-matching puzzle game featuring two distinct modes: timed challenges and move-limited puzzles. Progress through increasingly complex grids and daily challenges, all presented with a clean, minimalist design.
- Timed and moves-limited puzzle modes
- Increasing grid sizes and difficulty
- Daily challenges
- Smooth tile gameplay
- Clean, minimalist design
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Challenge your brain with a unique tile-matching puzzle experience! GridSync combines strategy, speed, and precision across two exciting game modes: • Timed Mode – Race against the clock to complete each puzzle before time runs out • Moves Mode – Think ahead and solve each puzzle within a limited number of moves As you progress, unlock larger and more challenging grids, pushing your problem-solving skills to the limit. FEATURES: • Smooth and satisfying tile gameplay • Increasing difficulty and grid sizes • Two distinct game modes for different playstyles • Daily challenges to test your skills • Clean, minimal design focused on gameplay Support the game through ads, or remove them anytime with a one-time purchase. Whether you prefer fast-paced action or careful planning, GridSync has a challenge for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GridSync at none against Wasteland Orchard's 9. GridSync also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Wasteland Orchard's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (148 vs 5). 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. Wasteland Orchard sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. GridSync asks for nothing beyond the download.
GridSync holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wasteland Orchard has 148 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Wasteland Orchard's written reviews are positive against 100% of GridSync's.
Wasteland Orchard ships an update every 9 days, GridSync every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wasteland Orchard | GridSync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (148 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 148 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 237 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dustin Auxier | Jonathan Tucker |
Customer experience
Wasteland Orchard
GridSync
Bugs and requests
Wasteland Orchard
Reported bugs
8 issues- Seeds disappear
- Disappointing Nerfs
- Monotonous gameplay loop
- Save bug
- Game not launching after update
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- Game not opening
- Glitch where trying to claim tree treasure rewards makes it inaccessible after a storm kills trees and makes a giant text box until you close the game
- Seeds disappear after a storm
Requested features
14 requests- Add search/filter radar function to tutorial
- Journal or easily find specific trees by stats
- More missions
- More content
- Make game able to save progress
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- Quickly switch between all trees
- More frequent time potion in shop
- Balance storm requirements
- No shortcuts/features to reseed the entire map
- No shortcuts to add auto harvest/mulch/tree stakes/lightning wall/concrete wall to all trees
- No shortcut/features to see dead trees
- Not possible to make Chests keys
- Time warp Potions should be easier to come by at the beginning
- Balance some storms
GridSync
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wasteland Orchard
- Wasteland Starter Pack$1.99
- Peaceful Harvests PhillipAddOn$1.99
- Peaceful Harvests BountifulAdd$2.99
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- Great Listener$3.99
- Bountiful Orchard$4.99
- Nature's Bounty$5.99
- Peaceful Harvests$6.99
- Shard Shaman$12.99
- Time Lord$19.99
GridSync
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Wasteland Orchard free?
Is GridSync free?
Which has better reviews, Wasteland Orchard or GridSync?
Do Wasteland Orchard or GridSync have ads?
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