Comparison

Tree vs Arcana

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

Head to head
About

Tree

Features
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Plant trees. Track your impact. Help restore our planet. Tree Nation is the easiest way to plant real trees around the world and watch your personal forest grow. Whether you're planting for yourself, dedicating a tree to someone special, or joining a reforestation project, every tree counts. Plant Trees Worldwide Choose from dozens of reforestation projects across the globe. Select your species, pick a location, and plant a tree in seconds. Watch Your Forest Grow Every tree you plant lives in your personal forest. See photos, species details, and the real environmental impact of each one. Dedicate Trees to People You Love Plant a tree as a gift for birthdays, anniversaries, or any occasion. Add a personal message and share it with the recipient. Join a Global Community Explore trees planted by people around the world. Share your own planting moments and inspire others to take action. Track Your COโ‚‚ Impact See how much COโ‚‚ your trees will absorb over their lifetime and the difference your forest is making for the planet. Together, we've already planted millions of trees. Join us.

About

Arcana

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Arcana is where you learn to practice real magic: working with mind, symbol, and correspondence to create what you desire โ€” in real life. Name one desire and give it a moon โ€” thirty days of your attention. Each day is walked in three movements, and a spiral fills from its core as you go: admit the desire fully โ€” the wanting is the instruction; have faith and make yourself the one it can arrive to โ€” posture, breath, clothes; then live from that point, in flow, as one who has already received. Old magic kept whole libraries of correspondences โ€” colors, metals, stones, words, days. Arcana reads them each morning and distills one piece of advice you can actually carry: wear this, say this, before noon. Add your birth sky in Settings and the counsel is shaped to your own placements. Drawn to dreams? Advanced techniques opens Dream work โ€” advice for your dream self and a question for tonight. When something heavy lands โ€” sadness, anger, a setback โ€” the Transform room turns it into something real: a song, a workout, a room set right. Nothing you feel is waste. Every day you practice is kept in your Journal. Over a moon, that record becomes something rare โ€” proof, in your own words, that your magic works. Arcana is private by architecture. Everything you write stays on your phone: no account, no cloud, no analytics. Not even those who built it can read a word. The daily counsel travels as anonymous symbol-words only โ€” described plainly in the app and in our privacy policy โ€” and offline the app speaks from its own library. Free โ€” the whole daily practice, for everyone, always. Privacy Policy: https://arcana.lightly.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tree3 screens
Arcana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tree at none against Arcana's 2. Tree also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Arcana sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Tree asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Tree versus Arcana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTreeArcana
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size45 MB214 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTree-NationMattis Erngren

In-app purchases

None

Tree

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Arcana

Subscriptions2
  • Guild Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Guild Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Tree free?
Tree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arcana free?
Arcana is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tree or Arcana have ads?
Neither Tree nor Arcana shows ads.

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