Tree vs Arcana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Tree
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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.
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/
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Verdict
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.
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Both are free to download. Arcana sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Tree asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Tree | Arcana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 16.4 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 214 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tree-Nation | Mattis Erngren |
In-app purchases
Tree
No in-app purchases
Arcana
- Guild Monthly$6.991 Month
- Guild Yearly$59.991 Year









