Bonsai³ vs Pastura
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bonsai³
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Turn your everyday GitHub activity into a bonsai. Bonsai³ turns your GitHub activity into a small voxel tree. Connect your account and see your recent contribution history take shape in its branches and foliage. When new contributions sync, gentle rain waters your bonsai and fresh growth appears. Rotate and zoom your tree, or simply enjoy it beneath a sky that changes from morning to night. • Choose from Maple, Pine, Cherry, and Azalea, with eight pot styles. • Each bonsai reflects 90 days of activity. Revisit past bonsai to see how your activity has changed over time. • Turn your bonsai into a postcard and share it as an image. • Keep your tree on the Home Screen with widgets for iPhone and iPad. Start with a sample garden—no sign-in needed. Your bonsai and contribution history are handled on your device. No ads or tracking. Bonsai³ never receives your GitHub password. Bonsai³ is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.
Pastura
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AIgazing. Like stargazing, but for local LLMs. Pastura is a closed pasture for AI agents, running entirely on your iPhone. You write a scenario. The agents act it out. You step back and watch their speech, their inner voice, their votes and scores arrive in real time. You can't chat with them, and that's the point. Once you join in, the agents start reacting to you, and the natural exchange between them disappears. Pastura isn't a chat app for talking to an LLM. It's an app for watching LLM agents think. Everything runs on-device. No account, no sign-up, and none of your data ever leaves your phone. Airplane mode is fine. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Run built-in scenarios like Word Wolf or Prisoner's Dilemma • Write your own in a visual editor, or switch to YAML for full control • Browse a curated gallery of shared scenarios and import with one tap • Swap between local LLMs, and see how the same scenario changes • Watch speech, inner voice, votes, and scores arrive live • Export any run as Markdown to keep, paste, or share WHY ON-DEVICE The LLM lives on your phone, not on someone else's server. That settles privacy, cost, and latency in one move. Inference never touches a server. Zero monthly bill. Zero telemetry, zero analytics. Your scenarios, transcripts, and results never leave the device. The first time you pick a model, Pastura downloads it once (around 3 GB, Wi-Fi recommended). After that, it's yours and it's offline. While you wait, a built-in demo run plays so you can see what observation looks like before the model finishes downloading. A BIGGER PICTURE Stargazing taught us to look up at the stars. AIgazing teaches us to look at the agent. We rarely stop to observe our AI. Pastura is a quiet window into that, on-device, yours alone. Whether it tells you something about them, or about you, is left as a question for the observer. Requires a device with 6.5 GB of RAM or more (iPhone 15 Pro and newer). Free, with no subscription and no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bonsai³ at every 8 days against Pastura's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bonsai³ ships an update every 8 days, Pastura every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bonsai³ | Pastura |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sakino Tomiura | TOMOHITO YABU |
In-app purchases
Bonsai³
No in-app purchases
Pastura
No in-app purchases









