Comparison

Tiny Plant Lab vs Mutabloom

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Plant Lab

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Welcome to Tiny Plant Lab, a cozy plant-growing game made for calm, relaxing play. Start with a small plant, care for it, discover new upgrades, and slowly build a peaceful little lab full of life. Tiny Plant Lab is designed to feel friendly, simple, and satisfying: no pressure, no stress, just steady progress and cute plant discoveries. Features: โ€ข Grow and care for tiny plants โ€ข Unlock cozy upgrades and decorations โ€ข Enjoy a calm, friendly atmosphere โ€ข Play in short relaxing sessions โ€ข Build your own peaceful plant lab over time Tiny Plant Lab is for players who enjoy cozy games, plant care, soft progression, and relaxing little worlds.

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Mutabloom

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Plant a seed. Wait for the weather. Harvest something that should not exist. Mutabloom is a cozy 3D garden that keeps growing while your phone is in your pocket. The shop restocks every five minutes. The weather runs on its own schedule and the mutations it rolls land on whatever happens to be growing when it arrives: Rainbow, Golden, Giant, Glowing, Shocked, Chilled, Wet, and the ones each biome keeps to itself. They stack, and they multiply. A Rainbow Giant caught in a storm is worth a thousand times the plain harvest it grew from, and the reveal takes its time about telling you. GROW IT, THEN GROW IT AGAIN Ten biomes and 120 seeds, from a Radishling that takes twenty seconds to a Worldtree that takes a day. Outgrow a biome and start a new Season: the coins go, but the Season Tokens, the pets, the cosmetics and the Journal are yours for good, and everything you plant afterwards is worth more than it was. IT CARRIES ON WITHOUT YOU Plants grow in real time with the app closed, and your pets go on harvesting for up to four hours while you are away. Come back and the garden tells you what it got up to. COLLECT ALL OF IT Sixty pets hatch out of eggs, fifty living in the biomes and ten that only turn up at festivals. They take their colours from nowhere in particular and they level up by eating what you harvest, so the first seed you ever planted is still worth planting a month later. The Journal remembers every plant you have grown and every mutation it has worn, and pays you for finishing a set. THE GARDEN ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN When the weather turns it arrives as a Live Activity, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with five Catch taps to nudge the odds your way. A harvest made from the Lock Screen is a real harvest: it counts for the streak and it goes in the Journal. NEVER BLOCKED No energy bar. No hard paywall. Nothing in the game makes you wait longer than a day. If you have five minutes, it has something for you to do with them. Game Center leaderboards, achievements and a Daily Sprint are waiting when you want them. ABOUT THE ADS, PLAINLY Mutabloom is free. The ads worth having are the ones you choose to watch: double an offline harvest, re-roll the shop, make it rain. They start appearing at Gardener Level 8, once you have a garden worth boosting, and every one of them says what it pays before you tap it. Remove Ads removes the interrupting full-screen ads and the banners. It does NOT remove the optional rewarded ones, and that is deliberate: they are how a player who never spends anything keeps up with one who does. Nothing sold in the game is needed to see any of it, and an egg bought with gems shows its odds before you buy it. Made for grown-ups who want a garden to potter in. Not a children's app, and not in the Kids Category.

Screenshots

Tiny Plant Lab3 screens
Mutabloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny Plant Lab at none against Mutabloom's 10. Tiny Plant Lab also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Mutabloom's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). On price and ads 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. Mutabloom sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tiny Plant Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Plant Lab ships an update every 3 months, Mutabloom every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Tiny Plant Lab versus Mutabloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Plant LabMutabloom
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days โ€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size13 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermanuel cruzatCR Industries LLC

In-app purchases

None

Tiny Plant Lab

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Mutabloom

One-time10
  • Handful of Gems$1.99
  • Comeback Pack$1.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
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  • Extra Pet Slot$3.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Extra Plot Row$4.99
  • Jar of Gems$9.99
  • Golden Trowel$9.99
  • Crate of Gems$19.99
  • Wagon of Gems$49.99

Questions

Is Tiny Plant Lab free?
Tiny Plant Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mutabloom free?
Mutabloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Plant Lab or Mutabloom have ads?
Both Tiny Plant Lab and Mutabloom show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Plant Lab or Mutabloom?
Tiny Plant Lab ships an update every 3 months, and Mutabloom every 8 days. Most recently, Tiny Plant Lab was updated on October 14, 2026 and Mutabloom on October 26, 2026.

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