Quietgrove vs dfruit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quietgrove
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A quiet place to grow one tree. Plant a sapling, water it, and let it take its time. Quietgrove is a living nature simulator you visit for a few gentle minutes a day — a peaceful place to relax, not another demand on your attention. Every tree here is grown, not animated. A real botanical simulation builds yours branch by branch, responding to sunlight, water, nutrients, soil pH, and the turning seasons — so no two trees ever grow alike, and yours can never die. Neglect makes a tree sleepy, never dead. There is no timer, no streak to keep, and nothing you can lose. If life gets busy, the tree simply waits for you. Come back to find what changed: a spring flush, fruit ripening, the first snow on bare branches. Your tree keeps growing in real time while the app is closed, and greets you with a little time-lapse of everything you missed. Tending, at your pace: • Water, feed the soil, and nudge its pH — forgiving, never punishing • Swipe to prune: each cut redirects growth energy into the branches you keep, with a calm undo after every snip • Bend limbs, pinch tips, thin fruit, or shake the trunk for girth — mindful, hands-on shaping with gentle sound and haptics • Drag the sun across the sky and watch your tree lean toward the light • Four true seasons, day and night, drifting weather, and golden-hour light • Songbirds nest in a settled canopy; butterflies, bees, and fireflies visit • Harvest ripe fruit as seeds, and one day pass the torch: a legacy seed begins a stronger lineage • A Journal of firsts, and an Almanac that gently teaches the botany behind it all • Save grown trees to your Grove, name them, and share a photo card • A daily challenge tree — the whole world tends the same seed each day Everything that matters is free: every care verb, three species (sugar maple, orchard apple, mountain pine), uncapped growth, photo mode, the Grove, the Journal, and the daily challenge. One optional one-time unlock adds four more species (English oak, silver birch, cherry blossom, Italian cypress), grafting and breeding at the Grove's graft bench, and ten new places to grow, from a harbour to a zen garden. No subscriptions, no coins, no paid speed-ups — and nothing you already grew is ever taken back. Quiet by design: no ads, no account, and no data collected. Quietgrove is fully playable offline; your grove lives on your device, with a portable file backup you can carry to a new phone. Reminders are optional and off by default. Accessibility is built in: VoiceOver support, Reduce Motion, and colorblind-safe cues. Tend one tree. Take your time.
dfruit
Merge fruits by dropping them into a basket, creating larger fruits and chain reactions. Enjoy multiple game modes, including classic score chasing and timed challenges, with a focus on offline play and a relaxing, tactile experience.
- Fruit merging gameplay
- Playful physics engine
- Classic, Timed Trial, and Orchard Run modes
- Orchard Run upgrades and shop
- Offline play
- Storybook orchard theme
- Responsive sound and haptics
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Drop fruit into the basket, match two of the same kind, and watch them grow into a bigger fruit friend. dfruit is a warm, tactile fruit-merging game built around a quick one-finger loop: aim, release, merge, repeat. Every drop uses playful physics, so fruit bounce, roll, settle, and create surprising chain reactions. Play your way: • Classic — keep merging and chase your best score before the basket fills. • Timed Trial — score as much as you can in 90 seconds of active play. • Orchard Run — clear escalating Harvest goals, earn upgrade points, and build your own combination of run-only upgrades. Grow an Orchard Run: • Twenty upgrades, from a roomier basket and bigger drops to powerful scoring combinations • A shop after each completed Harvest, with fruit-value boosts, rotating upgrades, and optional rerolls • Twist Drop, Cider Press, Rumble Seed, and Anyfruit, with three customizable quick-access slots • Escalating watermelon basket clears that award permanent bonuses for the rest of your run • Challenge Harvests with variety, Medium-fruit, and Large-fruit goals and bonus upgrade points • Deeper upgrade levels and new center-merge, paced-merge, and shop-currency strategies • Separate best-Harvest and best-total records Made for a quick break: • A lively orchard Home with gently falling pieces from your selected merge collection • One independent saved game per mode, with Save & Quit and exact Resume • Lifetime Stats with mode filters, active playtime, drops, merges, points, and fruit creation counts • Optional shareable seeds for repeatable challenges in all three modes • Eleven original fruit characters and a readable Fruit Evolution chart • Ten offline achievements, six unlockable merge collections, and four distinctive background rewards • A newly illustrated Moon Garden filled with enchanted plants and woodland friends • Responsive sound and haptics, plus five lo-fi background tracks • VoiceOver, Larger Text, Reduce Motion, and high-contrast danger feedback dfruit works completely offline. It has no accounts, ads, analytics, purchases, or tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: dfruit at none against Quietgrove's 1. dfruit also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Quietgrove's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and ads 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. Quietgrove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. dfruit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quietgrove ships an update monthly, dfruit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quietgrove | dfruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrey Tyurin | Mark Drewry |
In-app purchases
Quietgrove
- Quietgrove Full$5.99
dfruit
No in-app purchases









