Comparison

Cozy Plants vs TamaShell

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

Head to head
About

Cozy Plants

A calming game where you nurture a digital plant from seed to full bloom. Enjoy a relaxing daily ritual of watering and feeding without any pressure or timers. Watch your unique pixel art plant flourish over a couple of weeks.

Highlights
  • Nurture a digital plant from seed to bloom
  • Relaxing daily ritual with no pressure
  • Watch your plant grow through five life stages
  • Unlockable plant species and pot designs
  • Handcrafted 48x48 pixel art
  • No ads or manipulative timers
Features
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A cozy little plant to care for, and nothing to rush. Cozy Plants is a calm, relaxing plant-care game about raising one beautiful houseplant from a single seed to full bloom. Water it, feed it, and watch it grow — no pressure, no clutter, no timers nagging you. Just the quiet, cozy ritual of caring for something that's yours. UNWIND WITH A COZY DAILY RITUAL Tip your watering can and pour with a gentle hold-to-pour gesture. Feed your plant when it's hungry. It shows you how it feels — a little droop, a color shift, a happy sparkle — so you always know what it needs at a single glance. No menus to study, no guesswork. GROW SOMETHING THAT'S YOURS Raise your plant through five life stages — Seed, Sprout, Young, Mature, and Prime — and watch it become a gorgeous, shelf-worthy little painting over about two relaxing weeks. The kind of plant you'll be proud you grew. PLANTS WORTH COLLECTING Start with a lush, split-leaf Monstera, free. Unlock a sculptural Snake Plant and a blooming Orchid to grow next. ALL THE JOY, NONE OF THE GUILT No green thumb required, and no sad brown casualties. Your plant always warns you clearly before anything goes wrong, and a weekend away won't hurt it. Care without the anxiety. A GAME THAT RESPECTS YOU No ads. No manipulative timers. Gentle nudges only when your plant truly needs you — never spam. Soft hand-painted gouache art, a warm palette, and a single calm focus screen. Just you and your plant. Plant a seed today. Watch it bloom. COZY PLANTS PREMIUM Premium is an auto-renewable subscription that unlocks every plant species and the pot catalogue. Pick weekly or yearly billing; new subscribers get a 7-day free trial. The price for your region is shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pixel-plants.builtby.es/terms Privacy Policy: https://pixel-plants.builtby.es/privacy

About

TamaShell

Features
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TamaShell is a virtual pet that lives entirely inside a fake computer terminal. Hatch an egg, then keep your pet fed, clean, rested, and happy using simple typed commands or on screen buttons. Your pet keeps living in real time, even while the app is closed, so a few days of neglect will actually catch up with you. Along the way there is a full day and night cycle, a coin economy you can earn by putting your pet to work, a shop for food and room decorations, and more... who knows what hides away in the terminal? If your pet dies, it does not just disappear. Reset and start the next generation. Raise a pet. Keep the terminal alive.

Screenshots

Cozy Plants4 screens
TamaShell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cozy Plants at every 10 days against TamaShell's monthly. TamaShell's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cozy Plants sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and TamaShell sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cozy Plants ships an update every 10 days, TamaShell monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cozy Plants versus TamaShell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCozy PlantsTamaShell
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmanuel SchmittKAMIL BARCZAK

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cozy Plants

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
4 purchases

TamaShell

One-time4
  • Cat Form$1.99
  • Robot Form$1.99
  • $ theme creator -enable$3.99
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  • TamaShell Pro Set$5.99

Questions

Is Cozy Plants free?
Cozy Plants is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TamaShell free?
TamaShell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cozy Plants or TamaShell have ads?
Neither Cozy Plants nor TamaShell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cozy Plants or TamaShell?
Cozy Plants ships an update every 10 days, and TamaShell monthly. Most recently, Cozy Plants was updated on October 31, 2026 and TamaShell on October 31, 2026.

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