Comparison

Pet the Plants vs Sort & Settle

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

Head to head
About

Pet the Plants

Features
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Pet the Plants is a cozy idle garden game. Hold the WATER and SUN tanks to fill each plant's meters, watch fruit pop, and tap to harvest coins. Spend them on Fertilizer, Watering Can, and Greenhouse upgrades, keep every plant thriving through the seasons, and unlock new species โ€” from sunflowers and strawberries to cacti and bonsai โ€” as your harvests grow. Come back to daily bonuses and offline progress from your Greenhouse. Relax, water, bloom!

About

Sort & Settle

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Sort & Settle is a colour-sorting puzzle with room to think. One purchase. Every level included. No in-app purchases, subscriptions, timers, lives, streaks or ads. Tap a tube to lift its matching top blocks, then tap another to pour. Fill every tube with one colour to finish the level. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Undo and hints are unlimited and included. If the game confirms a dead end, it offers to step you back. Extra Spare Tube gives you more room whenever you want it. MAKE IT COMFORTABLE Choose Calm, Contrast or Playful. Distinct shapes help identify colours, with automatic shapes on busier boards. Larger Text, Bold Text, Reduce Motion and Differentiate Without Colour are supported. Tube labels and hint announcements help with VoiceOver. Gentle sound effects mix with your music, with optional spatial cues and adjustable volume. YOUR PROGRESS, YOUR CHOICE Local gameplay works offline without an account. Optional iCloud sync carries saved progress between your devices. Optional Game Center in Settings lets you compare completed-level scores with Game Center friends; connecting shares your score with Apple. Play on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro. The board gradually grows, then keeps offering more puzzles.

Screenshots

Pet the Plants4 screens
Sort & Settle3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pet the Plants at Free against Sort & Settle's $3.99. Pet the Plants also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Sort & Settle's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (5 vs 3). On in-app purchases 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

Pet the Plants is free to download; Sort & Settle costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Pet the Plants versus Sort & Settle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPet the PlantsSort & Settle
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 months
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro โ€” better
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size60 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEUGEN QUIRINGDaniel Maldonado

In-app purchases

None

Pet the Plants

No in-app purchases

None

Sort & Settle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pet the Plants free?
Pet the Plants is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sort & Settle free?
Sort & Settle costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pet the Plants or Sort & Settle have ads?
Pet the Plants shows ads; Sort & Settle does not.

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