Comparison

Tiny Text Terrarium vs Degenchi

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Text Terrarium

Cultivate a serene text-based garden that grows over time. Discover unique flora and fauna, track your garden's history through diary entries, and enjoy seasonal changes. Widgets provide a glance at your growing world.

Highlights
  • Plant seeds and watch them grow with real time
  • Diary logs of garden events
  • Discover 27 species and oddities
  • Real weather and seasonal changes
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Time acceleration option
  • Customizable appearance
Features
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Plant a seed. Close the app. Come back to a little world that grew while you were away. Tiny Text Terrarium is a cozy garden built entirely from text. Every plant, puddle, and passing bee is an emoji living in a tiny grid. There's nothing to optimize, no timers to beat, and no way to lose. Just a quiet patch of soil that keeps growing while you live your life. • Plant seeds, sprinkle droplets, and let real time do the rest • Come back to a hand-written diary of everything that happened, "A bee stopped by the daisies and did a little happy dance." • Discover 27 species, visitors, and oddities for your Almanac • Learn the garden's secrets: something likes rainy mountains… • Real weather moods, day and night, snow in winter, and a few seasonal surprises • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your garden at a glance, one tap away • Can't wait? The Sundial nudges time forward, a day's worth per day • Make it yours: five backdrop tints and a light/dark appearance switch • Wilted flowers forgive you. One droplet fixes everything • Nothing to buy, ever. A tip jar exists only if you'd like to say thanks Fully playable with VoiceOver. No ads, no accounts, no data collected, your garden never leaves your device.

About

Degenchi

Features
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Eight very cute creatures. Eight very bad habits. Degenchi is a virtual pet game for grown ups. You adopt a small, extremely cute critter, and then you find out what it needs. Puff wants a Smoky Stick every twenty minutes. Fizzy loves everyone until the Bubbly Juice wears off. Nugget will eat your entire pantry. Chip has a system. The system does not work. Keep them fed, keep them calm, and try to stop anybody having a meltdown in public. THEY KEEP GOING WHILE YOU ARE GONE Craving, fullness, mood, energy and health all move on real world time. Close the app for six hours and you come back to consequences. Let a craving climb too far and it becomes a full meltdown, with health draining until you sort it out. EVERYONE FALLS APART DIFFERENTLY Nugget burns through food twice as fast. Bean never gets tired but his mood swings wildly. Wobble barely feels anything at all. Sugar spikes hardest and falls apart quickest. Eight critters, eight completely different maintenance problems. NINE FACES EACH Every creature is hand drawn for chilling, thriving, blissed out, fiending, meltdown, down bad, starving, running on empty and rough shape. You can read exactly how someone is doing from across the room. FORTY SKINS TO COLLECT Five looks per critter across five rarity tiers, and a skin repaints everything including the props they carry. Chip's dealer visor, Shroomie's cap, Fizzy's party hat. Every skin has a fixed price, so you save up and buy the exact one you want. DAILY CHALLENGES Three fresh challenges roll every midnight, with a streak bonus that grows the longer you keep showing up. THE LUCKY WHEEL Chip's favorite place on earth. Fake money, published odds, deliberately terrible. Losing is the joke. FREE TO PLAY, PROPERLY Everything is earnable. Degen Bucks come from daily challenges, the Lucky Wheel, and whatever Chip finds down the back of the sofa. Optional currency packs exist if you want to move faster, and nothing is locked behind them. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING, NO INTERNET NEEDED There is no sign up and no ads. Your save lives on your device, the game works completely offline, and we collect nothing about you. A NOTE ON THE JOKE Degenchi is a comedy about cartoon animals with bad habits. The substances are invented, the money is fake, and none of it is advice, encouragement, or remotely realistic. If any of the themes here reflect something you are actually dealing with, please talk to someone qualified. That matters more than a game does.

Screenshots

Tiny Text Terrarium4 screens
Degenchi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Degenchi at 15.1 against Tiny Text Terrarium's 17.0. 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. Tiny Text Terrarium sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Degenchi sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Tiny Text Terrarium versus Degenchi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Text TerrariumDegenchi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB30 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAntonio Gordillo ToledoParker Stafford

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tiny Text Terrarium

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Kind Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$6.99
4 purchases

Degenchi

One-time4
  • Pocket Change$0.99
  • Bar Tab$4.99
  • Rent Money$9.99
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  • Trust Fund$19.99

Questions

Is Tiny Text Terrarium free?
Tiny Text Terrarium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Degenchi free?
Degenchi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny Text Terrarium or Degenchi have ads?
Neither Tiny Text Terrarium nor Degenchi shows ads.

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