Tiny Text Terrarium vs Sortalis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Sortalis
A dice-building roguelike where you roll, score, and strategically upgrade your dice. Push your luck to earn winnings, then spend them on Charms and abilities to create powerful builds and overcome unique challenges.
- Dice-building roguelike gameplay
- Strategic upgrades and Charms
- Endless challenges with increasing difficulty
- Over 150 discoverable upgrades
- Multiplayer draft mode
- Boss encounters that alter rules
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Sortalis is a dice-building roguelike inspired by Farkle. Roll, score, and decide how far you’re willing to push your luck—then spend your winnings on Charms and upgrades that transform your dice, strengthen your strategy, and rewrite the rules. Every run becomes a new engine to build, exploit, and inevitably push a little too far. **What’s in the game?** • Endless challenges that grow tougher and demand new strategies • Over 150 upgrades to discover and combine into powerful builds • Rewards, unlocks, achievements, Dice Bags, and challenges to master • Multiplayer draft mode! **Roll, Set, or Bank** Roll and select scoring combos carefully. Roll again to make it bigger—or Farkle and lose the lot. Bank before your luck runs out. **Spend It in The Shop** Between Bouts, spend your winnings on Charms, Packs, Action Cards, and other upgrades. Don’t like what’s on the shelf? Redraw it and hunt for the piece your build needs. **Face The House** Every night ends with a boss that changes the rules. THE MISER, for example, won’t let you Bank until your Pot reaches 500. **Then Do It All Again** Every Bank and Farkle adds to your final score. Unlock 14 Dice Bags, tabletops, discover new combinations, and see how far you can push your next run.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tiny Text Terrarium at free against Sortalis's free with in-app purchases. Sortalis's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tiny Text Terrarium sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Sortalis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tiny Text Terrarium against 5.0 for Sortalis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sortalis has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tiny Text Terrarium ships an update monthly, Sortalis fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Text Terrarium | Sortalis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Antonio Gordillo Toledo | Michael Schmoyer |
Customer experience
Tiny Text Terrarium
Sortalis
In-app purchases
Tiny Text Terrarium
- Small Tip$0.99
- Kind Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$6.99
Sortalis
- Sortalis Full Game Unlock$7.99
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