Comparison

Tiny Text Terrarium vs Sortalis

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Tiny Text Terrarium4 screens
Sortalis4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Text Terrarium ships an update monthly, Sortalis fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tiny Text Terrarium versus Sortalis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Text TerrariumSortalis
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB43 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAntonio Gordillo ToledoMichael Schmoyer

Customer experience

Tiny Text Terrarium

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sortalis

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tiny Text Terrarium

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

Sortalis

One-time1
  • Sortalis Full Game Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is Tiny Text Terrarium free?
Tiny Text Terrarium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sortalis free?
Sortalis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Text Terrarium or Sortalis?
Tiny Text Terrarium and Sortalis are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Tiny Text Terrarium or Sortalis have ads?
Neither Tiny Text Terrarium nor Sortalis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Text Terrarium or Sortalis?
Tiny Text Terrarium ships an update monthly, and Sortalis fortnightly. Most recently, Tiny Text Terrarium was updated on November 6, 2026 and Sortalis on November 7, 2026.

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