Blotpath vs Bonshira

The city is your canvas. Walk a street. Leave a line. Come back before it fades. Blotpath paints the routes you actually run or ride. Phone in a pocket is enough. Ink stays for about ten days, then the canvas forgets — unless you walk it again. You never pay to stop fade. Apple Watch can start the same walk from your wrist, even with the wrist down. Party is optional. Friends join with a code and share finished walks on one neighborhood canvas. There is no live map pin, no ads, and no stranger feed. Location is used only during an active walk. Ending the walk stops it.

Plant a seed and grow your own bonsai, day by day, in real time. Bonshira is a zen garden in your pocket. Your tree lives on even when the app is closed: it drinks, grows and sometimes falls ill. In 30 days it goes from seed to mature bonsai, and its shape is the sum of your choices. LOOK AFTER IT • Water when the soil is dry: touch it with your finger to feel whether it needs it. • Mist the leaves, feed it with the right dose, choose where it lives: windowsill, balcony, garden. • Every species has its own needs: Japanese maple, Chinese elm, ficus, carmona, juniper, pine, ginkgo. SHAPE IT • Prune branches with the scissors, pinch shoots that grow too strong. • Wrap the wire and bend trunk and branches into soft curves, up to three bends per branch. • Turn the pot: the canopy reaches for the light and the bend turns with you. • Repot at the right moment, even over a rock or as a little forest. WATCH CLOSELY • Use the lens to spot the first signs of aphids, spider mites or powdery mildew before they show. • Welcome visits from ladybugs, little birds, butterflies and a cat dozing next to the pot. • The Master gives you small tips and three tasks a day. KEEP IT • At the end your bonsai is judged and recognized for its style: Chokkan, Moyogi, Shakan and more. • A diary with your notes and photos, a time-lapse of its growth, a collection of finished bonsai. • Cuttings in the nursery, gifts to send to your family by AirDrop or Messages. • See it on your table in augmented reality, as a real 3D bonsai. AND MORE • Home Screen widget and an Apple Watch app. • Save your progress to a file and carry on on another iPhone. • In 37 languages. No ads, no account, no data collection: everything stays on your iPhone.