Comparison

Mutabloom vs Pasterium C

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

Head to head
About

Mutabloom

Features
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Plant a seed. Wait for the weather. Harvest something that should not exist. Mutabloom is a cozy 3D garden that keeps growing while your phone is in your pocket. The shop restocks every five minutes. The weather runs on its own schedule and the mutations it rolls land on whatever happens to be growing when it arrives: Rainbow, Golden, Giant, Glowing, Shocked, Chilled, Wet, and the ones each biome keeps to itself. They stack, and they multiply. A Rainbow Giant caught in a storm is worth a thousand times the plain harvest it grew from, and the reveal takes its time about telling you. GROW IT, THEN GROW IT AGAIN Ten biomes and 120 seeds, from a Radishling that takes twenty seconds to a Worldtree that takes a day. Outgrow a biome and start a new Season: the coins go, but the Season Tokens, the pets, the cosmetics and the Journal are yours for good, and everything you plant afterwards is worth more than it was. IT CARRIES ON WITHOUT YOU Plants grow in real time with the app closed, and your pets go on harvesting for up to four hours while you are away. Come back and the garden tells you what it got up to. COLLECT ALL OF IT Sixty pets hatch out of eggs, fifty living in the biomes and ten that only turn up at festivals. They take their colours from nowhere in particular and they level up by eating what you harvest, so the first seed you ever planted is still worth planting a month later. The Journal remembers every plant you have grown and every mutation it has worn, and pays you for finishing a set. THE GARDEN ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN When the weather turns it arrives as a Live Activity, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with five Catch taps to nudge the odds your way. A harvest made from the Lock Screen is a real harvest: it counts for the streak and it goes in the Journal. NEVER BLOCKED No energy bar. No hard paywall. Nothing in the game makes you wait longer than a day. If you have five minutes, it has something for you to do with them. Game Center leaderboards, achievements and a Daily Sprint are waiting when you want them. ABOUT THE ADS, PLAINLY Mutabloom is free. The ads worth having are the ones you choose to watch: double an offline harvest, re-roll the shop, make it rain. They start appearing at Gardener Level 8, once you have a garden worth boosting, and every one of them says what it pays before you tap it. Remove Ads removes the interrupting full-screen ads and the banners. It does NOT remove the optional rewarded ones, and that is deliberate: they are how a player who never spends anything keeps up with one who does. Nothing sold in the game is needed to see any of it, and an egg bought with gems shows its odds before you buy it. Made for grown-ups who want a garden to potter in. Not a children's app, and not in the Kids Category.

About

Pasterium C

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Spend quiet days with your fish in a little aquarium. Pasterium C is a 3D aquarium set in a softly muted pastel room, where you enjoy everyday life with your fish. You start with three little fish in a fishbowl. Give them names, feed them, and watch them slowly grow and bond with you. - Every fish has its own personality and looks Even fish of the same kind each have something special. Keep an eye on growth, bond, and health on each fish’s card. Fish that feel weak can get care, or rest at boarding. - A life that grows a little every day New friends and ornaments arrive, and sometimes eggs are laid. On day 7 the living room tank opens, and on day 14 you get an auto feeder you can use in any tank. - Make the tank your own Choose plants, ornaments, sand colors, and lighting to decorate. Save up to 5 favorite layouts for each tank. - Learn about creatures and ornaments in your journal Look back on each day in the diary, and read about each one in the creature and ornament guides. - Shifting light and gentle sounds The light in the room changes from morning to night and with the seasons. Watch your fish from underwater, and keep photos or short videos. Choose between the original music and lofi, with different tracks for morning, day, and night. You can choose your tap sounds too. - Start for free, then visit the study or the round tank The fishbowl and the living room are free. “Study with a Bookshelf” and “Sunset City & Round Tank” are each a one-time in-app purchase. The study adds a big tank about 120 cm wide, along with Discus, Arowana, River Stingray, and Axolotl. The round tank adds a glass tank about 130 cm across by a window over a sunset city, a lighthouse harbor, and 4 new kinds: Penguin Tetra, White Cloud Minnow, Glass Catfish, and White Medaka. Available in Japanese, English, Korean, Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. No ads and no account sign-up. Everyday play works offline. Buying and restoring in-app purchases needs a connection. Your fish, diary, and other records are saved in the app. Deleting the app also deletes these records, but photos and videos you saved to the Photos app remain.

Screenshots

Mutabloom4 screens
Pasterium C4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pasterium C at none against Mutabloom's shown. Pasterium C also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Mutabloom sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pasterium C sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mutabloom ships an update every 8 days, Pasterium C every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Mutabloom versus Pasterium C: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMutabloomPasterium C
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCR Industries LLCKENICHI TAKAOKA

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mutabloom

One-time10
  • Handful of Gems$1.99
  • Comeback Pack$1.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
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  • Extra Pet Slot$3.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Extra Plot Row$4.99
  • Jar of Gems$9.99
  • Golden Trowel$9.99
  • Crate of Gems$19.99
  • Wagon of Gems$49.99
2 purchases

Pasterium C

One-time2
  • Sunset City & Round Tank$2.99
  • Study with a Bookshelf$2.99

Questions

Is Mutabloom free?
Mutabloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pasterium C free?
Pasterium C is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mutabloom or Pasterium C have ads?
Mutabloom shows ads; Pasterium C does not.
Which is updated more often, Mutabloom or Pasterium C?
Mutabloom ships an update every 8 days, and Pasterium C every 6 days. Most recently, Mutabloom was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pasterium C on November 7, 2026.

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