Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps vs Prune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps
An award-winning, educational game for two players that fosters creativity and fine motor skills. It offers adjustable difficulty for balanced gameplay and helps users stay calm and focused in challenging situations.
- Award-winning game design
- Adjustable difficulty
- Develops fine motor skills
- Fosters creativity
- Intuitive usability
- Supports 15 player profiles
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*** FingerPaint Duel was honored as Best German Kids Game 2014 (Deutscher Computerspielpreis) *** Join the challenge: “Paint like Champs!”. The award winning game for two players. With automatically adjusting difficulty for a balanced gameplay independent of the players' capabilities. Educationally valuable. Dear parents and guardians, dear kids! Vicky, our professional for child development, and our network of experts examine our games carefully. We take care that the apps are age-appropriate and well adjusted to your child‘s development and transport and develop social competence. Oliver Hengstenberg (founder of Cribster): “We want to give kids tools to express themselves playfully. So that they can process and communicate issues and experiences. And depending on disposition and talent they can discover and develop special abilities. Expect the unexpected.” Benefits of our FoldApps™ certificate: • Pedagogically valuable: playing together creatively • Safe inside the app • Ad-free • EDU: Discount for educational institutions The game: Our latest addition. Stay focused in competitive and challenging situations. Play together, recognize shapes and colors, reproduce and keep the balance between speed and perfectionism. This app helps you to stay calm and confident in challenging aspects of your life. Features: • Lovingly designed app and coloring motives • Self-explanatory and intuitive usability and entry tutorial • 15 player profiles so that everybody can join the fun • Playfully exercise fine motor skills and to focus in competetive situations This app has been awarded with the Pedi certificate for pedagogically valuable multimedia products and is supported by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the State of Bavaria. Enjoy a game with great replay value that is used by professionals in education.
Prune
Cultivate a digital tree in a hostile world by guiding its growth towards sunlight. Uncover a hidden story and bring life to a forgotten landscape with this meditative and beautiful game.
- Grow and shape trees
- Minimalist art and interface
- Meditative music and sound
- No in-app purchases or monetization
- Share tree creations
- iCloud progress synchronization
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~ Apple Game of the Year 2015 ~ ~ TIME Magazine Game of the Year 2015 ~ Prune is a love letter to trees. A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation. With a swipe of a finger, grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil. • A unique digital plant for your pocket • Beautiful, minimalist art and a super clean interface—it's just you and the trees • Meditative music and sound design for you to zen out to • No IAP, no monetization strategy, no currencies • Share screenshots of your unique tree creations with friends • Synchronize progress across all your devices using iCloud ----- RECEPTION ----- "Unlike anything I've played before... the kind of experience I want to pull out to show my friends." - The Verge "Wildly creative, totally addictive, and oddly soothing" - Entertainment Weekly "Prune is a gorgeous and unique experience." - 5/5 TouchArcade "Prune is an awe-inspiring work of digital poetry that transcends its initial subject material to explore a much larger, much more complex theme, in an articulate and powerfully moving manner" - 10/10 Pocket Gamer "A collaboration that feels more like a dance than puzzle-solving." - Kill Screen ----- AWARDS ----- • Winner - Best Upcoming Game - 11th International Mobile Gaming Awards • Finalist - IndieCade Festival 2015 • Official Selection - Brazil's FILE Festival • Runner-Up - IndiePlus "Make Something Great" Contest • Official Selection - Out of Index Experimental Games Festival
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps at 5.0 against Prune's 4.3. Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps also leads on price ($3.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 11.0). Prune's advantage is ratings volume (568 vs 1) and chart position (#32 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps costs $3.99 and Prune $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prune has 568 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps ships an update every 3 months, Prune every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps | Prune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (568 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 568 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #32 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cribster | Joel McDonald LLC |
Customer experience
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps
Prune
Bugs and requests
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Prune
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress reset after updates
- Unresponsive controls at times
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Zen mode with no time constraints
- Level editor and sharing capabilities
- Improved tutorials and explanations
In-app purchases
Paint Duel EDU by FoldApps
No in-app purchases
Prune
No in-app purchases
Questions
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