Comparison

Pocket Harvest vs Potion Permit

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Harvest

Escape to a peaceful farm life, growing crops and raising animals. Turn your harvest into prize-winning produce and attract tourists with unique attractions to boost your income and expand your farm.

Highlights
  • Cultivate diverse crops
  • Raise farm animals
  • Refine produce for orders
  • Build tourist attractions
  • Manage farm income
  • Expand farm from scratch
Features
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Leave the rat race behind and reap the joys of life on your very own farm in Pocket Harvest! Cultivate crops with love, ranging from crisp lettuce to succulent strawberries, and refine them into prizewinning produce to bring orders from the local grocers flooding in. Adorable animal friends will lend a helping hoof too, providing milk, wool, eggs, and more! Feeling more ambitious? Boost your income and your image through tourism! From hot air balloons to sports facilities, you can build attractions in countless combinations to draw in high-spending city slickers. In Pocket Harvest, you wear the overalls, so you call the shots! Grow your farm from the ground up into a flourishing cornucopia of fun! --- Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at https://kairopark.jp. Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and our paid games!

About

Potion Permit

Step into the role of a chemist tasked with healing a town that distrusts modern medicine. Diagnose illnesses, gather ingredients, and brew potions to cure the townsfolk. Build relationships, upgrade the town, and live the life of an apothecary in a charming, colorful world.

Highlights
  • Diagnose and cure illnesses
  • Gather ingredients and brew potions
  • Upgrade buildings and expand areas
  • Build relationships with townsfolk
  • Find love with a sweetheart
  • Team up with a loyal dog
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The town of Moonbury has always been wary of the outside world's medical advances, preferring to rely on its traditional healing methods. However, when the mayor's daughter falls ill and the local witch doctor can do nothing to help her, they are forced to look outside their small community for help. The Medical Association decides to send their most accomplished chemist - you - to help cure the mayor's daughter and convince the residents of Moonbury of the wonders of modern alchemy. Gain their trust and tend to each person when they fall ill in this open-ended sim RPG! FEATURES - Take care of Moonbury’s inhabitants: diagnose their illnesses, gather ingredients and brew potions to cure them. - Heal the town : Upgrade buildings, expand your gathering area and transform the townsfolk’ lives in many ways. - Build relationships with Moonbury’s inhabitants, earn their trust and eventually find love with your chosen sweetheart! - Team up with your loyal dog that follows you wherever you go and helps you in your work. - Relax in a wholesome, colourful world and live the apothecary life you want! CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface - Game Center achievements - Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices - Compatible with MFi controllers - iPhone 15 Optimization (including pro max) If you run into a problem, please contact us at https://playdigious.helpshift.com/hc/en/12-playdigious/ with as much information as possible on the issue.

Screenshots

Pocket Harvest4 screens
Potion Permit4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pocket Harvest and Potion Permit both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of Pocket Harvest's written reviews are positive against 40% of Potion Permit's. Pocket Harvest also leads on price ($4.99 vs $6.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Potion Permit's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (550 vs 24). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pocket Harvest costs $4.99 and Potion Permit $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Pocket Harvest against 4.4 for Potion Permit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potion Permit has 550 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Pocket Harvest's written reviews are positive against 40% of Potion Permit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Harvest ships an update every 5 months, Potion Permit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Pocket Harvest versus Potion Permit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket HarvestPotion Permit
Price$4.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.3 (24 ratings)4.4 (550 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews — better40.3% of reviews
Number of ratings24550 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#81 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB477 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKairosoft Co.,LtdPlaydigious

Customer experience

Pocket Harvest

All ratings23 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral8.7%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral8.0%
Negative12.8%

Potion Permit

All ratings519 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive40.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative43.0%

User reviews

Pocket Harvest

From 24 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Fun and engaging
  • 👍 Great Kairosoft game
  • 👍 Good replay value
  • 👍 Deep gameplay mechanics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent lag and stuttering
  • 🐛 Game crashes
  • 🐛 Difficulty curve
  • 🐛 Repetitive gameplay loop
  • 🐛 Basic graphics

Potion Permit

From 550 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Great atmosphere and relaxing gameplay
  • 👍 Cute and charming visuals
  • 🎨 Enjoyable story and characters

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
  • 🔍 UI/UX problems on mobile devices
  • ⏱️ Lack of frequent autosave

Bugs and requests

Pocket Harvest

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Crashes when land is parched
  • Crashes when cultivating Chimpion Z
  • Bugs (worms) block farmers
  • Item cards not showing up
  • Monthly shipments not reflected
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  • Screen freezing/stopping
  • Game crashes after purchase
  • Unplayable with newer OS
  • Stretched display on iPad

Requested features

12 requests
  • Korean language translation
  • Support for newer phones
  • More cultivation options
  • Zoo management game idea
  • Music game idea
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  • Army simulation game idea
  • Underwater town game idea
  • Egypt themed version
  • More simulation games
  • Add forest/land outside farm
  • Faster game releases
  • Magazine Mogul on iOS

Potion Permit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to exit certain menus
  • Fishing mini-game not functioning properly
  • Potion quests not triggering correctly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more customization options for player character
  • Implement a manual save feature
  • Improve performance and reduce crashes

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Harvest

No in-app purchases

None

Potion Permit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Harvest free?
Pocket Harvest costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potion Permit free?
Potion Permit costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Harvest or Potion Permit?
Potion Permit is rated higher. Pocket Harvest averages 4.3 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Potion Permit averages 4.4 from 550 ratings.
Do Pocket Harvest or Potion Permit have ads?
Neither Pocket Harvest nor Potion Permit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Harvest or Potion Permit?
Pocket Harvest ships an update every 5 months, and Potion Permit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pocket Harvest was updated on October 24, 2026 and Potion Permit on October 25, 2026.

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