Your Cactus vs Screaming Cactus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Your Cactus
Cultivate a virtual cactus on your iPhone. Keep it healthy by exposing it to sufficient screen brightness, simulating sunshine. Watch it grow, bloom, and interact with it by tapping.
- Grow your own virtual cactus
- Name your cactus
- Interact by tapping
- Cactus blooms when fully grown
- Weather changes with screen brightness
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Enjoy growing your own cactus on your iPhone! How do you grow your cactus...? Just open your app and visit your cactus! Your cactus loves SUNSHINE. Make sure to visit him/her when your screen is bright enough or your cactus will get sick! Do not let your cactus wilt! -You can name your own cactus! -You can tease your cactus by tapping him/her :P -Flowers will come out when your cactus is fully grown -The weather changes based on screen brightness. ENJOY!
Screaming Cactus
Protect a cactus from invading bugs by smashing them before they consume it. As you defeat enemies and earn currency, the cactus's appearance becomes more stylish.
- Smash bugs
- Protect the cactus
- Collect money
- Customize cactus appearance
- Fast-paced gameplay
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Kill the bugs before they eat the cactus! He's screaming for a reason! SAVE HIM!!! Also, the cactus starts to look more and more hip as you kill bugs and collect money... so that's cool
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Screaming Cactus at none against Your Cactus's shown. Screaming Cactus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). Your Cactus's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (74 vs 8). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Screaming Cactus holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Your Cactus has 74 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Your Cactus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Screaming Cactus's.
Your Cactus ships an update every 3 weeks, Screaming Cactus every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Your Cactus | Screaming Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (74 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mika Ishikawa | Mycah Krason |
Customer experience
Your Cactus
Screaming Cactus
In-app purchases
Your Cactus
No in-app purchases
Screaming Cactus
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Your Cactus free?
Is Screaming Cactus free?
Which has better reviews, Your Cactus or Screaming Cactus?
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