Your Cactus vs Cactus Defense
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!
Cactus Defense
Defend your main cactus by strategically planting and upgrading prickly towers to stop waves of diverse bugs. This colorful tower defense game offers unique tower abilities and challenging levels across multiple worlds. Unlock the full experience with a single purchase.
- Plant and upgrade cactus towers
- Four unique tower types
- Diverse bug enemy types
- 43 hand-tuned levels
- Four distinct worlds
- Call waves early option
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Spikes vs. the swarm! Plant prickly cactus towers, upgrade them on the fly, and stop a cute-but-hungry swarm before it reaches your main cactus. No ads. No energy timers. Try it free, then unlock the full game with one single purchase. Cactus Defense is a colorful tower defense strategy game about one very determined desert garden. Ants march in, snails soak up hits, bees fly right over the ground crowd. Your job: put the right spikes in the right spot. PLANT, UPGRADE, SURVIVE • Place cactus towers on the grid and find the perfect spot for every spike • Upgrade along branches: burning, slowing, chain lightning and area stun • Feeling brave? Tap the timer to call the next wave early 4 PRICKLY TOWERS • Shooter: fast, focused single-target spikes • Splash: bursts that hit whole crowds of insects • Anti-Air: plucks flying bugs out of the sky • Stunner: stops the swarm in its tracks A SWARM OF BUGS • Marching ants, slow tanky snails and speedy worms • Flying bees that ignore the ground • Grasshoppers that heal as they hop • Dune scorpions, moon fireflies, snow ladybugs and tough rhino beetles 4 WORLDS, 43 HAND-TUNED LEVELS The first levels are free. One in-app purchase unlocks the full game forever: no subscriptions, no pay-to-win. Ready to get prickly? Download Cactus Defense and show those bugs who owns the garden!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Your Cactus at none against Cactus Defense's 2. Your Cactus also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). Cactus Defense's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price 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
Both are free to download. Cactus Defense sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Your Cactus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Your Cactus ships an update every 3 weeks, Cactus Defense every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Your Cactus | Cactus Defense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (73 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 250 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mika Ishikawa | Alper Ilkay Karatas |
Customer experience
Your Cactus
Cactus Defense
Bugs and requests
Your Cactus
Reported bugs
3 issues- App won't open
- Stopped working on iOS 13
- Cactus not growing
Requested features
5 requests- Add mini-games
- Add more things to keep players engaged
- Add something involving bees
- Talk with your cactus
- Change cactus type
Cactus Defense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Your Cactus
No in-app purchases
Cactus Defense
- Cactus Defense Full Game$2.99
- Cactus Defense Full Game$3.99
Questions
Is Your Cactus free?
Is Cactus Defense free?
Do Your Cactus or Cactus Defense have ads?
Which is updated more often, Your Cactus or Cactus Defense?
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