Prune vs Lyxo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Lyxo
Explore a world of light and shadow by manipulating rays of light. Solve puzzles by illuminating targets, mixing colors, and avoiding obstacles across 87 unique levels. Experience innovative gameplay with striking visuals.
- Manipulate light rays
- Mix colors
- Avoid obstacles
- 87 handcrafted levels
- Innovative game mechanics
- Clean, minimalistic design
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Lyxo will take you on a journey to the fascinating world of light. Use rays of light to explore the darkness, avoid obstacles, create new sources of light, mix colors and thus make your targets light up. 87 levels lead you through breathtaking worlds of color, light and shadow and surprise with extraordinary puzzles and solutions. Features: - Innovative new game mechanics - 87 handcrafted levels - A wide range of exhilarating, engaging, and diverse obstacles - Striking, beautiful, clean visuals - Minimalistic with a deep, Bauhaus-inspired design www.lyxogame.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Prune at every 6 weeks against Lyxo's every 9 months. Prune also leads on ratings volume (568 vs 33) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). Lyxo's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 66%) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Prune costs $4.99 and Lyxo $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Prune holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prune has 568 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Prune's written reviews are positive against 83% of Lyxo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Prune ships an update every 6 weeks, Lyxo every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prune | Lyxo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (568 ratings) — better | 4.1 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 568 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #57 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joel McDonald LLC | Tobias Sturn |
Customer experience
Prune
Lyxo
Bugs and 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
Lyxo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prune
No in-app purchases
Lyxo
No in-app purchases
