Prune vs RistoCat
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
RistoCat
A charming, cat-themed game designed to introduce financial literacy concepts through engaging gameplay. Players help kittens enjoy a clubbing experience while learning about money management.
- Cat-themed gameplay
- Financial literacy education
- Clubbing kittens
- Implicit learning mechanics
- Cute graphics
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Keep your kittens milk drunk as they go clubbing! Cute, cat-themed game to teach financial literacy, implicitly through gameplay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RistoCat at Free against Prune's $4.99. RistoCat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). Prune's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (567 vs 2). On in-app purchases 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
RistoCat is free to download; Prune costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RistoCat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prune has 567 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Prune's written reviews are positive against 100% of RistoCat's.
Prune ships an update every 6 weeks, RistoCat every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prune | RistoCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (567 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 567 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #86 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joel McDonald LLC | RistoCat |
Customer experience
Prune
RistoCat
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
RistoCat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prune
No in-app purchases
RistoCat
No in-app purchases
