Prune vs Cake Designer 3D Pro
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
Cake Designer 3D Pro
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Cake Designer 3D Pro. No Ads. Design gorgeous and delicious cakes in 3D, with lots of layers, add decoration, candles, candy, chocolate, toys, lollipop, teddies, etc. All the time the cake is slowing revolving around in stunning 3D. Design that perfect birthday cake for your friends and family, smother with chocolate chips, sweets. You can even add sparkler fireworks then turn the lights off that extra special party or wedding cake. Its very quick and easy to design a stunning cake, click on a sponge layer, change the size if you like and add some decoration. Then add more layers, or columns to make a multi layer cake and add even more decoration & toppings as you go. Finally add a topper :- teddy, stack of lollipops, sparkler etc. Its that easy, you'll soon be designing giant mega cakes with layers of chocolate, icing, strawberry, orange etc. The sky is the limit. Its only a shame that we can't turn your stunning creations in real live cakes, we look forward to the invention of the 3D cake printer ;-) Thanks for looking, download Cake Designer 3D now and start designing that mega birthday or wedding cake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Prune at every 6 weeks against Cake Designer 3D Pro's every 36 months. Prune also leads on chart position (#36 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Cake Designer 3D Pro's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On ads, 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
Prune costs $4.99 and Cake Designer 3D Pro $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Prune ships an update every 6 weeks, Cake Designer 3D Pro every 36 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Prune | Cake Designer 3D Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (568 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 568 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 36 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joel McDonald LLC | Galatic Droids |
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
Cake Designer 3D Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prune
No in-app purchases
Cake Designer 3D Pro
No in-app purchases









