Quietgrove: Grow a Tree
Cozy bonsai garden, no ads
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
One tree. A few gentle minutes a day. Water it, shape it, and come back to find what grew while you were away. No timers, nothing you can lose — and it really grows.
A quiet place to grow one tree.
Plant a sapling, water it, and let it take its time. Quietgrove is a living nature simulator you visit
for a few gentle minutes a day — a peaceful place to relax, not another demand on your attention.
Every tree here is grown, not animated. A real botanical simulation builds yours branch by branch,
responding to sunlight, water, nutrients, soil pH, and the turning seasons — so no two trees ever grow
alike, and yours can never die. Neglect makes a tree sleepy, never dead. There is no timer, no streak
to keep, and nothing you can lose. If life gets busy, the tree simply waits for you.
Come back to find what changed: a spring flush, fruit ripening, the first snow on bare branches. Your
tree keeps growing in real time while the app is closed, and greets you with a little time-lapse of
everything you missed.
Tending, at your pace:
• Water, feed the soil, and nudge its pH — forgiving, never punishing
• Swipe to prune: each cut redirects growth energy into the branches you keep, with a calm undo after
every snip
• Bend limbs, pinch tips, thin fruit, or shake the trunk for girth — mindful, hands-on shaping with
gentle sound and haptics
• Drag the sun across the sky and watch your tree lean toward the light
• Four true seasons, day and night, drifting weather, and golden-hour light
• Songbirds nest in a settled canopy; butterflies, bees, and fireflies visit
• Harvest ripe fruit as seeds, and one day pass the torch: a legacy seed begins a stronger lineage
• A Journal of firsts, and an Almanac that gently teaches the botany behind it all
• Save grown trees to your Grove, name them, and share a photo card
• A daily challenge tree — the whole world tends the same seed each day
Everything that matters is free: every care verb, three species (sugar maple, orchard apple, mountain
pine), uncapped growth, photo mode, the Grove, the Journal, and the daily challenge. One optional
one-time unlock adds four more species (English oak, silver birch, cherry blossom, Italian cypress),
grafting and breeding at the Grove's graft bench, and ten new places to grow, from a harbour to a zen
garden. No subscriptions, no coins, no paid speed-ups — and nothing you already grew is ever taken
back.
Quiet by design: no ads, no account, and no data collected. Quietgrove is fully playable offline; your
grove lives on your device, with a portable file backup you can carry to a new phone. Reminders are
optional and off by default. Accessibility is built in: VoiceOver support, Reduce Motion, and
colorblind-safe cues.
Tend one tree. Take your time.
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New trees, new places, and a crown that keeps changing.
New with Quietgrove Full
• Three new species: the Japanese maple, the olive, and the weeping willow, whose fine twigs hang in long curtains.
• Five seasonal visitors to plant in their season: witch hazel in winter, a saucer magnolia from 1 March to 30 April, the jacaranda from 1 May to 30 June, the crape myrtle from 1 July to 30 September, and ginkgo in autumn.
• Three new places to grow: Lavender Hills, Rice Terraces, and the Glasshouse, with rain on the glass and a lamp at night.
• Living seasons: storms, late frost, aphids and powdery mildew leave recoverable marks; stake, wrap, prune and restore to meet them, and set Nature to Off, Gentle weather or Lively weather.
• Bonsai craft: wire a limb to guide it and choose the size of its pot.
• Pot finishes and ground dressings.
• The soil lens: roots, water and earth beneath the tree.
• A family tree of your cultivars, and send a cutting to a friend as a short code.
• Your tree's whole life as a replay and a poster.
• Print-resolution photos and a botanical plate style.
• A home-screen and lock-screen widget.
• A locked species now shows what it grows into before you decide.
For every tree
• Gentle growth: when you plant, you can choose a tree that grows slowly, over days. A gently grown tree may come out a little broader.
• Crown renewal: once a tree has filled its space, it lets a few shaded old twigs fall twice a tree-year and regrows them in place, so the crown keeps changing.
• Old wood thickens more and more slowly, so old limbs stay in proportion.
• Pruning answers where you cut: new shoots grow back from the cut.
• Every species has more room to branch before its crown fills.
• Old trees wear scars, lichen and a hollow, and heavy old limbs bend under their weight.
• An owl may roost at night in the hollow of an old tree.
• A legacy seed can carry a rare sport: weeping, twisted, columnar, golden or variegated.
• A soft cast shadow that follows the sun, and dappled light (Settings › Light & shadow).
• A quiet felt-key music layer that follows the scene.
• Green-thumb ranks, with photo mats to earn, and composition guides on the photo preview.
• Quiet hours: reminders wait until morning.
• A calmer one-screen Menu and a grouped Settings sheet, with Reminders and Backup & data pages.
• Time away: growth while you were gone now follows how long you were away, gently tapering off, and the welcome-back note says what your tree did, including when it renewed its crown.
• Reliability: sturdier saves and backups, safer iCloud sync, and many small fixes.
Thank you for tending. Nothing you grew is ever lost.
The developer, Andrey Tyurin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Andrey Tyurin
- Size
- 32.4 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Quietgrove Full $5.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Andrey Tyurin
