BONSAI 3D · Zen Garde
Snip, bend, shape your tree
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Three years for every real day. Wire the trunk, prune the branches, water daily — and spend a hundred years shaping a tree that is yours alone. A quiet growing game.
■ One day. Three years.
The bonsai in this app grow in real time.
Branches stretch while you sleep; open the app in the morning and the
tree is not quite the one you left. Set the trunk's line with wire, tidy
the branches with shears, deepen the leaves with daily watering, and
spend a hundred years shaping a tree that is yours alone.
■ Shape it
- Wiring: trace with your finger to bend the trunk's flow
- Pruning: cut back overgrown branches. Cuts can be undone, so be bold
- Watering: once a day. Keep at it and the leaves grow deeper, the tree
more vigorous
- Fertilizer: in a hurry? You can move time itself forward
Formal upright, informal, slanting, cascade. The same seedling becomes
a completely different tree depending on your hands. A built-in style
guide means you need zero bonsai knowledge to start.
■ Grow it
Black pine, five-needle pine, maple, weeping cherry, plum. 14 species
and 17 pots. The seasons turn inside the screen, too: spring buds,
deep summer green, maples burning in autumn, snow settling in winter.
One tree, four faces a year.
■ Display it
At one hundred years, your tree goes before the exhibition. Form, vigor
and harmony are judged. It receives written comments and a gold, silver,
bronze or honorable-mention award, then takes its place on your shelf,
where you can pick it up and admire it anytime.
A shelf lined with gold-award trees is a record of the time you spent.
■ What this game doesn't have
- Purchases: none. Everything is free
- Forced ads: none. Only opt-in rewarded ads
- Punishment: none. Forget to water, and your tree lives on
Open it daily, tend it a little, and simply watch.
A game that never rushes you. Time, the bonsai way.
* Your garden transfers via iCloud. New phone, same trees.
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Information
- Seller
- Kouki Ohta
- Size
- 6.6 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kouki Ohta