Our game · Coming to the App Store
Pop a seed in. See what comes up.
Tap to plant, tap when the water-drop asks, pull the odd weed, shoo the odd snail, and harvest for coins. Plants grow in real time even when the app is closed, so a radish is ready in thirty seconds and a pumpkin is waiting after dinner. Free with gentle ads, or £2.99 once to remove them and make rain free.
- 10
- crops, from thirty-second radishes to the slow, glorious pumpkin
- 36
- plots once the garden has grown from three by three to six by six
- £2.99
- once to remove ads and make rain showers free
Some gardens want a weekend. This one wants a minute.
The whole game came from one rule: the phone should go back in the pocket. Radishes take thirty seconds so the first visit feels alive. Pumpkins take longer so there is a reason to come back.
It grows while you are away
Close the app and the garden carries on in real time. Come back to something ready. No energy meters, no timers to buy.
Plants that ask
A water-drop bubble means now, please. Ignore it and they wait for you. Weeds and snails turn up if you are gone too long.
Ornaments with opinions
A gnome keeps weeds down, a scarecrow keeps snails off, a beehive speeds everything up, and a lily pond is there because it is lovely.
Fill the journal
Every crop earns a page. One harvest in thirty-three comes up golden, worth five times the coins and remembered forever.
How it is built
Fully native, small, and honest about money: one purchase, no subscriptions, no ads while you are gardening.
Back to all work- Native Swift, built with SwiftUI
- Wall-clock growth: the garden state is a timestamp, not a running timer
- StoreKit 2 for the single one-off purchase
- Ads only between shop visits, with rain and coins as opt-in rewards
- Plays offline, saves on the device, keeps your podcast running
- All art and sound generated by the same tools as our other games
Questions people ask
- What kind of game is Pip & Trowel?
- A cosy gardening game for iPhone and iPad. You plant seeds, water them when they ask, pull weeds, shoo snails and harvest for coins. Plants grow in real time, even when the app is closed, so visits last a minute or two.
- Is Pip & Trowel free?
- Yes. It is free with ads between visits to the shop, never while you are gardening. A single £2.99 purchase removes every ad forever and makes rain showers free.
- Does it need an internet connection?
- No. It plays offline and saves on your device. Growth is worked out from the clock, so nothing needs a server.
- When is it out?
- Pip & Trowel is finished and heading to the App Store. Email [email protected] if you want to hear when it lands.