A little garden help
21Bloom is made by Corey Bricker and is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The optional Greenhouse beta lets you try new experiments.
Now on the App Store: 1.0
Released September 17, 2026 for iPhone and iPad.
Grow your garden in untimed Tending, choose one of three Timed clocks, or play the shared Daily Garden. The launch game includes 19 achievements, Game Center leaderboards and iCloud progress sync. Tending protection costs ten credits.
Greenhouse beta: 1.0 (30)
Available on TestFlight September 16, 2026 for iPhone and iPad.
- A flower-filled home puts Tending first, remembers your preferred style, and keeps the main choices together on screen.
- Try Three at a time with fixed 18, 19, 20 and 21 targets. Large, flower-colored target numbers help you keep each bed in mind.
- Explore One Packet in the Greenhouse: 52 cards, no clock, with different ways to draw and play your cards.
- Resume unfinished experimental Tending and Packet gardens, and browse your full retained local history with results and flower details.
The Greenhouse beta trials protection at eight credits. The App Store release retains ten-credit protection and the original modes. Greenhouse experiments are not included in that released version.
Update over your existing installation to keep your progress. Get the latest beta on TestFlight.
Contact Corey
For help with 21Bloom or a privacy question, email bloom@unco.pw.
If you are testing the beta, you can also send feedback through TestFlight.
Open TestFlight, select 21Bloom, then choose Send Beta Feedback. You can also take a screenshot while playing and share it through TestFlight.
Please include your app version (and TestFlight build if applicable), your device and iOS or iPadOS version, and what happened just before the problem. Share only details you are comfortable sending. Never include your Apple Account password.
Saved progress and iCloud
21Bloom saves records on your device. In the launch version, completed progress can sync through iCloud using the same iCloud and Game Center accounts. Ordinary unfinished rounds are not restored after the app closes.
In the Greenhouse beta, experimental Tending and Packet each keep one unfinished garden on this device. Use Continue to return to it. Their saves, bests and full retained history stay local; they do not sync through iCloud. Older results already deleted by an earlier beta cannot be recovered. Eligible official Daily results use the regular progress, achievements, Game Center and iCloud path.
Check Settings inside 21Bloom for the iCloud save status. Game Center leaderboards and achievements use a separate Apple service: seeing them on both devices does not confirm that your in-game records have synced.
If records seem missing, keep the app and its existing data installed and contact Corey. Include the save-status message and which devices are affected. Avoid deleting the app or repeatedly switching accounts while investigating.
If a previous local save is available after a saving problem, Settings may offer recovery. Read the confirmation carefully: restoring a backup can replace newer local progress.
Sound and the introduction
Sound follows the Sound switch in 21Bloom Settings and your device’s Silent Mode. Sound and haptics are set separately on each device.
The full musical introduction plays the first time you open the app on each device. Updating from build 17 or 18 shows it once more. Later launches show a quiet, brief garden opening. Use Skip intro to go straight to the menu. Reduce Motion in your device’s Accessibility settings changes the introduction to gentle fades.
Daily Garden
Everyone gets the same Daily deck for the UTC day. Your first completed Daily for that day can become your official result; later games of that garden are practice. The result screen explains if an account change or saving problem prevents recording your game. A new garden starts at midnight UTC, which may be the evening or morning where you live.
When moving from an earlier Greenhouse beta, the transition day or a garden already seen in practice may remain practice. The app shows whether a Daily can count.
You can play without Game Center. Leaderboard updates need Game Center and an internet connection, and may take time to appear.
For details about saved data and Apple’s services, read the Privacy Policy.