The Petal Picker app icon: a pinwheel of six petals, one lifting away.

Petal Picker

Pick the petal on top.

A calm puzzle game for iPhone and iPad. Every level is a bouquet of overlapping flowers, and you take it apart one piece at a time. The catch: you can only take a piece with nothing lying over it.

Download on the App Store

A bouquet, taken apart

Straight from an iPhone. On iPad it plays in portrait or landscape. Early levels are a few flowers apart. Later ones are stacked so deep that some are buried whole.

Level 4: four flowers well apart on warm paper, a green daisy, a blue and a violet star-shaped flower, and a small pink blossom.
Level 4. Four flowers, room to breathe.
Level 140: a dense bouquet of a dozen flowers in red, blue, violet, green, amber and cream, their petals lying over one another.
Level 140. Which petal is on top?
A level being cleared: a band of petals in every colour tumbles down the screen and leaves bare paper behind it.
Clear the board and the petals come down.

One rule

No timers, no combos, no power-ups. Just look closely.

Look

Find a piece with nothing lying over it. Shadows show which way the layers stack. Pinch to zoom in when it gets close.

Pick

Tap it and it lifts away, which may free whatever was beneath. A flower's centre is a piece too, and usually the first to go: it covers the roots of its own petals.

Clear

Take every petal and every centre. The board sweeps clean and the next bouquet is waiting.

Made to be picked up and put down

Good for a queue, a kettle, or the ten minutes before sleep.

Thousands of bouquets

Every level is grown from its own seed, so level 400 is the same bouquet on every phone. Nothing is repeated and nothing runs out.

Harder, then a breath

Difficulty climbs over five levels, then eases off before it climbs again, a little higher each time.

Always a way through

Every bouquet can be cleared. However deep the stack, at least one petal is always free.

Three hearts, no clock

A wrong pick costs a heart. Tapping the same stuck petal again does not. Run out and start the bouquet over, free, any time.

Every pick is a note

Each petal plays the next note of a pentatonic scale, so a good run sounds like one. Mute it from the board or the menu.

Zoom in close

Pinch up to four times closer and drag around the bouquet to settle which petal really lies on top.

Six flowers, twelve colours

Every petal is drawn by the game as you play. There are no stock images, so no two bouquets look alike.

Daisy Tulip Poppy Sunflower Rose Forget-me-not

Flowers that touch never share a colour.

Free to play. One thing to buy.

Every level is free. If you would rather never run out of hearts, there is Zen Mode, bought once.

Petal Picker

Free
  • Every level, with no energy and no waiting
  • Three hearts a bouquet
  • Start over any time, free
  • Out of hearts? Watch a short ad for one of our other apps to carry on where you were. Only if you choose to.
Download on the App Store

No account, no sign-up, no subscription. No ad networks and no tracking: the only ads are for other Apotherium apps, and nothing about you or your play leaves your phone.