Bonsai Lite

Bonsai Lite is the free edition of Bonsai. It puts one tree on your Stream Deck. Plant a seed and a bonsai unique to that seed grows in real time, for months and years, whether the deck is on or not.

ONE POT, ONE TREE — Choose a juniper, a Chinese elm or a Japanese maple. Every seed has a number, and no two numbers grow the same tree.

THE WORKBENCH — Tap the tree and the deck becomes its workbench: the tree across four keys, the tools beside it. Water soaks in for a real minute. Pruning takes five, and you choose what the tree becomes: denser, taller or more open. Turn it so that it grows evenly.

IT GROWS FROM THE CLOCK — A seedling in four days, a young tree in two months, a bonsai in about a year.

FOUR SEASONS — A tree's year is four weeks, one week a season, or the real seasons of your hemisphere.

NOTHING DIES, NOTHING NAGS — A neglected tree slows, runs wild and waits. One watering sets it going again. No currency, no streak, no score, no notification.

A JOURNAL — The tree's age, style and seed number, and a replay of its life.

THE FULL BONSAI ADDS — A tree in every pot, five more species (black pine, cherry, ginkgo, azalea, wisteria), and wiring, feeding and repotting. The tree in Lite is not carried over.

No ads, no purchases, no account, no network.

macOS 12 or newer and Windows 10 or newer, with the Stream Deck app 7.6 or newer. Put Pot on every key of a page. Three keys are enough; with eight or more, the tree is shown across four of them. The Infobar action needs a Stream Deck Neo.

A backup that survives a crash

Bonsai Lite now keeps its own backup of your grove on your computer, alongside Stream Deck's copy.

If a forced restart or a crash leaves Stream Deck's copy empty or out of date, Bonsai Lite brings your grove back by itself.

Your grove is backed up the first time this version starts, so there is nothing to do.

Your trees keep growing as they were.