The player controls the knife to cut the fruit via the touch screen. When the fruit appears on the screen, the player slides their finger across the screen to perform a cutting action in an attempt to cut the fruit in half. Extra points are added when multiple fruits are sliced at once (combo) and when multiple fruits are sliced at the same time using multiple fingers. The player must cut all the fruits that appear, and if three fruits are missed, the game ends (except when using the quill blade). 

When the score reaches a multiple of 100, the player receives extra lives, but not more than the number of lives at the start of the game. Bombs will occasionally appear on the screen, and the game will end if the player slices them by mistake and does not use the "bomb deflect".

In Zen mode, players need to score as high a score as possible within 90 seconds and without bombs in the way. Arcade mode is similar to Zen mode, but bombs only deduct 10 points from the player's live score rather than making the player lose the game, and special bananas appear at random to give unique effects. For example, getting a double score for a limited time, increasing the number of fruits appearing and slowing down the movement of all fruits. In Classic and Arcade modes, special pomegranates appear out of nowhere. One of them, in Arcade mode, is the one that appears towards the end of each game. Players can slice multiple times in a row to get extra points. In Classic mode, the very rare dragon fruit also appears and gives you 50 points for slicing it.