Rice Fish vs AquaPlants
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rice Fish
A virtual aquarium simulation where you care for Japanese rice fishes and aquatic plants. Interact with your fish, clean the tank, and watch your aquarium grow. Save your progress via iCloud and explore a 3D view with a companion app.
- Virtual aquarium simulation
- Feed and clean fish
- Interactive characters
- Aquarium customization
- iCloud data saving
- 3D VR view companion app
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Rice Fish is an aquarium app of Japanese rice fishes. Operations: Feeding: Tap water surface. Cleaning: Swipe dirty glass surface. Touch: Each character reacts your touch. You can change layout of your aquarium by pushing root of weeds. Menu: Long tap and help menu will appear. Growing: Characters will grow if you do cleaning/feeding once or twice a day. Characters: There are 4 kinds of characters. Rice Fish: Do both cleaning and feeding. Weed: Do only cleaning. Grow by touching. Snail: Does not do cleaning. This app saves play data to iCloud every two minutes. You can download play data when you install this app to new device. You can also view your own aquarium in 3D by "Rice Fish VR" app.
AquaPlants
Cultivate a vibrant underwater world by growing aquatic plants and observing their photosynthesis. As your plants flourish, attract a variety of beautiful tropical fish to your aquarium. This idle game offers a relaxing experience with charming animations and detailed plant information.
- Idle incremental gameplay
- Grow aquatic plants
- Attract tropical fish
- Collect various fish and plants
- Detailed plant encyclopedia
- Cute fish animations
- Realistic 3D plant models
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Welcome to the world of aquatic aquariums! "I like tropical fish, but it's hard to manage the aquarium by myself ...!" AquaPlants was born for you. This game is very simple "Incremental" game! Grow aquatic plants and let them photosynthesize a lot. As the plants grow, beautiful tropical fish will visit more often! Find various tropical fish and grow your own aquarium. Game features ■ Simple game method that can be nurtured by leaving it alone ■ Various tropical fish and aquatic plants ■ Detailed bean knowledge like a picture book ■ Cute animation of tropical fish ■ 3D model of aquatic plants that faithfully reproduces the real thing ■ Healing sound info@filmo.jp Created by team, Filmo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rice Fish at none against AquaPlants's 7. Rice Fish also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). AquaPlants's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. AquaPlants sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Rice Fish asks for nothing beyond the download.
AquaPlants holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 43 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Rice Fish ships an update every 4 months, AquaPlants fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rice Fish | AquaPlants |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KENSHI DOI | Filmo inc. |
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Rice Fish
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Rice Fish
No in-app purchases
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