Comparison

Butterfly Simulator vs Monkey Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Butterfly Simulator

Experience a vibrant 3D insect world as a butterfly. Build your colony, feed your king, and battle various insect bosses and enemy clans. Customize your butterfly and explore a vast open-world RPG.

Highlights
  • 3D insect world exploration
  • Butterfly colony building
  • Insect boss battles
  • Butterfly customization
  • Open-world RPG gameplay
  • Survival and simulation elements
Features
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*****Butterfly Simulator***** Do you love butterflies? The close cousin of the moth. The Lepidoptera are here!! Control your very own butterfly in this beautiful 3D insect world. Create your own colony, feed the king, find Worker and attack winged Lepidoptera, and go out in search of the insect bosses. The ultimate winged insect simulator you have been looking for. High quality 3D graphics, Super gameplay, and smooth controls. Customize your insect to be Monarch, painted lady, and more varieties. Enter the insect world as a young butterfly and build your family. You will also find yourself in head to head battles against Spiders , Ant colonies, Ladybugs, Rhino Beetle, Wasp, and Honey Bees, and Scorpion. Top Game Features: ** Open World Style RPG game ** Fast paced and action packed animal simulator ** Customize your butterfly wings ** Beautifully colored wings ** Huge 3D Insect World Map ** Part survival and part animal simulator ** Cool insect sound effects and weather How to play: Part 1 : Build your Butterfly Colony Part 2 : Find and Defeat the Bosses --Bosses include Giant Ants, Rhino Beetle, Butterfly, Bees, Spider, and Scorpion. Part 3 : Defeat the enemy Beetle Clans Part 4 : Find and Defeat the Super Bosses Come stop by our Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/wildfootgames We really appreciate all the awesome feedback Wildfooters! We are super excited about this insect series of games. Animal simulators is what we do. Be sure to send us an email at wildfootwork1@gmail.com and let us know how we are doing. We read all email carefully. Thanks for playing Wildfoot Games, good luck!!

About

Monkey Simulator

Experience a thrilling jungle adventure as a brave monkey. Run, jump, and swing through diverse environments, collecting fruits and outrunning obstacles like banana avalanches and wild animals. Enjoy 3D HD graphics and multiple missions.

Highlights
  • 3D jungle exploration
  • Collect fruits
  • Outrun banana avalanche
  • Avoid wild animals
  • Multiple missions
  • 3D HD graphics
Features
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A thrilling ride through jungle, Rocks and treetops in 3D. Monkey is now in 3D. Play as king of Banana the Kong Monkey in 3D. Monkey Kong is a brave, agile and lovely monkey, on a beautiful day he went into the temple jungle to pick up fruits and find a way out of the temple from jungle. The goat, sheep, fox, zebra, deer, dinosaur, elephant, wolf, all are running in the jungle. Run, jump, bounce and swing on vines as you help monkey to outrun a huge banana avalanche and other fruits. Take control of the audacious temple dash run! Overcome dangerous obstacles like massive boulders, wolf, elephants and dinosaurs. Collect all other fruits pineapple, apple, mango, carrot. Avoid dinosaur and wolf on the running path. Feature: Monkey Simulator with all other wild life animals in 3D HD Graphics Easy and smooth control and beautiful animation. Multiple camera views, Multiple missions.

Screenshots

Butterfly Simulator4 screens
Monkey Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Butterfly Simulator at none against Monkey Simulator's 8. Butterfly Simulator also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). Monkey Simulator's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (84% vs 61%). On price, update cadence, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Monkey Simulator sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Butterfly Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Monkey Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 389 and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Butterfly Simulator's written reviews are positive against 84% of Monkey Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Butterfly Simulator ships an update every 58 months, Monkey Simulator every 57 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Butterfly Simulator versus Monkey Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterButterfly SimulatorMonkey Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (389 ratings)4.5 (1.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews83.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3891.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 58 monthsEvery 57 months — better
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB314 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperBoris TsarkovHafiz Muhammad Sajid

Customer experience

Butterfly Simulator

All ratings304 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative33.3%

Monkey Simulator

All ratings1,515 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive83.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative12.7%

User reviews

Butterfly Simulator

From 389 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Fun and entertaining gameplay
  • 💖 Beautiful and cute butterflies
  • 👍 Great graphics and animation
  • 💯 Game is very fun
  • ✨ Game is awesome

Room to improve

  • ❌ Unrealistic gameplay mechanics
  • 📉 Hunger bar depletes too quickly
  • 🚫 Too many ads
  • 😵 Ads are inappropriate for children
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches

Monkey Simulator

From 1.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Awesome graphics
  • 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 🙊 Realistic monkey behavior
  • 🍌 Satisfying fruit collecting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 💸 Too many ads
  • 🕹️ Difficult controls
  • 🕰️ Limited time per level

Bugs and requests

Butterfly Simulator

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Can't get food
  • Starving due to inability to get food
  • Hunger bar decreases after eating food
  • Died by flower monsters, item disappeared
  • Ad is not working
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  • Unskippable ads before game starts
  • Unskippable ads during gameplay

Requested features

7 requests
  • More animations
  • Butterflies need to walk
  • More skins
  • Add more parts to the game
  • Fix the ads
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  • Make hunger bar go down slower
  • Butterflies should be able to fly higher

Monkey Simulator

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezing on level transition
  • Inconsistent jump mechanics
  • Graphical glitches on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Multiplayer mode
  • More monkey customization options
  • Expanded map and level variety
  • Ability to save progress

In-app purchases

None

Butterfly Simulator

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Monkey Simulator

One-time8
  • Unlock All Levels$0.99
  • 2000 Gems$0.99
  • 5000 Gems$1.99
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  • 10000 Gems$2.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • 20000 Gems$3.99
  • Unlock All Characters$3.99
  • Unlock Full Game$6.99

Questions

Is Butterfly Simulator free?
Butterfly Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Monkey Simulator free?
Monkey Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Butterfly Simulator or Monkey Simulator?
Monkey Simulator is rated higher. Butterfly Simulator averages 4.2 out of 5 from 389 ratings, while Monkey Simulator averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Which is updated more often, Butterfly Simulator or Monkey Simulator?
Butterfly Simulator ships an update every 58 months, and Monkey Simulator every 57 months. Most recently, Butterfly Simulator was updated on October 24, 2026 and Monkey Simulator on October 24, 2026.

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