Aquarium Sim vs Tap Balls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aquarium Sim
Create and manage your own virtual aquarium filled with a diverse range of marine and freshwater fish. Customize your underwater environment with various habitats and interact with your aquatic pets by feeding them. Enjoy a relaxing visual experience with realistic fish behaviors.
- 82 detailed fish species
- Customizable aquarium environments
- Realistic swimming behaviors
- Interactive feeding and tapping
- Marine and freshwater habitats
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Aquarium Sim is an interactive virtual Aquarium for your phone & tablet. Sit back, relax and enjoy a variety of marine & freshwater fish swimming about in a colorful coral reef habitat. Setup your aquarium by choosing from 82 fish and 9 environments. Interact with your pets by taping on the glass and feeding them. Aquarium Sim Features: - 82 highly detailed Fish species - Create custom Aquarium Environments - 7 Pre-Made Coral Reef Environments - 2 Freshwater Environments - Realistic Swimming behaviors and appearance - No in-app purchases, all fish are free
Tap Balls
Tap targets to eliminate them and unlock helpful characters. Upgrade your tapping power and your helpers' abilities for endless gameplay. Compete with others on the leaderboard.
- Tap targets to kill
- Unlock 25 helper balls
- Upgrade tap and helper power
- Endless mode gameplay
- Leaderboard for competition
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- Tap targets to kill them. - Unlock 25 funny helper balls to help you kill targets even you are not playing. - Upgrade your tap and your helper balls hit power. - Endless mode game play. - Leaderboard to track your progress and compete with others. - Start tapping and start growing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aquarium Sim at none against Tap Balls's 2. Aquarium Sim also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 7). Tap Balls's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating 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. Tap Balls sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Aquarium Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Aquarium Sim against 4.1 for Tap Balls. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aquarium Sim has 43 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Aquarium Sim's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tap Balls's.
Aquarium Sim ships an update every 3 months, Tap Balls every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 24, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aquarium Sim | Tap Balls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (43 ratings) | 4.1 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1788918 Alberta Ltd | Batuhan Bayar |
Customer experience
Aquarium Sim
Tap Balls
In-app purchases
Aquarium Sim
No in-app purchases
Tap Balls
- Revenue x4$1.99
- Revenue x10$3.99
