Aquarium Sim vs Coral Reef Ocean
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
Coral Reef Ocean
Create and manage a vibrant underwater ecosystem. Care for diverse marine life, cultivate coral reefs, and watch your creations thrive. Enjoy a relaxing and visually pleasing simulation of ocean life.
- Create and customize coral reefs
- Care for various fish and sea creatures
- Grow and hatch new species
- Explore different reef types
- Unlock new species and levels
- Local and cloud save options
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Create your coral reef. Take care of fish, grow seahorses, watch a variety of the sea. Be pleased with colours, feed all your wards, create pleasant sea landscapes. Plant grass, corals, or anemones. Choose in various options of reef style. Hatch baby creatures, care for them, and make them grow. Ensure enough food for all your animals. Release them to the open ocean and get your rewards when they grow up to adults. Game features There are many in-game features to be discovered. Among others, we would like to focus your attention on these highlights. — all species exist in nature. We have got inspired a lot by the natural coral reef. — various flora species to shape your coral reef landscapes is necessary to hatch — twenty levels of the game (the number will increase in further updates) — twelve groups containing a total of 56 species (new species are introduced regularly) — grow a fish, cultivate seahorses, observe tunas and sharks, spy on whales, watch a burrfish, a hawk fish, a firefish, a scorpionfish, a whip ray, and a mobula ray — explore a diversity of colours and shapes of a unicorn fish, a turtle, and a dolphin — investigate how echinoderms walk on the coral reef seabed — study a diversity of coral reef life — fringing reef, barrier reef, platform reef, or atoll — all the reef types offers a colourful variety of a sea life — hatch eggs, feed creatures, grow your buddies and release them — implant corals, fit in anemones, set water grass — change position, flip, choose the colour and set the best place for corals, grasses, and others — local saved games or cloud saved progress to share among your devices Brief Roadmap for 2021 1. another 20 species (currently 56), plan to release 100 engaging sea fauna members 2. more comprehensive flora selection for more admirable landscapes 3. advanced and polished levelling 4. coral reef space expansions based on levelling and unlocking a new reef area 5. surprise features :-) We appreciate any constructive user feedback that will help us build a better game and provide you a lot of fun and relaxing experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coral Reef Ocean at 5.0 against Aquarium Sim's 4.0. Aquarium Sim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (43 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. Coral Reef Ocean sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Aquarium Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Coral Reef Ocean holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aquarium Sim has 43 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Aquarium Sim ships an update every 3 months, Coral Reef Ocean every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aquarium Sim | Coral Reef Ocean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (43 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1788918 Alberta Ltd | FoxCom, s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Aquarium Sim
Coral Reef Ocean
In-app purchases
Aquarium Sim
No in-app purchases
Coral Reef Ocean
- Gold Coin$0.99
- Gold Coins$3.99
- Pile Of Gold Coins$5.99
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- Humble Chest$12.99
- Fabulous Treasure1$38.99
- Opulence Heap$64.99
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