FishyPaint vs Aqua Room
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FishyPaint
Bring your drawings to life as animated fish that swim and interact in a vibrant underwater world. Personalize your experience by adding your own artwork or photos as fish and even become the diver exploring the scene. Record and share your aquatic adventures with custom soundtracks.
- Animate custom drawings as fish
- Interactive underwater world
- Personalize with own photos
- Selfie diver integration
- Video and audio recording
- Customizable fish shapes
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Your own artwork comes alive and swims with you in FishyPaint! Watch hand painted fish swim among the coral in this beautiful underwater world. Add your own fish by photographing any drawing, painting, or anything you want to use as a fish. Watch it come alive and swim inside the app! Featuring a diver - snap a selfie to see yourself as the diver, swimming alongside your own creations! Perfect for kids' artwork - realistic or abstract, anything can come to life and be a fish in FishyPaint. Touch the screen to see how the fish react and touch-drag to affect the diver too. Record video and audio too - you can tell a story about your fish, maybe sing a song, and a video of your scene is recorded to your Photo Library with that soundtrack! Features: * Animated fish swim, hide in the coral, and respond to screen touch. * Add anything as your own custom fish - a drawing you made, a toy, a photo of a real fish, or even a person. Why not? Use your imagination! * Photograph yourself to be the diver, or maybe a drawing, a friend, even your pet. Have fun with it! * Record video of your scene, with audio from the microphone. * Comes with colorful fish already in app. * Guideline of fish shape offers a starting point for custom fish, but you can also paint the shape of the fish yourself. Make it your own! * Hand painted look that mixes nicely with kids' artwork. How to use FishyPaint: Main underwater scene - Watch fish swim, and touch the screen to see them react. To add a custom fish - Tap Add Fish button. Snap a photo or import an image from your device. Your photo appears with a suggested fish cutout. Areas with blue overlay will not be part of your fish. You can move, scale, rotate, and flip your image. You can paint and erase the blue areas and create the exact fish shape you want, to fit the picture you're using. To add a custom diver - Tap Diver button. Snap a photo or import an image from your device. Your photo appears as the face of the diver. You can move, scale, or rotate your image to position it nicely within the diver's helmet. To record a video - Tap Record button. Now everything is being recorded, including audio through the device microphone. You can talk and make noise and touch the screen to affect the fish. Tapping Record button again stops the recording and saves this video to your Photo Library.
Aqua Room
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Let’s make the sea creatures with your favorite materials! Let's shoot your work with the camera application on the background of the yellow-green color! When you select an image from the album, the background of the yellow-green color is hollowed out and it will join the ocean's companion! If you connect to the projector and TV, you can enjoy more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FishyPaint at every 3 weeks against Aqua Room's every 15 months. FishyPaint also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FishyPaint ships an update every 3 weeks, Aqua Room every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FishyPaint | Aqua Room |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shmonster LLC | LITALICO Inc. |
In-app purchases
FishyPaint
No in-app purchases
Aqua Room
No in-app purchases
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