BitLife vs Life Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BitLife
Experience a text-based life simulator where every choice shapes your destiny. Build a dream life with love and career, or embrace chaos with crime and scandal. Your virtual life story unfolds with every decision.
- Text-based life simulation
- Choice-driven roleplaying
- Build a dream life
- Embrace chaos and crime
- Shape your story through decisions
- Interactive story unfolding
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How will you live your BitLife? Will you try to make all the right choices in an attempt to become a model citizen sometime before you die? You could marry the love of your life, have kids, and pick up a good job along the way. Or will you make choices that horrify your parents? You could descend into a life of crime, start trouble in prison, smuggle goods across country lines, and rob banks. It's all up to you... BitLife is the original text-based life simulator that lets you roleplay your life, your way. Create your story in this choice-driven simulation game. Build a perfect life, chase success, or embrace chaos. In this life simulation, every tap is a choice that changes what happens next in your story. Play a full roleplaying life from start to finish and shape your own life story. Choose your path through love, romance, relationships, and marriage or drama, betrayal, and scandal. Shape your life through careers, education, and risky choices, then watch your story unfold through the consequences of every decision. Virtual life is calling… CREATE YOUR STORY: - Live your BitLife as a model citizen… or a total wild card. - Build a dream life story: love, family, career, and success. - Or chase chaos: fame, scandal, and bad choices with big outcomes. - Your life, your identity, your story, your roleplay. LIFE SIMULATOR: - A text-based life simulator where choices stack up, year after year in a true simulation. - Shape your life through education, careers, and relationships. - Every decision changes your path, your story, and your ending. - No two lives, and no two stories, play out the same. DRAMA & CONSEQUENCES: - Break the rules: crime, prison trouble, smuggling, and bank robberies. - Cheat, betray, or stay loyal: your choices decide the fallout. - Take risks, face consequences, and deal with the chaos your story creates. - An interactive story and simulation where choices actually matter. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: TikTok: @bitlifeapp X: @BitLifeApp Instagram: bitlifeapp This game is free to play.
Life Simulator
Experience a full life from birth to death, making choices that shape your destiny. Navigate childhood, build a career, explore relationships, and even delve into the underworld or hunt monsters. Every decision creates a unique story.
- Simulate life from birth to death
- Choose country, name, and appearance
- Explore 15+ careers
- Engage in underworld activities and prison life
- Invest, bank, and trade stocks
- Build relationships and start a family
- Hunt monsters and complete quests
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Build a career, fall in love and raise a family, then carry your story into the next generation. Or step into Online Life and share eight real cities with real players. A LIFE YOU CREATE Start at birth and grow through childhood, school and adulthood. Choose your country, appearance and traits, make friends and decide who you want to become. ONLINE LIFE: EIGHT CITIES, REAL PLAYERS Live in New York, Istanbul, London, Berlin, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Manila or Ankara in real time, and fly between them whenever you like. Every character belongs to a real player. • Meet people at cafés, bars, parks and stages, chat, make friends, fall in love and get married. • Get a job, work your shifts, take courses, rent a home, buy a car and earn your driver's license. • Team up in group activities, weekly city goals and monthly seasons, and climb the city's rankings. • Live on the edge: commit crimes against the city, dodge the police, serve your time or break out, and plan heists with your gang. • Join the hunt when a creature appears in your city. • Your character keeps living while you're away, following the focuses you choose. Online Life requires iOS 17 or later and Sign in with Apple. FAMILY, LOVE AND A NEW GENERATION Go on dates, get married and care for your children as they grow. Share family moments and build lasting connections. After your character dies, continue as an eligible child and carry your family's story into another generation. FIND YOUR CAREER Study, build skills, attend interviews and earn promotions. Become a developer, doctor, actor or business owner. Shape your ambitions through the work you choose and the decisions you make. BUILD A BUSINESS, TAKE A RISK Start a company, manage your money, invest in the stock market and buy vehicles. Explore crime and prison stories, or take your life in an unexpected direction with monster hunting. Interactive mini-games put your skills to the test. LEAVE YOUR MARK Complete quests, earn achievements and unlock legacy perks for future lives. Try a different path and discover how another set of choices changes your story. Create your character and start your next life. Play in English, Turkish, German, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese. Every life path is free to explore, including acting, streaming, crime, prison and monster hunting. Optional Life+ monthly or annual membership unlocks selected advanced actions and upgrades: tracker upgrades, gaming PC improvements, heists, prison gangs, vehicle modification levels 2–5, advanced company research and special career and lifestyle options. Normal in-game costs still apply. Get a total of 20 gems on each UTC day you play online, one revive per life, optional income and learning boosts, and 3x offline income. Daily gems are shared across your saves and do not accumulate on missed days. Family, school, everyday careers and generations remain free. Previous permanent purchases remain valid. Some players may still see legacy one-time offers and optional rewarded ads. In Online Life, Life+ adds cosmetic, social and convenience perks; it never sells progress, money or ranking points. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before renewal. Manage or cancel in Apple Account subscription settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Online Life terms: https://lifesimulator.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://lifesimulator.app/privacy/ Support: https://lifesimulator.app/support/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BitLife at 4.8 against Life Simulator's 4.3. BitLife also leads on ratings volume (1.8M vs 793) and chart position (#10 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. BitLife sells 20 one-off in-app purchases and Life Simulator sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BitLife holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BitLife has 1.8M ratings behind it against 793, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of BitLife's written reviews are positive against 49% of Life Simulator's.
BitLife ships an update every 2 weeks, Life Simulator every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BitLife | Life Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.8M ratings) — better | 4.3 (793 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.3% of reviews — better | 49.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8M — better | 793 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #10 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 384 MB | 171 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Candywriter, LLC | Ahmet Can Guven |
Customer experience
BitLife
Life Simulator
User reviews
BitLife
From 1.8M App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Amazing game
- 🚀 Constantly updated
- 💡 Lots of customization options
- 👍 Addictive and fun
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 💰 Too many features behind paywall
- 📺 Excessive ads
- 🤔 Certain mechanics feel unrealistic
Life Simulator
From 793 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Minimal ads
- 👍 Realistic day-to-day progression
- 🤔 Interesting concept
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 💰 Microtransactions not working as expected
- 🔁 Repetitive and limited gameplay
- 🔒 Lack of relationship/family features
Bugs and requests
BitLife
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent behavior when adopting children
- Losing Bitizenship status after updates
- Certain jobs/careers not functioning properly
Requested features
6 requests- More family-related features (grandparents, aunts/uncles, etc.)
- Ability to start own business or company
- More crime-related activities and scenarios
- Expanded education and career options
- Deeper relationships with friends and coworkers
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- Randomized world events and news updates
Life Simulator
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ads still present despite premium purchase
- Skill progression issues
- Unresponsive or buggy UI elements
Requested features
4 requests- Add marriage and children options
- Expand job and education choices
- Improve progression and skill development
- Introduce more interactive events and scenarios
In-app purchases
BitLife
- Time Machine Use$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Golden Piggy Bank$4.99
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- Golden Pacifier$4.99
- Luxury Lifestyle$4.99
- Golden Neko Statue$4.99
- Golden Diploma$4.99
- Zoo Expansion Pack$4.99
- Racing Expansion Pack$5.99
- Casino Expansion Pack$5.99
- Bitizenship$7.99
- Investor Expansion Pack$7.99
- Landlord Expansion Pack$7.99
- C.U.L.T. Expansion Pack$7.99
- Ultimate Fight Mode$9.99
- God Mode$9.99
- Bitizenship$9.99
- Vampire Mode$9.99
- Bitizenship + God Mode$15.99
- Boss Mode$20.99
Life Simulator
- Life+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- Income Booster$1.99
- Skill Booster$1.99
- Fistful of Gems$1.99
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- 50 Gems$1.99
- 150 Gems$1.99
- Bunch of Gems$2.99
- Pile of Gems$3.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Premium Bundle$4.99
- Many Many Gems$4.99
- 400 Gems$4.99
- Fountain of Gems$9.99









