Comparison

BitLife vs Life Simulator

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Text-based life simulation
  • Choice-driven roleplaying
  • Build a dream life
  • Embrace chaos and crime
  • Shape your story through decisions
  • Interactive story unfolding
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

BitLife4 screens
Life Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
BitLife versus Life Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitLifeLife Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.8M ratings) — better4.3 (793 ratings)
Positive reviews51.3% of reviews — better49.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.8M — better793
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size384 MB171 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperCandywriter, LLCAhmet Can Guven

Customer experience

BitLife

All ratings1,796,701 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews7,506 reviews
Positive51.3%
Neutral10.5%
Negative38.2%

Life Simulator

All ratings793 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral7.6%
Negative10.7%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive49.2%
Neutral16.7%
Negative34.2%

User reviews

BitLife

From 1.8M App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

20 purchases

BitLife

One-time20
  • 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
13 purchases

Life Simulator

Subscriptions1
  • Life+ Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time12
  • 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

Questions

Is BitLife free?
BitLife is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Life Simulator free?
Life Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BitLife or Life Simulator?
BitLife is rated higher. BitLife averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.8M ratings, while Life Simulator averages 4.3 from 793 ratings.
Do BitLife or Life Simulator have ads?
Both BitLife and Life Simulator show ads.
Which is updated more often, BitLife or Life Simulator?
BitLife ships an update every 2 weeks, and Life Simulator every 9 days. Most recently, BitLife was updated on October 27, 2026 and Life Simulator on October 25, 2026.

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