bitsims vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bitsims
Experience a lifelike simulation where you can freely pursue love and build a beautiful family with your partner. This game offers a nurturing experience focused on relationships and shared life goals.
- Lifelike simulation world
- Romantic relationship building
- Family creation
- Nurturing gameplay
- Cooperative play with partner
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this is a funny girlfriend love nurturing game, it will take you into a lifelike simulation world, where you can love freely, and you can work together with your partner to create a beautiful family.
POOLS™
This app offers a slow, reflective, and immersive experience focused on exploration and atmosphere. It evokes feelings of unease and curiosity through its unique environments, inspired by liminal spaces and internet phenomena. Discover changing worlds and subtle narratives without traditional gameplay mechanics.
- Slow, reflective exploration
- Atmospheric and immersive environments
- Inspired by liminal spaces
- Unfolding narrative through exploration
- Six distinct chapters
- Unique sound design
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Explore, admire and listen. That’s it. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. POOLS isn’t a traditional game. it’s slow, reflective, and intentionally uneventful, perhaps a bit like virtual museum. So take your time. Breathe. POOLS unfolds slowly, rewarding patience and quiet attention. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen. Yet it can feel oppressive at times by invoking quiet fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and the strange beauty of liminal space architecture. There's no typical story. But as you explore and advance further, you start to notice that the game's world changes around you, deeper you go… Rooms look and feel… different. Base game features six chapters, each lasting 10-30 minutes. Inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal spaces, Found footage and The Backrooms, especially the Poolrooms concept. One of the original artists behind the Poolrooms concept is Jared Pike.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: POOLS™ at 4.5 against bitsims's 4.0. POOLS™ also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 26 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 1). bitsims's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (96% vs 79%). On price, 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. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. bitsims asks for nothing beyond the download.
POOLS™ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of bitsims's written reviews are positive against 79% of POOLS™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
bitsims ships an update every 26 months, POOLS™ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bitsims | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 79.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Colin Shockley | Tensori |
Customer experience
bitsims
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
bitsims
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
POOLS™
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to move on iPad Pro
- Glitches reported
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to different Backrooms-inspired themes
- Add a multiplayer mode
- Introduce more interactive elements (e.g., monsters, items to discover)
In-app purchases
bitsims
No in-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
