Comparison

Bee.io vs Ant Farm Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Bee.io

Compete as a bee to gather the most honey and outgrow your rivals. Collect power-ups to enhance your abilities and upgrade your hive for a competitive edge.

Highlights
  • Collect honey
  • Compete with other bees
  • Gather power-ups
  • Grow your hive
  • Upgrade your hive
Features
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Fill honeycombs more honey and faster than other bees. Collect power ups to grow and upgrade your hive.

About

Ant Farm Simulator

Experience the life cycle and behaviors of an ant colony with realistic AI. Manage your formicarium by feeding, hydrating, and cleaning to ensure your ants thrive. The colony develops even when you're offline, with ongoing updates adding new content.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant AI and life cycle
  • Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
  • Offline colony development
  • Variety of ant types
  • New formicarium designs
  • Regular updates
Features
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Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects. You need to take care of your ant colony, feed it, keep it hydrated, and clean up the trash. The colony continues to develop even when the game is not running. The game-simulator is constantly updated, adding different types of ants, new ant care modes, other types of food, new forms of formicaria and much more.

Screenshots

Bee.io3 screens
Ant Farm Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bee.io at none against Ant Farm Simulator's 2. Bee.io also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Ant Farm Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (56 vs 3). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Bee.io asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Bee.io against 4.1 for Ant Farm Simulator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ant Farm Simulator has 56 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Bee.io's written reviews are positive against 83% of Ant Farm Simulator's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bee.io versus Ant Farm Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBee.ioAnt Farm Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)4.1 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings356 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB104 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVitalii SidorovDzmitry Smirnou

Customer experience

Bee.io

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ant Farm Simulator

All ratings56 ratings
Positive80.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative14.8%

Bugs and requests

Bee.io

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Ant Farm Simulator

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Forced ads when clicking energy button
  • Game stopped working
  • Most ants don't do anything
  • Game continues to run when app is closed

Requested features

47 requests
  • More content (designs, bugs, maps)
  • Combine colonies into a "super colony"
  • Add species names
  • Add aphids and ladybugs
  • Add honeypot ants
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  • Map with underground digging
  • Add other insects (spiders, scorpions)
  • Add blue ants
  • Faster ant growth
  • Pause button for offline activity
  • Limits for waste piles and litter
  • Recycle dead ants as food
  • Clean up dead ants to prevent mold
  • Add green ants
  • Add bullet ants
  • More food options (super worms, berries, larger food items)
  • Ants move garbage to waste pile
  • More food variety and unlocked system
  • Option to raise two colonies and make them face each other
  • Bigger food items requiring multiple ants
  • Sugar food option
  • More ants attacking spawned creatures
  • Option to start with a smaller colony
  • Multiple species of ants with different behaviors
  • Queen walks around
  • Add males and alates with wings
  • More realistic AI for idle workers
  • Workers check on brood/queen, clean themselves
  • Outworld ants forage more
  • More spots for eggs in nests
  • Different stages for egg development in chambers
  • Different types of waste (food, bathroom)
  • Observe trophylaxis between ants and queen
  • More diverse farm and food color schemes
  • Alates and up to 2-3 queens (rare)
  • Ants run on their own
  • More live food options that attack back
  • Different species and farms
  • Workers that sit in the nest get up and work
  • Queen walks around more
  • Different ant species
  • More realistic mechanics (soldier roles, food qualities)
  • Clearer mechanics for ant roles and food properties
  • Start with 5-10 workers
  • Egg laying rate scales with colony population
  • Food and water demand scales with colony population
  • More chambers for eggs

In-app purchases

None

Bee.io

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ant Farm Simulator

One-time2
  • Energy 5000$0.99
  • Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99

Questions

Is Bee.io free?
Bee.io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ant Farm Simulator free?
Ant Farm Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bee.io or Ant Farm Simulator?
Ant Farm Simulator is rated higher. Bee.io averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Ant Farm Simulator averages 4.1 from 56 ratings.
Do Bee.io or Ant Farm Simulator have ads?
Ant Farm Simulator shows ads; Bee.io does not.

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