Comparison

Fruit Diary vs Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade

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

Head to head
About

Fruit Diary

Embark on a fruity adventure with a cute puppy companion in this offline match-3 puzzle game. Swap and crush juicy fruits to clear hundreds of challenging levels, unlock new scenes, and relieve stress. Enjoy bright graphics and rewarding gameplay without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Offline match-3 gameplay
  • Adventure story with pet
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
  • Brain-testing puzzles
  • Bright and juicy graphics
  • Free rewards and bonuses
Features
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Welcome to Fruit Diary, the best fruit match 3 offline game! No wifi needed! You will adventure with your pet - an orange cute puppy dog to explore the cool island and its story. The gameplay is simple but super fun. Just swap to match 3 fruits and crush them all to go to the next level. Feel bored? Fruit Diary is the best free matching game for adults to pass the boring time, keep your brain active and relieve stress. FRUIT DIARY FEATURES: Juicy Fruits & Fresh Blast • The graphics are bright in color! • Oranges, peaches, grapes… all the fruits look juicy and fresh! • Match 3 fruits and enjoy the fun of crushing! Adventure Story • Complete challenging levels to move forward! • Unlock different scenes, such as village, desert, snowfield and so on! Hundreds of Addicting Levels • Every matching puzzle is designed creatively! • Classic but addicting match 3 gameplay will never make you bored! Brain Test & Stress Relief • Entertaining puzzles appear frequently! • It is easy to learn but hard to master. What a BRAIN test! • Crushing the puzzles is really a relief from daily stress for adults! No WiFi? No Problem • With wifi, you can get the newest event and bonus! • No wifi? You can still play as many levels offline as you want! Plenty of Free Rewards • Star Chest, Lucky Spin, New Users Bonus are all ready for you! • Just solve matching puzzles to win all of them! Cute Furry Pet • The cute puppy dog stays with you all the time! • You can feed him in the levels! Fruit Diary is the best and addicting match 3 puzzle offline game for teens and adults. Join our fruit adventure and have fun now! Fruit Diary is free to play, though some optional in-game items will require payment. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fruitgenies/ Email: fruitdiary@bigcool.com Any question or suggestion from you will be appreciated!

About

Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade

Features
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ONE-THUMB ARCADE ZEN Not a bubble shooter. Nothing to aim, nothing to match, no board to clear. Just a screen that keeps filling and one thumb to keep up with it. Bubbles drift up from the bottom of the screen. Tap to pop them before they slip away off the top. Miss five and the run ends. Easy to start — hard to put down. Every pop builds a combo, and every bubble type is its own instrument — a glass pluck, a gold chime, a deep boom for the giants — all tuned to one scale, so a busy screen plays like music instead of noise. TWO WAYS TO SEE IT — BOTH FREE Glass — luminous bubbles with faces, drifting up through eighteen coloured worlds. Abyss — the whole game redrawn underwater. Bubbles become bioluminescent jellyfish, the specials become sea creatures (an anglerfish, a glass squid, a nautilus, an eel, an urchin), and the eighteen worlds become eighteen depth zones. Switch whenever you like. Neither is a purchase. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Zen — can't lose. Just drift. Normal — five lives. The balanced run the game was built around. Chaos — dense, fast, relentless. Ready? POP WITH PURPOSE Watch for the specials: gold stars, giant hexagons, ghosts you can barely see, screen-clearing bombs, and lightning that chains to the three nearest bubbles. Time them right and the whole screen goes off at once. CLIMB THE BOARDS Normal and Chaos are ranked on Game Center, and the game keeps your best runs and where you stand — top 3%, top 1% — for each mode separately. Zen isn't ranked. That's the point. EIGHTEEN WORLDS TO CHASE Every bubble you have ever popped counts toward your lifetime total, and that total unlocks new worlds — eighteen in all. Three are free from the first tap. The prestige tiers (Silver, Gold, Diamond) give your bubbles a material of their own: orbiting stardust in Glass, a sculling octopus in Abyss. BUILT FOR ONE HAND, ANYWHERE Plays fully offline. No sign-up — Game Center and iCloud are both optional, and if you use them your progress follows you across your devices. One thumb, portrait, on the couch or the commute. Smooth 120 Hz play, with sound, light and haptics tuned to fire the instant you touch the glass. MADE TO BE PLAYED BY MORE PEOPLE VoiceOver labels throughout, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, a high-visibility mode that outlines every bubble, and a cap on how often the screen can flash. Zen has no fail state and never shrinks its bubbles past a comfortable size — it is the mode to hand to someone who has never played. Free to play, with optional in-app purchases (Remove Ads and the prestige worlds). From UpLate Garage. Made late, shipped clean.

Screenshots

Fruit Diary4 screens
Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fruit Diary at 15.0 against Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fruit Diary sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fruit Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fruit Diary versus Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFruit DiaryBubble Drift | Zen Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHangzhou Mengku Technology Co., Ltd.UPLATE GARAGE

Bugs and requests

Fruit Diary

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game crashing after updates
  • Losing progress after reinstalling

Requested features

2 requests
  • Skip option for difficult levels
  • Reduce frequency of ads and pop-ups

Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Fruit Diary

One-time10
  • 1,000 Coins$0.99
  • Special Offer$0.99
  • 2h Unlimited Lives$1.99
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  • Small Offer$1.99
  • Starter Bundle$1.99
  • Piggy Bank$2.99
  • 5,500 Coins$4.99
  • Golden Ticket$4.99
  • Super Bundle$6.99
  • Mega Bundle$15.99
4 purchases

Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade

One-time4
  • Silver Theme$0.49
  • Gold Theme$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
Show 1 more
  • Diamond Theme$1.99

Questions

Is Fruit Diary free?
Fruit Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade free?
Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fruit Diary or Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade have ads?
Both Fruit Diary and Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade show ads.
Which is updated more often, Fruit Diary or Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade?
Fruit Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade every 4 weeks. Most recently, Fruit Diary was updated on November 6, 2026 and Bubble Drift | Zen Arcade on October 28, 2026.

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