Comparison

DiveHunter vs Lionfish Hunter

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

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About

DiveHunter

Experience the thrill of spearfishing in this immersive mobile simulator. Test your apnea skills to catch fish and earn time, aiming for the highest score based on speed and weight. Replay to improve your performance and enjoy endless underwater hunting challenges.

Highlights
  • Spearfishing simulation
  • Apnea challenges
  • Time-based gameplay
  • Fish catch scoring
  • Star rating system
  • Replayable levels
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DiveHunter, the new mobile game dedicated to spearfishing enthusiasts is now ready for you! Born from the idea of ​​an estimator and fishing enthusiast, DiveHunter was conceived and created to be a full-fledged simulator, without neglecting the playful aspect, for a new and engaging entertainment. Test your marine hunting skills in total apnea! You have 30 to 40 seconds of oxygen available to prey on and catch your fish with your inseparable rifle: the more fish you capture the more seconds of time you gain. The game includes a game of 10 apneas during which you will go to total your catch between the various half fish and one kg of weight. Based on the fish catch speed and the total weight, the system will assign you a partial and total number of stars (for each apnea). Can you do more? No problem! You can try again and have fun with DiveHunter as many times as you want.

About

Lionfish Hunter

Engage in a realistic spearfishing simulation to combat an invasive species. Carefully line up shots, manage your air supply, and sell your catch to upgrade equipment and explore new reefs. Witness the positive impact of your actions on the marine environment.

Highlights
  • Realistic spearfishing mechanics
  • Invasive species culling gameplay
  • Resource management (air, inventory)
  • Equipment and boat upgrades
  • Reef restoration visualization
  • Educational ecology information
Features
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Drop off the boat with a speargun and a mesh bag. Somewhere along the reef below you there are lionfish — beautiful, venomous, and eating their way through a place they were never supposed to be. Your job is to take them out of it. Lionfish Hunter is a calm game about doing a real job well. Line up the shot, take it, bag the fish, move on. Got one. Got one. Got one. THE SHOT IS THE GAME Pull back on the right of the screen to load the speargun and let go to fire. The spear is on a tether and takes a moment to come back, so you cannot spray shots — every one is a decision. Where you hit matters as much as whether you hit: a clean kill through the body is worth restaurant money, a raking shot along the length tears the meat, and too much speargun on a small fish ruins it outright. SWIM THE REEF UNTIL YOUR AIR RUNS OUT One dive spans a whole site — work a patch of reef, swim on, work the next. Then surface wherever you happen to be and swim back along the top to your boat to unload. Run low on air and you simply go up. You can never drown, and you never lose a haul. MIND THE SPINES Those fins are venomous, they reach a long way past the body, and getting close is exactly what good shooting requires. A sting costs you air and a first-aid bill. SELL IT, THEN BUY BETTER The restaurant pays well and refuses anything small or mangled. The market takes most of it. The rendering company takes literally anything and pays accordingly. Which one you sell to is a decision you make holding the fish you actually shot. Cash buys bigger tanks, bigger bags, better spearguns and a better boat — longer dives, richer water, and reefs further out that nobody has cleared. THE REEF COMES BACK Clear the lionfish off a patch and the coral colours up and the fish return. That is the whole point of the job, and you can see it happen. WHY LIONFISH The invasion is real. Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific and have spread across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf, where they have no predators and eat almost anything that fits in their mouths. Divers culling them genuinely helps reefs recover. The game carries a short ecology sheet drawn from NOAA, including the part a game would normally leave out: culling holds a reef, and nobody clears the ocean. WHO IS ACTUALLY DOING THIS The game credits and links to the organisations doing the real work — REEF, Lionfish University, the CORE Foundation, ECOMAR and NOAA Fisheries. None of them are affiliated with us and none of them endorse this. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts and no sign-in. The game reports crashes, and on iPhone and iPad it also records which screens you use, so that we can tell whether a change made it better. It never collects your name, your contacts, your precise location, or the advertising identifier, and there is nothing here to sign into.

Screenshots

DiveHunter4 screens
Lionfish Hunter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lionfish Hunter at 100% against DiveHunter's 49%. Lionfish Hunter also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 12). DiveHunter's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. DiveHunter sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Lionfish Hunter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lionfish Hunter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DiveHunter has 71 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of DiveHunter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lionfish Hunter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DiveHunter ships an update every 3 months, Lionfish Hunter daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
DiveHunter versus Lionfish Hunter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiveHunterLionfish Hunter
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (71 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size798 MB97 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGiovanni FerraroBlargh, LLC

Customer experience

DiveHunter

All ratings66 ratings
Positive25.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative68.2%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive49.2%
Neutral9.8%
Negative41.0%

Lionfish Hunter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

DiveHunter

One-time12
  • DiveHunter Dev Fund 0.50$0.99
  • ten apneas$0.99
  • DiveHunter Dev Fund$0.99
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  • Camouflage skin$2.99
  • Camouflage rifle$2.99
  • Sunset scenario$3.99
  • Sunrise scenario$3.99
  • Flashlight$4.99
  • Pearls$4.99
  • Pearl170$12.99
  • Pearl250$17.99
  • Pearl650$44.99
None

Lionfish Hunter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DiveHunter free?
DiveHunter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lionfish Hunter free?
Lionfish Hunter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DiveHunter or Lionfish Hunter?
Lionfish Hunter is rated higher. DiveHunter averages 2.2 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Lionfish Hunter averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do DiveHunter or Lionfish Hunter have ads?
DiveHunter shows ads; Lionfish Hunter does not.
Which is updated more often, DiveHunter or Lionfish Hunter?
DiveHunter ships an update every 3 months, and Lionfish Hunter daily. Most recently, DiveHunter was updated on October 24, 2026 and Lionfish Hunter on October 16, 2026.

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