Comparison

Stone Shower vs Bee Idle

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

Head to head
About

Stone Shower

Defend the planet from relentless extraterrestrial assaults. Engage in strategic gameplay to protect Earth from incoming dangers.

Highlights
  • Planet defense gameplay
  • Save the planet
  • Fight external threats
  • Strategic action
Features
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Are you ready to take a Stone Shower? Save the planet from endless external threats!

About

Bee Idle

Build a thriving honey empire from a single bee. Tap to gather resources, upgrade your hive, and sell honey. Enjoy offline earnings and unlock new varieties and systems as you progress.

Highlights
  • Cozy idle gameplay loop
  • Hundreds of upgrades
  • Multiple honey varieties and Prestige tiers
  • Offline earnings
  • Extensive endgame content
  • Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts
Features
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Bee Idle is a cozy idle game about turning a single bee into a buzzing honey empire. Tap to gather honey, let your swarm fill the combs, and sell it at your little market stall. Spend your gold on upgrades, buy more bees, and watch your hive grow – comb by comb, variety by variety. Best of all: your Night Swarm keeps working while you're offline. Come back and collect a sweet honey payday. When you're ready, ascend to a brand-new honey variety with a permanent bonus. Fourteen varieties await, from humble Blossom honey to legendary Ambrosia – and beyond them, ten mythic varieties for those who want to go deeper. Go further with a Prestige to unlock whole new systems: a honey factory, research & breeding, trade routes, your own beekeepers, and a sprawling honey empire. In the endgame, the Golden Eras await: automatons take over the routine, trials challenge you with handicaps, essences make every variety stronger – and in the Swarm Flight, your queen moves out with half the colony to start anew. FEATURES • Pure cozy idle – tap, gather, sell, upgrade, repeat • Hundreds of upgrades for combs, bees, market and research • 14 honey varieties to ascend through plus 10 mythic ones, each with its own look and bonus • Five Prestige tiers: factory, research, logistics, operations, empire • A long endgame: automatons with your own rules, trials, essences, Royal Decrees and the Swarm Flight • Offline earnings – your Night Swarm keeps working while you sleep • 111 achievements, each granting a permanent Honey Blessing bonus, plus an album with 31 stickers • Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts for a quick look at your hive • Handmade, buttery-smooth custom art and animation • Fully localized in English and German • No accounts, no tracking, no ads – everything stays on your device Sweet, calm, and endlessly satisfying. Grab a jar and start buzzing!

Screenshots

Stone Shower4 screens
Bee Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bee Idle at 4.4 against Stone Shower's 4.0. Bee Idle also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). Stone Shower's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bee Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bee Idle has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Stone Shower's written reviews are positive against 75% of Bee Idle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stone Shower ships an update every 3 days, Bee Idle weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stone Shower versus Bee Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStone ShowerBee Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.4 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDong Jun SohnNathanael Sommer

Customer experience

Stone Shower

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bee Idle

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stone Shower

No in-app purchases

None

Bee Idle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stone Shower free?
Stone Shower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bee Idle free?
Bee Idle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stone Shower or Bee Idle?
Bee Idle is rated higher. Stone Shower averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Bee Idle averages 4.4 from 8 ratings.
Do Stone Shower or Bee Idle have ads?
Neither Stone Shower nor Bee Idle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stone Shower or Bee Idle?
Stone Shower ships an update every 3 days, and Bee Idle weekly. Most recently, Stone Shower was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bee Idle on November 5, 2026.

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