Stone Shower vs Bee Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stone Shower
Defend the planet from relentless extraterrestrial assaults. Engage in strategic gameplay to protect Earth from incoming dangers.
- Planet defense gameplay
- Save the planet
- Fight external threats
- Strategic action
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Are you ready to take a Stone Shower? Save the planet from endless external threats!
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.
- Cozy idle gameplay loop
- Hundreds of upgrades
- Multiple honey varieties and Prestige tiers
- Offline earnings
- Extensive endgame content
- Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts
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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!
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Stone Shower | Bee Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dong Jun Sohn | Nathanael Sommer |
Customer experience
Stone Shower
Bee Idle
In-app purchases
Stone Shower
No in-app purchases
Bee Idle
No in-app purchases









