Pocket Bees vs Ants vs Robots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Bees
Build and manage your own bee colony. Forage for resources, breed different bee types, and capture creatures to strengthen your army. Engage in real-time battles with other players for resources and complete missions for rewards.
- Resource foraging and management
- Nest chamber upgrades
- Breeding worker and guard bees
- Creature capture and army building
- Real-time player vs. player combat
- Story and daily missions
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* Forage resources and bring them back to your nest. * Improve your nest chambers for extra bonuses. * Breed worker and guard bees. * Capture other creatures and make them join your army. * Collect all the creatures and make them stronger. * Fight other players real time for resources and bonus items. * Complete the story and daily missions for extra prizes. ----- follow @ArielGames15 on Twitter for updates Discord: https://discord.gg/BJk6Dgx
Ants vs Robots
Engage in strategic colony management with two distinct factions: ants and robots. Choose between real-time strategy battles against other colonies or tower defense against waves of bugs. Explore a sandbox mode with a map editor or progress through a story mode.
- Colony management simulator
- RTS battles
- Tower defense mode
- Playable ant and robot factions
- Sandbox mode with map editor
- Story mode
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Ants vs Robots is a colony simulator game with simple and intuitive controls. The game has two modes: 1) RTS where you fight other colony, 2) Tower Defence where you fight waves of bugs. There are two playable factions — ants and robots. The game features sandbox mode with a map editor and story mode where you complete level after level.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ants vs Robots at 4.6 against Pocket Bees's 3.8. Ants vs Robots also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Pocket Bees's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (330 vs 52). 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. Pocket Bees sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Ants vs Robots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ants vs Robots holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Bees has 330 ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Pocket Bees's written reviews are positive against 96% of Ants vs Robots's.
Pocket Bees ships an update every 3 weeks, Ants vs Robots every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Bees | Ants vs Robots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (330 ratings) | 4.6 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.6% of reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 330 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 287 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ariel Villafane | Ivan Khokhlenkov |
Customer experience
Pocket Bees
Ants vs Robots
In-app purchases
Pocket Bees
- 100 Gems$0.99
- 500 Gems.$3.99
- 1200 Gems.$8.99
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- 2500 Gems.$17.99
- 5500 Gems.$35.99
- 15000 Gems.$89.99
Ants vs Robots
- No ads and fast speed$3.99
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