Pocket Bees vs Ant Farm Simulator
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
Ant Farm Simulator
Experience the life cycle and behaviors of an ant colony with realistic AI. Manage your formicarium by feeding, hydrating, and cleaning to ensure your ants thrive. The colony develops even when you're offline, with ongoing updates adding new content.
- Realistic ant AI and life cycle
- Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
- Offline colony development
- Variety of ant types
- New formicarium designs
- Regular updates
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Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects. You need to take care of your ant colony, feed it, keep it hydrated, and clean up the trash. The colony continues to develop even when the game is not running. The game-simulator is constantly updated, adding different types of ants, new ant care modes, other types of food, new forms of formicaria and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pocket Bees at none against Ant Farm Simulator's shown. Pocket Bees also leads on ratings volume (330 vs 58). Ant Farm Simulator's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 57%) and rating (4.2 vs 3.8). On price, update cadence, 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 Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ant Farm Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Bees has 330 ratings behind it against 58, 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 83% of Ant Farm Simulator's.
Pocket Bees ships an update every 3 weeks, Ant Farm Simulator every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Bees | Ant Farm Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (330 ratings) | 4.2 (58 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 330 — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 287 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ariel Villafane | Dzmitry Smirnou |
Customer experience
Pocket Bees
Ant Farm Simulator
Bugs and requests
Pocket Bees
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ant Farm Simulator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Forced ads when clicking energy button
- Game stopped working
- Most ants don't do anything
- Game continues to run when app is closed
Requested features
47 requests- More content (designs, bugs, maps)
- Combine colonies into a "super colony"
- Add species names
- Add aphids and ladybugs
- Add honeypot ants
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- Map with underground digging
- Add other insects (spiders, scorpions)
- Add blue ants
- Faster ant growth
- Pause button for offline activity
- Limits for waste piles and litter
- Recycle dead ants as food
- Clean up dead ants to prevent mold
- Add green ants
- Add bullet ants
- More food options (super worms, berries, larger food items)
- Ants move garbage to waste pile
- More food variety and unlocked system
- Option to raise two colonies and make them face each other
- Bigger food items requiring multiple ants
- Sugar food option
- More ants attacking spawned creatures
- Option to start with a smaller colony
- Multiple species of ants with different behaviors
- Queen walks around
- Add males and alates with wings
- More realistic AI for idle workers
- Workers check on brood/queen, clean themselves
- Outworld ants forage more
- More spots for eggs in nests
- Different stages for egg development in chambers
- Different types of waste (food, bathroom)
- Observe trophylaxis between ants and queen
- More diverse farm and food color schemes
- Alates and up to 2-3 queens (rare)
- Ants run on their own
- More live food options that attack back
- Different species and farms
- Workers that sit in the nest get up and work
- Queen walks around more
- Different ant species
- More realistic mechanics (soldier roles, food qualities)
- Clearer mechanics for ant roles and food properties
- Start with 5-10 workers
- Egg laying rate scales with colony population
- Food and water demand scales with colony population
- More chambers for eggs
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
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Questions
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