Comparison

Pocket Bees vs Ant Manager

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Ant Manager

Build and manage your ant colony, from digging chambers to training an army. Research upgrades, battle enemies, and compete with players worldwide in this strategy and management game.

Highlights
  • Build and expand anthill chambers
  • Hatch and train combat ants
  • Research upgrades and optimize production
  • Battle termites, hunt creatures, and go on expeditions
  • Join or create guilds and compete globally
  • Idle or active progression
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Ant Manager is a strategy and management game in which you build your ant colony from scratch and grow it into an unstoppable force. Build your anthill: Dig, expand, and specialize your chambers: warehouses, nursery, farms, research room, pantheon, artifact chamber… Every construction permanently strengthens your colony. Prepare your army: Hatch different combat ants, set up your formation across multiple lines, and adapt your strategy to the enemy. Fight termites, hunt creatures, and go on expeditions to bring back rare artifacts. Research and optimize: Explore multiple research branches to reduce construction times, increase your production, and upgrade your units. Every decision matters. Play with players from around the world: Join or create a guild, challenge other players in the arena, climb the leaderboards, and compare your progress. Progress at your own pace: Idle or with the game open, Ant Manager adapts to the way you play. Ant Manager is the ant colony simulation that blends resource management, strategy, idle progression, and tactical combat in a living, ever-evolving universe.

Screenshots

Pocket Bees4 screens
Ant Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ant Manager at 5.0 against Pocket Bees's 3.8. Ant Manager also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Pocket Bees's advantage is ratings volume (330 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pocket Bees sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Ant Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ant Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Bees has 330 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Bees ships an update every 3 weeks, Ant Manager every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pocket Bees versus Ant Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket BeesAnt Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (330 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings330 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size287 MB218 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAriel VillafaneMathieu Charon

Customer experience

Pocket Bees

All ratings329 ratings
Positive68.1%
Neutral9.4%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive56.6%
Neutral15.5%
Negative27.9%

Ant Manager

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pocket Bees

One-time6
  • 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
None

Ant Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Bees free?
Pocket Bees is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ant Manager free?
Ant Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Bees or Ant Manager?
Ant Manager is rated higher. Pocket Bees averages 3.8 out of 5 from 330 ratings, while Ant Manager averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pocket Bees or Ant Manager have ads?
Neither Pocket Bees nor Ant Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Bees or Ant Manager?
Pocket Bees ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ant Manager every 3 days. Most recently, Pocket Bees was updated on November 3, 2026 and Ant Manager on November 5, 2026.

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