Idle Bee vs Bee Farm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Bee
Build and manage a charming dessert restaurant in a forest setting. Grow flowers, collect nectar and honey, and use these ingredients to create delicious desserts with the help of adorable bee chefs. Serve a variety of animal customers and decorate your establishment to attract more visitors.
- Plant flowers and gather nectar
- Collect honey
- Hire bee chefs
- Create and serve desserts
- Decorate restaurant
- Manage resources
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Open a dessert restaurant, Enjoy cooking with adorable bees! Build your greatest restaurant in the forest that all animals will come~ Easy Game Play: -Plant flowers, gather nectar, collect honey! -Hire chefs to make desserts with honey! -Serve customers from all over the forest and make friends with them! -Improve your restaurant with new ornaments! -Manage wisely the honey spend and desserts earning!
Bee Farm
Experience beekeeping in a mobile game where you raise bees, upgrade hives, and manage a honey factory. Transport, refine, and sell honey worldwide to build your own honey empire.
- Raise and manage bees
- Upgrade hives and factory
- Produce and refine honey
- Transport honey with trucks
- Sell honey globally
- Build a honey empire
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"Bee Farm" - Try your hand at beekeeping in this easy and enjoyable mobile game! Raise your bees, upgrade their hives, and boost your factory to create the finest honey. Transport honeycombs with your truck, refine them in your advanced factory, and sell your honey globally. Become a master beekeeper and build your honey empire! Ready to start? Let’s buzz into it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Idle Bee at none against Bee Farm's shown. Bee Farm's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Idle Bee sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Bee Farm sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Idle Bee against 4.6 for Bee Farm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 118 and 148 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 20% and 19% positive.
Idle Bee ships an update fortnightly, Bee Farm weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Bee | Bee Farm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (118 ratings) | 4.6 (148 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 19.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 118 | 148 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 429 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guangzhou Weijing Information Technology Co., Ltd. | Alexander Sharovarov |
Customer experience
Idle Bee
Bee Farm
In-app purchases
Idle Bee
- 160 Royal Jelly$1.99
- 500 Royal Jelly$4.99
- Starter Package$4.99
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- Golden Chef Hat2 variants$4.99
- Trailblazer Boost Bundle$4.99
- 1200 Royal Jelly$9.99
- NO MORE ADS$9.99
- Enterprise Boost Bundle$9.99
- No More Ads Package$19.99
Bee Farm
- Ticket Pack 1$0.99
- Gem Pack 1$1.99
- Ticket Pack 2$1.99
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- No Interstitial Ads$3.99
- Ticket Pack 3$3.99
- Gem Pack 2$4.99
- Gem Pack 3$9.99
- No Ads Plus$9.99
- Gem Pack 4$19.99
- Gem Pack 5$49.99
