Idle Bee vs Ant
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!
Ant
Build and manage an ant colony by collecting food and recruiting soldier ants. Engage in combat with bugs to grow your forces and upgrade your ants for increased strength. Experience a strategy game focused on resource management and combat.
- Collect food for colony
- Recruit soldier ants
- Fight and eat bugs
- Upgrade ants for strength
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- Collect food for your colony! - Get soldier ants and wander for food! - Fight with bugs and eat them! - Upgrade your ants to get stronger!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle Bee at 4.5 against Ant's 4.0. Idle Bee also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (118 vs 2). Ant's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price and device support 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. Ant asks for nothing beyond the download.
Idle Bee holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Bee has 118 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Idle Bee's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ant's.
Idle Bee ships an update fortnightly, Ant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Bee | Ant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (118 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 118 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 429 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Guangzhou Weijing Information Technology Co., Ltd. | Any Games OU |
Customer experience
Idle Bee
Ant
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
Ant
No in-app purchases
