Captains Idle vs Ant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Captains Idle
Become the deadliest pirate by gathering your crew, upgrading your ship, and setting sail. Explore islands, battle enemy ships, and find lost treasures. This idle game lets you unlock ship upgrades and new cannons.
- Gather and manage your pirate crew
- Upgrade your ship and cannons
- Battle enemy pirate ships
- Explore islands and find treasure
- Idle progression mechanics
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Are you ready to be the deadliest pirate of the seven seas, ever? Now is your time! Gather your crew, upgrade your ship and set sail! You can unlock idle ship contents or new cannons! Watch for enemy pirate ship that will try to sink you! Explore island, slay bandits, find your X mark and claim your lost treasure! Do not forget, a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor!
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 in-app purchases: Ant at none against Captains Idle's 1. Ant also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Captains Idle's advantage is review sentiment (30% vs 0%) and ratings volume (31 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
Both are free to download. Captains Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ant asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ant holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Captains Idle has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Captains Idle's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ant's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Captains Idle ships an update every 2 weeks, Ant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Captains Idle | Ant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (31 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | WORLDNMORE TEKNOLOJI ANONIM SIRKETI | Any Games OU |
Customer experience
Captains Idle
Ant
In-app purchases
Captains Idle
- Permanent No Ads$4.99
Ant
No in-app purchases
