Honeyland vs Candy Melons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Honeyland
Build and manage a bee swarm, harvest honey, and compete in quests and battles. Explore the universe, upgrade your bees, and customize your hive. A strategy game with adorable bees and vibrant graphics.
- Build and manage bee swarm
- Harvest honey across the universe
- Upgrade bee skills and collect items
- Mate bees and queens
- Complete quests and PVP battles
- Customize your hive
- Claim daily free spin
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Join players worldwide as you build your swarm of bees, harvest sweet rewards, compete in quests and PVP battles to collect as much honey as you can for your Hive. Explore the vast lands across the universe in Honeyland, manage your bees, earn tools and resources to help you along the way. Your Swarm is waiting for you. With vibrant graphics and intuitive gameplay, Honeyland is the perfect game for anyone who loves strategy games and adorable bees. Welcome to Universe 1 ● Build and manage your swarm of bees, upgrade their skills so they can produce more honey ● Collect honey by harvesting across the universe ● Collect items along the way to help upgrade your bees and earn faster ● Mate your bees and queen to create more playable characters to help you earn faster. ● Complete quests to hone your PVP skills and earn sweet rewards ● Compete against other players in an idle battle to win honey ● Protect your hive from attacks from other players ● Customize your Hive to make it uniquely yours with unique decorations, backgrounds, and more ● Claim your free daily spin to win free items ● Enjoy beautiful graphics and intuitive gameplay What are you waiting for? Join the Honey Rush today.
Candy Melons
Merge candies to create larger ones and compete for the biggest candy. Engage in live online multiplayer or adventure mode for high scores and rewards. Purchase boosters or spin a daily wheel for assistance.
- Candy merging gameplay
- Live online multiplayer
- Adventure mode
- Daily rewards
- Purchaseable boosters
- Daily free spin
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Merge the same small candy together to create bigger and bigger ones until your screen explodes! Who can create the biggest candy first? Challenge your friends or strangers in live online multiplayer mode, or play the adventure mode to rack up scores and win. The 10 best daily scorers win rewards. If you're stuck, you can purchase boosters to help clear your Candy, or win them in your free daily wheel spin. We’ll publish frequent updates about new content, tips, giveaways, tournaments, discord live games and more on our social media. Website: https://www.boredcandycity.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/boredcandycity Medium: https://boredcandycity.medium.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/boredcandycity
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Honeyland at none against Candy Melons's shown. Honeyland also leads on ratings volume (614 vs 9) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Candy Melons's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Honeyland sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Candy Melons sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Honeyland holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Honeyland has 614 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Honeyland's written reviews are positive against 75% of Candy Melons's.
Honeyland ships an update every 2 weeks, Candy Melons every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Honeyland | Candy Melons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (614 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 614 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 648 MB | 217 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BRAVO READY GAMES | The Bored Candy City LTD |
Customer experience
Honeyland
Candy Melons
Bugs and requests
Honeyland
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Phantom wallet connectivity issues
- Inconsistent performance after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- More mini-games and activities
- Improved customer support responsiveness
- Better balance between free-to-play and paid progression
Candy Melons
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Honeyland
- Pack 1$1.99
- Busy Bee Bundle$1.99
- Pack 4$4.99
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- Honey Harvester Pack$4.99
- Pack 5$7.99
- Nectar Gatherer Kit$9.99
- 5000 XP Booster Pack$12.99
- 100 WAX$14.99
- Royal Honey Stash$19.99
- Golden Hive Hoard$49.99
- 500 WAX$74.99
- Honey Kingdom Treasury$99.99
- Beemium$99.99
Candy Melons
- Basic Pack$0.99
- Mega Pack$3.99
- Hyper Pack$6.99
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- Hyper Pack$29.99
- Ultra Pack$49.99









