Comparison

Crab Invasion vs Ant's Diary

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

Head to head
About

Crab Invasion

Features
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Waves of hungry villain crabs have the only goal to steal your party chickens. Defend your tribe with an archaic cannon and abundance of explosives. Crab Invasion is a fast paced tower defense game with a revolutionary and never-seen-before gameplay. Shoot, place and upgrade towers, but also play music as a DJ to your allied troops. Eliminate all invaders in fifteen handcrafted waves. Unlock more levels and discover new enemies and strategies. Get ready to shoot and blast invading crabs. Become part of this addictive Tower Defense game.

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Ant's Diary

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Protect the Queen—grow your colony to 100 ants! "Ant's Diary" is a real-time strategy game where you raise an ant colony. Adjust the roles of your worker ants around the queen, survive enemy raids, and build a thriving colony of 100. 4 Roles to Strategize • Foragers (Green): Gather food on the surface and carry it to the nest • Nurses (Pink): Feed larvae to raise new worker ants • Soldiers (Red): Fight enemies and defend the colony • Digger: Digs to expand the nest — Completing rooms increases food and brood capacity Adjusting the balance of roles to match the situation is the key to survival. Nest Expansion & Chambers • Assign workers to digging and the nest grows organically from existing tunnels. Food stores or brood chambers form automatically as needed. • Chambers raise food and brood capacity. When food storage is full, foragers wait and automatically resume as soon as space opens. • Nurses carry eggs from the queen's chamber to brood chambers and bring food from storage. After 3 feedings, a larva becomes a pupa. Explore 2 Worlds • Surface: A dangerous world where you gather food and battle enemies • Nest: A safe haven to raise larvae and dig new chambers Defend Against Enemy Raids As time passes, enemy attacks grow fiercer. Build up your soldiers in advance to prepare. Score Attack Challenge Your time to reach 100 ants is your score. Aim for the fastest record and try again and again! Earn Your Rank Your time to 100 ants decides which of 6 ranks you earn. Break 15 minutes to become the Mythic Queen. Share your result as a card whose artwork changes with your rank. Queen Power: High Risk, High Return Raise Queen Power to lay eggs up to 3× faster. The tradeoff: the Queen gets hungry up to 8× faster, while nurses must feed her, carry eggs and tend larvae. Adjust power as the colony changes.

Screenshots

Crab Invasion3 screens
Ant's Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Crab Invasion at 3 against Ant's Diary's 1. Crab Invasion also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Crab Invasion versus Ant's Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrab InvasionAnt's Diary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB10 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperTHOMAS NUSSBAUMERNobuaki Kuwabara

In-app purchases

None

Crab Invasion

No in-app purchases

None

Ant's Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crab Invasion free?
Crab Invasion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ant's Diary free?
Ant's Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crab Invasion or Ant's Diary have ads?
Neither Crab Invasion nor Ant's Diary shows ads.

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