jARws vs Limp Aquarium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
jARws
Experience sharks in augmented reality. Film your friends interacting with virtual sharks, record videos, and share your creations. Explore three distinct scenes: a holographic display, a boat on rough seas, and a circling shark.
- Augmented reality shark experience
- Film friends with virtual sharks
- Record and share videos
- Holographic scene
- Boat on rough seas scene
- Circling shark scene
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A fun Shark inspired Augmented Reality experience. Film your friends with sharks, record videos and share with friends. Swipe between three difference scenes: 1. A Holographic experience 2. A boat in rough seas 3. Circling Shark
Limp Aquarium
Experience a realistic virtual claw crane game on your smartphone. Collect over 430 unique sea creature plush toys with adorable googly eyes. Enjoy improved graphics and simple controls to win prizes to your heart's content.
- Realistic virtual claw crane gameplay
- Collect over 430 unique sea creature plush toys
- Adorable googly-eyed stuffed animals
- Improved shiny background graphics
- Simple touch controls
- 360-degree prize viewing
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Celebrating 9 years, thanks to you! It's virtual, so you can get them as much as you want! A real claw crane game is reproduced to your smart phone. This is the 6th of the series that everyone over 7,000,000 people are enjoying. The special feature in this time is googly eyes. Those limp stuffed toys now have cute swinging eyes. The theme is various sea creatures. Pretty crownfish, cool scary sharks, shy clams and so on. The ones which you are familiar with in aquariums or at dining tables will welcome you with their funny eyes. They are more than 430 kinds. And of course, going to increase still more by updating. Also, not only the stuffed animals but also the background graphics are improved. They are shiny with the latest technology and became more refined. The operation is simple. Just keep pressing the movement buttons and release them at good timings. Swipe the screen to look at the prizes from any angle you like. Let's revenge to the game arcades which makes it hard to get prizes. Take so many prizes to your heart's content. For more of our games, please visit our website at: https://pointzero.co.jp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Limp Aquarium at 4.7 against jARws's 3.6. Limp Aquarium also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 50%) and ratings volume (1K vs 10). jARws's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). 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. Limp Aquarium sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. jARws asks for nothing beyond the download.
Limp Aquarium holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Limp Aquarium has 1K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of jARws's written reviews are positive against 76% of Limp Aquarium's.
jARws ships an update every 5 months, Limp Aquarium every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | jARws | Limp Aquarium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (10 ratings) | 4.7 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | nthState | PointZero Co. |
Customer experience
jARws
Limp Aquarium
Bugs and requests
jARws
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Limp Aquarium
Reported bugs
2 issues- Onboarding instructions stay on screen
- Game is too difficult to win prizes
Requested features
3 requests- Share feature to document prize collection
- Total won count for each prize
- Different claw machine types (e.g., joystick control)
In-app purchases
jARws
No in-app purchases
Limp Aquarium
- 50 coins$0.99
- 140 coins$1.99
- 300 coins$2.99
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- Ad removal$2.99
