FishPond vs Wake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FishPond
Create and manage a virtual fish pond. Tap to feed your fish and observe their growth. Enjoy a relaxing simulation experience.
- Virtual fish pond
- Feed fish by tapping
- Watch fish grow
- Relaxing simulation
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FishPond is a small, calm pond for your iPhone and iPad. Feed your fish, watch them swim, grow, change colour and raise little ones – or just leave it running and enjoy the view. HOW IT WORKS • Tap to drop food – the fish race to get it • Pick one of six food colours: fish slowly take on the colour of what they eat • Well-fed fish grow and have offspring, up to 15 fish in your pond • Hungry fish get smaller – and if they starve, they swim away • Drag your finger and the whole school follows • Shake your device to scare them off • A turtle shares the pond (and the food) MADE FOR TODAY'S DEVICES • Rebuilt from scratch for current iPhones and iPads, in portrait and landscape • Smooth animation on ProMotion displays • The retro low-poly look of the 2011 original • Your pond is saved and waits for you PRIVATE AND CALM • No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking • No account, no network connection – everything stays on your device
Wake
Explore vibrant ponds as a koi fish, rescuing others and restoring life to the environment. Discover unique koi variants and navigate through procedurally generated worlds. Enjoy a relaxing experience with intuitive controls and an ambient soundtrack.
- Intuitive one-touch swimming
- Discover 9 koi variants
- Procedurally generated worlds
- Relaxing ambient soundtrack
- No ads or paywalls
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Swim through a living pond as a beautiful koi fish. Explore lush gardens and venture into dark, dangerous waters to rescue trapped koi and bring them home. As you rescue koi, your school grows — each fish following behind you in a graceful chain. Restore dead ponds back to life with lily pads, reeds, and cherry blossom trees. Avoid snapping turtles lurking in the shadows. Choose from unique koi variants — classic red and white, midnight black, rainbow, cherry blossom pink, and more. Each rescue brings the pond closer to life. Features: - Intuitive one-touch swimming controls - 9 hand-painted koi variants to discover - Procedurally generated pond worlds - Relaxing ambient soundtrack - No ads, no paywalls
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wake at 5.0 against FishPond's 3.5. Wake also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). FishPond's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FishPond has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | FishPond | Wake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BitXP | Max Nelson |
In-app purchases
FishPond
No in-app purchases
Wake
No in-app purchases
