Beekeeper Farm vs Ant Farm Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beekeeper Farm
Design and build a beautiful apiary on your mobile device. Raise your own bees, make smart decisions to keep them happy, and grow your skills to become a real beekeeper.
- Apiary design and creation
- Bee raising and management
- Skill progression
- Nature building
- Decision making for bee happiness
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Welcome home, welcome to bee paradise! Here you can raise your own bees and bring your apiary to life. Be the hero of your own apiary as you design and create a beautiful nature on mobile. Every decision is yours as your apiary gets larger and more intricate. Make smart choices to keep your bees happy and your skills growing. Build your way to extraordinary and become a REAL BEEKEEPER.
Ant Farm Simulator
Experience the life cycle and behaviors of an ant colony with realistic AI. Manage your formicarium by feeding, hydrating, and cleaning to ensure your ants thrive. The colony develops even when you're offline, with ongoing updates adding new content.
- Realistic ant AI and life cycle
- Colony management (feeding, hydration, cleaning)
- Offline colony development
- Variety of ant types
- New formicarium designs
- Regular updates
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Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects. You need to take care of your ant colony, feed it, keep it hydrated, and clean up the trash. The colony continues to develop even when the game is not running. The game-simulator is constantly updated, adding different types of ants, new ant care modes, other types of food, new forms of formicaria and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ant Farm Simulator at 83% against Beekeeper Farm's 25%. Ant Farm Simulator also leads on rating (4.1 vs 1.6) and ratings volume (56 vs 5). Beekeeper Farm's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 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. Beekeeper Farm sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ant Farm Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ant Farm Simulator has 56 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Beekeeper Farm's written reviews are positive against 83% of Ant Farm Simulator's.
Beekeeper Farm ships an update every 5 days, Ant Farm Simulator every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beekeeper Farm | Ant Farm Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (5 ratings) | 4.1 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 472 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Peter Kocalka | Dzmitry Smirnou |
Customer experience
Beekeeper Farm
Ant Farm Simulator
Bugs and requests
Beekeeper Farm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ant Farm Simulator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Forced ads when clicking energy button
- Game stopped working
- Most ants don't do anything
- Game continues to run when app is closed
Requested features
47 requests- More content (designs, bugs, maps)
- Combine colonies into a "super colony"
- Add species names
- Add aphids and ladybugs
- Add honeypot ants
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- Map with underground digging
- Add other insects (spiders, scorpions)
- Add blue ants
- Faster ant growth
- Pause button for offline activity
- Limits for waste piles and litter
- Recycle dead ants as food
- Clean up dead ants to prevent mold
- Add green ants
- Add bullet ants
- More food options (super worms, berries, larger food items)
- Ants move garbage to waste pile
- More food variety and unlocked system
- Option to raise two colonies and make them face each other
- Bigger food items requiring multiple ants
- Sugar food option
- More ants attacking spawned creatures
- Option to start with a smaller colony
- Multiple species of ants with different behaviors
- Queen walks around
- Add males and alates with wings
- More realistic AI for idle workers
- Workers check on brood/queen, clean themselves
- Outworld ants forage more
- More spots for eggs in nests
- Different stages for egg development in chambers
- Different types of waste (food, bathroom)
- Observe trophylaxis between ants and queen
- More diverse farm and food color schemes
- Alates and up to 2-3 queens (rare)
- Ants run on their own
- More live food options that attack back
- Different species and farms
- Workers that sit in the nest get up and work
- Queen walks around more
- Different ant species
- More realistic mechanics (soldier roles, food qualities)
- Clearer mechanics for ant roles and food properties
- Start with 5-10 workers
- Egg laying rate scales with colony population
- Food and water demand scales with colony population
- More chambers for eggs
In-app purchases
Beekeeper Farm
- Skip Ad$3.99
- 1 000 Gold$4.99
- 5 000 Gold$7.99
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- Adoption of honey bee hive$7.99
- eBook$12.99
- 20 000 Gold$16.99
- Virtual beekeeper$24.99
- 50 000 Gold$41.99
- Real honey bee hive$41.99
- 100 000 Gold$74.99
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Questions
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