Ant Farm Simulator vs Ant Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Ant Manager
Build and manage a thriving ant colony, from digging chambers to training a formidable army. Engage in tactical combat, research upgrades, and compete with players worldwide in this evolving strategy game.
- Build and expand anthill chambers
- Hatch and train combat ants
- Research upgrades and optimizations
- Compete with players globally
- Idle or active progression
- Resource management and tactical combat
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Ant Manager is a strategy and management game in which you build your ant colony from scratch and grow it into an unstoppable force. Build your anthill: Dig, expand, and specialize your chambers: warehouses, nursery, farms, research room, pantheon, artifact chamber… Every construction permanently strengthens your colony. Prepare your army: Hatch different combat ants, set up your formation across multiple lines, and adapt your strategy to the enemy. Fight termites, hunt creatures, and go on expeditions to bring back rare artifacts. Research and optimize: Explore multiple research branches to reduce construction times, increase your production, and upgrade your units. Every decision matters. Play with players from around the world: Join or create a guild, challenge other players in the arena, climb the leaderboards, and compare your progress. Progress at your own pace: Idle or with the game open, Ant Manager adapts to the way you play. Ant Manager is the ant colony simulation that blends resource management, strategy, idle progression, and tactical combat in a living, ever-evolving universe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ant Manager at 5.0 against Ant Farm Simulator's 4.1. Ant Manager also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Ant Farm Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (56 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ant Farm Simulator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Ant Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ant Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ant Farm Simulator has 56 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ant Farm Simulator ships an update every 4 weeks, Ant Manager every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Ant Farm Simulator | Ant Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (56 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dzmitry Smirnou | Mathieu Charon |
Customer experience
Ant Farm Simulator
Ant Manager
Bugs and 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
Ant Manager
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ant Farm Simulator
- Energy 5000$0.99
- Permanently VIP PREMIUM status$1.99
Ant Manager
No in-app purchases
Questions
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