Comparison

TakeFlight vs Fish Around

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

Head to head
About

TakeFlight

Experience life as a bird in a survival simulation game. Explore, gather resources, build a nest, raise a family, and escape the island. Navigate challenges like hunger, predators, and a final endless-runner escape.

Highlights
  • Explore a handcrafted island environment
  • Build nests with a memory-matching minigame
  • Raise baby birds through feeding challenges
  • Survive predator encounters
  • Endless-runner escape finale
  • Global leaderboards and achievements
Features
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Take flight as a bird navigating the wilds of Belle Isle in this survival simulation game. Start by exploring the island with intuitive joystick controls, soaring through the skies and foraging for materials — sticks, leaves, spiderwebs, and dandelions — scattered across the landscape. Once you've gathered enough supplies, find a nesting tree and put your memory to the test in a pattern-matching minigame to build your nest. Attract a mate, hatch baby birds, and keep them fed through a physics-based feeding challenge where you cut ropes to drop food into hungry mouths. But survival isn't easy. Keep your own hunger in check by catching caterpillars, ladybugs, and berries while avoiding spiders. Stay alert for predators stalking the island — when danger gets close, you'll need quick reflexes to escape. Raise your babies until they're ready to leave the nest, then make your own daring escape from Belle Isle in a final endless-runner challenge through traffic and light poles. Key Features: • Explore a handcrafted island environment from a bird's-eye view • Forage for materials and build nests with a memory-matching minigame • Find a mate and raise baby birds through multiple feeding challenges • Manage your hunger with a catch-and-avoid food minigame • Survive predator encounters with reflex-based escape sequences • Attempt a final escape from the island in an endless-runner finale • Compete globally on Game Center leaderboards • Unlock achievements for milestones like building your first nest, raising a baby, defeating predators, and escaping Belle Isle • Optional tutorial guides new players through every mechanic • Haptic feedback and a dynamic soundtrack bring the island to life Do you have what it takes to survive, raise a family, and escape Belle Isle?

About

Fish Around

This is a relaxing digital pond experience where you can interact with four unique fish. Collect bubbles to unlock new themes and decorations, and discover special photo memories as the fish get to know you. Enjoy offline play with no pressure.

Highlights
  • Interactive fish with distinct personalities
  • Unlockable pond themes and decorations
  • Pond photo album and portraits
  • Offline play
  • No ads or in-app purchases
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Fish Around is a small illustrated pond made for quiet breaks. Touch the water, spend time with four fish with distinct personalities, and watch each one respond in its own way. Every visit brings bubbles that can unlock pond themes and decorations. As a fish grows familiar with you, it may discover special photo memories around the pond. Features: • Four fish with playful, quiet, tsundere, and whimsically weird personalities • Spring, Summer Night, and Autumn pond themes • Decorations you can place, move, resize, and flip • A fish collection and a pond photo album • Pond portraits you can save or share • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean • Offline play with no ads, purchases, accounts, or streak pressure Nothing to finish. No day to save. Just spend a little time by the water.

Screenshots

TakeFlight4 screens
Fish Around4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fish Around at every 3 days against TakeFlight's every 3 weeks. Fish Around also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TakeFlight against 5.0 for Fish Around. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TakeFlight ships an update every 3 weeks, Fish Around every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
TakeFlight versus Fish Around: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTakeFlightFish Around
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJaiden HenleyJiayi Qu

Customer experience

TakeFlight

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fish Around

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TakeFlight

No in-app purchases

None

Fish Around

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TakeFlight free?
TakeFlight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fish Around free?
Fish Around is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TakeFlight or Fish Around?
TakeFlight and Fish Around are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do TakeFlight or Fish Around have ads?
Neither TakeFlight nor Fish Around shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TakeFlight or Fish Around?
TakeFlight ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fish Around every 3 days. Most recently, TakeFlight was updated on October 31, 2026 and Fish Around on October 31, 2026.

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