Comparison

Ant's Diary vs PocketClonk

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

Head to head
About

Ant's Diary

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Protect the Queen—grow your colony to 100 ants! "Ant's Diary" is a real-time strategy game where you raise an ant colony. Adjust the roles of your worker ants around the queen, survive enemy raids, and build a thriving colony of 100. 4 Roles to Strategize • Foragers (Green): Gather food on the surface and carry it to the nest • Nurses (Pink): Feed larvae to raise new worker ants • Soldiers (Red): Fight enemies and defend the colony • Digger: Digs to expand the nest — Completing rooms increases food and brood capacity Adjusting the balance of roles to match the situation is the key to survival. Nest Expansion & Chambers • Assign workers to digging and the nest grows organically from existing tunnels. Food stores or brood chambers form automatically as needed. • Chambers raise food and brood capacity. When food storage is full, foragers wait and automatically resume as soon as space opens. • Nurses carry eggs from the queen's chamber to brood chambers and bring food from storage. After 3 feedings, a larva becomes a pupa. Explore 2 Worlds • Surface: A dangerous world where you gather food and battle enemies • Nest: A safe haven to raise larvae and dig new chambers Defend Against Enemy Raids As time passes, enemy attacks grow fiercer. Build up your soldiers in advance to prepare. Score Attack Challenge Your time to reach 100 ants is your score. Aim for the fastest record and try again and again! Earn Your Rank Your time to 100 ants decides which of 6 ranks you earn. Break 15 minutes to become the Mythic Queen. Share your result as a card whose artwork changes with your rank. Queen Power: High Risk, High Return Raise Queen Power to lay eggs up to 3× faster. The tradeoff: the Queen gets hungry up to 8× faster, while nurses must feed her, carry eggs and tend larvae. Adjust power as the colony changes.

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PocketClonk

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PocketClonk brings Clonk to iPhone and iPad. In this side-view 2D world, lead your crew, dig for resources, build what you need, and take on fast tactical battles. Two engines, one app. OpenClonk scenarios run on the OpenClonk engine, and Clonk Rage era content runs on LegacyClonk, the engine it was written for. Both are compiled into the same binary and share one window, one renderer and one set of controls, so a level plays the way its authors built it instead of through an emulation of the engine it expects. Getting there took real engine work. Both engines were ported to iOS and to OpenGL ES, which meant writing a new renderer for the legacy one: its own was fixed-function OpenGL, and the iPhone has no such thing. The two engines share thirty years of ancestry and eleven thousand identically named symbols, so they are linked in a way that keeps them apart. Clonk is a keyboard game, so the touch controls send the same commands a key would, all the way down to the way its menus are answered. Free forever: everything that ships with OpenClonk and LegacyClonk. The single in-app purchase adds the Community Classics collection and lets you import your own scenario folders. Thank you to Matthes Bender for permission to use the Clonk trademark, and to the OpenClonk and LegacyClonk teams for the engines and for keeping this game alive.

Screenshots

Ant's Diary4 screens
PocketClonk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ant's Diary at none against PocketClonk's 1. Ant's Diary also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PocketClonk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ant's Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Ant's Diary versus PocketClonk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnt's DiaryPocketClonk
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB85 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperNobuaki KuwabaraJonathan Vogelbusch

In-app purchases

None

Ant's Diary

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PocketClonk

One-time1
  • Scenario Access$6.99

Questions

Is Ant's Diary free?
Ant's Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PocketClonk free?
PocketClonk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ant's Diary or PocketClonk have ads?
Neither Ant's Diary nor PocketClonk shows ads.

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