Ant's Diary vs Antdom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Antdom
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Build an ant empire from a single queen. Antdom is a real-time strategy game about growing an underground ant colony. Dig a sprawling nest tunnel by tunnel, raise your family, and go to war with a rival colony sharing the same soil. Only one queen can rule. DIG & BUILD • Carve out tunnels and chambers: queen's room, food storage, nursery, and sleeping rooms. • Your nest slowly decays and must be maintained — keep your builders busy. ASSIGN YOUR WORKERS • Balance Builders and Foragers with a simple slider. • Draft Soldiers when danger approaches (careful — soldiers can't go back to work!). • Numbers rebalance automatically so your ratio always makes sense. SURVIVE & GROW • Feed your queen so she keeps laying eggs; carry eggs to the nursery to hatch new workers. • Well-fed colonies fight harder. If your family is nearly wiped out, the queen breeds emergency workers to survive. • Day and night cycle: the whole colony sleeps, then a new morning begins. WAGE WAR • Launch an all-out attack on the rival nest, or dig in and defend. • Home advantage: ants fighting inside their own nest attack faster. • Take down the enemy queen to win. FREE TO PLAY • Free with occasional ads. • Play in English or Japanese (switch anytime). Can your colony rise to rule the underground? Long live the queen!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ant's Diary at none against Antdom's shown. Ant's Diary also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ant's Diary ships an update every 4 days, Antdom every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ant's Diary | Antdom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nobuaki Kuwabara | tamotsu shiraishi |
In-app purchases
Ant's Diary
No in-app purchases
Antdom
No in-app purchases









