Ant's Diary vs Queen Ant
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.
Queen Ant
Experience the realistic journey of raising an ant colony from a single queen to a thriving kingdom. Manage your colony's growth in real-time, respecting their need for darkness and quiet. Unlock new species and nest designs as your ant room expands.
- Realistic ant-keeping simulation
- Real-time colony growth
- Red light mode for observation
- Expandable ant room with new species
- Home screen widgets for colony status
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One rainy summer night, a young queen lands, sheds her wings, and looks for a safe place to start her kingdom. That place is your test tube. QUEEN ANT is an ant-keeping simulator that follows the real hobby, step by step. Start with a single queen in a founding test tube. Keep her warm, dark and undisturbed while she raises her first tiny workers. Move your growing colony into a proper nest. Then do it all again with a new species — every colony on your shelf is its own little world. RAISE HER IN REAL TIME Eggs hatch and workers emerge over hours and days, not seconds. Check in for a few minutes a day and come back to real progress. Your colony keeps living while you are away. THE GOLDEN RULE: DO NOT DISTURB HER A founding queen wants darkness and silence. Check on her too often and she gets stressed — real ant keepers know the hardest part is waiting. Patience is the game. RED LIGHT MODE Ants cannot see red light. Switch it on to watch her quietly at night, just like real keepers do. GROW YOUR ANT ROOM • Move your colony from test tube to a proper nest when it is ready • Keep multiple colonies side by side on your shelf • Unlock new species, each with its own look, pace and personality • Home Screen widgets: population and hatching countdowns at a glance FAIR BY DESIGN The full journey from queen to thriving colony is free. We sell new species and nests — never timers, never energy. Waiting is the soul of this game, and it is not for sale. New species and seasonal events are on the way. Your first queen is waiting.
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Verdict
Ant's Diary and Queen Ant are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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, Queen Ant every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ant's Diary | Queen Ant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nobuaki Kuwabara | KUAN HUANG |
In-app purchases
Ant's Diary
No in-app purchases
Queen Ant
No in-app purchases









