Comparison

Genesis Idle vs Manage Your Bees

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

Head to head
About

Genesis Idle

Features
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Tu es la force silencieuse qui veille sur un monde stérile. Guide-le à travers 6 ères d'évolution — et regarde-le changer physiquement sous tes yeux : les océans se remplissent, les continents verdissent, les villes s'allument, les satellites décollent. Ici, la progression n'est pas un nombre qui monte : c'est ta planète qui vit. Chaque achat plante une forêt, bâtit une cité, lance un satellite. La planète 3D EST ta barre de progression. UNE CRÉATION QUI PREND SON TEMPS Genesis est un idle game lent, pensé pour durer : un monde ne se construit pas en une soirée. Reviens chaque jour — la vie a continué sans toi, et ton gain d'absence t'attend. • 6 ères d'évolution : de la poussière à la conquête spatiale • Une planète 3D vivante, générée par le code — arbres, villes, lumières, smog, satellites • Un journal poétique qui raconte la création, de la première particule au premier bip dans le vide • Un vrai dilemme industriel : produire plus… ou respirer mieux • 3 pouvoirs divins, météores à attraper en vol, traits de planète aléatoires • Renaissance stellaire : recommence ailleurs, plus fort, avec tes graines stellaires • ~240 succès à accomplir, dont la mythique Singularité — un an de voyage • Jeu en français et en anglais, sound design génératif apaisant Gratuit, jouable hors-ligne, sans compte. Les publicités sont uniquement récompensées et optionnelles : tu choisis de les regarder pour récolter tes gains d'absence, rien ne t'est imposé. Ton monde t'attend. Il a tout son temps.

About

Manage Your Bees

Rebuild a dead planet by cultivating bees and flowers in a contemplative management simulation. Expand your underground lab-hive, send swarms to repopulate regions, and discover over 110 real botanical species. Progress through research and missions, with the world growing greener even when you're away.

Highlights
  • Build and manage underground lab-hive
  • Repopulate a dead world with bees
  • Collect over 110 real flower species
  • Hatch bees with unique castes
  • Research and progression tree
  • Gentle, never pay-to-win gameplay
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The world fell silent. No flowers, no pollinators — only the quiet. Deep in your laboratory-bunker beneath the ice, a handful of scientists keep the last hope of life alive: rebuild bees, cell by cell, and send them back up to make a dead planet bloom again. Manage Your Bees is a contemplative management game — no pressure, no game over. You build, you watch, and life returns: one flower, one region, one species at a time. BUILD YOUR LAB-HIVE Dig rooms endlessly, shelter-style: brooders, greenhouses, workshops, generators. Manage energy, water and pollen, and feed your colony. BRING A DEAD WORLD BACK TO LIFE Send swarms to repollinate a real globe lost in the dark. Every restored region greens for good, and its ecosystem returns with it. COLLECT OVER 110 REAL FLOWERS A true naturalist's herbarium: real botanical species, sorted by family and biome, with their actual bloom windows. Discover, press, complete. BEES WITH UNIQUE CASTES Worker, engineer, hydrologist, botanist… each caste has its role and its character. Hatch queens, raise specialists. RESEARCH & PROGRESSION A research tree to unlock, dozens of missions, and a chronicle of your journey. The game keeps going even while you're away. GENTLE, NEVER PAY-TO-WIN You can buy time and comfort — never the collection or the score. Pollination leaderboards and the herbarium stay 100% earned. Put your phone down. Come back tomorrow. The world will be a little greener.

Screenshots

Genesis Idle4 screens
Manage Your Bees4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Genesis Idle at none against Manage Your Bees's 8. Manage Your Bees's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Manage Your Bees sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Genesis Idle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Genesis Idle ships an update every 5 days, Manage Your Bees every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Genesis Idle versus Manage Your Bees: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGenesis IdleManage Your Bees
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmile LefevreJordan Soares

In-app purchases

None

Genesis Idle

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Manage Your Bees

One-time8
  • 40 Jetons$0.99
  • 90 Jetons$1.99
  • 250 Jetons$3.99
Show 5 more
  • 550 Jetons$8.99
  • 1 200 Jetons$17.99
  • 3 250 Jetons$44.99
  • 7 000 Jetons$89.99
  • 22 500 Jetons$249.99

Questions

Is Genesis Idle free?
Genesis Idle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Manage Your Bees free?
Manage Your Bees is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Genesis Idle or Manage Your Bees have ads?
Genesis Idle shows ads; Manage Your Bees does not.
Which is updated more often, Genesis Idle or Manage Your Bees?
Genesis Idle ships an update every 5 days, and Manage Your Bees every 2 days. Most recently, Genesis Idle was updated on October 31, 2026 and Manage Your Bees on October 31, 2026.

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