Comparison

Manage Your Bees vs Portbound

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

Head to head
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
Features
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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.

About

Portbound

Features
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Portbound is a shipping company management simulation set in global trade. Read prices that shift by city, buy and sell cargo, acquire and upgrade ships, create routes, and grow your company. Operations continue even while you’re away. Use market changes and rival activity to build a larger shipping empire.

Screenshots

Manage Your Bees4 screens
Portbound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Portbound 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 4 days). On price 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. Portbound asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manage Your Bees ships an update every 2 days, Portbound every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Manage Your Bees versus Portbound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManage Your BeesPortbound
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB39 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJordan SoaresYongjae Kwon

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
None

Portbound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manage Your Bees free?
Manage Your Bees is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Portbound free?
Portbound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Manage Your Bees or Portbound have ads?
Portbound shows ads; Manage Your Bees does not.
Which is updated more often, Manage Your Bees or Portbound?
Manage Your Bees ships an update every 2 days, and Portbound every 4 days. Most recently, Manage Your Bees was updated on October 31, 2026 and Portbound on October 31, 2026.

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