Manage Your Bees vs Portbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Portbound
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Manage Your Bees sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Portbound asks for nothing beyond the download.
Manage Your Bees ships an update every 2 days, Portbound every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Manage Your Bees | Portbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jordan Soares | Yongjae Kwon |
In-app purchases
Manage Your Bees
- 40 Jetons$0.99
- 90 Jetons$1.99
- 250 Jetons$3.99
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- 550 Jetons$8.99
- 1 200 Jetons$17.99
- 3 250 Jetons$44.99
- 7 000 Jetons$89.99
- 22 500 Jetons$249.99
Portbound
No in-app purchases
Questions
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