Comparison

Manage Your Bees vs Colony Zero

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

Head to head
About

Manage Your Bees

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The world fell silent. No flowers, no pollinators โ€” 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 โ€” 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, botanistโ€ฆ 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 โ€” 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

Colony Zero

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Colony Zero is a colony simulation where you never issue direct orders. You set priorities, policies, and conditions โ€” then ten colonists decide who mines, builds, farms, and explores. You land on an unknown world with a landing module, a generator, and a thirty-day survival goal. Keep food, water, energy, metal, minerals, electronics, plastic, and medicine in balance while health, happiness, and loyalty shift with every cycle. Propose buildings โ€” mines, greenhouses, solar panels, storage, and quarters for workers, engineers, and scientists โ€” then assign work on the colony map. Scan, repair, and trade from the action wheel as Outpost Alpha grows. People carry professions, traits, values, and ambitions. Friendships and rivalries form, factions appear, and autonomy requests can split districts from your control. Choose a governance model: Colony Council, Administrator, Corporate Colony, Military Command, or Free Settlement. Research new projects, manage the economy, and push into new biomes as days pass: Red Desert, Alien Forest, Frozen Zone, Volcanic Region, Ocean, and Crystal Caves. Daily events force hard choices. Survive the first thirty days, or watch the colony fail.

Screenshots

Manage Your Bees4 screens
Colony Zero4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colony Zero 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 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manage Your Bees ships an update every 2 days, Colony Zero every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Manage Your Bees versus Colony Zero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManage Your BeesColony Zero
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordan SoaresBenjamin Foster

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Manage Your Bees

One-time8
  • 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
None

Colony Zero

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manage Your Bees free?
Manage Your Bees is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colony Zero free?
Colony Zero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Manage Your Bees or Colony Zero have ads?
Colony Zero shows ads; Manage Your Bees does not.
Which is updated more often, Manage Your Bees or Colony Zero?
Manage Your Bees ships an update every 2 days, and Colony Zero every 3 weeks. Most recently, Manage Your Bees was updated on October 18, 2026 and Colony Zero on October 10, 2026.

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