Comparison

Bee Idle vs Last Light

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

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About

Bee Idle

Build a thriving honey empire from a single bee. Tap to gather resources, upgrade your hive, and sell honey. Enjoy offline earnings and unlock new varieties and systems as you progress.

Highlights
  • Cozy idle gameplay loop
  • Hundreds of upgrades
  • Multiple honey varieties and Prestige tiers
  • Offline earnings
  • Extensive endgame content
  • Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts
Features
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Bee Idle is a cozy idle game about turning a single bee into a buzzing honey empire. Tap to gather honey, let your swarm fill the combs, and sell it at your little market stall. Spend your gold on upgrades, buy more bees, and watch your hive grow – comb by comb, variety by variety. Best of all: your Night Swarm keeps working while you're offline. Come back and collect a sweet honey payday. When you're ready, ascend to a brand-new honey variety with a permanent bonus. Fourteen varieties await, from humble Blossom honey to legendary Ambrosia – and beyond them, ten mythic varieties for those who want to go deeper. Go further with a Prestige to unlock whole new systems: a honey factory, research & breeding, trade routes, your own beekeepers, and a sprawling honey empire. In the endgame, the Golden Eras await: automatons take over the routine, trials challenge you with handicaps, essences make every variety stronger – and in the Swarm Flight, your queen moves out with half the colony to start anew. FEATURES • Pure cozy idle – tap, gather, sell, upgrade, repeat • Hundreds of upgrades for combs, bees, market and research • 14 honey varieties to ascend through plus 10 mythic ones, each with its own look and bonus • Five Prestige tiers: factory, research, logistics, operations, empire • A long endgame: automatons with your own rules, trials, essences, Royal Decrees and the Swarm Flight • Offline earnings – your Night Swarm keeps working while you sleep • 111 achievements, each granting a permanent Honey Blessing bonus, plus an album with 31 stickers • Home Screen widget and Siri shortcuts for a quick look at your hive • Handmade, buttery-smooth custom art and animation • Fully localized in English and German • No accounts, no tracking, no ads – everything stays on your device Sweet, calm, and endlessly satisfying. Grab a jar and start buzzing!

About

Last Light

Engage in a relaxing idle clicker where you command a self-replicating swarm to consume entire solar systems. Watch your fleet grow and evolve as you progress through an endless roguelite loop, unlocking permanent upgrades and discovering new star types.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker gameplay
  • Visually simulated fleet of ships
  • Roguelite progression loop
  • Permanent upgrades via Blueprint Data
  • Offline progress tracking
  • Discoverable star types
  • In-game catalog of consumed systems
Features
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Last Light is an idle clicker about a self-replicating probe swarm that consumes solar systems. It starts on the asteroid belt, moves on to the planets, and finishes with the star, which shrinks in stages. Then you launch for the next system and start over. THE FLEET Every probe you build is a ship in the scene. It flies in from deep space, joins the formation, works, drifts, and gets pulled back into line. Scouts range wide and fast. Harvesters crawl in close. The formation tightens as your command structure grows. Hundreds of ships fly at once. Pinch to zoom, drag to look around at any zoom, and let go to glide back. TAP IF YOU WANT TO Tap the star and matter is pulled out of it. Or leave the swarm to work on its own. Offline progress banks automatically, up to twelve hours. COLLAPSE IT, THEN DO IT AGAIN Collapsing the core ends the run. The swarm strips the system bare and you earn Blueprint Data for permanent upgrades. Each collapse then offers a field of surveyed destinations with their own traits. Metal-rich systems fabricate cheaply, ancient ones run deep and slow, radiant stars burn bright and die fast. Chart new star types as you go: red dwarfs, gas giant systems, binary pairs, white dwarfs, red giants, neutron stars and brown dwarfs. THE ATLAS Every consumed system goes into your catalog: its designation, what kind of place it was, how long it took, how large the swarm grew. • Finite systems. Everything the swarm takes, the star visibly loses. • Hundreds of individually simulated ships. • Roguelite destination choices, each system with its own traits. • Permanent progression through Blueprint Data. • Offline earnings up to 12 hours. • iPhone and iPad. • Optional rewarded boosts. One purchase removes the banner ad. Nothing is paywalled.

Screenshots

Bee Idle4 screens
Last Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bee Idle at none against Last Light's 1. Bee Idle also leads on ads (none vs shown). Last Light's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Last Light sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bee Idle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Last Light holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Bee Idle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Last Light's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bee Idle ships an update weekly, Last Light every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bee Idle versus Last Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBee IdleLast Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings)4.5 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings815 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathanael SommerHADDAN BRYANT WARD

Customer experience

Bee Idle

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Last Light

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bee Idle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Last Light

One-time1
  • Remove Banner Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Bee Idle free?
Bee Idle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Last Light free?
Last Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bee Idle or Last Light?
Last Light is rated higher. Bee Idle averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Last Light averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do Bee Idle or Last Light have ads?
Last Light shows ads; Bee Idle does not.
Which is updated more often, Bee Idle or Last Light?
Bee Idle ships an update weekly, and Last Light every 9 days. Most recently, Bee Idle was updated on October 28, 2026 and Last Light on October 29, 2026.

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