Gumdroplet vs Fish Around
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gumdroplet
A relaxing puzzle game where you pop colorful gummies. Enjoy chain reactions, special power-ups, and a calm, pressure-free experience with no timers or lives. Play offline with intuitive one-thumb controls.
- Popping matching gummy clusters
- Chain reactions and special power-ups
- No timers, lives, or pressure
- Offline play
- One-thumb portrait controls
- Adjustable visual and sound options
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Gumdroplet is a calm, juicy puzzle about popping happy little gummies. Tap any cluster of two or more matching gummies to pop it. The board tumbles down, fresh gummies rain in, and clusters formed by the falling pieces pop themselves — Chain ×2, ×3, ×4 and beyond. Big pops mint Star, Bomb, and Rainbow specials. Fill the Sugar meter and the whole board looks up in anticipation, waiting for you to unleash a rainbow Sugar Rush. And every so often a fuzzy little monster called the Muncher wanders in to snack on your board. Bop it three times and it bursts into loot — plus a guaranteed chain ride. DELIBERATELY CALM • No timers, no lives, no pressure — play at your own pace • No music — only soft, synthesized pops and crunches that respect the mute switch • Every gummy has a face and a mood: they breathe, blink, yawn, hiccup, and watch what you do FEATURES • One-thumb portrait play, fully offline • Pick up and move: hold a gummy to lift it while the board slides open beneath • A sky that walks through a full day, dawn to starry night, as you level up • Reduce Motion, Reduce Flashing, and Colorblind-shapes options • Every pixel and sound is generated by code — nothing canned Gumdroplet is free with occasional ads between moves. A single Remove Ads purchase removes them forever.
Fish Around
This is a relaxing digital pond experience where you can interact with four unique fish. Collect bubbles to unlock new themes and decorations, and discover special photo memories as the fish get to know you. Enjoy offline play with no pressure.
- Interactive fish with distinct personalities
- Unlockable pond themes and decorations
- Pond photo album and portraits
- Offline play
- No ads or in-app purchases
- Multi-language support
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Fish Around is a small illustrated pond made for quiet breaks. Touch the water, spend time with four fish with distinct personalities, and watch each one respond in its own way. Every visit brings bubbles that can unlock pond themes and decorations. As a fish grows familiar with you, it may discover special photo memories around the pond. Features: • Four fish with playful, quiet, tsundere, and whimsically weird personalities • Spring, Summer Night, and Autumn pond themes • Decorations you can place, move, resize, and flip • A fish collection and a pond photo album • Pond portraits you can save or share • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean • Offline play with no ads, purchases, accounts, or streak pressure Nothing to finish. No day to save. Just spend a little time by the water.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Around at none against Gumdroplet's 1. Fish Around also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Gumdroplet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fish Around asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gumdroplet against 5.0 for Fish Around. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Gumdroplet | Fish Around |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glenn Bacon | Jiayi Qu |
In-app purchases
Gumdroplet
- Remove Ads$4.99
Fish Around
No in-app purchases









