Comparison

Fish Around vs Minamo Idle

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Minamo Idle

Features
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A quiet pond to watch, a handful of fish to raise, and nowhere you need to be. Minamo is a gentle idle game about tending a koi pond at your own pace. ■ RAISE Grow seven kinds of fish, from tiny fry to the pond's great koi. Feed them for a temporary income boost, or simply let time pass — the pond keeps quietly ticking along even when you're away. ■ WATCH Morning, night, rain — the pond's mood shifts with the hours. Some fish only appear in the rain, others only after dark. Rare visitors drift in now and then, filling out your codex one encounter at a time. Play with sound or without. Just find a moment, and sit by the water.

Screenshots

Fish Around4 screens
Minamo Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fish Around at none against Minamo Idle's shown. Minamo Idle's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, Minamo Idle daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Fish Around versus Minamo Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish AroundMinamo Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJiayi Qu7tomatoes

In-app purchases

None

Fish Around

No in-app purchases

None

Minamo Idle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fish Around free?
Fish Around is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minamo Idle free?
Minamo Idle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fish Around or Minamo Idle have ads?
Minamo Idle shows ads; Fish Around does not.
Which is updated more often, Fish Around or Minamo Idle?
Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, and Minamo Idle daily. Most recently, Fish Around was updated on October 16, 2026 and Minamo Idle on October 8, 2026.

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