Fish Around vs Minamo Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Minamo Idle
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Fish Around | Minamo Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiayi Qu | 7tomatoes |
In-app purchases
Fish Around
No in-app purchases
Minamo Idle
No in-app purchases









