Comparison

Fish Around vs Tanklet

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

Tanklet

Create and manage your own virtual aquarium, raising and collecting a variety of fish. Care for their needs, decorate their environment, and watch them thrive. Enjoy the relaxing experience of fishkeeping without the real-world effort.

Highlights
  • Care for fish needs
  • Collect rare visitors
  • Develop fish personalities
  • Breed fish for offspring
  • Send fish on treasure hunts
  • Decorate custom tanks
  • Ambient mode for living decor
Features
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Tanklet is a cozy aquarium game where you raise a tank of fish that's truly yours. Feed them, clean the tank, keep the water healthy, and watch them drift through a beautifully rendered aquarium — all the joy and companionship of fishkeeping, none of the cost or mess. ■ Care for your fish Feed on schedule, clean the tank, and manage water quality. Well-cared-for fish stay healthy, happy, and earn more coins. Neglect them and they get listless or sick — but good care always brings them back. Your fish never die. ■ Rare visitors Wild fish drop by from time to time. Feed them, keep the water clean, and set out the decorations they love — treat them well and they may stay for good. The rarer the visitor, the pickier they are. ■ Personalities & bonds Every fish has its own personality. Greet them daily and serve their favorite treats to deepen your bond, unlocking little stories and rewards. ■ Collect & breed From clownfish, blue tang and angelfish to golden arowana and koi, collect distinctive species and fill your codex. Breed pairs for offspring, with a chance at rare variants and shiny fish. ■ Eggs with honest odds Hatch mystery eggs for new species — drop rates are disclosed before every purchase, with a pity system that guarantees rare finds. ■ Send fish on treasure hunts Pick 1–2 fish for expeditions to the reef, a shipwreck, or the deep abyss. Hours later they return with coins, decorations — sometimes even pearls. Strong bonds and healthy fish bring better luck. ■ Make the tank yours Buy and freely place plants, driftwood, rocks and more. Resize, restyle, and decorate your tank exactly how you like it. ■ More tanks, real ecosystems Save up for more tanks, up to 6: freshwater, saltwater and coral ecosystems each boost matching fish. Every tank has its own theme and decorations, and fish can move anytime. ■ Ambient Mode: put your tank in a room Hide the interface and let your tank live in a warm little room. Nine rooms to swap — an indigo moon window, a brick loft, a green library, a coastal cottage… each room's light truly falls into the water. Keep the screen on and it becomes living furniture. ■ Grows while you're away Close the app and your fish keep you company while coins keep accruing. Come back to collect offline earnings and see what happened. ■ Calm, anywhere A Home Screen widget brings your tank to your desktop; soft water-sound ambience helps you unwind; iCloud keeps your tank in sync across devices. No ads, no third-party SDKs, zero data collection — your tank is yours alone. Subscribe to Tanklet+ for double coins, offline earnings extended 8→24 hours, auto-care while away, a monthly pearl gift, and exclusive decor. Slow down. Keep some fish. Privacy Policy: https://smartkiitos.com/tanklet/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://smartkiitos.com/tanklet/terms/

Screenshots

Fish Around4 screens
Tanklet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Around at none against Tanklet's 10. Tanklet's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Tanklet sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fish Around asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fish Around against 4.9 for Tanklet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, Tanklet every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fish Around versus Tanklet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish AroundTanklet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings311 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJiayi QuLiwei Xie

Customer experience

Fish Around

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tanklet

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fish Around

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Tanklet

Subscriptions2
  • Tanklet+ Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Tanklet+ Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time8
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Pouch of Pearls$1.99
  • Pass Premium Track$2.99
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  • Coral Reef Decor Pack$2.99
  • Ambient Rooms Pack$4.99
  • Chest of Pearls$9.99
  • Vault of Pearls$19.99
  • Tanklet Plus Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Fish Around free?
Fish Around is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tanklet free?
Tanklet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fish Around or Tanklet?
Fish Around is rated higher. Fish Around averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Tanklet averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Fish Around or Tanklet have ads?
Neither Fish Around nor Tanklet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fish Around or Tanklet?
Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, and Tanklet every 2 days. Most recently, Fish Around was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tanklet on November 6, 2026.

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