Fish Around vs Bayou Claw
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.
Bayou Claw
Experience a painted arcade claw machine filled with swamp critters and treasures. Use simple controls to grab prizes, collect them, and earn coins. Customize your machine with different scenes and enjoy authentic arcade sounds.
- Realistic physics-based claw
- Collectible swamp critters and treasures
- One-thumb joystick controls
- Duplicate prize trading for coins
- Customizable machine scenes
- Daily free coins
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Step up to the cabinet — the bayou's favorite claw machine is lit up and waiting. BAYOU CLAW is a painted arcade claw machine stuffed with swamp critters and jackpot treasures. Work the red-ball joystick, line up your drop, and feel the claw sink into the prize pit. Every win slides down the chute and into your collection. PLAY THE CLAW • A real physics claw — prizes shift, slip, and tumble like the real thing • Painted cabinet art, marquee lights, and a see-through prize pit • Simple one-thumb controls: drag to aim, tap DROP WIN AND COLLECT • 20 prizes to collect — plush bayou critters plus a shiny Jackpot tier • Fill your prize cabinet and turn in duplicates for coins • A Cajun announcer calls your big wins MAKE IT YOURS • 6 machine scenes — Classic Bayou, Turtle Cove, Owl Hollow, Coon Landing, Crawfish Crossing, and Gator Bayou • Full casino soundscape with per-category volume sliders FREE COINS EVERY DAY • Claim 1,000 free coins daily; every play costs 100 • Optional coin packs and a one-time daily-limit upgrade are available as in-app purchases • No ads Laissez les bons temps rouler — the claw is calling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Around at none against Bayou Claw's 7. Bayou Claw's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Bayou Claw sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Fish Around asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fish Around against 5.0 for Bayou Claw. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Fish Around | Bayou Claw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiayi Qu | Bayou Byte Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Fish Around
Bayou Claw
In-app purchases
Fish Around
No in-app purchases
Bayou Claw
- Pouch of Coins$0.99
- Stack of Coins$4.99
- Double Daily Limit$4.99
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- Chest of Coins$9.99
- Sack of Coins$19.99
- Trunk of Coins$49.99
- Bayou Fortune$99.99








