Comparison

Fish Around vs My Cozy Aquarium

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

My Cozy Aquarium

Features
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A little ocean of your own, one quiet moment at a time. In My Cozy Aquarium, every visit is a chance to slow down and watch aquatic life move. Feed your fish, refresh the water, add oxygen and replace the filter. As you care for your tank, you earn shells that reveal new creatures. Each creature has its own look and movement. Discover its story in the collection, then place your favorites in your aquarium. Complete care and collection challenges to unlock new underwater scenes. Your aquarium journal keeps a record of the moments along the way. The game is free to play. You can view each shell's drop rates in the game before opening it.

Screenshots

Fish Around4 screens
My Cozy Aquarium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Around at none against My Cozy Aquarium's 4. Fish Around also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). My Cozy Aquarium's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Cozy Aquarium sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Fish Around asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, My Cozy Aquarium weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Fish Around versus My Cozy Aquarium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish AroundMy Cozy Aquarium
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB221 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJiayi Quinfinity pocket

In-app purchases

None

Fish Around

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

My Cozy Aquarium

One-time4
  • 1,000 Coins$0.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • 5,000 Coins$3.99
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  • 11,000 Coins$7.99

Questions

Is Fish Around free?
Fish Around is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Cozy Aquarium free?
My Cozy Aquarium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fish Around or My Cozy Aquarium have ads?
My Cozy Aquarium shows ads; Fish Around does not.
Which is updated more often, Fish Around or My Cozy Aquarium?
Fish Around ships an update every 3 days, and My Cozy Aquarium weekly. Most recently, Fish Around was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Cozy Aquarium on October 29, 2026.

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