Comparison

PetBox vs Queen Ant

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

Head to head
About

PetBox

Features
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PetBox 是一款温柔的虚拟宠物陪伴游戏。 领养团子、乌卜洛特、大布丁、粽纸、帽帽、冰方、秋巴或吉谷,照顾它的饱腹、清洁、心情与精力。你可以: • 喂食、清洁、抚摸和睡觉,建立每日陪伴节奏 • 开启星盒,收集八种原创宠物和成长形态 • 在伙伴生活中布置房间、安排日常活动并保存成长进度 • 查看图鉴、完成每日任务,解锁伙伴动作与房间偏好 • 根据早晨、白天、傍晚和夜里的时间变化,体验不同房间主题、对话和音效 • 在家园中与宠物进行 AI 陪伴对话 PetBox 支持游客档案,也支持 Apple 登录和跨设备恢复。应用内购买使用 Apple StoreKit,随机内容会在购买前展示概率和保底规则。 AI 陪伴仅用于娱乐和宠物回复,请勿输入密码、支付信息或其他敏感内容。

About

Queen Ant

Experience the realistic journey of raising an ant colony from a single queen to a thriving kingdom. Manage your colony's growth in real-time, respecting their need for darkness and quiet. Unlock new species and nest designs as your ant room expands.

Highlights
  • Realistic ant-keeping simulation
  • Real-time colony growth
  • Red light mode for observation
  • Expandable ant room with new species
  • Home screen widgets for colony status
Features
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One rainy summer night, a young queen lands, sheds her wings, and looks for a safe place to start her kingdom. That place is your test tube. QUEEN ANT is an ant-keeping simulator that follows the real hobby, step by step. Start with a single queen in a founding test tube. Keep her warm, dark and undisturbed while she raises her first tiny workers. Move your growing colony into a proper nest. Then do it all again with a new species — every colony on your shelf is its own little world. RAISE HER IN REAL TIME Eggs hatch and workers emerge over hours and days, not seconds. Check in for a few minutes a day and come back to real progress. Your colony keeps living while you are away. THE GOLDEN RULE: DO NOT DISTURB HER A founding queen wants darkness and silence. Check on her too often and she gets stressed — real ant keepers know the hardest part is waiting. Patience is the game. RED LIGHT MODE Ants cannot see red light. Switch it on to watch her quietly at night, just like real keepers do. GROW YOUR ANT ROOM • Move your colony from test tube to a proper nest when it is ready • Keep multiple colonies side by side on your shelf • Unlock new species, each with its own look, pace and personality • Home Screen widgets: population and hatching countdowns at a glance FAIR BY DESIGN The full journey from queen to thriving colony is free. We sell new species and nests — never timers, never energy. Waiting is the soul of this game, and it is not for sale. New species and seasonal events are on the way. Your first queen is waiting.

Screenshots

PetBox4 screens
Queen Ant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: PetBox at 3 against Queen Ant's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

PetBox ships an update every 5 days, Queen Ant every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PetBox versus Queen Ant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPetBoxQueen Ant
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeijing XingheBit Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd.KUAN HUANG

In-app purchases

None

PetBox

No in-app purchases

None

Queen Ant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PetBox free?
PetBox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Queen Ant free?
Queen Ant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PetBox or Queen Ant have ads?
Neither PetBox nor Queen Ant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PetBox or Queen Ant?
PetBox ships an update every 5 days, and Queen Ant every 3 days. Most recently, PetBox was updated on October 11, 2026 and Queen Ant on October 16, 2026.

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