AquaLife 3D vs Rice Fish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AquaLife 3D
Design and manage your own virtual aquarium with realistic 3D fish and decorations. Explore freshwater, saltwater, and fantasy environments, breed and sell fish to earn in-game currency, and customize your underwater world.
- Realistic 3D fish and decorations
- Multiple aquarium types (saltwater, freshwater, fantasy)
- Breed, feed, and sell fish
- Earn coins, diamonds, and experience
- Over 100 fish species and decorations
- Social features: invite friends, give/receive gifts
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Create your own fascinating and realistic underwater world on your mobile device! AquaLife 3D - it's a real live aquarium that you can take with you wherever you go! With AquaLife 3D you can create attractive saltwater, freshwater and even fantasy aquariums as well as choose their inhabitants and decorate them. You can buy, feed, grow and sell fish, earning coins, diamonds and experience. There are over 100 species of exotic fish, more than 100 decorations and items, a variety of backgrounds and aquatic pets. Your possibilities are endless! Enjoy the journey into the alluring and mysterious underwater world and be sure to invite your friends! AquaLife 3D is your real aquarium in your mobile device! Features: - realistic 3D fish and decorations; - 10 aquariums space for your imagination; - the constant addition of new types of fish; - the opportunity to earn coins, diamonds and experience; - play with your friends, give and receive gifts.
Rice Fish
A virtual aquarium simulation where you care for Japanese rice fishes and aquatic plants. Interact with your fish, clean the tank, and watch your aquarium grow. Save your progress via iCloud and explore a 3D view with a companion app.
- Virtual aquarium simulation
- Feed and clean fish
- Interactive characters
- Aquarium customization
- iCloud data saving
- 3D VR view companion app
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Rice Fish is an aquarium app of Japanese rice fishes. Operations: Feeding: Tap water surface. Cleaning: Swipe dirty glass surface. Touch: Each character reacts your touch. You can change layout of your aquarium by pushing root of weeds. Menu: Long tap and help menu will appear. Growing: Characters will grow if you do cleaning/feeding once or twice a day. Characters: There are 4 kinds of characters. Rice Fish: Do both cleaning and feeding. Weed: Do only cleaning. Grow by touching. Snail: Does not do cleaning. This app saves play data to iCloud every two minutes. You can download play data when you install this app to new device. You can also view your own aquarium in 3D by "Rice Fish VR" app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rice Fish at none against AquaLife 3D's 11. Rice Fish also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (67% vs 58%). AquaLife 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (45 vs 13). On price, update cadence, 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. AquaLife 3D sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Rice Fish asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rice Fish holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of AquaLife 3D's written reviews are positive against 67% of Rice Fish's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AquaLife 3D | Rice Fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (45 ratings) | 4.3 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolay Egorov | KENSHI DOI |
Customer experience
AquaLife 3D
Rice Fish
In-app purchases
AquaLife 3D
- 2 000 coins$0.99
- 10 diamonds$0.99
- 20 diamonds$1.99
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- 4 500 coins$1.99
- 55 diamonds$4.99
- 45 diamonds$5.99
- 15 000 coins$5.99
- 70 diamonds$5.99
- VIP$5.99
- 120 diamonds$9.99
- 250 diamonds$19.99
Rice Fish
No in-app purchases
