AquaLife 3D vs Coelacanth and ancient 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.
Coelacanth and ancient fish
Customize coelacanth colors and feed them to earn points. Excavate fossils for bonuses and purchase new backgrounds and creatures. Experience AR to bring the ancient world into your room.
- Color customization for coelacanth
- Dynamic predation for points
- Fossil excavation with bonus multipliers
- Purchase background images and creatures
- AR function for recreating ancient worlds
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● You can adjust the coelacanth to your favorite color by using the color adjustment food. There is also high point food, and you can get points while looking at the dynamic predation. Points can buy background images and ancient creatures. ● You can get points by excavating fossils and rewarding them. Select a colored stone and tap it carefully to crush the stone. If you take out the fossil inside without damaging it, you will get a perfect bonus. The bonus multiplier will increase as you issue Perfects in succession. The points of fossils change depending on their rarity. Let's get reward food while having fun. ● Equipped with AR function. You can recreate the ancient world in your room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Coelacanth and ancient fish at none against AquaLife 3D's 11. Coelacanth and ancient fish also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). AquaLife 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (45 vs 7). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. AquaLife 3D sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Coelacanth and ancient fish asks for nothing beyond the download.
AquaLife 3D holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AquaLife 3D has 45 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of AquaLife 3D's written reviews are positive against 50% of Coelacanth and ancient fish's.
AquaLife 3D ships an update every 4 months, Coelacanth and ancient fish every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AquaLife 3D | Coelacanth and ancient fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (45 ratings) — better | 3.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolay Egorov | Yamabus |
Customer experience
AquaLife 3D
Coelacanth and ancient 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
Coelacanth and ancient fish
No in-app purchases
Questions
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