AquaLife 3D vs Garden Eel
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.
Garden Eel
A relaxing simulator where you nurture garden eels by managing their environment. Swipe to create currents, clean the seabed, and feed your eels to help them grow. Drive away unwanted sea creatures to ensure a thriving habitat.
- Swipe to create currents
- Clean the seabed
- Feed garden eels
- Drive away sea creatures
- 5 kinds of garden eels
- Apple Watch support
- iCloud data saving
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Garden Eel is a garden eel simulator. Swipe and make current, then feed garden eels. Swipe sea bottom and make it clean. Then new garden eel will appear and they'll grow. There are 5 kinds of garden eels. When fishes and sea cucumbers appear, tap and drive them away. This game is inspired by the sea of Saipan, Okinawa, etc. This app supports Apple Watch(garden eel animation with feeding indicator). Animations of the Watch App will be added when the new garden eel appears in the iPhone App. This app saves play data to iCloud in every two minutes. Saved data can be downloaded by new install of app in another device. Or Garden Eel AR/VR for viewing in 3D!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Garden Eel at 5.0 against AquaLife 3D's 3.9. Garden Eel also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11). AquaLife 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (45 vs 2). 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. Garden Eel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Garden Eel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AquaLife 3D has 45 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AquaLife 3D ships an update every 4 months, Garden Eel every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AquaLife 3D | Garden Eel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — 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, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolay Egorov | KENSHI DOI |
Customer experience
AquaLife 3D
Garden Eel
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
Garden Eel
No in-app purchases
