Rainman vs Ant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainman
Test your ability to quickly count objects, inspired by a famous movie scene. Progress through levels with increasing challenges to see how high you can score. Practice to improve your visual estimation skills.
- Visual counting challenges
- Increasing difficulty levels
- Develop estimation skills
- Inspired by movie scene
- Practice for accuracy
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Imagine you drop a box of matches, and some matches end up on the floor. Wouldn't it be something if you could tell at a glance how many matches were actually on the ground? This is somehow what happens in the movie Rain Man (1988), where this is one of the special gifts of idiot savant Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman. In this game you can test how much of this gift you have yourself. And you can even try to develop it further. You will see a number of matches on the floor, and must pick the right number as fast as you can. If you are correct, you go on to the next level, in which the number of matches will probably get higher. How long will you be able to guess the right number, and what level will you reach? Don't think this is a game of luck... At the beginning you may not be able to see the differences, but after a while you may develop the ability to recognize the size of a pile of matches fairly accurate. So yes, practice makes perfect!
Ant
Build and manage an ant colony by collecting food and recruiting soldier ants. Engage in combat with bugs to grow your forces and upgrade your ants for increased strength. Experience a strategy game focused on resource management and combat.
- Collect food for colony
- Recruit soldier ants
- Fight and eat bugs
- Upgrade ants for strength
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- Collect food for your colony! - Get soldier ants and wander for food! - Fight with bugs and eat them! - Upgrade your ants to get stronger!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rainman at 67% against Ant's 0%. Rainman also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Ant's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 133 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ant holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Rainman's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ant's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rainman ships an update every 133 months, Ant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rainman | Ant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 133 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mark Vertegaal | Any Games OU |
Customer experience
Rainman
Ant
In-app purchases
Rainman
No in-app purchases
Ant
No in-app purchases
