Garden Eel vs Monthly Idol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!!
Monthly Idol
Manage your own K-pop entertainment agency, train idols, and guide them to global stardom. Make strategic decisions about music production, schedules, and world tours to achieve success.
- Manage entertainment agency
- Train girl/boy groups
- Produce music and albums
- Schedule idol activities
- Organize world tours
- Conduct auditions
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Monthly Idol: KPOP IDOL MAKER #If you have a payment error, please send us an email with your purchase details! #Welcome event in progress! #Download now! ▶ Grow your small entertainment agency into a global TOP agency! You are the BOSS who will choose a girl group or boy group to grow own agency. ▶The basic contract period with IDOLs is five years. Please make them into TOP IDOLs. Of course, you can renew your contract after five years. ▶Make a recording through PRODUCING! If you choose a favorite theme for the public, the number of records sales, music streaming and YouTube views will increase! Of course, there may be a lot of album purchases among fans. ▶Get popular through the SCHEDULE! As you become more popular, you will receive a variety of schedule exceptions! ▶Every Idol's Dream! Take the World Tour! The chance to win a jackpot is only in CONCERT! Let's watch the fans with their light stick! ▶Auditions and idol’s home are being updated! Please be looking forward for it! #Event is always in progress on #SNS. Please come! #Please let me know immediately about any questions regarding bugs. Thank you. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Monthly_idol
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garden Eel at none against Monthly Idol's 16. Garden Eel also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Monthly Idol's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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. Monthly Idol sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Garden Eel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Garden Eel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monthly Idol has 2.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Garden Eel ships an update every 3 months, Monthly Idol every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garden Eel | Monthly Idol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (2.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 73.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KENSHI DOI | Sora Ryoo |
Customer experience
Garden Eel
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In-app purchases
Garden Eel
No in-app purchases
Monthly Idol
- Gem 100$0.49
- Apple Tree$1.99
- Gem 500$2.99
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- 50 Emeralds$2.99
- 100 Emeralds$4.99
- Remove ads & screen expansion$5.99
- Game speed 50% UP buff$5.99
- Income increases 30% buff$5.99
- Auto click fan's mind buff$5.99
- Gem 1,000$6.99
- Apple Package$6.99
- Black Tiger Limited Package$8.99
- Blue costume set Girl$9.99
- Theme Costume Package(Girl)$11.99
- Theme Costume Package(Boy)$11.99
- 300Emeralds + BONUS 50$19.99
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