Garden Eel vs AquaPlants
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!!
AquaPlants
Cultivate a vibrant underwater world by growing aquatic plants and observing their photosynthesis. As your plants flourish, attract a variety of beautiful tropical fish to your aquarium. This idle game offers a relaxing experience with charming animations and detailed plant information.
- Idle incremental gameplay
- Grow aquatic plants
- Attract tropical fish
- Collect various fish and plants
- Detailed plant encyclopedia
- Cute fish animations
- Realistic 3D plant models
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Welcome to the world of aquatic aquariums! "I like tropical fish, but it's hard to manage the aquarium by myself ...!" AquaPlants was born for you. This game is very simple "Incremental" game! Grow aquatic plants and let them photosynthesize a lot. As the plants grow, beautiful tropical fish will visit more often! Find various tropical fish and grow your own aquarium. Game features ■ Simple game method that can be nurtured by leaving it alone ■ Various tropical fish and aquatic plants ■ Detailed bean knowledge like a picture book ■ Cute animation of tropical fish ■ 3D model of aquatic plants that faithfully reproduces the real thing ■ Healing sound info@filmo.jp Created by team, Filmo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garden Eel at none against AquaPlants's 7. Garden Eel also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (4 vs 2). AquaPlants's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (43 vs 2). On price and ads 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. AquaPlants sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Garden Eel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Garden Eel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AquaPlants has 43 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Garden Eel ships an update every 3 months, AquaPlants fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Garden Eel | AquaPlants |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — 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, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KENSHI DOI | Filmo inc. |
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Garden Eel
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In-app purchases
Garden Eel
No in-app purchases
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