# Idle Acorns — user reviews

> 106 indexed App Store user reviews of Idle Acorns by aleros.io LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 1,210 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-acorns/id1552999208/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-acorns/id1552999208.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,041 · 4★ 107 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 27

## What do users think of Idle Acorns?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Charming and relaxing
- 👍 No ads or in-app purchases
- 🎨 Pleasant aesthetics
- 🕹️ Satisfying gameplay loop
- 💰 Good value for money

**Cons**

- ⏱️ Slow progression and pacing
- 🔍 Unclear mechanics and lack of explanation
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔌 Limited offline progress
- 🔢 Inconsistent upgrade costs

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Tree disappearing issue
- Bat not recognizing feather purchases
- Zoom and UI issues on certain devices
- Negative acorn balance after time manipulation

**Most requested features**

- Dark mode option
- More late-game content
- Improved UI and navigation
- Better explanation of game mechanics
- Increased offline progress

## Newest reviews (12 of 106)

### 4/5 — Needs a dark mode

*2025-10-07, version 2.1.9*

Only thing holding this game back is the very bright UI. Love it during the day, but at night my eyes are not happy. My favorite idle game to come back to.

### 3/5 — Kind of a shame

*2025-06-24, version 2.1.9*

It’s very fun initially and gets genuinely horrible after like a few hours, I lowkey wish there were adds

### 4/5 — Great game. Bad tapping

*2025-03-26, version 2.1.9*

Great game, lovely graphic. The only problem is the click itself…. It’s annoying and inconsistent. If they believe it’s too powerful to register every single one of your taps at least allow me to hold it down

### 3/5 — Runs out of steam fast

*2024-11-23, version 2.1.9*

I enjoyed the first part of this game, but by the end everything is arbitrary, dissatisfying and a little buggy.

### 2/5 — Poor execution

*2024-11-01, version 2.1.9*

Barely adapted for non-touchscreen play. Campground crafting is poorly explained and anticlimactic. Costly recipes (super fertilizer, fishing net, etc.) that seem like they would improve the gameplay only work for a single use, making them extremely uneconomical and pointless.

### 3/5 — Well…

*2024-10-25*

Gets boring quickly

### 3/5 — Too much of a grind

*2024-09-27, version 2.1.9*

Grinding is not much of an issue with me as long as it gives a sense of accomplishment. This game does not. You can grind for hours in this game and get nowhere basically and when you do hit that incremental step it takes days to hit another one.

### 2/5 — Has potential, but very little content.

*2024-09-23, version 2.1.9*

For a paid clicker game, I expect a lot more. I’ve played plenty of free clicker games which can be relaxing, but incredibly complex with the methods to optimize production at the same time. Of course you can do some of that here, but it’s incredibly limited. Most of the game is just artificially dragged out with long timers and high upgrade costs that require you to manually tap for hours, or just collect what is automatically gained for 4 days till you can buy something. Progress shouldn’t be too easy, but you never really feel like you’ve achieved a high production rate. On top of that, the main acorn currency becomes almost useless after a certain point, so you just wait 6-12 hours for diamond trees to grow and for fish from the simple mini-game to cook so you can sell them for diamonds. At least the art style‘s pleasant though.

### 2/5 — arbitrary delays between ui actions: the game

*2024-09-02, version 2.1.9*

i realize that “arbitrary delay” may sound unfair since that is sort of the entire premise of an idle game. but what i’ve never encountered in any idle game is an arbitrary delay in the time you can take actions such as tapping or accessing menus. 

forgetting that it takes 20h for a tree to grow 60m acorns and you need 2.5b acorns to get a feather (in late game you need multiple feathers to progress), forgetting that you have to wait ten seconds in between catching fish and casting a new line, even forgetting that whales never appear to boost your acorn production, you are rate limited not only in the tapping gimmick (to maybe 3 taps per second), but also rate limited in how fast you can navigate various menus and ui elements.

getting enough acorns to get a seed to get one of 2-5 feathers is not a fun slog. without boosts, that’s five days per feather. of course there are the boosts, but the boost minigame is, you guessed it! rate limited with arbitrary and unnecessary delays.

overall the game starts as a chill and enjoyable experience but by late game turns into frustration generated by poor design choices.

### 5/5 — Great game but tired of the mini games

*2024-08-08, version 2.1.9*

Can we have a way to not have to do the fishing mini game or the others? I am tired of doing those but I want to continue playing. Overall, great job! I love what you have done.

### 4/5 — new to the game 3.8*

*2024-07-28, version 2.1.9*

I probably haven’t gotten far but I feel like it could do with more padding out through the progression so we’ve got more to do in the early stages 
Sorry if I’m asking too much :)

### 3/5 — Not much to it, very slow start

*2024-07-12, version 2.1.7*

I can tell you from starting this game, the gains are trash for a long time. You will basically build up to a point of about a million acorns per hour of offline gains. And that’s that, you will have a single moment to purchase a single upgrade, and that’s a wrap. You will spend less than 5 mins per hour collecting offline gains and maybe you can afford 1 upgrade and maybe this is the hour to collect the premium currency you cooked up. And on that note, there isn’t even a premium or iap store. 

Not sure where the dev is going with this game but they better get on it, things don’t gain slow traction in this world anymore, they live and they die. Better get with the times on this one.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Contains GenAI

*2026-03-16, version 2.1.9*

I regret getting this game now that they’ve implemented genAI, which is helping us kill the planet faster.

However I do appreciate that no data is collected from the user. A rare thing to see these days.

### 1/5 — Boring

*2025-06-10*

You basically pay for a game that only makes you wait. Close to 0 gameplay. Don’t even get this if it was free.

### 1/5 — Unachievable

*2025-04-13*

I wish to give 5 stars. But the game is frustrating right now. In order to achieve the “maximum everything” achievement you apparently, have to get 100 of everything but whales. I have more than a hundred of each item yet achievement. I have all the hats including the seasonal ones. The game is great and I’m happy to have purchased it. But not being able to achieve 100% is infuriating. I hope to change my review one day and finally give it the 5 stars it deserves.

### 1/5 — Has AI garbage

*2025-04-07, version 2.1.9*

Added gen AI garbage so dropped it like a rock

### 1/5 — The pacing on this is horrible

*2025-02-17, version 2.1.9*

Offline progress being capped to one hour at 40% at the start of the game is an absolutely indefensible choice for an idle game. Yes, you (eventually) unlock the ability to upgrade that, but when I saw the cost (and grind) involved for just the first I quit the game. I’m honestly upset I paid $3 for this.

### 1/5 — Not recommended

*2025-02-10, version 2.1.9*

The game does not respect a players time. An hour idle collection period is way too short.  Yes you can buy more time but it comes hours too late into the game

### 1/5 — Generative AI is inherently unethical.

*2024-08-06, version 2.1.9*

Deleted the app over generative AI being added.

### 1/5 — Not worth the time or worth being paid

*2024-07-19, version 2.1.7*

Truth be told, I was all in for this game, especially with it being a small price for 0 ads. 

I wish it had been free so I could just delete it like the other idle clicker games on here. 

I played for a little over an hour, and maxed out my scavengers and trees and it just became slow to progress. Getting bored, I rid myself of the game and tried to request a refund. I was ineligible so I went to download it again, knowing I had enabled cloud saving and nope- I have to restart from scratch. 

Majorly upsetting that your backup either didn’t work or was unclear about needing more time than what it shows to truly back up and save the game. For 1.99 I wasn’t expecting much but FarmRPG is a far better game, for free, with no ads. So I’d recommend filling your time with that instead of paying for this game.

### 1/5 — Not worth it

*2024-06-18, version 2.1.7*

Very little content with time gates everywhere. Save your money and avoid this “game”

### 1/5 — Lost all my progress

*2023-12-26, version 2.0.3*

Opened the app and lost all my progress. No one should buy this game, the same could happen to you

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Developers, please read…

*2025-09-02, version 2.1.9*

This is the best game ever all I ask is that you update it more.😁😁😁 oh and anybody that are considering get the game, do you get the game, It’s really good. or in my opinion, it is.

### 5/5 — could we just do this please

*2025-08-12, version 2.1.9*

i’ve basically stopped using the app store. I only found this game after asking AI for something cute and idle without ads or IAP’s. Idk why 2$ for a cute little game is like unfeasible for them to sell to us now but I’m glad this exists

### 5/5 — Amazing game.

*2024-12-22, version 2.1.9*

Truly it’s everything it promises. The idle game with no ads. I wish it moved a bit swifter, more fast paced but there is nothing wrong with the game as it is (hence my score.) If you like idle games, and you know you do, this one is a value.

### 5/5 — Definitely an idle

*2024-12-03, version 2.1.9*

It’s slow paced and the kind of game you can play 5-10 minutes every few hours. It’s pretty fun but if you play it for more than that each day you can get burnt out pretty easy. With that being said for the 3 dollar price tag it’s definitely worth it.

### 5/5 — Fun idle game

*2024-11-18*

Fun, just wish mini games were a little bit more frequent!

### 5/5 — Very Charming

*2024-10-17, version 2.1.9*

Best game on the App Store! $2.99 AUD and no ads, in app purchases whatsoever! Very charming game, lots to do and a great idle game to play tbh, one of the best I’ve ever played and I’ve played a lot. No data collecting either which is great, make by a solo dev with a lot of love put into it. The only thing I would change is to remove the white boarder around the app icon but that’s just me it would look great if it was just the acorns and no boarder, but that’s just a person taste. Definitely buy this app if you like idle games and if you are new to them I’d say give it a try you won’t be disappointed!

### 5/5 — Pleasing acorns

*2024-10-10, version 2.1.9*

It’s a simple but pleasing idle game. Pleasing because it’s simple. There is no data mining either which was a real draw factor for me.

### 5/5 — It’s just a good game.

*2024-08-24, version 2.1.9*

It does take a bit to really get going but it’s just a good game with minimal garbage. Can’t complain!

### 5/5 — Very Satisfying

*2024-08-17, version 2.1.9*

This is a very relaxing game to me. The sounds for each button is pleasing to my ears and the ui is bright but doesn’t hurt my eyes. I think this is the perfect game to play if you’re looking for something simple but cute to play, but I’ll you decide that for yourself.

### 5/5 — Game breaking bug

*2024-08-10, version 2.1.9*

There’s a game breaking bug. After you have bought the 3 feathers, the bat doesn’t recognize that you’ve bought them. This doesn’t let you progress in the game.

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