Comparison

Dial vs Idle Firefighter Tycoon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dial

Experience the role of a 911 dispatcher, responding to emergencies by dispatching the correct emergency vehicles. Upgrade your station, recruit more staff, and acquire new vehicles to tackle increasingly challenging missions and grow your player level.

Highlights
  • Simulate 911 dispatcher role
  • Dispatch emergency vehicles
  • Upgrade station and buildings
  • Recruit more staff
  • Acquire new vehicles
  • Earn money and experience
Features
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Slip into the shoes of a 911 dispatcher and save your cities population by sending out the relevant emergency vehicles for the mission you receive. Your first stations will come with staffing and one (1) unit. If you improve your building, you can buy more vehicles and recruit more staff. Having more vehicles will advance your missions to bigger and better ones. Having more buildings will give you more possible missions to receive. Successful missions earn you money and experience points. This allows you to invest in new equipment (buildings, cars, trucks, etc …) and grow your player level. Good luck!!! Join us: Discord Facebook https://discord.gg/xUGuUBNtrK https://www.facebook.com/people/Dial-911-Simulator/61567716984725/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

About

Idle Firefighter Tycoon

Manage a fire station, rescue citizens, and expand your business to become a wealthy tycoon. Automate operations, invest wisely, and upgrade equipment to handle emergencies and earn cash, both online and offline.

Highlights
  • Fire station management
  • Rescue simulation
  • Idle income generation
  • Business expansion
  • Fire truck upgrades
  • Manager hiring
  • Online and offline play
Features
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Will you be able to manage a fire station and become the firefighter tycoon? Idle Firefighter Tycoon is a rescue simulation and casual game that mixes firefighting management and earning money to become a rich billionaire while helping the city. Take control of emergency units, incident telephone calls, save lives, and much more. Handle the needs of your facility and make appropriate decisions to expand your business and improve the responsiveness of your area: customize your headquarters, expand parking spaces for fire trucks and fuel trucks; buy new and better fire trucks, install fire alarms, improve fire-retardant equipment for staff, or install new fire hydrants near important urban buildings. Each choice you make will have an impact on your development strategy! - Enjoy the dangerous adventure and challenge the different missions! Expand your fire station office and increase productivity with firefighters who will automate the workflow of your city! - Online and Offline mode! Discover the manager's business strategy to invest in and earn as much cash as possible in this idle tycoon simulator - Live as a captain of a firefighter group! Make more money in this firefighter simulator until you become a rich manager tycoon! This is not a clicker game: no need for endless tapping like other idle simulators. What are you going to do? - Manage your firefighter team to rescue the city buildings (school, restaurant, hospital, shopping mall, and others) from dangerous fires and accidents. - Use water cannons, fire trucks, and other special tools for the firefighter to extinguish the fire. - Hire manager staff to increase your firefighter's motivation and improve the business management. - Build up multiple departments, such as emergency response staff, fire trucks, rescue teams, fire managers, etc. for rescue missions. - Complete the firefighter missions and invest your idle money & cash to achieve the security levels required by the city. IDLE FIREFIGHTER TYCOON - FIRE EMERGENCY MANAGER Features: - Automate your fire station to make more idle income: no need for endless tapping like other online clicker or idle simulator games. - Profit from investments to boost your cash income to make more money. You'll be a rich billionaire among the firefighting tycoon games. - Build up your idle billionaire empire simulation without the endless tapping in other clicker and tycoon games! - Develop the departments to resolve firefighting issues while earning money by optimizing the fire workstation in this idle manager game. - Increase your idle money online or offline in this tycoon simulator game! - Upgrade firetrucks and emergency rooms to see exciting upgrades in this money and firefighting management simulator! - Different items that you can level up: Upgrade your firetrucks to make them faster and bigger! Upgrade your kitchen and bathroom so that your firefighters can prepare themselves faster. Level up your emergency room to become a rich tycoon in this idle simulation game! Did you hear the fire alarm? It's time to get into your fire truck and rescue people's lives! Interesting missions are waiting for you. Try the game now and have fun! Imprint: https://www.kolibrigames.com/impressum/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.kolibrigames.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://www.kolibrigames.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Dial4 screens
Idle Firefighter Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Idle Firefighter Tycoon at 4.8 against Dial's 3.3. Idle Firefighter Tycoon also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 23) and review sentiment (61% vs 43%). Dial's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dial sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Firefighter Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Firefighter Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Firefighter Tycoon has 26K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Dial's written reviews are positive against 61% of Idle Firefighter Tycoon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dial ships an update every 4 months, Idle Firefighter Tycoon every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dial versus Idle Firefighter Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDialIdle Firefighter Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (23 ratings)4.8 (26K ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.5% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2326K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB398 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAndrew SheltonKolibri Games GmbH

Customer experience

Dial

All ratings23 ratings
Positive52.2%
Neutral17.4%
Negative30.4%
Written reviews200 reviews
Positive42.5%
Neutral12.0%
Negative45.5%

Idle Firefighter Tycoon

All ratings25,564 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews493 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral13.4%
Negative25.6%

User reviews

Dial

From 23 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Addictive and fun
  • 🚒 Realistic emergency response simulation
  • 👍 Great for first responder enthusiasts
  • 🌐 Ability to choose any location

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • ⏱️ Slow progression and long wait times
  • 🤖 Lack of clear instructions and tutorials
  • 🗺️ Unrealistic map and vehicle speeds

Idle Firefighter Tycoon

From 26K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun
  • 👍 Great overall
  • 🚀 Super fun
  • 👍 Best game ever!
  • 👍 Awesome game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Not working
  • 🔍 Game spoiled by adverts
  • 🔍 Offline income isn't matching
  • 🔍 Ads
  • 🔍 Still getting ads

Bugs and requests

Dial

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to start missions or receive calls
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Map not loading properly or zooming incorrectly
  • In-app purchases not working as intended

Requested features

6 requests
  • Customizable response radius and station locations
  • Ability to assign personnel to specific vehicles
  • More varied call types and emergency scenarios
  • Faster vehicle speeds and response times
  • Improved alliance and multiplayer functionality
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  • Expanded vehicle and equipment options

Idle Firefighter Tycoon

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Not working
  • Last update broke something
  • Unacceptable Bug
  • Events bug
  • Lost all of my progress

Requested features

7 requests
  • Prestige mode
  • More cities
  • More captains
  • Ability to change/choose different skins/colors for the trucks
  • Ability to transfer money between stations
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  • Ability to earn gems
  • Daily rewards

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Dial

One-time10
  • double missions for 1h$0.99
  • double mission, experience and coin for 1h$1.99
  • 100 notes$1.99
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  • double mission, experience and coin for 3h$4.99
  • 500 notes$7.99
  • double mission, experience and coin for 24h$9.99
  • 1000 notes$14.99
  • 2500 notes$34.99
  • 5000 notes$59.99
  • 10000 notes$99.99
10 purchases

Idle Firefighter Tycoon

One-time10
  • Gempack 1$0.99
  • Permanent profit boost 1$4.99
  • Gempack 2$4.99
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  • Season Pass Ticket$4.99
  • Permanent profit boost 2$9.99
  • Gempack 3$9.99
  • No Ads Offer$12.99
  • Entire Event Boost$12.99
  • Gempack 4$19.99
  • All-In-One Deal$29.99

Questions

Is Dial free?
Dial is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Firefighter Tycoon free?
Idle Firefighter Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dial or Idle Firefighter Tycoon?
Idle Firefighter Tycoon is rated higher. Dial averages 3.3 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Idle Firefighter Tycoon averages 4.8 from 26K ratings.
Do Dial or Idle Firefighter Tycoon have ads?
Idle Firefighter Tycoon shows ads; Dial does not.
Which is updated more often, Dial or Idle Firefighter Tycoon?
Dial ships an update every 4 months, and Idle Firefighter Tycoon every 6 weeks. Most recently, Dial was updated on November 2, 2026 and Idle Firefighter Tycoon on November 7, 2026.

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