Comparison

Monster Box vs Idle War.app

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

Head to head
About

Monster Box

Engage in strategic battles against waves of monsters. Upgrade your stickman characters with gold and jewels to enhance their power and defeat increasingly formidable foes. Enjoy a simple yet engaging combat experience.

Highlights
  • Monster battles
  • Stickman upgrades
  • Gold and jewel currency
  • Strategic combat
  • Monster evolution
Features
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Monster overflowing and Battle of Stickman! Stickman after upgrade in gold and jewel, please earnestly defeat a lot of monsters. By upgrade the monster, enjoy fight against powerful monsters.

About

Idle War.app

An incremental empire-building game where you conquer territories, manage resources, and upgrade your empire. Progress even while offline with automated features and discover new maps and challenges.

Highlights
  • Army generation and upgrades
  • Resource mining and smelting
  • Item crafting with recipes
  • Territory conquest and bonuses
  • Technology upgrades
  • Artifact discovery and upgrades
  • Advancement Points for permanent boosts
  • Auto-play features
Features
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Conquer the world while you sleep! War.app (previously known as Warzone) is an innovative incremental game that puts you in charge of an empire. As you use your armies to conquer neighboring territories, you'll discover tons of exciting assets you can use to strengthen your empire further. • Army camps generate armies continuously. You can capture more and upgrade them. Use your armies to conquer territories on the map to discover more things to help you. • Mines generate ores continuously, such as copper ore, tin ore, etc. You can upgrade them to produce more. • Smelters work continuously to smelt your ore into bars. Bars can be sold for more than the ore it took to make it. • Crafters work continuously to turn your smelted bars into items, such as copper bars into copper wire. • Find recipes on the map to unlock additional things your smelters and crafters can do. • Find caches on the map to give you an injection of free armies, money, or resources. • Technologies can be purchased to turn your items into useful bonuses, such as increasing army camps, better smelters, or drafting armies. • Regions of the map are separate into bonuses. Conquer an entire bonus to unlock sources of money, or other assets. • Mercenary Camps lets you hire armies to grow even faster. • Hospitals allow you to save armies when conquering territories. They can be upgraded to save even more. • Find a dig site and start digging for artifacts, which are permanent upgrades to fuel your empire. Artifacts can be upgraded by sacrificing ones you don't need. • Complete an entire map and you will earn Advancement Points (AP). These can be spent on Advancements which give you permanent upgrades, such as improving army camps, mines, sell prices, drafts, etc. • By default, you can accrue two hours of idle time. The Max Idle Time advancement can upgrade this time to any value, and you can also find artifacts that increase it. • Auto-advancements help you out by playing the game for you. For example, auto-conquer automatically conquers territories on the map, auto-sell automatically sells resources you don't need, auto-draft automatically picks up drafts, etc. Getting all of them can completely automate the game. • Over 30 maps are available, covering all parts of the world as well as fictional places. If you complete them all you can Ascend. • Powers can be used to accelerate your empire. Find them on the map, get them from the daily bonus, or spin the War.app Wheel to win powers or coins. • The multi-level power or advancement allow playing multiple levels at the same time. This is an effective way to boost your progression. • Find Arenas to compete against other War.app players in a strategic battle. The winner will get additional armies, money, and resources to fuel their empire. • Compete against up to 30 other players in a chaotic Battle Royale multi-player mode! Launch attacks against others and see who comes out on top! • Fight against an AI in challenges for additional AP, if your advancements and artifacts are strong enough to out-expand them. • Join a clan and compete in Clan Wars! • Participate in global or clan chat rooms built into the app • Earn and complete all of the achievements! Terms of service: https://war.app/TermsOfService

Screenshots

Monster Box4 screens
Idle War.app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monster Box at none against Idle War.app's 27. Monster Box also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Idle War.app's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Idle War.app sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Monster Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle War.app holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 212 and 148 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Monster Box's written reviews are positive against 60% of Idle War.app's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, Idle War.app every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Monster Box versus Idle War.app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonster BoxIdle War.app
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (212 ratings)4.7 (148 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings212 — better148
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB277 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDAN-BALLRandy Ficker

Customer experience

Monster Box

All ratings212 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative7.8%

Idle War.app

All ratings148 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral0.7%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Monster Box

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Stick figures drift to the right when revived repeatedly
  • Game crashes for no apparent reason
  • Certain medals are unobtainable (Ohagi medal)
  • iPhone X notch cuts off progress bar
  • Game data loss when too many monsters spawn
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  • Occasional freezing on newer high-definition phones

Requested features

15 requests
  • More character classes (especially from Stick Ranger)
  • Landscape/horizontal mode support
  • Zoom feature to see action better
  • Cloud save and cross-device progress transfer
  • Sandbox mode with infinite monsters
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  • More monsters and enemy variety
  • Reset progress button
  • Backup/save functionality
  • Steam port
  • Terrain and environment elements
  • More upgrade options
  • Idle mode that doesn't end at monster cap
  • Ad-free premium version
  • Larger UI scaling option
  • Landscape orientation support

Idle War.app

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Monster Box

No in-app purchases

27 purchases

Idle War.app

Subscriptions1
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time26
  • Day against Nuclear Tests$2.99
  • Mothers Day Bundle$3.99
  • Father's Day Bundle$3.99
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  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • Super Camp$9.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
  • Spring Bundle$9.99
  • Cyber Monday Bundle$9.99
  • Summer Solstice Bundle$9.99
  • Holiday Bundle$14.99
  • New Years Bundle$14.99
  • January Jumpstart Bundle$14.99
  • World Kindness Day Bundle$14.99
  • Autumn Bundle$14.99
  • International Day of Peace$14.99
  • World Chess Day Bundle$14.99
  • World Environment Day Bundle$14.99
  • Day of Human Spaceflight$19.99
  • World Water Day Bundle$19.99
  • Summer Sale$19.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Birthday Bundle$29.99
  • Valentine's Day Sale$29.99
  • Auto Artifact Swapper$34.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99

Questions

Is Monster Box free?
Monster Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle War.app free?
Idle War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monster Box or Idle War.app?
Idle War.app is rated higher. Monster Box averages 4.5 out of 5 from 212 ratings, while Idle War.app averages 4.7 from 148 ratings.
Do Monster Box or Idle War.app have ads?
Monster Box shows ads; Idle War.app does not.
Which is updated more often, Monster Box or Idle War.app?
Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, and Idle War.app every 2 months. Most recently, Monster Box was updated on October 12, 2026 and Idle War.app on October 13, 2026.

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