Balls Clicker vs IdleSpiral
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balls Clicker
Tap to generate numbers and then purchase and upgrade automated balls to mine resources. Build a vast empire from scratch by strategically investing in your growing collection of hardworking balls.
- Tap to generate numbers
- Buy and upgrade balls
- Automated resource mining
- Build a giant empire
- Strategic investment decisions
- Idle gameplay
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Grow the number to the moon... First, tap on the number balls, and then buy and upgrade balls that work for you. Balls Clicker is an innovative tap or idle game. In which you enjoy the journey of building things from scratch, zero to point to eventually a giant empire with hard working, weird looking balls mining resources for you. All you have to do is just manage and decide which to invest in. Let's start now, let's be rich, let's see your resources keep growing like rain without you doing anything.
IdleSpiral
An idle, incremental game where players aim to grow a spiral. It combines simple gameplay with mathematical beauty for long-term engagement.
- Idle gameplay
- Incremental progression
- Spiral mathematics
- Long-term engagement
- Simple mechanics
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Idle Spiral is a beautiful idle and incremental game inspired by spirals and mathematics. Grow your spiral farther and farther from the origin. Improve its parameters, discover formulas, challenge enemies, collect rewards, and watch simple mathematical rules create increasingly complex patterns. The controls are simple, but the progression is deep and designed to be enjoyed over a long time. Play actively when you want to optimize your build, or return later and continue from your offline progress. Features: • Deep idle and incremental progression • Spiral growth based on mathematical formulas • Upgrades, battles, challenges, achievements, and daily rewards • Optional ads and in-app purchases • Account, shared Mileage, and cross-platform save foundations • Performance and battery-use options for mobile devices How far can you grow your spiral?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: IdleSpiral at every 2 days against Balls Clicker's every 2 months. Balls Clicker's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 79) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Balls Clicker sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and IdleSpiral sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Balls Clicker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Balls Clicker has 1K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Balls Clicker's written reviews are positive against 54% of IdleSpiral's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Balls Clicker ships an update every 2 months, IdleSpiral every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balls Clicker | IdleSpiral |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1K ratings) — better | 4.2 (79 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | 54.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 79 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 235 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fine Monkeys, LLC | Idle System, Inc. |
Customer experience
Balls Clicker
IdleSpiral
User reviews
Balls Clicker
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Mini fun games
- 🎉 Game is so cool
- 🎮 Good little game
- 🎮 I love this game
- 🎮 Awesome game
Room to improve
- 🔙 Bring back prestige balls
- 🔙 Bring back the old game
- 🤖 Ads?
- 🤖 Paid for Ad Free Issue
- 🤖 Ads?
IdleSpiral
From 79 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game overall
- 💡 Interesting idle/incremental mechanics
- 🔢 Generates big numbers
- ✨ Satisfying progression
- 🎨 Can make cool patterns
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game glitches and bugs
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 📱 Phone gets very hot
- 📉 Progress halts without active play
- 💸 Premium currency hard to accumulate
Bugs and requests
Balls Clicker
Reported bugs
4 issues- Not compatible with the camera island
- Game lies to you.
- to little levels
- Paid for no ads, still get ads
Requested features
8 requests- Add back prestige balls
- Add back the old game
- Add back prestige balls
- Add back the old game
- Add the prestige balls back
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- Add the prestige back
- Add prestige back
- Add the rebirth back PLEASE
IdleSpiral
Reported bugs
28 issues- Game is unresponsive
- Ads don't work or give rewards
- Patterns are random
- Bar at the bottom center not growable
- Phone gets super hot and drains battery
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- Translation is poor
- Offline progress not accumulating
- Game speed items cause overheating
- Game becomes laggy
- Last two Z Reactors missing
- Last three challenges missing
- Game not idle, requires active play
- Rewards reset when app is closed
- Memory of Formula system confusing
- Battles no longer progress offline
- Text is too small
- Daily bonus not working
- Offline gains broken
- Achievements not unlocking
- Offline battles don't increase difficulty
- Stats not functioning
- Social sharing (screenshot/tweet) broken
- Daily rewards unclear
- Challenges past first versions inaccessible
- Save process wipes progress
- Offline enemy kills not counting
- Spiral Equations not working
- Difficulty of fighting tab not increasing offline
Requested features
10 requests- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve ad rewards and length
- Make the game truly idle again
- Fix offline gains and progress
- Improve translation and text display
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- Bring PC version content to mobile
- Fix social sharing features
- Add dark mode
- Fix challenges not appearing
- Fix Z-Reactors not appearing
In-app purchases
Balls Clicker
- Remove Ads$6.99
- AdCoin Pack 1$7.99
- AdCoin Pack 2$14.99
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- Remove Ads + free AdCoins$19.99
- AdCoin Pack 3$19.99
IdleSpiral
- Spiral Point 500$1.99
- Snake Spiral$4.99
- Bubble Spiral$4.99
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- Arrow Spiral$4.99
- Water Spiral$9.99
- Space Spiral$9.99
- Bonfire Spiral$9.99
- Permanent Bonus$9.99
- Pixel Spiral$9.99
- Railway Spiral$9.99
- Spiral Point 3000$12.99
- Spiral Point 10000$29.99
Questions
Is Balls Clicker free?
Is IdleSpiral free?
Which has better reviews, Balls Clicker or IdleSpiral?
Do Balls Clicker or IdleSpiral have ads?
Which is updated more often, Balls Clicker or IdleSpiral?
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