Comparison

Crafting Idle Clicker vs Grimoire Incremental

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

Head to head
About

Crafting Idle Clicker

Build intricate production lines, from basic materials to legendary items. Automate sales, upgrade units, and unlock hundreds of achievements. Invest in research and customize your workshop for a deep crafting experience.

Highlights
  • Mine and harvest resources
  • Build complex production lines
  • Automate sales and upgrades
  • Unlock over 500 achievements
  • Collect and evolve blueprints
  • Customize workshop layout
  • Participate in event workshops
Features
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Become a crafting tycoon! - Mine and harvest resources to craft products and goods. - Build anything from basic materials to legendary items. - Automatically sell your goods and upgrade your crafting units. - Unlock over 500 achievements and ascend 100 levels. - Collect new blueprints to unlock them in your workshop. Build, invest and research! - Upgrade and evolve blueprints! Increase your revenue to get set bonuses. - Invest in further upgrades, new products or research. - Accomplish missions to get permanent prestige rewards. Customize your workshop! - Organize your workshop however you want. Just drag around the products. - Engage in regular event workshops with unique content and rewards. - Build a gigantic production line with over 100 items and counting. Crafting Idle Clicker supports multiple playstyles: -Active: Tap your products to speed up crafting. -Passive: Let the game run while it automatically earns money and invests the profits. -Closed: Crafting continues while the app is closed. Just give new orders from time to time. -Offline: Most features work without internet connection. Generative AI tools were used during development to assist in creating marketing and promotional graphics, localized text, and visual assets for game updates and new features (such as icons, UI elements, and seasonal content). All AI-assisted assets are reviewed, edited, and integrated by human developers prior to release. Do you like idle games, management games or incremental games, but most of them are too shallow for you? Then try Crafting Idle Clicker - one of the best crafting games out there! Over one million players enjoyed Crafting Idle Clicker already. The game is still updated regularly with new features and content. Help us making this the best idle clicker game on mobile. Feel free to send any feedback to feedback@blingblinggames.com! IdleClicker.com facebook.com/IdleClicker twitter.com/IdleClicker reddit.com/r/idleclicker

About

Grimoire Incremental

Engage in a narrative-driven idle or clicker game where your choices shape society and unlock new mechanics. Progress through runs and prestiges with non-formulaic gameplay and optional ads.

Highlights
  • Non-formulaic gameplay
  • Branching narrative choices
  • Idle and clicker mechanics
  • Unlockable mechanics
  • Opt-in ads for bonuses
  • Single in-app purchase option
Features
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NON-FORMULAIC GAMEPLAY Make real choices through spells to favour, interactions with the populace, and other arcane projects. Focus on combining thematic effects to wield great power. Choose between idle and clicker mechanics as you progress through runs and prestiges. BRANCHING CHOICES Choose how you'll use the magic available to you to shape society, and witness the impact through a changing story and play style. COMPELLING NARRATIVE Experience a broad story arc that grows as you progress, and branches with the choices you make and actions you take. MANY AND VARIED MECHANICS Unlock new ways to make those numbers bigger with practice, research, spells, creations, lifestyle and expeditions. Each new mechanic offers a different twist and provides new opportunities for strategy. NO OBLIGATION Adverts are opt-in for a bonus only. No content is blocked behind ad walls. Single in-app purchase removes ad button and gives boost forever.

Screenshots

Crafting Idle Clicker4 screens
Grimoire Incremental4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Crafting Idle Clicker at weekly against Grimoire Incremental's every 3 months. Crafting Idle Clicker also leads on ratings volume (3.7K vs 544). Grimoire Incremental's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 72%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Crafting Idle Clicker sells 21 one-off in-app purchases and Grimoire Incremental sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Crafting Idle Clicker against 4.8 for Grimoire Incremental. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crafting Idle Clicker has 3.7K ratings behind it against 544, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Crafting Idle Clicker's written reviews are positive against 87% of Grimoire Incremental's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update weekly, Grimoire Incremental every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Crafting Idle Clicker versus Grimoire Incremental: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrafting Idle ClickerGrimoire Incremental
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.7K ratings)4.8 (544 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews86.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.7K — better544
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
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
Size319 MB70 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperBling Bling Games GmbHGraham Goldstein

Customer experience

Crafting Idle Clicker

All ratings3,672 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive72.1%
Neutral8.2%
Negative19.7%

Grimoire Incremental

All ratings544 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive86.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative7.5%

User reviews

Crafting Idle Clicker

From 3.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Unique gameplay
  • 🚀 Addictive and engaging
  • 💡 Innovative crafting mechanics
  • 🕰️ Offline progress
  • 👍 No forced ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔌 Drains battery
  • 🔍 Confusing UI
  • 🕰️ Progress resets
  • 🔍 Unclear mechanics

Grimoire Incremental

From 544 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Simplicity and minimalism
  • 👍 Non-intrusive ads
  • 👍 Engaging gameplay
  • 👍 Rewarding progression

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes
  • 🐛 Slow progress in late game
  • 🐛 Imbalanced builds
  • 🐛 Lack of content variety

Bugs and requests

Crafting Idle Clicker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game crashes on startup
  • Sync issues causing progress loss
  • Ads not working properly
  • Unresponsive controls

Requested features

4 requests
  • More detailed tutorial
  • Ability to rearrange UI elements
  • Offline mode improvements
  • Ability to hard reset progress

Grimoire Incremental

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Progress loss on crash
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More content and updates
  • Better late-game balance
  • Detailed progression tracking
  • Story expansion

In-app purchases

21 purchases

Crafting Idle Clicker

One-time21
  • Starter Package$0.99
  • Special Sale Offer5 variants$0.99
  • Special Sale Offer$4.99
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  • 30 day gems delivery$4.99
  • Handful of Gems$4.99
  • x2 Income & Offline Production$4.99
  • Double Speed$4.99
  • Artifact Challenge Silver Pass$4.99
  • Pouch of Gems$9.99
  • Extra Deal$9.99
  • Triple Speed$9.99
  • Special Sale Offer$9.99
  • Special Sale Offer$19.99
  • 30 day gems delivery$19.99
  • Artifact Challenge Gold Pass$19.99
  • Plump bag of Gems$19.99
  • 30 day favors delivery$19.99
  • 30 day lore pack delivery$19.99
  • Special Sale Offer$49.99
  • Chest of Gems$49.99
  • Treasury of Gems$99.99
1 purchases

Grimoire Incremental

One-time1
  • Remove Advertisements$6.99

Questions

Is Crafting Idle Clicker free?
Crafting Idle Clicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grimoire Incremental free?
Grimoire Incremental is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crafting Idle Clicker or Grimoire Incremental?
Grimoire Incremental is rated higher. Crafting Idle Clicker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Grimoire Incremental averages 4.8 from 544 ratings.
Do Crafting Idle Clicker or Grimoire Incremental have ads?
Both Crafting Idle Clicker and Grimoire Incremental show ads.
Which is updated more often, Crafting Idle Clicker or Grimoire Incremental?
Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update weekly, and Grimoire Incremental every 3 months. Most recently, Crafting Idle Clicker was updated on September 25, 2026 and Grimoire Incremental on September 25, 2026.

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