Comparison

Crafting Idle Clicker vs Ethos Idle

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

Ethos Idle

Guide humanity's progress from its earliest discoveries to the distant future. Manage your tribe's choices, develop over 200 unique ideas, and explore the world. Advance your civilization, unlock bonuses, and enjoy a single-player, offline experience with optional ads.

Highlights
  • Develop over 200 historic ideas
  • Explore and exploit the world
  • Manage tribe choices
  • Unlock exploration bonuses and synergies
  • Prestige mechanic upgrades
  • Customizable challenge scenarios
  • Offline single-player experience
Features
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Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free

Screenshots

Crafting Idle Clicker4 screens
Ethos Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Crafting Idle Clicker at 3.8K against Ethos Idle's 242. Ethos Idle's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 72%). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Crafting Idle Clicker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Ethos Idle 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 Ethos Idle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crafting Idle Clicker has 3.8K ratings behind it against 242, 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 84% of Ethos Idle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update every 10 days, Ethos Idle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crafting Idle Clicker versus Ethos Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrafting Idle ClickerEthos Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings)4.8 (242 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews84.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better242
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
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
Size325 MB101 MB
Age rating+124+
DeveloperBling Bling Games GmbHGraham Goldstein

Customer experience

Crafting Idle Clicker

All ratings3,756 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews412 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative19.7%

Ethos Idle

All ratings241 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive84.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative6.3%

User reviews

Crafting Idle Clicker

From 3.8K 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

Ethos Idle

From 242 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast progression
  • 👍 Minimal ad interruption
  • 👍 Simple and enjoyable design
  • 👍 Great for relaxing and watching numbers go up
  • 👍 Excellent incremental game design

Room to improve

  • 🐢 Slower progression speed desired
  • 🛒 IAP for 2x production doesn't eliminate video ads

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

Ethos Idle

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • RNG for challenges is unfair and unfun
  • Unlocking buffs for inaccessible technologies

Requested features

2 requests
  • Option to remove ads entirely
  • Clarification on prestige warp gain multipliers

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Crafting Idle Clicker

One-time10
  • Handful of Gems$4.99
  • x2 Income & Offline Production$4.99
  • Double Speed$4.99
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  • Pouch of Gems$9.99
  • Extra Deal$9.99
  • Special Sale Offer$9.99
  • Artifact Challenge Gold Pass$19.99
  • Plump bag of Gems$19.99
  • Chest of Gems$49.99
  • Treasury of Gems$99.99
1 purchases

Ethos Idle

One-time1
  • x2 Speed$6.99

Questions

Is Crafting Idle Clicker free?
Crafting Idle Clicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ethos Idle free?
Ethos Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crafting Idle Clicker or Ethos Idle?
Ethos Idle is rated higher. Crafting Idle Clicker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while Ethos Idle averages 4.8 from 242 ratings.
Do Crafting Idle Clicker or Ethos Idle have ads?
Both Crafting Idle Clicker and Ethos Idle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Crafting Idle Clicker or Ethos Idle?
Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update every 10 days, and Ethos Idle every 3 weeks. Most recently, Crafting Idle Clicker was updated on November 6, 2026 and Ethos Idle on November 4, 2026.

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