Comparison

Crafting Idle Clicker vs Archmage 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

Become a crafting tycoon by mining, harvesting, and crafting a vast array of products. Automate sales, upgrade units, and unlock hundreds of achievements. Customize your workshop and engage in regular events for unique rewards.

Highlights
  • Mine and harvest resources
  • Build complex production lines
  • Automate sales and upgrades
  • Unlock over 500 achievements
  • Customize workshop layout
  • Regular event workshops
  • Offline and passive play
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

Archmage Idle

An idle RPG where you train skills to empower wizards for combat and resource gathering. Manage various crafting and trading systems to collect items and progress even while offline.

Highlights
  • Interconnected skill system
  • Idle combat and resource gathering
  • Wizard recruitment and training
  • Hex map elemental combat
  • Crafting and trading systems
  • Offline progress
Features
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Train Skills. Recruit Wizards. Conquer Foes. An idle/incremental RPG with deeply interconnected skills. Your skills feed the frontlines: Attunement, Summoning, and Sigilry power your wizards as they fight across an elemental hex map. Your skills feed the supply lines: Research, Runecrafting, Alchemy, Mercantile, and Scavenging keep the resources flowing. And skills you won't find anywhere else, like Chronomancy, Diplomacy, and Appraisal, tie it all together. Burn Runes in the Runic Cauldron. Train wizards at the Academy. Sell surplus goods on the Bazaar. Collect hundreds of items that fuel both your skilling and your combat. Your guild keeps working while you're offline.

Screenshots

Crafting Idle Clicker4 screens
Archmage Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Crafting Idle Clicker at 3.8K against Archmage Idle's 85. Archmage Idle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and chart position (#120 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Crafting Idle Clicker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Archmage Idle 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

Crafting Idle Clicker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crafting Idle Clicker has 3.8K ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Crafting Idle Clicker's written reviews are positive against 79% of Archmage Idle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update every 2 weeks, Archmage Idle every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Crafting Idle Clicker versus Archmage Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrafting Idle ClickerArchmage Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better4.5 (85 ratings)
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better85
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#120 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size325 MB380 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBling Bling Games GmbHTopCog LLC

Customer experience

Crafting Idle Clicker

All ratings3,780 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews412 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative19.7%

Archmage Idle

All ratings78 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative17.9%

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

Archmage Idle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
  • Triple Speed$9.99
  • Special Sale Offer$9.99
  • Artifact Challenge Gold Pass$19.99
  • Plump bag of Gems$19.99
  • Chest of Gems$49.99
10 purchases

Archmage Idle

One-time10
  • Time Warp$0.99
  • VIP 1 - Apprentice Patron$2.99
  • VIP Plus 1$4.99
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  • Remove Ads + XP Boost$4.99
  • VIP 2 - Adept Patron$4.99
  • Time Warp x10$9.99
  • VIP 3 - Mage Patron$9.99
  • VIP Plus 4$14.99
  • VIP 4 - Grandmage Patron$14.99
  • VIP 5 - Archmage Patron$19.99

Questions

Is Crafting Idle Clicker free?
Crafting Idle Clicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archmage Idle free?
Archmage Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crafting Idle Clicker or Archmage Idle?
Crafting Idle Clicker is rated higher. Crafting Idle Clicker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while Archmage Idle averages 4.5 from 85 ratings.
Do Crafting Idle Clicker or Archmage Idle have ads?
Both Crafting Idle Clicker and Archmage Idle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Crafting Idle Clicker or Archmage Idle?
Crafting Idle Clicker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Archmage Idle every 3 days. Most recently, Crafting Idle Clicker was updated on November 11, 2026 and Archmage Idle on November 11, 2026.

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