Comparison

DrillKing vs Tap!

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

Head to head
About

DrillKing

Explore alien planets, mine valuable minerals, and construct your own colony. Upgrade your drill and facilities to unlock new technologies and help your home world. Strategic planning is key to success in this interstellar resource-gathering adventure.

Highlights
  • Explore 5 distinctive planets
  • Mine minerals and resources
  • Build and upgrade colony infrastructure
  • Develop new technologies
  • Complete quests for rewards
  • Trade for minerals
Features
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Drill down planet surface, mine minerals, craft buildings and upgrade your drill to build your own colony! Simply shake your device to handle various events and make progress! Features Drillking is a game where you mine minerals and build colonies on extraterrestrial planets. There are 5 distinctive planets to explore. Colonize each planet, dig up minerals, develop new technology, and help your home world Earth. How to play Drill down Planet surface to mine Minerals. Use them to build and upgrade infrastructures for your colony. Each Planet has its unique set of Minerals. You must plan carefully where to drill and what to upgrade. Some Planets are restricted, due to its strange gravity. To access these Planets, you must upgrade your Drill. DRILL: The main mining device. The deeper you dig, the more Mineral types you'll find. FACTORY: This is where you extract Minerals from ore. Upgrade Factory to increase mining speed. DEPOT: This is where you keep your Minerals. Upgrade Depot to increase its max Mineral capacity. You can trade Star for Minerals in Star Refinery, but you must unlock it first. PRO TIP: Always check Quests! Quest rewards are very helpful for easier progress. Some Quests will unlock super-effective Lab contents. Tap Comm Sat on the left for helpful tips. Synopsis Planet Earth, 327 Space Year. The human race faces a new crisis, as increasing number of population consumed most of available resources. Scientists began a project to craft an All-terrain mining vessel, capable of drilling any surface to mine minerals… …and after 5 years, The vessel is complete, and an inhabitable planet with rich amount of minerals is found. The New Frontier awaits you! Notes Your data is saved in the device. If you change device, or delete the app, all save files will be terminated. Deleting the app will terminate all save files.

About

Tap!

Features
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Tap! is a simple, fast arcade game about tapping a target before it gets away. Each time you hit it, it jumps somewhere else on the screen, and it keeps getting quicker the longer you go. It's the kind of game you pick up for one round and end up playing for twenty. There are three game modes: Time Attack — you get 30 seconds to score as high as you can. Survival — you have three lives, and every target has a countdown ring. Tap it in time or you lose a life. Zen — no timer and no lives, just for relaxing and going after a long streak. As you play, hitting targets quickly in a row builds a combo that multiplies your points, up to 8x. Gold targets show up now and then and are worth five times as much. The higher you climb, the smaller and faster the targets get, and there are Easy, Normal, and Hard settings if you want to change the challenge. Tap! has Game Center leaderboards for each mode and achievements to unlock, and it keeps track of your best scores and overall stats. There are haptics and sound effects, and there are no ads, no accounts to make, and no internet needed to play. See how fast you can tap.

Screenshots

DrillKing4 screens
Tap!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tap! at none against DrillKing's 3. Tap! also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). DrillKing's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). On price 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. DrillKing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tap! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrillKing ships an update weekly, Tap! every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DrillKing versus Tap!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrillKingTap!
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJINOH ChoJordan Feldstein LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DrillKing

One-time3
  • DrillKing 100 Stars$0.99
  • DrillKing 350 Stars$2.99
  • DrillKing 1500 Stars$9.99
None

Tap!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrillKing free?
DrillKing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tap! free?
Tap! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DrillKing or Tap! have ads?
Neither DrillKing nor Tap! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrillKing or Tap!?
DrillKing ships an update weekly, and Tap! every 2 days. Most recently, DrillKing was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tap! on October 30, 2026.

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