Comparison

Ground Driller vs Black Hole Gravity

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

Head to head
About

Ground Driller

An idle digging game where you excavate gems and minerals with automated miners and upgradable equipment. Discover rare treasures deep underground and earn coins even when offline. Explore new content like research, fishing, and mini-games.

Highlights
  • Automated digging and mining
  • Collect diverse gems and minerals
  • Upgrade excavators and miners
  • Offline coin earnings
  • Mining research, fishing, mini-games
  • Achievements and leaderboards
Features
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Mine diverse gems and minerals with a powerful excavator and cute miners. Rarest gems are found only in the deepest part of the earth so dig as deep as possible. - No control required. Digging and mining are done automatically! - Uranium, nickel, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals can be collected. - You must upgrade your excavator to get deep into the earth. - Capable miners can mine more minerals than others. - There are various surprise events! - You can earn Coins even while you're offline. - New content has been added, including mining research, fishing, and mini-games. - Achievement & Leaderboard supported. - This is an offline game that does not require Data or WiFi connection. - Supports English.

About

Black Hole Gravity

Features
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Black Hole Gravity is a quiet arcade about one instrument — light — and the one thing it can do here: bend around a black hole. You are the last keeper of the horizon. Drag to bend the beam: far from the hole it barely curves; close to the photon sphere it wraps around once, twice, three times before it leaves. Tap to fire a pulse along that path. Where it lands, matter moves. THREE ACTS I · THE WATCH — Worlds are sliding toward the horizon. Push them clear with light and hold the line for as long as you can. Every world you lose feeds the hole and makes it grow. II · THE NIGHT — The stars are out. Nothing to guard, nowhere to hurry. Bend the beam, watch it wind, and score by how far it turns. III · THE SOWING — The universe is cold. Push the last worlds into the singularity, shatter them into falling fragments, and grow the hole until it collapses into a new Big Bang. DEEP TIME One long run through five scales — from asteroids to whole galaxies — each around a real black hole: Cygnus X-1, Gaia BH3, Sagittarius A*, M87*, TON 618. Your enemy is Hawking evaporation. Five eras of the far future set the difficulty, and every singularity you reach births a daughter universe with slightly different laws. HONEST PHYSICS • The lensed sky and the Einstein ring are computed from the real mapping, not painted. • Winding the beam with the hole's spin draws on its rotation — superradiance (Zel'dovich 1971; Press & Teukolsky 1972). Each amplified shot slows the hole; accretion spins it back up. • Mass, Schwarzschild radius, Hawking temperature and evaporation time are shown live, computed from the hole you are playing. • Bodies that leave the screen are never teleported back: an escaping one is gone, a bound one returns on its own orbit — the edge marker tells you when. • Nothing changes under your finger. While you aim, the world waits. CONTROLS Adaptive aiming: the gear ratio next to the ship shows how fine your aim is — the closer to the capture boundary, the finer the control, so a three-winding shot is as steady as a straight one. A hardcore scheme with a log slider is there for those who want it. Two beacons, one under each thumb. A procedural soundtrack, four tracks, made from the same math. Sound designed for headphones: low pulses and singing bowls, nothing arcade. No ads. No tracking. No account. Works offline.

Screenshots

Ground Driller4 screens
Black Hole Gravity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Black Hole Gravity at none against Ground Driller's 8. Black Hole Gravity also leads on ads (none vs shown). Ground Driller's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Ground Driller sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Black Hole Gravity asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ground Driller ships an update monthly, Black Hole Gravity every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ground Driller versus Black Hole Gravity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGround DrillerBlack Hole Gravity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (498 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings498 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size234 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFevergames inc.Oleksandr Dreiman

Bugs and requests

Ground Driller

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Coin count not visible on iPhone X/XS/XR
  • Timers not counting down when app is closed
  • Ads not loading properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline resource generation
  • Bulk upgrade options
  • Competitive/social features
  • More end-game content
  • Compatibility improvements for newer iPhones

Black Hole Gravity

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Ground Driller

One-time8
  • 300 Dia$1.99
  • 1200 Dia$6.99
  • Speed-up 3x$6.99
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  • Remove Bad News$6.99
  • 4200 Diamonds$19.99
  • 8000 Dia$34.99
  • 18000 Dia(Limited)$34.99
  • 18000 Diamonds$69.99
None

Black Hole Gravity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ground Driller free?
Ground Driller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Black Hole Gravity free?
Black Hole Gravity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ground Driller or Black Hole Gravity have ads?
Ground Driller shows ads; Black Hole Gravity does not.
Which is updated more often, Ground Driller or Black Hole Gravity?
Ground Driller ships an update monthly, and Black Hole Gravity every 2 months. Most recently, Ground Driller was updated on October 26, 2026 and Black Hole Gravity on October 29, 2026.

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