Comparison

Tinker Island 2 vs Tiny Shop

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

Head to head
About

Tinker Island 2

Embark on a thrilling survival adventure on a mysterious island divided by warring factions. Explore diverse locations, battle creatures, and uncover secrets as you choose sides and help characters achieve their destiny. Manage your crew, upgrade their skills, and craft tools to overcome island dangers.

Highlights
  • Island exploration
  • Faction warfare
  • Mystery and riddles
  • Creature battles
  • Crew management
  • Crafting and upgrades
Features
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Are you ready for the survival adventure of your lifetime? Tinker Island 2 is back – bigger and better than before! Join a crew of survivors on an island split between two factions – the villagers and the citizens that are fighting for island domination! Based on the original Tinker Island award-winning mobile game, Tinker Island 2 throws you into another adventure on a deserted island, filled with mysteries, riddles, epic battles and questions that boggle even the brightest of the minds! Discover the mystery of the island inhabited by three factions – the villagers, the citizens and the aliens. Pick a side, help them out with quests and discover the secrets of Tinker Island 2. Discover strange locations, battle creatures from the depths of your ultimate nightmares and help out the mysterious characters achieve their destiny! Enjoy the rich story adventure game that leads you from the beach across the entire island to the grand finale in the volcano. Decide if you are going to help the villagers or join forces with the citizens in defeating the evil aliens that want the island for themselves! Visit over fifty locations and discover the mysteries of Tinker Island 2, encounter strange and mysterious characters and decide which side are you going to assist in taking over the island! Fight your way through with our easy-to-handle battle interface and level up your characters as you progress through a rich-story environment! Manage your crew and upgrade their stats and your dwellings, develop new tools and weapons and use them to defeat the monsters, the wild animals and other dangers that lurk on the island! Join the Tinker Island 2 community and help each other out: Follow Tinker Island survival game on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tinkerisland/ Follow the Tinker Island updates and new episodes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tinkerislandtm PLEASE NOTE! Tinker Island 2 is free to play, however, some additional items can be purchased for real money or through special offers. If you don't wish to use this feature, please adjust your device's settings. By installing this game you agree to Terms of Service published here: https://www.trickytribe.com/terms-of-use/

About

Tiny Shop

Design and manage your own fantasy shop in a charming RPG world. Research, craft, and sell magical goods, complete quests, and expand your business. An assistant helps sell items even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Personalize and design your shop
  • Research, craft, and trade fantasy items
  • Complete quests and missions
  • Build and upgrade your city
  • Grow and harvest plants for crafting
  • Offline item sales with assistant
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YOU are a brand new member of the trading guild just stepping into this fantasy world. Personalize and design your own store, attract customers and sell magical and epic goods! Research, craft, trade, negotiate, buy and sell fantasy items and products from all over the world in this RPG simulation game and learn to manage your store to become the city’s best shop! Build, design and customize your very own cute fantasy shop with dozens of options! Making your store as outstanding as it can be will upgrade customers' satisfaction and boost your shop! Fortune awaits! With the help of your cute little assistant, discover a RPG world crafted with love. Meet mages and knights and send your heroes on epic adventures! Earn money and XP without doing anything as your assistant will sell your items for you while you are offline! Just fill your warehouse to the brim with goods and items and let the cash flow! Complete quests and missions for the trading guild and your customers and become the most beloved and reliable shopkeeper in town! Follow a cute and funny story, discover characters from your town and outside, build and upgrade your city to unlock more items and quests! Expand and upgrade your shop tile by tile. Buy beautiful and cute furniture and decoration to make your shop truly yours. Upgrade your shop’s statistics to boost your gold and xp! Plant and harvest exotic plants to craft powerful potions and other magic alchemy goods. From beautiful flowers to leafy vines you can become the best gardener around! Visit the botanist in the city center to buy new seeds and expand your garden. In this RPG fantasy shop adventure you will: RESEARCH, DISCOVER and CRAFT dozens of different items and goods to trade DESIGN and CUSTOMISE your tiny shop to improve your sales! COMPLETE STORY MISSIONS and QUESTS to help your city become prosperous EXPLORE and BUILD your city and world GROW and HARVEST cute plants and flowers ENJOY CUTE and CHARMING hand painted visuals HAVE A GOOD and RELAXING time Tiny Shop is a RPG store simulation game that will let you customize and design your own shop within a cute fantasy world. You can research, craft and sell: armor, potions, magic books, all kinds of gear and equipment as well as crafting materials such as plants, metals and gems. With your hard earned money you can expand and personalize your cute fantasy shop and explore the world to become the most prosperous shopkeeper in town! Install Tiny Shop for free NOW! Craft, trade, buy, sell, quest and customize in this fantasy RPG game! Music in our game is made by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/ We're using the following tunes: * Carpe Diem * Porch Swing Days (slower) * Montauk Point Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Screenshots

Tinker Island 24 screens
Tiny Shop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Tinker Island 2 at 4.6K against Tiny Shop's 1.3K. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Tinker Island 2 sells 21 one-off in-app purchases and Tiny Shop sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. 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 — 4.8 for Tinker Island 2 against 4.7 for Tiny Shop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.6K and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Tinker Island 2's written reviews are positive against 79% of Tiny Shop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tinker Island 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, Tiny Shop fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tinker Island 2 versus Tiny Shop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinker Island 2Tiny Shop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better4.7 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews78.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.6K — better1.3K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
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
Size234 MB270 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperTricky Tribe d.o.o.Mateusz Lesinski

Customer experience

Tinker Island 2

All ratings4,633 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews505 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral5.7%
Negative17.0%

Tiny Shop

All ratings1,292 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews267 reviews
Positive78.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative15.4%

User reviews

Tinker Island 2

From 4.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 👍 Engaging story and humor
  • 🎨 Improved graphics over the first game
  • 🕹️ Enjoyable combat system
  • 🔓 No ads or microtransactions

Room to improve

  • ⏱️ Excessive timers and waiting periods
  • 💰 Progression heavily gated behind paywalls
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Unclear progression and objectives
  • 🔢 Repetitive and grindy gameplay

Tiny Shop

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging gameplay
  • 🚀 Generous with free rewards
  • 🎨 Charming art style
  • 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
  • 📺 Optional, non-intrusive ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • ⏱️ Slow progression at times
  • 🔋 Battery-intensive
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options

Bugs and requests

Tinker Island 2

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to progress past certain points
  • Unresponsive UI elements and screen freezes
  • Inconsistent save data and progress loss

Requested features

4 requests
  • Offline mode support
  • More customization options for characters
  • Improved balancing and resource acquisition
  • Smoother user interface and controls

Tiny Shop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes or gets stuck during loading
  • Disappearing or malfunctioning shop displays
  • Recipes or licenses getting reset unexpectedly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize character/avatar
  • More furniture and shop decorations
  • Daily customer requests or challenges
  • Improved balance for crafting materials

In-app purchases

21 purchases

Tinker Island 2

One-time21
  • A pebble of gems$0.99
  • A daily special offer$0.99
  • A daily special offer$2.99
Show 18 more
  • A daily special offer$3.99
  • A fistful of gems$4.99
  • A daily special offer$4.99
  • A pouch of gems$9.99
  • Darwin Value Pack$9.99
  • Cat Value Pack$12.99
  • Value Pack Rosie$12.99
  • Sara Value Pack$15.99
  • Value Pack Ivar$15.99
  • Value Pack Rosie$15.99
  • Value Pack Darwin$19.99
  • Value Pack Ivar$19.99
  • A sack of gems$19.99
  • Value Pack Shael$19.99
  • Cat Value Pack$24.99
  • Stratus Value Pack$24.99
  • A bucket of gems$29.99
  • A daily special offer$31.99
18 purchases

Tiny Shop

One-time18
  • Small Gem pack$1.99
  • Birthday bundle$1.99
  • Adventurer bundle$1.99
Show 15 more
  • Croissant Bundle$1.99
  • Coral Crab Bundle$1.99
  • Starting Pack$2.99
  • Winter hat bundle$3.99
  • Big Gem pack$4.99
  • Bundle$4.99
  • Botanist Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Blacksmith Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Home Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Kitchen Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Ad Tickets bundle$4.99
  • Sunny festival$4.99
  • Flooded Bundle$4.99
  • Large Gem pack$9.99
  • Enormous Gem pack$19.99

Questions

Is Tinker Island 2 free?
Tinker Island 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Shop free?
Tiny Shop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tinker Island 2 or Tiny Shop?
Tinker Island 2 is rated higher. Tinker Island 2 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.6K ratings, while Tiny Shop averages 4.7 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Tinker Island 2 or Tiny Shop have ads?
Both Tinker Island 2 and Tiny Shop show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tinker Island 2 or Tiny Shop?
Tinker Island 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tiny Shop fortnightly. Most recently, Tinker Island 2 was updated on September 20, 2026 and Tiny Shop on September 19, 2026.

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