Comparison

Idle Marble Run vs Idle Ball Digging

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

Head to head
About

Idle Marble Run

Experience a relaxing toy marble machine with idle mechanics. Watch marbles merge, hit bumpers, and inject special types like fireballs and snowballs into an infinite run.

Highlights
  • Infinite marble machine
  • Idle mechanics
  • Marble merging
  • Bumper interactions
  • Special marble types (Fireballs, Snowballs, Plasma)
Features
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Drop a marble. Watch it fall through the pegs, light up every bumper it touches, and turn each bounce into gold. Two marbles of the same kind that meet become one bigger marble, worth far more than the two that made it. That single rule is the whole game, and it never stops paying off. MERGE YOUR WAY UP Every merge unlocks a richer marble. Grey, gold, ruby, sapphire, emerald: the ladder keeps going, and so do the numbers. THE BOARD KEEPS EARNING Close the app and the marbles keep working. Come back to a pile of gold waiting to be claimed, and double or triple it on the spot. FIVE SPECIAL MARBLES FIREBALL destroys bumpers in a single hit. SNOWBALL grows with every bounce. RAINBOW is pulled toward the pegs. SHADOW clones itself on impact. BUBBLEGUM sends bumpers flying. AND PLENTY MORE A cannon that fires marbles on its own. Bonus letters scattered across the board. A gallery to fill with every marble in the game. Achievements, levels, and a cloud save that carries progress from one device to the next. No energy bar, no lives, nothing to unlock with a timer. Just bouncing physics, gentle celebrations, and numbers that always go up. Idle Marble Run is free to play. It contains ads and optional in-app purchases, and any purchase removes the ads for good.

About

Idle Ball Digging

Merge all the balls to become rich in this idle game. Discover new balls and enjoy the satisfying merging gameplay. Become the wealthiest player by strategically combining your assets.

Highlights
  • Merge balls
  • Become rich
  • Idle gameplay
  • Discover new balls
  • Satisfying merging
Features
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Hey Game Lover’s! It’s finally here! Discover Idle Ball Merging! Merge all balls and become rich!

Screenshots

Idle Marble Run3 screens
Idle Ball Digging4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Ball Digging at none against Idle Marble Run's 7. Idle Ball Digging also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Idle Marble Run's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Idle Marble Run sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Idle Ball Digging asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Ball Digging holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Marble Run has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Idle Marble Run's written reviews are positive against 100% of Idle Ball Digging's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Idle Marble Run versus Idle Ball Digging: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Marble RunIdle Ball Digging
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (21 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKilosaurusKiwert

Customer experience

Idle Marble Run

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Idle Ball Digging

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Idle Marble Run

One-time7
  • Pack 30 Diamonds$0.99
  • Pack 66 Diamonds$1.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Pack 180 Diamonds$3.99
  • Pack 400 Diamonds$8.99
  • Pack 1125 Diamonds$22.99
  • Pack 2250 Diamonds$44.99
None

Idle Ball Digging

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Marble Run free?
Idle Marble Run is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Ball Digging free?
Idle Ball Digging is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Idle Marble Run or Idle Ball Digging?
Idle Ball Digging is rated higher. Idle Marble Run averages 4.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Idle Ball Digging averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Idle Marble Run or Idle Ball Digging have ads?
Both Idle Marble Run and Idle Ball Digging show ads.

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