Idle Skilling vs Exponential Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Skilling
This game offers a vast amount of content with over 21 different skills to level up. Engage in a wide variety of activities like mining, crafting, farming, and battling to progress. It's a complex and engaging idle game experience with multiple prestige mechanics.
- 21+ skills to level up
- Mining, fishing, crafting
- Pet breeding and battling
- Farming and potion making
- Treasure hunting and construction
- Boss battles and prestige mechanics
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Idle games are nothing in comparison to Idle Skilling! With literal years of content, this will be your new favorite idle game! Don't believe me? Idle Skilling has mining, fishing, crafting, pet breeding, pet battling, lab research, soul farming, regular farming, flower growing, potion making, relic upgrading... Still don't believe me? Well idle skilling also has treasure hunting, construction, crusade boss battles, equipment smithing, achievements, boss fights, asylum boss fights, two separate prestige mechanics, and more. Yep, even more. Be warned, this idle game is hardcore! It is more complicated than other idle games, but is also way more fun!
Exponential Idle
Engage in a math-inspired incremental game where you strategically stack virtual money through exponential growth. Advance through time, make variable changes, and purchase upgrades to accelerate your earnings and unlock achievements.
- Exponential growth mechanics
- Time progression
- Change of variables
- Buy upgrades
- Earn virtual money
- Unlock achievements
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Play Exponential Idle, a math-inspired incremental game. Your goal is to stack up money by taking advantage of exponential growth. To do so, you have to step through time by tapping the equation or simply let the time follow its course. You can perform change of variables to accelerate the process, buy upgrades, get rewards, and unlock achievements while earning virtual money.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Exponential Idle at 4.9 against Idle Skilling's 3.5. Exponential Idle also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 51%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Idle Skilling's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Idle Skilling sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Exponential Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Exponential Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exponential Idle has 4.1K ratings behind it against 712, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Idle Skilling's written reviews are positive against 92% of Exponential Idle's.
Idle Skilling ships an update every 2 months, Exponential Idle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Skilling | Exponential Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (712 ratings) | 4.9 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.8% of reviews | 91.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 712 | 4.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lavaflamestudios LLC | Gilles-Philippe Paille |
Customer experience
Idle Skilling
Exponential Idle
User reviews
Idle Skilling
From 712 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game
- 🚀 Lots of content
- 💡 Unique mechanics
- 👍 No ads or pay-to-win
- 👍 Responsive developer
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Save data loss issues
- 🐛 Certain features not working (cards, realms)
- 🐛 Progression issues (crafting, leveling)
Exponential Idle
From 4.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great and addicting game
- 👍 Interesting story and educational
- 👍 Numbers go big
- 👍 User-friendly with good descriptions
- 👍 Highly automated progression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow progression after initial stages
- 🕹️ Difficult mini-games
- 🔒 Harsh time-change penalty
- 🔋 Potential performance issues on some devices
Bugs and requests
Idle Skilling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when accessing cards menu
- Realm and afterlife features not working
- Crafting and leveling progress getting stuck
- Save data randomly getting wiped
Requested features
4 requests- Cloud save/sync across devices
- More stable performance and bug fixes
- Improved tutorial and onboarding
- Realm and afterlife updates for iOS
Exponential Idle
Reported bugs
3 issues- Puzzle mini-games not loading correctly
- Offline progress issues after updates
- Occasional app crashes
Requested features
5 requests- More mini-games and challenges
- Better explanations for advanced mechanics
- Adjustable color schemes and visual customization
- Improved offline progress tracking
- Smoother performance and optimization
In-app purchases
Idle Skilling
- Pile of Gems$1.99
- Sack of Gems$4.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
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- Chest of Gems$9.99
- Pet Pack$9.99
- Mastery Pack$9.99
- Mountain of Gems$19.99
Exponential Idle
- Donate$0.99
- Permanent Ad Reward$1.99
- Donate$1.99
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- Donate$3.99
Questions
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