Idle Rancher vs My Cat Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Rancher
Become a wealthy alpaca rancher by starting your own farm. Discover new crops, earn coins, and build a vast ranch empire. Manage your farm to produce delicious treats and upgrade your facilities.
- Start your own alpaca ranch
- Discover and plant various crops
- Earn coins and upgrade your ranch
- Produce delicious ice cream and treats
- Build the biggest ranch empire
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Are you ready to become the wealthiest rancher in the farming games world? In Idle Rancher you are a super cute alpaca rancher. Start your own ranch, discover new crops, earn coins and build the biggest ranch empire in the universe! Manage your ranch and plant a variety of funny crops to make delicious ice cream, improve your productivity and upgrade your ranch. What do you feel like planting today? Yummy avocados? Fluffy cats? Scrumptious macaroons? Find all of them and many more and become the wealthiest rancher!
My Cat Tower
Experience a unique idle tycoon game where adorable cats run a dessert business. Invest in your business, collect cats to boost profits, and automate operations to earn gold even when you're away. Tap cats for hearts, exchange them for fish, and expand your feline empire to new cities.
- Idle tycoon gameplay
- Collect and recruit cats
- Automate business operations
- Earn gold AFK
- Exchange hearts for fish
- Expand to new cities
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Have you ever seen cats making desserts? You can experience them now, in our idle tycoon game! Dozens of cute cats are waiting for you. Invest gold in business to increase the profit! Collect cats that’ll help increase your profit! Automate the business and earn gold AFK! Tap cats to collect hearts! You can exchange hearts to fish, which kitties love. Recruit various cats to your dessert business, and expand to many other cities!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: My Cat Tower at 4.7 against Idle Rancher's 3.3. My Cat Tower also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 42%). Idle Rancher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. My Cat Tower sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Idle Rancher asks for nothing beyond the download.
My Cat Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 167 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Idle Rancher's written reviews are positive against 72% of My Cat Tower's.
Idle Rancher ships an update every 5 days, My Cat Tower weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Rancher | My Cat Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (60 ratings) | 4.7 (167 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 72.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 | 167 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 349 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REALITY SQUARED GAME CO., LIMITED | PLAYHARD |
Customer experience
Idle Rancher
My Cat Tower
User reviews
Idle Rancher
From 60 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😍 Adorable art style
- 😊 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 💡 Interesting trivia questions
- ✨ Cute food designs
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ads not working
- 🐛 Videos not playable
- 🐛 Chest screen unclosable
- 🐛 Game softlocks
- 🐛 Progress lost after crash
My Cat Tower
From 167 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😻 Adorable cat characters and aesthetics
- 👍 Cute and relaxing gameplay
- 💸 F2P friendly with non-intrusive ads
- 💖 Easy to earn in-game money
- ✨ Smooth graphics
Room to improve
- 📉 Slow progression
- ⏳ Takes too long to get gems
- ⚠️ Unobtainable necessary cards
- 📶 Requires internet connection
- 😩 Annoying pop-ups to rate
Bugs and requests
Idle Rancher
Reported bugs
14 issues- Cannot watch ads to get rewards
- Videos for rewards are not playable
- Cannot exit chest screen after opening
- Game softlocks when opening chests
- Progress lost after app crash/reinstall
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- Lag and performance issues
- Christmas event progression blocked
- Offline earnings feature removed
- Duplicate puzzle pieces issue
- Screen not sized correctly on some devices
- White screen after making ice cream
- Game freezes when using potions/upgrading
- Money display incorrect
- Ice cream making stuck
Requested features
9 requests- Fix ads not working
- Fix chest screen bug
- Add more crops
- Add in-app purchases
- Allow ad rewards without ads
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- Fix potion usage display
- Fix duplicate puzzle pieces
- Fix Christmas event progression
- Fix offline earnings
My Cat Tower
Reported bugs
9 issues- Game crashes frequently
- App closes after receiving rewards
- Invalid/Accets_token error
- Cannot progress levels
- Service cannot be accessed error
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- Game resets progress
- Game not loading
- Lost progress after reinstalling
- Elevator not holding all products
Requested features
5 requests- Update the game more regularly
- Add more levels and content
- Collection of skins for decoration
- Outfits or accessories for cats
- Chinese version publication
In-app purchases
Idle Rancher
No in-app purchases
My Cat Tower
- [Event] PiggyBank Premium$0.99
- Ad Skip Package 1$0.99
- Fistful Of Gems$2.99
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- Starter Package$2.99
- PiggyBank Premium$2.99
- [Event] Support Package$3.99
- Ad Skip Package 2$4.99
- [Event] Starter Package$4.99
- Pouch Of Gems$6.99
- NO ADS Package$19.99
Questions
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