Comparison

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker vs Yerba Mate Tycoon

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

Head to head
About

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker

Embark on a journey from a novice programmer to a world-renowned developer. Create games and apps, build your business, and climb the ranks to earn millions. Experience the thrill of competitions, luxurious living, and even saving the world.

Highlights
  • Create games and applications
  • Earn millions of dollars
  • Improve programming skills
  • Open an office and start a business
  • Participate in competitions
  • Save the world from a virus
Features
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Welcome to Hacker real life simulator - a game where you will create your own games and applications and earn your first million dollars. You will go from a beginner to the richest programmer in the world. There will be many adventures on the way to success: • you will improve your programming skills; • open office and start your own business; • take part in competitions and conferences; • live in the most expensive houses and use the coolest computers; • and even save the world from a dangerous virus in our idle clicker! So, you will go from zero to hero in our Tap Tycoon Simulator. They will call you a developer or programmer. But we know who you really are. You are a hacker! Remember this word, our future Dev Tycoon. The game is based on real events.

About

Yerba Mate Tycoon

Manage a unique business creating and customizing yerba mate drinks. Develop your products with over 156 additives, set prices, and market your brand. Handle company operations like hiring, training, and taxes while fighting against coffee's popularity.

Highlights
  • Create and customize yerba mate with 156+ additives
  • Manage company finances, workers, and upgrades
  • Market and sell unique yerba mate products
  • Fight against coffee's popularity
  • Dynamic country-specific economies
  • Discover Easter eggs and references
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Yerba Mate Tycoon is a unique management game. You will take care of a yerba mate production business: creating and customizing various yerba mates, unlocking new upgrades, and growing your company. Yerba mate is a coffee alternative in South American countries, and the national drink of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay! 100% free, no Ads or IAP. Create your yerba mate Over 156 additives to chose from, with unique stats and qualities. Set your price, logo, package sizes, target group, drying method, and much more. Create something unique or just appeal to the crowd and get marketing your product. Manage company Take care of taxes, fans, company workers (fire/hire/train them), monitor your company rank, loan rank. Buy other companies, unlock new upgrades, raise yerba mate popularity, fight with coffee. Discover various events, make multiple decisions. Unique gameplay The best Yerba Mate Tycoon game (and the only one). Many Easter eggs, references, jokes. Casual Indie Management game from one developer. Features: - New update = new bugs - Poor graphic and sounds - No ads or IAP, 100% free. - Over 156 additives to chose from in your yerba creation, with unique qualities and events - including apple, orange, pomelo, honey, and uranium! - Create, customize, market, and sell your yerba mate. Set its price, type, package type/logo, distribution, additives, drying method, and much more. - Chose one country from 19 available in the game, set company and CEO stats. Countries got various tax rates, yerba popularity rate, workers salary, workers education, and change over time. - Unlock new upgrades and fight with coffee. - Hire/Train workers, discover their personalities - Discover the unique world of yerba mate - Tons of references to yerba mate - Dynamic system means constantly evolving tax rates, loan availability, yerba popularity, workers' salaries and behavior - Easter eggs And a lot more, the list is too long:-} Polish/English are the official game translations. The community does other language translations. This game will not have any office building or customizing office system, or online mode.

Screenshots

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker4 screens
Yerba Mate Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yerba Mate Tycoon at 82% against Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker's 39%. Yerba Mate Tycoon also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 18). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Yerba Mate Tycoon asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker has 1.4K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker's written reviews are positive against 82% of Yerba Mate Tycoon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker ships an update every 5 weeks, Yerba Mate Tycoon every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker versus Yerba Mate Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHacker or Dev Tycoon? ClickerYerba Mate Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.4K ratings) — better3.9 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better18
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size203 MB116 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAliaksandr PrakarymDominik Babiarz

Customer experience

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker

All ratings1,399 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews724 reviews
Positive38.7%
Neutral14.2%
Negative47.1%

Yerba Mate Tycoon

All ratings18 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

Bugs and requests

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Office button not working
  • Game freezing at office
  • Achievements not tracking
  • Monthly income not received

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and features
  • Fix office button bug
  • Reduce ads
  • Improve progression

Yerba Mate Tycoon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker

One-time10
  • Gold ID$2.99
  • Small money pack$2.99
  • Special offer for new players$2.99
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  • Golden keyboard$3.99
  • No AD$3.99
  • Normal money pack$5.99
  • Golden computer + keyboard$6.99
  • Big money pack$14.99
  • Special offer VIP account$14.99
  • VIP account$19.99
None

Yerba Mate Tycoon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker free?
Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yerba Mate Tycoon free?
Yerba Mate Tycoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker or Yerba Mate Tycoon?
Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker is rated higher. Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Yerba Mate Tycoon averages 3.9 from 18 ratings.
Do Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker or Yerba Mate Tycoon have ads?
Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker shows ads; Yerba Mate Tycoon does not.
Which is updated more often, Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker or Yerba Mate Tycoon?
Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Yerba Mate Tycoon every 6 weeks. Most recently, Hacker or Dev Tycoon? Clicker was updated on October 29, 2026 and Yerba Mate Tycoon on October 24, 2026.

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