Idle Dice vs Circuit Hacker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Dice
A nearly endless incremental game where you test your luck by rolling dice to earn money. Upgrade dice, earn combos, and use strategy cards to boost your income. The game continues to earn while you're away, allowing for auto progression and tycoon growth.
- Upgrade dice value
- Idle game play
- Dice combos
- Strategy cards
- Prestige system
- Roulette bonuses
- Auto progression
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Test your luck in this nearly endless game! Roll the dice in Idle Dice and see how much money you can earn. Features: • Upgrade the value of your dice to increase your income • Idle Game Play: The game continues to earn you income while you’re away • Earn crazy dice combos to multiply your earnings • Strategy: Select cards that provide massive bonuses to your play through • Prestige: Reset to earn permanent bonuses for your next run. Try new card combinations • Roulette: Test your luck with roulette and unlock powerful bonuses and upgrades • Auto Progression: Idle Dice continues to roll the dice even when you don’t want to play actively. Set it up next your work computer and just watch the income pour in and your tycoon grow Become the true Idle Dice Tycoon
Circuit Hacker
Engage in strategic match-3 puzzles with evolving objectives and arcade challenges. Clear corrupted circuits using power-ups and special nodes to advance through a campaign of escalating threats.
- Strategic match-3 puzzles
- Hazards and power-ups
- Special nodes
- Evolving objectives
- Arcade challenge
- Campaign mode
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Circuit Hacker combines strategic match-3 puzzles with hazards, power-ups, special nodes, evolving objectives, and an arcade challenge that changes how you play. Build powerful combinations, clear corrupted circuits, and push deeper into a campaign filled with new mechanics and escalating threats. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Circuit Hacker at 100% against Idle Dice's 49%. Circuit Hacker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). Idle Dice's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Dice sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Circuit Hacker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Circuit Hacker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Dice has 1.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Idle Dice's written reviews are positive against 100% of Circuit Hacker's.
Idle Dice ships an update every 2 months, Circuit Hacker every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Dice | Circuit Hacker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lutz Schoenfelder | Chase Tuttle |
Customer experience
Idle Dice
Circuit Hacker
Bugs and requests
Idle Dice
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tracking permission prompt causes crashes
- Unresponsive controls after minimizing app
- Progress resets or gets wiped unexpectedly
- Ads not working as intended
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved save/load functionality
- More content and game modes
- Better optimization for mobile devices
Circuit Hacker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Idle Dice
- 230 Bonus Points$4.99
- 112 Duel Dice Cups$4.99
- No Ads$9.99
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- Starter Pack$9.99
- 480 Duel Dice Cups$23.99
- 1200 Bonus Points$24.99
- Epic Pack$29.99
- 1000 Duel Dice Cups$49.99
- 2600 Bonus Points$49.99
Circuit Hacker
- Remove Forced ads$4.991 Month
- Circuit Hacker Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- 500 Energy Cells$1.99
- 1,500 Energy Cell$4.99
- 4,000 Energy Cells$9.99
Questions
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