Exponential Idle vs Last Brick Standing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Last Brick Standing
Strategically launch balls to break all the bricks on the board before they reach the danger line. Utilize unique power-ups and chain reactions to clear 50 handcrafted levels. Play at your own pace with adjustable speeds and the ability to restart levels.
- Strategic ball launching
- 50 handcrafted levels
- Power-up collection
- Adjustable game speed
- Level replayability
- Portrait mode gameplay
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Every shot is a new puzzle. Every bounce can change the board. Line up your aim, release a stream of balls, and break every brick before the board reaches the danger line. Watch blue glass bricks crack and shatter across 50 handcrafted levels. FIND YOUR ANGLE Bank shots off walls, work around diagonal bricks, and discover paths through winding Glass Tunnels. Choose your shot, then watch the volley unfold. MAKE THE BOARD EXPLODE Trigger Nova chain reactions, split balls with Echo Orbs, and unleash row, column, and diagonal Strikes. Fireballs and the Saw bring new ways to take on tougher boards. PLAY AT YOUR PACE Switch between 1×, 2×, and 3× speed. Recall the remaining balls when you are ready to move on. Restart a level freely and replay unlocked levels to improve your run. COLLECT GOLD. CHOOSE YOUR BOOST. Collect Gold during play and spend it on helpful Power Ups. Optional in-app purchases offer additional Gold and Golden Arrow Forever, a permanent Longer Aim upgrade. Level 21 includes free Longer Aim every time you play it, so you can try it without a purchase. Built for portrait play on iPhone and iPad. No account or sign-in required. One more angle. One more volley. Leave no brick standing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Last Brick Standing at none against Exponential Idle's shown. Last Brick Standing also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Exponential Idle's advantage is ratings volume (4.1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Exponential Idle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Last Brick Standing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Exponential Idle against 5.0 for Last Brick Standing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exponential Idle has 4.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Exponential Idle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Last Brick Standing's.
Exponential Idle ships an update every 3 weeks, Last Brick Standing fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exponential Idle | Last Brick Standing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Gilles-Philippe Paille | Hipposcape LLC |
Customer experience
Exponential Idle
Last Brick Standing
Bugs and requests
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
Last Brick Standing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Exponential Idle
- Donate$0.99
- Permanent Ad Reward$1.99
- Donate$1.99
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- Donate$3.99
Last Brick Standing
- 100 Gold$1.99
- Golden Arrow Forever$1.99
- 300 Gold$4.99
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