Comparison

Idle War.app vs CompactO

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

Head to head
About

Idle War.app

An incremental empire-building game where you conquer territories, manage resources, and upgrade your empire. Progress even while offline with automated features and discover new maps and challenges.

Highlights
  • Army generation and upgrades
  • Resource mining and smelting
  • Item crafting with recipes
  • Territory conquest and bonuses
  • Technology upgrades
  • Artifact discovery and upgrades
  • Advancement Points for permanent boosts
  • Auto-play features
Features
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Conquer the world while you sleep! War.app (previously known as Warzone) is an innovative incremental game that puts you in charge of an empire. As you use your armies to conquer neighboring territories, you'll discover tons of exciting assets you can use to strengthen your empire further. • Army camps generate armies continuously. You can capture more and upgrade them. Use your armies to conquer territories on the map to discover more things to help you. • Mines generate ores continuously, such as copper ore, tin ore, etc. You can upgrade them to produce more. • Smelters work continuously to smelt your ore into bars. Bars can be sold for more than the ore it took to make it. • Crafters work continuously to turn your smelted bars into items, such as copper bars into copper wire. • Find recipes on the map to unlock additional things your smelters and crafters can do. • Find caches on the map to give you an injection of free armies, money, or resources. • Technologies can be purchased to turn your items into useful bonuses, such as increasing army camps, better smelters, or drafting armies. • Regions of the map are separate into bonuses. Conquer an entire bonus to unlock sources of money, or other assets. • Mercenary Camps lets you hire armies to grow even faster. • Hospitals allow you to save armies when conquering territories. They can be upgraded to save even more. • Find a dig site and start digging for artifacts, which are permanent upgrades to fuel your empire. Artifacts can be upgraded by sacrificing ones you don't need. • Complete an entire map and you will earn Advancement Points (AP). These can be spent on Advancements which give you permanent upgrades, such as improving army camps, mines, sell prices, drafts, etc. • By default, you can accrue two hours of idle time. The Max Idle Time advancement can upgrade this time to any value, and you can also find artifacts that increase it. • Auto-advancements help you out by playing the game for you. For example, auto-conquer automatically conquers territories on the map, auto-sell automatically sells resources you don't need, auto-draft automatically picks up drafts, etc. Getting all of them can completely automate the game. • Over 30 maps are available, covering all parts of the world as well as fictional places. If you complete them all you can Ascend. • Powers can be used to accelerate your empire. Find them on the map, get them from the daily bonus, or spin the War.app Wheel to win powers or coins. • The multi-level power or advancement allow playing multiple levels at the same time. This is an effective way to boost your progression. • Find Arenas to compete against other War.app players in a strategic battle. The winner will get additional armies, money, and resources to fuel their empire. • Compete against up to 30 other players in a chaotic Battle Royale multi-player mode! Launch attacks against others and see who comes out on top! • Fight against an AI in challenges for additional AP, if your advancements and artifacts are strong enough to out-expand them. • Join a clan and compete in Clan Wars! • Participate in global or clan chat rooms built into the app • Earn and complete all of the achievements! Terms of service: https://war.app/TermsOfService

About

CompactO

An idle game where you create colorful squares to earn in-game currency. Unlock new planes, infuse shapes into cubes, and automate your progress to generate increasing amounts of money. Features cloud saving, modding, and a variety of content like Mega Lands and Skilling.

Highlights
  • Create colorful squares
  • Unlock new planes and 3D realms
  • Automate gameplay
  • Multiple prestige types
  • Cloud saving and multi-saves
  • Modding and customizable modifiers
  • Skilling and researchable discoveries
Features
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CompactO is an idle game based on creating colorful squares on your planes and earning money. Unlock the 3D Realm to unlock more planes to, you guessed it, create even more squares! Infuse your planes into cubes to make as much money as possible! The more shapes, the more money, oh we love money! CompactO is the most satisfying and colorful incremental game! FEATURES! Simplistic - Simple and colorful interface. Big Numbers - Up to the e100s is guaranteed! Lots of Content - Lots of places to unlock that make numbers grow! Made With Love - This game is being worked on by a solo developer who is very passionate! (NEW!) Cloud Saving - Transfer your saves to any device with just one login! (NEW!) Modding & Multi-Saves - Create multiple saves with customizable modifiers that make the game slower or even faster! CONTENT! Squares - Create colorful squares that make in-game money! Prestige - There are several types of prestiges to experience! 3D Realm - Unlock planes within worlds to create even more squares and different types of money! Automation - There are a ton of ways to automate the game and let it play for you! Upgrades - There are a ton of upgrades to buy and make progress even faster! Shrinkenator! - Earn cubes and shrink them to make even more! (NEW!) Mega Lands! - A whole layer of content with even more squares! (NEW!) Skilling! - Level up 7 skills and earn different kinds boosts! (NEW!) Fractals! - Enter the world of Fractals that make the game harder to earn additional boosts! (NEW!) The Lab! - Enter a new realm and research up to 25 discoveries! Play CompactO today and see how many squares you can create for only $2.99!

Screenshots

Idle War.app4 screens
CompactO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Idle War.app at Free against CompactO's $2.99. Idle War.app also leads on ratings volume (148 vs 25). CompactO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 27) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Idle War.app is free to download; CompactO costs $2.99 up front. Idle War.app sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. CompactO asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Idle War.app against 4.6 for CompactO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle War.app has 148 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Idle War.app's written reviews are positive against 67% of CompactO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, CompactO every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Idle War.app versus CompactO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle War.appCompactO
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (148 ratings) — better4.6 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings148 — better25
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB88 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperRandy FickerConsidera Core LLC

Customer experience

Idle War.app

All ratings148 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral0.7%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative33.3%

CompactO

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Idle War.app

Subscriptions1
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time26
  • Day against Nuclear Tests$2.99
  • Mothers Day Bundle$3.99
  • Father's Day Bundle$3.99
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  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • Super Camp$9.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
  • Spring Bundle$9.99
  • Cyber Monday Bundle$9.99
  • Summer Solstice Bundle$9.99
  • Holiday Bundle$14.99
  • New Years Bundle$14.99
  • January Jumpstart Bundle$14.99
  • World Kindness Day Bundle$14.99
  • Autumn Bundle$14.99
  • International Day of Peace$14.99
  • World Chess Day Bundle$14.99
  • World Environment Day Bundle$14.99
  • Day of Human Spaceflight$19.99
  • World Water Day Bundle$19.99
  • Summer Sale$19.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Birthday Bundle$29.99
  • Valentine's Day Sale$29.99
  • Auto Artifact Swapper$34.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99
None

CompactO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle War.app free?
Idle War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CompactO free?
CompactO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Idle War.app or CompactO?
Idle War.app is rated higher. Idle War.app averages 4.7 out of 5 from 148 ratings, while CompactO averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do Idle War.app or CompactO have ads?
Neither Idle War.app nor CompactO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle War.app or CompactO?
Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, and CompactO every 3 weeks. Most recently, Idle War.app was updated on October 21, 2026 and CompactO on October 5, 2026.

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