Comparison

Idle War.app vs Evolution Arena

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

Evolution Arena

Strategically place species on a sandbox map to observe their survival and competition. Watch as your created ecosystems evolve and interact in a dynamic environment.

Highlights
  • Species placement
  • Ecosystem survival
  • Competitive interaction
  • Sandbox environment
  • Evolution simulation
Features
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Just tap the screen to place the species, and look how they survive and compete with each other!

Screenshots

Idle War.app4 screens
Evolution Arena4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Evolution Arena at 100% against Idle War.app's 60%. Evolution Arena also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Idle War.app's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Idle War.app sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Evolution Arena sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle War.app holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle War.app has 148 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Idle War.app's written reviews are positive against 100% of Evolution Arena's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, Evolution Arena every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Idle War.app versus Evolution Arena: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle War.appEvolution Arena
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (148 ratings) — better4.5 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings148 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB26 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRandy FickerAlexey Izvalov

Customer experience

Idle War.app

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

Evolution Arena

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
1 purchases

Evolution Arena

One-time1
  • No ads$2.99

Questions

Is Idle War.app free?
Idle War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Evolution Arena free?
Evolution Arena is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle War.app or Evolution Arena?
Idle War.app is rated higher. Idle War.app averages 4.7 out of 5 from 148 ratings, while Evolution Arena averages 4.5 from 20 ratings.
Do Idle War.app or Evolution Arena have ads?
Evolution Arena shows ads; Idle War.app does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle War.app or Evolution Arena?
Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, and Evolution Arena every 9 days. Most recently, Idle War.app was updated on October 9, 2026 and Evolution Arena on October 2, 2026.

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