Comparison

Tiny Space Program vs Rocket Race

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Space Program

Manage your own space agency, from designing and building rockets to launching missions for research, mining, or tourism. Explore planets and moons, establish off-world economies, and advance your technology in this interplanetary simulation.

Highlights
  • Space program management
  • Build off-world colonies
  • Launch rockets and spaceships
  • Research technologies
  • Mine resources from celestial bodies
  • Astronaut progression
  • Simulates orbital mechanics
Features
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Build and run your own space program — like SpaceX, but yours. Launch rockets, manage astronauts, mine planets, and colonize the solar system from the Moon to beyond the Kuiper Belt. WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A SPACE BILLIONAIRE? Send tourists on a spacewalk? Start a mining operation on Titan? Build a space station around Mars? In Tiny Space Program you manage the early colonization of our solar system — based on real orbital mechanics and ship propulsion. BUILD YOUR SPACE AGENCY - Launch rockets and spaceships into orbit - Build off-world colonies, outposts, and modular space stations - Mine resources on moons, planets, and dwarf planets - Research new technologies and better spacecraft - Level up your astronauts and equip spacesuits - Establish off-world economies and trade A CHILL GAME, NOT A CHORE No forced ads, no daily-streak punishments. Play at your own pace — run an hour-long research expedition, take tourists on a quick tour, then put it down and come back later. Mines keep producing while you're away. MADE BY ONE DEVELOPER Actively updated (space stations, automation, dwarf planets, and vehicles all shipped recently). Join the Discord and help shape what comes next.

About

Rocket Race

Features
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Rocket Race is a turn-based strategy game for two players, set on a launch range on the Space Coast at night. Two rival launch companies race for the same patch of concrete. Fly for Space Cross, with its tall, grid-finned boosters, or Blue Beginnings, with its stout capsule rockets. Each side commands six rockets. Move them across the Range, land on pads to pick up hidden payloads, and use those payloads to outmanoeuvre your rival. Reach the enemy's landing zone for a bonus and a reinforcement. Clear their rockets off the Range to win - and watch your whole fleet launch, then come home. FIFTEEN PAYLOADS - Reentry Strike calls down a blast that scorches a pad and its four neighbours for good. - Flame Trench burns a line straight through anything standing in it. - Suborbital Hop throws an enemy rocket off the Range for three turns. - Deluge washes an enemy's payloads off and keeps them. - Throttle Up, Grid Fin, Space Walk, Transporter, Abort, Hold, Stage Sep, Booster Recovery and more. EVERY SHOT IS YOUR CALL Aim a strike and see every pad it will hit before you fire - including any of your own rockets caught in the blast. Scorched ground burns for the rest of the match, and the Range changes shape as you play. YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHAT HAPPENED When your rival hits you, the game tells you exactly what you lost. You can see how many payloads every rocket carries, but not which ones - so an enemy's hand is yours to guess. TWO WAYS TO PLAY - Range Control: a computer opponent at three levels, Easy to Hard, that plays by the same rules - and sees only what you would in its seat. Works offline. - Online: get matched with an opponent, or play a friend with a private match code. If no one turns up, Range Control steps in. Every piece of art and every sound is made from scratch. No accounts, no ads.

Screenshots

Tiny Space Program4 screens
Rocket Race4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rocket Race at none against Tiny Space Program's 10. Rocket Race also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Tiny Space Program's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Tiny Space Program sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Rocket Race asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Space Program ships an update every 2 months, Rocket Race every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tiny Space Program versus Rocket Race: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Space ProgramRocket Race
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerry NeimannSteve Hughey

Bugs and requests

Tiny Space Program

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Buttons not working or unresponsive
  • Disappearing ships and resources
  • Crashes and freezes after updates
  • Quests and missions not tracking properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more planets and moons to explore
  • Improve the economy and resource management
  • Implement cloud/online save functionality
  • Streamline the UI and make it more intuitive
  • Expand the research and upgrade trees
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  • Add more animations and visual effects

Rocket Race

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tiny Space Program

One-time10
  • Supporting the game, thank you$1.99
  • Helping out, many thanks$4.99
  • Crystal Pack 1$4.99
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  • Starter Pack$4.99
  • You are great! Many thanks$9.99
  • Crystal Pack 2$9.99
  • Colonizer Pack$9.99
  • Experimental Dragon Ships$9.99
  • A big pile of credits$19.99
  • Crystal Pack 3$19.99
None

Rocket Race

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Space Program free?
Tiny Space Program is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rocket Race free?
Rocket Race is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tiny Space Program or Rocket Race have ads?
Tiny Space Program shows ads; Rocket Race does not.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Space Program or Rocket Race?
Tiny Space Program ships an update every 2 months, and Rocket Race every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tiny Space Program was updated on November 7, 2026 and Rocket Race on October 29, 2026.

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