Idle Acorns vs Day Repeat Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Acorns
A classic idle clicker game with a charming narrative. Explore diverse environments, gather resources, craft items, and play mini-games. Enjoy a pure, ad-free experience with no in-app purchases or data mining.
- Resource gathering and upgrades
- Crafting over 24 items
- Fishing and cooking mini-game
- Gardening and tree growing
- Campfire for inviting characters
- iCloud backup support
- Game Center integration
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Inspired by the classics, Idle Acorns is a fun mobile clicker game that features no advertisements, no in-app purchases, and no data-mining. Inspired by the clicker games of the old internet, Idle Acorns brings a fun narrative to the mobile clicker arena but without getting weighed down by advertisements, in-app purchases or data mining. Explore the forest and ocean with Benny the squirrel and enjoy everything from fishing, to gardening. Unlock the campfire to invite new characters, collect resources, and craft items. Featuring 4 mini-games, iCloud backup support, Game Center support, iMessage sticker pack, and more! Like classic Idle games, Idle Acorns respects time travel. Please note that time travel will disable Game Center features. Shake the tree to gather acorns. Purchase upgrades and enlist scavengers to collect acorns while you are away! Sell your acorns, and unlock new areas in the shop. Speak with Benny the squirrel to navigate your adventure. Cast your line, and catch fish in the ocean. Open the map to visit your acres of land, or upgrade your offline collection. Unlock the campfire and invite all new characters. Trade resources and buy recipes to craft over 24 new items. - Forge diamonds and buy upgrades - Go fishing and cook fish - Buy land and grow trees - Unlock the campfire and trade resources - Buy recipes and craft items - 4 Mini-Games - Share resources with friends - Lots of character dialogue - Seasonal events - iCloud backup support - Game Center leaderboards and achievements - iMessage sticker pack IMPORTANT: iPhone SE (2016 First Generation) and iPod touch are not supported.
Day Repeat Day
Experience a life simulation through engaging match-3 puzzles. Navigate relationships, career choices, and existential questions in a satirical, interactive narrative. Discover the meaning of the daily grind and life's mysteries.
- Interactive life story
- Match-3 puzzle gameplay
- Relationship management
- Career progression
- Satirical narrative
- Existential themes
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You're hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you're never really sure where it's all leading to. It's a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries. After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. Press: - It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that - Game of the Week / Touch Arcade - It turns out to be much, much more than this, than either genre, a whole, complicated and unique creation, that speaks truth about life, about work, about hierarchies and about mistakes. It’s stunning. - Kotaku
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Day Repeat Day at weekly against Idle Acorns's every 6 weeks. Day Repeat Day also leads on chart position (#142 vs unranked) and review sentiment (70% vs 60%). Idle Acorns's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 55). On ads, 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
Idle Acorns costs $1.99 and Day Repeat Day $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Idle Acorns holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Acorns has 1.2K ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Idle Acorns's written reviews are positive against 70% of Day Repeat Day's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Idle Acorns ships an update every 6 weeks, Day Repeat Day weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Acorns | Day Repeat Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.5 (55 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.2% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 55 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #142 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 560 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | aleros.io LLC | Kimmo Factor Oy |
Customer experience
Idle Acorns
Day Repeat Day
Bugs and requests
Idle Acorns
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tree disappearing issue
- Bat not recognizing feather purchases
- Zoom and UI issues on certain devices
- Negative acorn balance after time manipulation
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- More late-game content
- Improved UI and navigation
- Better explanation of game mechanics
- Increased offline progress
Day Repeat Day
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Idle Acorns
No in-app purchases
Day Repeat Day
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Idle Acorns free?
Is Day Repeat Day free?
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