Stone Miner vs Ground Digger!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stone Miner
Crush stones and mine valuable ores across diverse islands. Sell your findings at the base to earn money and upgrade your truck for enhanced mining capabilities. Explore further to discover rarer resources and become a more powerful miner.
- Crush and mine stones
- Explore different islands
- Sell mined resources
- Upgrade your truck
- Discover rare ores
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Welcome to Stone Miner: Crush the stones with your truck, Mine the resources, Sell them on the base, and Upgrade your truck to get even more! There are different types of islands you can explore, the further you go the more rare ores you get. Try to upgrade your truck to be more powerful! Have fun :)!
Ground Digger!
Become a treasure hunter and dig deep into the earth with your drilling machine. Collect gems, find hidden keys, and unlock powerful boosters to progress faster. Upgrade your equipment and explore various biomes to reach the Center of the Earth.
- Build and upgrade drilling machines
- Collect gems and treasures
- Find hidden keys to unlock secret zones
- Unlock powerful boosters
- Customize machines with skins and mini-bots
- Explore sand, ice, and lava biomes
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Welcome to Ground Digger The new favorite digging game of all explorers and other treasure hunters that want to dig deep down the hole with a shovel or excavator, drill down the ground and avoid hot lava like a dig master! Here’re some of the game’s totally mind blowing features for becoming a stone miner dig master: BUILD your drilling machine to dig down the hole in the ground and collect gems and other treasures (skulls, robots, infinity stones, gold ...) ! FIND the hidden keys while you dig deep into the ground to unlock secret zones and buried chests ! UNLOCK powerful boosters to progress and dig in faster (dynamite, mini-bots, unlimited fuel, giant digger...) UPGRADE your drill parts (wheels, fuel tank, drill size, shovel, excavator ...) to dig in even deeper ! CUSTOMISE your machine by buying new skins & color looks + CREATE your very own mini-bots army ! EXPLORE sand, ice, hot lava biome... dig this land through all the layers to reach the Center of the Earth like a stone miner pro !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stone Miner at 4.7 against Ground Digger!'s 4.4. Stone Miner also leads on ratings volume (118K vs 7.1K). Ground Digger!'s advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 31%). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Stone Miner sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Ground Digger! sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stone Miner holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stone Miner has 118K ratings behind it against 7.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Stone Miner's written reviews are positive against 41% of Ground Digger!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Stone Miner ships an update every 3 weeks, Ground Digger! every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Stone Miner | Ground Digger! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (118K ratings) — better | 4.4 (7.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.4% of reviews | 41.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 118K — better | 7.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 433 MB | 219 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZPLAY (HK) TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
Stone Miner
Ground Digger!
User reviews
Stone Miner
From 118K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Satisfying gameplay
- 🕰️ Relaxing time-passer
- 👍 Fun and addictive
- 🎨 Visually appealing
Room to improve
- 🔍 Too many ads
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 🔒 Paid 'no ads' option doesn't fully remove ads
Ground Digger!
From 7.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and entertaining
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 💡 Great concept
Room to improve
- 🔍 Repetitive gameplay
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 🔒 Lack of privacy controls
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
Bugs and requests
Stone Miner
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game gets stuck on endless ocean journey
- Upgrades and progress reset after updates
- Levels/islands become unplayable after certain point
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content
- Ability to upgrade mining speed and capacity
- Better save/progress system
Ground Digger!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress reset without warning
- Inability to progress past certain levels
- Drill size and power upgrades not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- More upgrades and customization options
- Ability to reset progress and start over
- Improved mini-bot functionality
- Reduced ad frequency or ad-free option
In-app purchases
Stone Miner
- Gems 20 pack$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- One Time Offer$1.99
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- Limited Time Offer$3.99
- Gems 130 pack$4.99
- Miner's Pack$6.99
- Gems 250 pack$9.99
- Wide Grinder$9.99
- Infinite Capacity$9.99
- Magnet$9.99
Ground Digger!
- Companion Limit$1.99
- Double Fuel$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- Small Chest$2.99
- Size Upgrade 1$2.99
- Size Upgrade 3$2.99
- Size Upgrade 2$2.99
- Large Chest$3.99
- Destroyer Skin Bundle$3.99
- Digger Skin Starter Pack$3.99
- Golden Skin Bundle$3.99
- Extra Starter Bundle$3.99
- Small Starter Bundle$4.99
- Golden Skin Bundle$7.99
- Small Starter Bundle$9.99
- Extra Starter Bundle$15.99
