Comparison

Successful Success vs Timeflow Lite

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

Head to head
About

Successful Success

Simulate a successful entrepreneur and trader's life. Climb the career ladder, invest in stocks, and build your own startup. Become a billionaire tycoon in this business clicker game.

Highlights
  • Stock market trading and analysis
  • Career progression and job selection
  • Business startup simulation
  • Acquire assets like houses and cars
  • Online and offline play
Features
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See how far one life can go when every second counts. You begin at 18 with a few hundred dollars, no job and no education. From there, choose work, cover weekly bills and make each purchase part of a bigger plan. This fast life simulator mixes career progress, home ownership, personal needs and market risk. There are 17 jobs between the first car wash and the final machine-learning position. Take shifts as a cashier, courier or waiter, become a driver, move into marketing and analysis, then build a future in technology. Better roles improve weekly earnings and increase how many shares your character can trade. Not every promotion comes from time on the job. Complete one of 14 education paths to meet new requirements and cut future market fees. Driving lessons, vocational courses, college, coding and university all demand tuition while study continues. Keep enough money aside or progress for that week can be lost. Turn a rough property into a place that looks successful. Remove rubbish and rocks, lay paths, grow a garden and add practical upgrades before expanding the house. Collect cars, build a garage and parking, and work towards an extension and second storey. Seventeen purchases create a visible record of progress. Owning more also means paying more. Home items carry ongoing upkeep and some professions require particular purchases, so the most expensive option is not always the smartest next move. Housing bonuses can lift the value of a profitable stock position or soften a losing one, connecting property decisions directly to trading. Open the market screen when you want a more active challenge. Follow a fictional share price, watch the depth chart and judge whether demand or supply looks stronger. Back a rise or a fall, make additional moves for a fee, then stop the deal yourself. The result can be positive or negative depending on the price. Your wider life changes every position. A stronger job provides a larger order, completed study reduces charges, and the upgraded property adjusts gains and losses. Random events can fill a multiplier bar to unlock ×2, ×3 and ×5 outcomes. A powerful multiplier helps, but poor timing can still cost money. Good trades build experience and lead to new character levels. Level rewards include temporary boosters for salary, tuition or property costs. Use one before an expensive course, during a demanding housing stage or when a larger pay packet will help most. Choosing the right moment is another part of the strategy. Money cannot replace health or happiness. Both needs fall as the years move on and each has its own set of recovery activities. Compare price, recovery strength and cooldown before choosing. Ignoring either meter eventually ends the run, even if the character has a top career and an impressive home. Life moves quickly from one week to the next. Wages arrive, school and property expenses are charged, and the character grows older. Try to reach the best profession and complete the home before time runs out. If the plan fails, start again and take a different route through work, study and market choices. Play without needing to stay online. The core jobs, education, property and stock systems work without a constant connection. Network access is reserved for purchases and optional ad rewards. The simulation advances while you are actively playing; it does not promise earnings during time away. Take the first humble job and aim for a rich, balanced life. Learn new skills, unlock modern careers, build the home you want and test your nerve against a moving market. Can you make a fortune without sacrificing health, happiness or the chance to enjoy old age?

About

Timeflow Lite

Learn financial literacy, time management, and investing basics through a life simulation game. Build a career, invest, manage your finances, and balance your life to achieve your dreams before retirement.

Highlights
  • Financial literacy training
  • Time management simulation
  • Career building
  • Real estate and stock investing
  • Business development
  • Personal development and life balance
Features
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* Classic game without ads and microtransactions! Timeflow is an educational training sim, that will teach you the basics of investing, time management and financial literacy. You can build a career, invest in real estate, freelance, develop a business, trade stocks, get additional education, and network. Your goal is to fulfill your dream, create passive income and accumulate enough savings. You can also develop as a person and find a life/work balance. Start a family. Get rid of bad habits. Avoid common money mistakes. Stop wasting. Help your parents. Do sports. Give to charity. But don't delay, you need to win before your retirement! Since it's impossible to do everything, you need to learn how to invest your time the same way you invest your money. Study time management and plan your time carefully, and choose what's important and what's not. Timeflow is based on popular business simulators like Monopoly, Cashflow, Life, Payday, and the Tycoon series. It's also based on books by authors Robert Kiyosaki, Steven Covey, and Bryan Tracy. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Successful Success4 screens
Timeflow Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Timeflow Lite at 75% against Successful Success's 0%. Timeflow Lite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). Successful Success's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume 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. Successful Success sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Timeflow Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Successful Success holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Successful Success's written reviews are positive against 75% of Timeflow Lite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Successful Success versus Timeflow Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuccessful SuccessTimeflow Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size262 MB227 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoris NekrushevLook Book, Inc

Customer experience

Successful Success

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Timeflow Lite

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Successful Success

One-time6
  • $5.000$0.99
  • Newbie pack$2.99
  • $25.000$2.99
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  • Professional pack$5.99
  • Champion pack$7.99
  • $150.000$10.99
None

Timeflow Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Successful Success free?
Successful Success is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timeflow Lite free?
Timeflow Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Successful Success or Timeflow Lite?
Successful Success is rated higher. Successful Success averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Timeflow Lite averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Successful Success or Timeflow Lite have ads?
Successful Success shows ads; Timeflow Lite does not.

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