Comparison

Tiny Shop vs Guildmaster Idle

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

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About

Tiny Shop

Design and manage your own fantasy shop in a charming RPG world. Research, craft, and sell magical goods, complete quests, and expand your business. An assistant helps sell items even when you're offline.

Highlights
  • Personalize and design your shop
  • Research, craft, and trade fantasy items
  • Complete quests and missions
  • Build and upgrade your city
  • Grow and harvest plants for crafting
  • Offline item sales with assistant
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YOU are a brand new member of the trading guild just stepping into this fantasy world. Personalize and design your own store, attract customers and sell magical and epic goods! Research, craft, trade, negotiate, buy and sell fantasy items and products from all over the world in this RPG simulation game and learn to manage your store to become the city’s best shop! Build, design and customize your very own cute fantasy shop with dozens of options! Making your store as outstanding as it can be will upgrade customers' satisfaction and boost your shop! Fortune awaits! With the help of your cute little assistant, discover a RPG world crafted with love. Meet mages and knights and send your heroes on epic adventures! Earn money and XP without doing anything as your assistant will sell your items for you while you are offline! Just fill your warehouse to the brim with goods and items and let the cash flow! Complete quests and missions for the trading guild and your customers and become the most beloved and reliable shopkeeper in town! Follow a cute and funny story, discover characters from your town and outside, build and upgrade your city to unlock more items and quests! Expand and upgrade your shop tile by tile. Buy beautiful and cute furniture and decoration to make your shop truly yours. Upgrade your shop’s statistics to boost your gold and xp! Plant and harvest exotic plants to craft powerful potions and other magic alchemy goods. From beautiful flowers to leafy vines you can become the best gardener around! Visit the botanist in the city center to buy new seeds and expand your garden. In this RPG fantasy shop adventure you will: RESEARCH, DISCOVER and CRAFT dozens of different items and goods to trade DESIGN and CUSTOMISE your tiny shop to improve your sales! COMPLETE STORY MISSIONS and QUESTS to help your city become prosperous EXPLORE and BUILD your city and world GROW and HARVEST cute plants and flowers ENJOY CUTE and CHARMING hand painted visuals HAVE A GOOD and RELAXING time Tiny Shop is a RPG store simulation game that will let you customize and design your own shop within a cute fantasy world. You can research, craft and sell: armor, potions, magic books, all kinds of gear and equipment as well as crafting materials such as plants, metals and gems. With your hard earned money you can expand and personalize your cute fantasy shop and explore the world to become the most prosperous shopkeeper in town! Install Tiny Shop for free NOW! Craft, trade, buy, sell, quest and customize in this fantasy RPG game! Music in our game is made by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/ We're using the following tunes: * Carpe Diem * Porch Swing Days (slower) * Montauk Point Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

About

Guildmaster Idle

Manage and grow an interactive idle RPG guild. Engage in various minigames to gather resources, craft gear, and train adventurers for quests and dungeons. Attract new heroes and forge alliances to become a legendary guildmaster.

Highlights
  • Interactive idle gameplay
  • Professions minigames (mining, crafting, bartending, etc.)
  • Questing and dungeon crawling
  • Guild and hero progression
  • Talent tree upgrades
  • Ad-free option
Features
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With many immersive features including: Interactive Idle Gameplay: Break free from conventional clicker games as you actively personalise and grow your guild, making every decision count. A World of Minigames: Explore a rich tapestry of professions through completing various minigames such as mining, potion-crafting and bartending to gather the materials needed to equip your guild for missions. Their strength is forged through your skills, and the path to victory lies in your mastery of these professions. Quest for Glory: Embark on daring adventures of quests and dungeons. Rise to fame as you conquer challenges and complete feats, attracting new classes of adventurer to your guild, each bringing unique skills and abilities. Ad-Free Enjoyment: Bid farewell to intrusive ads with our optional ad system, ensuring uninterrupted gameplay. Take your gameplay a step above other idle games with interactive minigames for each profession: - Bartending: Serve drinks to the citizens for the gold needed to purchase upgrades for your guild. - Apothecary: Experiment with different herbs and other ingredients to discover magical potions, giving your adventurers the edge when fighting the powerful monsters scattered throughout the dungeon. - Foraging: Search through the forests to find wild vegetables and the herbs needed to craft potions. - Gardening: Manage your garden to grow the crops needed to cook the best food for your guild-members. - Cooking: Combine collected ingredients in the kitchen to provide food for your adventurers, granting them powerful buffs. - Hunting: Hunt wild beasts for meats to use in the kitchen, and hides to craft the armour needed by your adventurers. - Mining: Search through the mines for precious metals and gemstones to be used when crafting gear at the blacksmith. - Tree Felling: Chop trees for the building materials needed to expand your guild, with each new structure adding opportunities for your guild to prosper. - Blacksmithing: Craft enchanted weapons and armour at the forge to equip your adventurers with the tools they need to defeat the strongest foes. Use talent trees to upgrade each profession, dynamically changing each minigame to accelerate the growth of your guild. Grow your guild's fame to attract heroes with powerful spells and abilities from around the world to fight for you. Use the resources you gather from each profession to enhance your adventurers. Fight through quests, dungeons and tournaments, with advanced combat simulation. Gain the best loot possible as you progress through the game and use it to defeat powerful bosses. And that's just the beginning! Stay on the lookout for upcoming features that will expand your 'Guildmaster' experience in the next update. Forge alliances, conquer challenges, and become the legendary 'Guildmaster' you were destined to be. Are you ready for the challenge? Download now.

Screenshots

Tiny Shop4 screens
Guildmaster Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Guildmaster Idle at 13.0 against Tiny Shop's 15.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Shop sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Guildmaster Idle sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tiny Shop against 4.7 for Guildmaster Idle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 533 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Tiny Shop's written reviews are positive against 75% of Guildmaster Idle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Shop ships an update fortnightly, Guildmaster Idle weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tiny Shop versus Guildmaster Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny ShopGuildmaster Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings)4.7 (533 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.7% of reviews — better74.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better533
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size270 MB314 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperMateusz LesinskiElvenry Studios

Customer experience

Tiny Shop

All ratings1,292 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews267 reviews
Positive78.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative15.4%

Guildmaster Idle

All ratings533 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative19.5%

User reviews

Tiny Shop

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging gameplay
  • 🚀 Generous with free rewards
  • 🎨 Charming art style
  • 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
  • 📺 Optional, non-intrusive ads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • ⏱️ Slow progression at times
  • 🔋 Battery-intensive
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options

Guildmaster Idle

From 533 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Practical idle game mechanics
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive gameplay
  • 💡 Interesting concept and depth
  • 🔒 No forced ads or paywalls

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Bugs with certain features
  • 🔍 Lack of in-game information and guidance
  • ⏱️ Overly long dungeon timers

Bugs and requests

Tiny Shop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes or gets stuck during loading
  • Disappearing or malfunctioning shop displays
  • Recipes or licenses getting reset unexpectedly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize character/avatar
  • More furniture and shop decorations
  • Daily customer requests or challenges
  • Improved balance for crafting materials

Guildmaster Idle

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezes and crashes
  • Talent tree enhancements not working as expected
  • Gear enhancements have no material requirements
  • Unable to construct certain buildings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a wiki or knowledge base
  • Improve UI and accessibility
  • Reduce dungeon completion times
  • Introduce character/guild customization

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Tiny Shop

One-time18
  • Small Gem pack$1.99
  • Birthday bundle$1.99
  • Adventurer bundle$1.99
Show 15 more
  • Croissant Bundle$1.99
  • Coral Crab Bundle$1.99
  • Starting Pack$2.99
  • Winter hat bundle$3.99
  • Big Gem pack$4.99
  • Bundle$4.99
  • Botanist Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Blacksmith Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Home Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Kitchen Furniture Bundle$4.99
  • Ad Tickets bundle$4.99
  • Sunny festival$4.99
  • Flooded Bundle$4.99
  • Large Gem pack$9.99
  • Enormous Gem pack$19.99
9 purchases

Guildmaster Idle

One-time9
  • 1000 Runes$1.99
  • 2500 Runes$4.99
  • Increase Max Offline Work$4.99
Show 6 more
  • Purchase Runes (Scrolls)$4.99
  • Purchase Rune Bundle$4.99
  • 7500 Runes$9.99
  • 15000 Runes$19.99
  • 50000 Runes$49.99
  • 100000 Runes$99.99

Questions

Is Tiny Shop free?
Tiny Shop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Guildmaster Idle free?
Guildmaster Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Shop or Guildmaster Idle?
Guildmaster Idle is rated higher. Tiny Shop averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Guildmaster Idle averages 4.7 from 533 ratings.
Do Tiny Shop or Guildmaster Idle have ads?
Both Tiny Shop and Guildmaster Idle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Shop or Guildmaster Idle?
Tiny Shop ships an update fortnightly, and Guildmaster Idle weekly. Most recently, Tiny Shop was updated on October 10, 2026 and Guildmaster Idle on October 7, 2026.

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