Comparison

Junkyard Keeper vs Ground Digger!

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

Head to head
About

Junkyard Keeper

Manage a junkyard, collect and recycle various types of waste to earn money. Discover hidden treasures and upgrade your vehicles to become more efficient. Enjoy satisfying simulation and arcade gameplay with excellent graphics.

Highlights
  • Collect and recycle different types of garbage
  • Find hidden treasures and vehicle parts
  • Upgrade and evolve collection vehicles
  • Unlock new junkyard locations
  • Manage junkyard operations
  • Satisfying physics and smooth gameplay
Features
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Run your legendary junkyard and keep finding treasures! Drive your collecting truck and clean up the different kinds of garbage in the huge junkyard: steel garbage, food scraps and more! Transport the garbage back to your base, recycle it and turn it into money! Meanwhile, you'll be scouring the junkyard for the hidden treasures and even parts to assemble new & power vehicles! Keep unlocking new upgrades for your vehicles. Spend money to upgrade your truck, improve the capacity, moving speed, and even evolve your vehicle to next level and become bigger and more efficient! Reasons you'll love Junkyard Keeper: - Exquisite, smooth and enjoyable gameplay - Super satisfying physics - Excellent graphics and animation make you relaxing - Unlock different types of garbage and different junkyard locations - Manage your junkyard and turn waste into treasure Enjoy the simulation & arcade gameplay and keep upgrading unlock more garbage collectors such as vacuum trucks, grinders, and even helicopters! One man's trash is another man's treasure! Start your journey as a junkyard tycoon now!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 !

Screenshots

Junkyard Keeper4 screens
Ground Digger!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ground Digger! at every 10 days against Junkyard Keeper's monthly. Ground Digger! also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 29%). Junkyard Keeper's advantage is ratings volume (43K vs 7.1K). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Junkyard Keeper sells 7 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Junkyard Keeper holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Junkyard Keeper has 43K ratings behind it against 7.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of Junkyard Keeper'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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Junkyard Keeper ships an update monthly, Ground Digger! every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Junkyard Keeper versus Ground Digger!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJunkyard KeeperGround Digger!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (43K ratings) — better4.4 (7.1K ratings)
Positive reviews28.8% of reviews41.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43K — better7.1K
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better12.5
Further details — not scored
Size602 MB219 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZPLAY (HK) TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDHOMA GAMES

Customer experience

Junkyard Keeper

All ratings42,975 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral4.4%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews601 reviews
Positive28.8%
Neutral15.0%
Negative56.2%

Ground Digger!

All ratings7,052 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews375 reviews
Positive41.3%
Neutral14.4%
Negative44.3%

User reviews

Junkyard Keeper

From 43K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Satisfying gameplay
  • 👍 Fun and relaxing
  • 🚀 Easy to play

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
  • 💰 Too many ads
  • 🐛 Vehicles/machines not working properly
  • 🐛 Game crashes and freezes

Ground Digger!

From 7.1K App Store ratings

What 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

Junkyard Keeper

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Vehicles/machines getting stuck or not working
  • Inability to progress past certain levels
  • Glitches and crashes
  • Issues with ads and in-app purchases

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more vehicles and machines
  • Improve upgrade system for vehicles/machines
  • Reduce ads or make them optional
  • Fix progression issues and bugs

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

7 purchases

Junkyard Keeper

One-time7
  • No Ads$4.99
  • Money Pack$4.99
  • Free Carts$5.99
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  • Diamond Pack$6.99
  • Discounted Starter Pack$8.99
  • Starter Pack$11.99
  • Big Diamond Pack$14.99
16 purchases

Ground Digger!

One-time16
  • 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

Questions

Is Junkyard Keeper free?
Junkyard Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ground Digger! free?
Ground Digger! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Junkyard Keeper or Ground Digger!?
Junkyard Keeper is rated higher. Junkyard Keeper averages 4.6 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while Ground Digger! averages 4.4 from 7.1K ratings.
Do Junkyard Keeper or Ground Digger! have ads?
Both Junkyard Keeper and Ground Digger! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Junkyard Keeper or Ground Digger!?
Junkyard Keeper ships an update monthly, and Ground Digger! every 10 days. Most recently, Junkyard Keeper was updated on October 20, 2026 and Ground Digger! on October 20, 2026.

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