Ground Digger! vs Magic Hands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 !
Magic Hands
Embark on an archaeological adventure to rescue ancient creatures frozen in time. Use magical weapons to break through permafrost and revive prehistoric animals, experiencing the thrill of bringing dinosaurs back to life.
- Break permafrost with magical weapons
- Revive frozen prehistoric animals
- Collect unique exploding weapons
- Simple finger-based controls
- Use magic lightning to awaken creatures
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Are you ready to resurrect the centropods that had been frozen for millions of years in the permafrost? Plot: In Magic Hand: You will be an archaeologist who equipped with magical weapons that can break the permafrost. You will be traveling to different lands to find prehistoric animals that are frozen for millions of years and revive them. It was amazing to see a tyrannosaur roar after millions of years. Gameplay: Simple controls, move your finger to throw your weapon into the ice ahead and be rest assured since your weapon won't harm the sleeping animals. So just destroy them and then use magic lightning to wake them up! Amazing Weapons: To be able to break the ice quickly, you need special weapons that can explode like bananas, fireballs, teddy bears... and a lot more different weapons that not as anything else that you can ever thought of. Collect a lot of weapons to experience the destruction more exciting! So are you ready to go to the Magic Hand's world to enjoy the thrill of rescuing the dinosaurs?
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Verdict
Ground Digger! and Magic Hands both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 54% of Magic Hands's written reviews are positive against 41% of Ground Digger!'s. Ground Digger!'s advantage is ratings volume (7.1K vs 1.2K) and iOS requirement (12.5 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Ground Digger! sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Magic Hands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Ground Digger! against 4.3 for Magic Hands. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ground Digger! has 7.1K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Ground Digger!'s written reviews are positive against 54% of Magic Hands's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ground Digger! | Magic Hands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7.1K ratings) — better | 4.3 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 53.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.1K — better | 1.2K |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| 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 | 12.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 353 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HOMA GAMES | Negaxy., JSC |
Customer experience
Ground Digger!
Magic Hands
Bugs and requests
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
Magic Hands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
Magic Hands
- Remove Ads in game$2.99
