Idle Mechanic vs Miner!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Mechanic
Manage and grow a car repair business from a single bay to a thriving enterprise. Fix and clean vehicles, hire staff, and expand your operations to maximize profits. Unlock special garages for high-value cars.
- Garage expansion
- Vehicle repair and cleaning
- Staff hiring
- Business management
- Unlockable garages
- Money making
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Take your growing garage from a single bay to a bustling business. Fix and clean every vehicle that comes through your doors. Unclock the Formula 1 garage and make even more money. Hire staff and expand your enterprise to take in more cars to keep the cash rolling in!
Miner!
Dig deep by clicking to send your miner into the earth. Enjoy funny gameplay anytime, anywhere with this free-to-play game.
- Dig deep gameplay
- Clicker mechanics
- Funny gameplay
- Play anytime, anywhere
- Free to play
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Hey, do you like to dig deep? Click and send your miner to the deepest Free to play Play it anytime, anywhere Funny gameplay
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Idle Mechanic at 50% against Miner!'s 0%. Idle Mechanic also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Miner!'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Miner! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Mechanic has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Idle Mechanic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Miner!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Idle Mechanic ships an update every 6 weeks, Miner! every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Mechanic | Miner! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Full Fat Productions Ltd | Rooster Games |
Customer experience
Idle Mechanic
Miner!
In-app purchases
Idle Mechanic
No in-app purchases
Miner!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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