Pen Dig vs Craft Drill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pen Dig
Engage in a clicker idle game where you dig the ground with a pen to earn money. Upgrade your digging tools and use your earnings to construct a city, opening new areas and creating your own unique playstyle.
- Clicker idle gameplay
- Earn coins by digging
- Upgrade various pen tools
- Build a city from mines
- Create a personalized playstyle
- Develop a prosperous city
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Dig the ground using a pen and build a city! Our game is a fun clicker idle game that gets you started with a school pencil. You will earn money by digging and breaking stones and you will improve your pens by earning money. There are many types of pens in the game, from the ordinary pen to the stone-filled pen, the digger-shaped pen, and the pointed pen. In the second stage of the game, you will try to make a city by digging your mines. Travel around the city with the vehicle carrying the stones and build buildings and open new areas when you build the whole city. Throughout your game, you will create a game style that suits you and you will try to make a rich city. Features: -Fun clicker idle game -Earn coins by digging and breaking stones -Many different types of pens -Dig mines to build a city -Create your own style of play -Strive to make a rich city Pen Dig is a game that can be played with pleasure and played on many different levels. Earn money using a pen, build a city, and have fun! Download and play our game now!
Craft Drill
Mine valuable resources like coal, iron, gold, and diamonds with an upgradable drill. Switch between various attachments to optimize your extraction and build a prosperous mining empire. Enjoy casual gameplay and complete challenging levels to become the ultimate mining tycoon.
- Drill upgrades
- Resource extraction (coal, iron, gold, diamonds)
- Attachment switching
- Economic strategy
- Casual gameplay
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Uncover hidden riches as you wield a powerful drill, extracting coal, iron, gold, and diamonds. Upgrade your drill and switch between attachments like wooden shovels, stone shovels, iron pickaxes, and diamond pickaxes for optimized resource extraction. GAME FEATURES: - Drill Upgrades: Evolve your drilling capabilities, from basic to unstoppable. - Resource Extraction: Mine coal, iron, gold, and diamonds for wealth and opulence. - Economic Strategy: Manage resources to build and expand your mining empire. - Casual Gaming: Enjoy simple controls and engaging gameplay. Complete challenging levels, improve your drill, and become the ultimate mining tycoon. Tackle intricate challenges as you delve deeper into the earth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pen Dig at 3.6K against Craft Drill's 130. Pen Dig also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Craft Drill's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 11%). 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. Pen Dig sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Craft Drill sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pen Dig against 4.5 for Craft Drill. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pen Dig has 3.6K ratings behind it against 130, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 11% of Pen Dig's written reviews are positive against 29% of Craft Drill's.
Pen Dig ships an update monthly, Craft Drill every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pen Dig | Craft Drill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.6K ratings) — better | 4.5 (130 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 11.3% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 130 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DoDo Game Co | Yso Corp |
Customer experience
Pen Dig
Craft Drill
User reviews
Pen Dig
From 3.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Fun game concept
- 👍 Satisfying gameplay
Room to improve
- 🤯 Overwhelming number of ads
- 🐛 Game-breaking bugs and glitches
- 🔒 Paid 'no ads' option doesn't work as expected
Craft Drill
From 130 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun concept
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay initially
- 👍 Awesome game
- 👍 Very good game
- 👍 Cool game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game won't load past level select
- 🐛 Game freezes
- 🐛 Purchase not restored
- 🐛 Ads still present after purchase
- 🐛 Game crashes
Bugs and requests
Pen Dig
Reported bugs
3 issues- Pencil/drill stops collecting materials at certain depths
- Progress resets or gets stuck after reaching certain milestones
- Inability to progress past first city/area
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content to extend gameplay
- Reduce frequency of ads
- Improve stability and fix bugs
Craft Drill
Reported bugs
19 issues- Game won't load past level select menu after first level
- Game freezes when trying to play
- Purchased ad-free access not restored after reinstalling
- Game crashes and purchase is lost
- App won't load, ads don't load
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- Game bugs out after fully closing the app, requires reinstalling
- Game shows title screen and won't load
- Cannot get past the first level
- Game stays on title screen
- Game glitches out and won't load
- Restore purchases doesn't work
- Game crashes after paying for no ads
- Game won't open after paying for no ads
- Bug where game can't be played after reaching 50% on level 1
- Stopped letting me play after reaching 50% on level 1, only shows title screen
- App has a bug on level 1, won't start after finishing and exiting app
- Game progress reset after update
- Paid for no ads, still getting them
- Review box shuts down mid-review
Requested features
9 requests- Fix the game
- Add new ores, upgrades, and buildings
- Add more content
- Add color to levels
- Fix ads after purchase
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- Fix purchase restoration
- Fix game loading issues
- Fix game freezing issues
- Fix game crashing issues
In-app purchases
Pen Dig
- Remove Ads$2.99
Craft Drill
- Remove Ads$2.99
- 25k Money & Remove Ads$3.99
- 50k Money$4.99
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- 100k Money$7.49
- 250k Money & Remove Ads$9.99
