Project Salon vs Garbage Collectors
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Salon
Build and manage your own hair salon in this idle strategy game. Cut, dye, and style hair to attract customers, hire staff, and expand your business. Enjoy a relaxing simulation experience at your own pace.
- Hair cutting and dyeing simulation
- Salon expansion and management
- Customer attraction
- Employee hiring
- Idle strategy gameplay
- Handcrafted worlds
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Project Salon is a simple, yet addictive exploration based idle strategy game! Cut hairs, dye them, grow your salon, attract more customers, hire employees and much more! Key Features - 1. Free to play 2. Handcrafted worlds 3. Action packed, near real simulation 4. Enjoy Salon World at your own pace 5. Suitable for all age groups
Garbage Collectors
Embark on a mission to clean up a polluted island by collecting trash. Recruit helpful dwarfs to assist in your efforts and restore the island's natural beauty. Can you transform the island back to its green state?
- Island cleanup simulation
- Collect illegal dumping
- Recruit dwarf helpers
- Restore island greenery
- Cooperative gameplay
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There is an island filled with large amounts of illegal dumping. It's not very much, but you are not going to be able to do anything about it alone. With the help of the dwarfs who live on the island, let's pick up the trash and clean it up. Can you make the island green again?
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Verdict
Project Salon and Garbage Collectors both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of Garbage Collectors's written reviews are positive against 34% of Project Salon's. Garbage Collectors also leads on ratings volume (7.5K vs 1.6K). Project Salon's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Project Salon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Garbage Collectors sells 10 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 — 4.7 for Project Salon against 4.7 for Garbage Collectors. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.6K and 7.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 34% of Project Salon's written reviews are positive against 50% of Garbage Collectors's.
Project Salon ships an update every 2 weeks, Garbage Collectors every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Salon | Garbage Collectors |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) — better | 4.7 (7.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K | 7.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| 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 | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 284 MB | 502 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SUPERSONIC STUDIOS LTD | tatsumaki games |
Customer experience
Project Salon
Garbage Collectors
User reviews
Project Salon
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Good time waster
- 👍 Non-forced ads
- 👍 Satisfying gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 🛑 Too many ads
- 🤑 Expensive to remove ads
- 🔁 Repetitive levels
- 💰 Lose progress when moving to new salon
Garbage Collectors
From 7.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Potential
- 👍 Fun game
- 🌳 Very green
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches
- 💰 Too many ads
- 🔋 Heats up phone and drains battery
Bugs and requests
Project Salon
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cashier getting stuck
- App force closing
- Data loss when exiting the game
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content
- Ability to keep progress when moving salons
- More diverse customer base in the braiding shop
Garbage Collectors
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inaccessible trash on certain levels
- Minions getting stuck and unable to complete levels
- Upgrades resetting between levels
- Inability to finish levels due to glitched items
Requested features
5 requests- More levels
- Option to turn off vacuums
- Option to purchase ad-free version
- Different scenery/backgrounds
- More upgrades and progression
In-app purchases
Project Salon
- SkipIts Pack 1 - 6 Skipits$0.99
- Gem Pack - 100 gems$1.99
- SkipIts Pack 1 - 20 Skipits$2.99
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- NoForcedAds_Pack2$2.99
- Instant Product Delivery$5.99
- Gem Pack - 255 Gems$5.99
- Unlimited Free VIP Guests$11.99
- SkipIts Pack 4 - 200 Skipits$11.99
- SkipIts Pack 1 - 80 Skipits$11.99
- Unlimited SkipIts - NoAds Ever$29.99
Garbage Collectors
- TimeLimit SpeedUp (Great Deal)$0.49
- One Day No Ads$0.99
- Cashier$1.49
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- Goldie Robo Skin$2.49
- No Ads$2.49
- No Ads + Speed Up (Great deal)$6.99
- Infinity Speed Up$7.99
- Gem 90$9.99
- No Ads + Speed Up$9.99
- Gem 200$20.99
Questions
Is Project Salon free?
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