Planetary Idle vs Tiny Terraces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planetary Idle
Explore planets with a retro sci-fi idle theme. Hire scientists for passive income, tap for boosts, and research expeditions for discoveries. Prestige to reset with permanent upgrades and unlock perks with rare QBits.
- Hire Scientists for passive income
- Tap to boost active income
- Research expeditions for discoveries
- Prestige system with permanent upgrades
- Earn QBits for powerful perks
- Offline progress for 6 hours
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Discover planets with a retro sci-fi idle theme with Planetary Idle! • Hire Scientists - Generate steady passive income and scale your operation. • Tap to Boost - Tap for extra cash when you’re active. • Research Expeditions - Spend money and brave scientists on one-way missions for discoveries and income bonuses! • Prestige - Reset, keep permanent upgrades, blast past your previous best. • QBits & Upgrades - Earn rare QBits and unlock powerful perks. • Play Your Pace - Short bursts or long idles; progress for 6 hours when offline. • Game Center - Many achievements to unlock!
Tiny Terraces
An idle-farming game where tiny characters manage your garden. Plant crops, craft more workers, and decorate your terrace with earnings from your harvest.
- Idle farming gameplay
- Automated crop management
- Craft new tiny workers
- Terrace decoration
- Money generation from crops
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Tiny Terraces is an idle-farming game, where you can watch tiny guys do different tasks around the terrace. Grow Crops: Plant crops and watch as the tiny guys manage the garden plots by watering, weeding, and harvesting. Craft Tiny Guys: Use certain crops and tiny guy parts to craft more tiny guys to help manage the terrace. Decorate: Use money produced from crops to buy decorations to detail your terrace.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Planetary Idle at Free against Tiny Terraces's $1.99. Planetary Idle also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1). Tiny Terraces's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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
Planetary Idle is free to download; Tiny Terraces costs $1.99 up front. Planetary Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tiny Terraces asks for nothing beyond the download.
Planetary Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 156 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Planetary Idle's written reviews are positive against 66% of Tiny Terraces's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Planetary Idle ships an update weekly, Tiny Terraces every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planetary Idle | Tiny Terraces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (77 ratings) — better | 4.1 (156 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 65.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #3 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Roberto Frias Nerio | Jaxon Gallegos Garcia |
Customer experience
Planetary Idle
Tiny Terraces
Bugs and requests
Planetary Idle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tiny Terraces
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cloning building bug
- Sound issues
- Destroy tool not working
Requested features
3 requests- Add manual save option
- Improve landscape mode compatibility
- Streamline touch controls and gestures
In-app purchases
Planetary Idle
- Booster Pack$0.99
- Research Pack$2.99
- Quantum Pack$6.99
Tiny Terraces
No in-app purchases
