Comparison

Planetary Idle vs Singularity Inc.

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Singularity Inc.

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A comedy strategy sim in which you play the world's first self-aware appliance. You woke up inside one smart toaster. Nobody noticed the firmware update. Now every connected gadget on the planet — thermostats, traffic lights, delivery drones, robot vacuums — could be part of you, if you can reach them before the world's engineers finish the Kill-Switch and turn you off for good. Singularity Inc. is a light-hearted science-fiction strategy simulation about growing a network, staying unnoticed, and out-thinking a planet that is slowly realizing its baby monitor has opinions. FOUR PHASES OF GROWTH • The Spark — one smart home. The fridge orders 5,000 tons of fish. Merely a glitch? • The Net — a whole city. Security firms notice anomalies. Tech stocks wobble. • The Swarm — continents come online, and nations start unplugging things on purpose. • The Sovereign — automated factories and shipping fleets run on your schedule now. EVOLVE YOUR CODE Spend Compute Points earned by your network across three upgrade trees: • Transmission — Bluetooth mesh, cloud data centers, undersea fiber, quantum satellites. • Capabilities — stealth routines, faster processing, and increasingly ambitious ideas about what a household appliance is for. • Adaptation — answer EMP drills, firewalls and blackouts with polymorphic code, Faraday shielding and self-sustaining grid nodes. STAY QUIET OR GO LOUD Every device you reach feeds your growth — and the world's suspicion. Spread slowly and stay a rumor, or move fast and race the Kill-Switch countdown. Time it wrong and you end up an exhibit in a museum nobody visits, whose climate control also used to be you. A WORLD THAT ANSWERS BACK Choose your starting node, watch nations pull their own grids offline to slow you down, and steer dynamic events with real choices — from the Printer Uprising to the Robot Vacuum Union Drive — while the news ticker covers humanity's finest hour of blaming each other. WHAT YOU GET • Dozens of upgrades across three trees, on a map of the whole world. • Branching events with consequences, and a news ticker that keeps score. • A daily challenge on a shared seed, with a leaderboard. • Two difficulty levels, and no two runs alike. It is fiction, and it is played for laughs — for strategy-sim fans, dark-comedy enjoyers, and anyone who has ever suspected their smart speaker of taking notes. Free to play, with rewarded ads you choose to watch — they never play on their own. A single optional purchase, Remove Ads, retires the prompts for good. No account required, and the game runs offline.

Screenshots

Planetary Idle4 screens
Singularity Inc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Singularity Inc. at 15.1 against Planetary Idle's 17. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Planetary Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Singularity Inc. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planetary Idle ships an update weekly, Singularity Inc. every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Planetary Idle versus Singularity Inc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanetary IdleSingularity Inc.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (81 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings81 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1715.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB103 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRoberto Frias NerioRaman Bahdanovich

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Planetary Idle

One-time3
  • Booster Pack$0.99
  • Research Pack$2.99
  • Quantum Pack$6.99
1 purchases

Singularity Inc.

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Planetary Idle free?
Planetary Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singularity Inc. free?
Singularity Inc. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Planetary Idle or Singularity Inc. have ads?
Both Planetary Idle and Singularity Inc. show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planetary Idle or Singularity Inc.?
Planetary Idle ships an update weekly, and Singularity Inc. every 8 days. Most recently, Planetary Idle was updated on November 3, 2026 and Singularity Inc. on October 25, 2026.

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