Upload Simulator 2 vs Ethos Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Upload Simulator 2
Simulate the process of uploading data to earn credits, upgrade your hardware, and research new technologies. Discover unique artifacts, craft modules, and customize your operating system with themes and wallpapers.
- GPU mining for credits
- Upgrade hardware setup
- Research new technologies
- Craft modules
- Customize OS with themes
- Discover unique artifacts
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Use your powerful GPU to mine credits and upgrade your setup even further! Get unique upgrades using your hard-gained reputation as an uploader! Use your uploaded data into the laboratory to research amazing new tech and boost your setup even more! Hack into the system and speed up your game with different abilities! Choose the format of your uploads for different outcomes! Find unique artifacts that grant you with different bonus effects! Collect resources to craft modules and modify your system! And customize your OS with different themes or even with the wallpaper of your choice!
Ethos Idle
Guide humanity's progress from its earliest discoveries to the distant future. Manage your tribe's choices, develop over 200 unique ideas, and explore the world. Advance your civilization, unlock bonuses, and enjoy a single-player, offline experience with optional ads.
- Develop over 200 historic ideas
- Explore and exploit the world
- Manage tribe choices
- Unlock exploration bonuses and synergies
- Prestige mechanic upgrades
- Customizable challenge scenarios
- Offline single-player experience
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Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ethos Idle at Free against Upload Simulator 2's $3.99. Ethos Idle also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (239 vs 18). Upload Simulator 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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
Ethos Idle is free to download; Upload Simulator 2 costs $3.99 up front. Ethos Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Upload Simulator 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ethos Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ethos Idle has 239 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Upload Simulator 2's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ethos Idle's.
Upload Simulator 2 ships an update every 2 days, Ethos Idle fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Upload Simulator 2 | Ethos Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (18 ratings) | 4.8 (239 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 239 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EnigmaDev Studios | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
Upload Simulator 2
Ethos Idle
Bugs and requests
Upload Simulator 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ethos Idle
Reported bugs
2 issues- RNG for challenges is unfair and unfun
- Unlocking buffs for inaccessible technologies
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads entirely
- Clarification on prestige warp gain multipliers
In-app purchases
Upload Simulator 2
No in-app purchases
Ethos Idle
- x2 Speed$6.99
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