IdleSphere vs Ethos Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IdleSphere
Experience a visually stunning incremental game centered around spheres. Watch countless spheres come to life with synchronized graphics and in-game currency. Enjoy intuitive upgrades, a deep prestige system, and a wealth of content in this mesmerizing adventure.
- Visually stunning sphere graphics
- Synchronized in-game currency and visuals
- Intuitive upgrade system
- Extensive prestige system
- Zoom in and out functionality
- Wealth of content
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Introducing Idle Sphere, a stunningly beautiful incremental game that revolves around the captivating world of spheres. Prepare to be amazed as countless spheres come to life using cutting-edge technology. The game's graphics are seamlessly synchronized with the in-game currency, ensuring a mesmerizing visual experience. As you progress, you'll encounter increasingly complex, beautiful, and colossal spheres that will leave you in awe. Idle Sphere's gameplay is built on simple yet engaging upgrades, allowing you to enjoy the game intuitively. Immerse yourself in the satisfying experience of zooming in and out, admiring the exquisite beauty of the spheres. The game features an extensive prestige system that adds depth to your journey. Although some upgrades may reset when you prestige, fear not! You'll emerge stronger and quickly regain your former power, ready to take on new challenges. Despite its simplicity, Idle Sphere offers a wealth of content for you to explore and enjoy. Dive into this captivating world of spheres and embark on an unforgettable incremental gaming adventure!
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 rating: Ethos Idle at 4.8 against IdleSphere's 3.8. Ethos Idle also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 47%) and ratings volume (239 vs 32). 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
Both are free to download. IdleSphere sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Ethos Idle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ethos Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ethos Idle has 239 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of IdleSphere's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ethos Idle's.
IdleSphere ships an update every 8 days, Ethos Idle fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IdleSphere | Ethos Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (32 ratings) | 4.8 (239 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 239 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Fortnightly |
| 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 224 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Idle System, Inc. | Graham Goldstein |
Customer experience
IdleSphere
Ethos Idle
Bugs and requests
IdleSphere
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
IdleSphere
- Chaotics 200$1.99
- Chaotics 1000$6.99
- Orbit Pack$7.99
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- Permanent Bonus$9.99
- Digital Winter$19.99
- Chaotics 5000$29.99
Ethos Idle
- x2 Speed$6.99
