Rock Pusher vs Tool Evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rock Pusher
Hire workers to help you push a massive boulder to its designated location. Despite the difficulty, successfully moving the rock yields valuable rewards.
- Hire workers
- Push a boulder
- Earn rewards
- Idle gameplay
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Can you push the rock? Hire workers to push the boulder to its destination. This rock is very hard to move, but it can give you nice rewards!
Tool Evolution
Embark on a time-traveling adventure where you control an evolving tool. Harvest resources, craft items, and build worlds across different historical eras and futuristic landscapes. Adapt your tool to new challenges and expand your creations through time.
- Time travel through eras
- Evolving tool mechanics
- Idle resource harvesting
- Crafting and world expansion
- Historical and futuristic gameplay
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Tool Evolution: Mine & Evolve lets you experience a unique journey through time as you take on the role of a tool that evolves with each era you visit. From the Jurassic era to the distant future, your tool will adapt and transform, allowing you to build world, mine, and evolve through different historical periods and beyond. Start your adventure in the Jurassic era and help shape the earliest mini world. As you travel through time, your tool will evolve to meet the demands of each age—from medieval life to the Industrial Revolution and into futuristic landscapes. Each era presents new challenges and opportunities to harvest resources and craft essential items. Tool Evolution: Mine & Evolve features: - Time Travel: Journey from the Jurassic era through the Middle Ages, into the future, and beyond. Each period brings its own unique challenges and advancements in this mini world. - Evolving Tools: Your tool evolves according to the age you time travel to, adapting from primitive designs to advanced futuristic technology. - Idle Mining Game: Harvest resources and mine efficiently with your evolving tool. Manage your resources and automate processes as you advance. - Crafting and Expansion: From my little universe to vast planet craft projects, use your tool to develop your little world and beyond. - Historical and Futuristic Gameplay: Witness the transformation of your tool and world through different historical periods and futuristic scenarios. As you explore and conquer each new age, Tool Evolution: Mine & Evolve challenges you to adapt your strategy and make the most of each era's unique resources and technologies. Evolve through time and create a world that reflects the innovations and achievements of every period you encounter. Are you ready to take your tool on an incredible journey through history and the future? Join Tool Evolution: Mine & Evolve and start your evolution adventure!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rock Pusher at weekly against Tool Evolution's every 3 weeks. Rock Pusher also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Tool Evolution's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Rock Pusher sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Tool Evolution sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tool Evolution holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10K and 12K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Rock Pusher's written reviews are positive against 20% of Tool Evolution's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rock Pusher ships an update weekly, Tool Evolution every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rock Pusher | Tool Evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (10K ratings) | 4.7 (12K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.8% of reviews — better | 20.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10K | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 342 MB | 288 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rollic Games | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
Rock Pusher
Tool Evolution
User reviews
Rock Pusher
From 10K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Potential
- 🚀 Fun game
- 🚀 Great game but few bugs
- 🚀 Very fun, minimal ads
- 🚀 Enjoyable, addictive gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unable to unlock Atlas
- 🐛 Gear power quest not working
- 🐛 Merge quest not working after evolving workers
- 🐛 Gear inventory freezes
- 🐛 Prestige timer issues
Tool Evolution
From 12K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and satisfying gameplay
- 👍 Enjoyable time-killer
- 💡 Interesting concept and progression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 🔍 Unclear game mechanics
- 📢 Excessive ads and monetization
- 🔒 Lack of progress saving and restoration
Bugs and requests
Rock Pusher
Reported bugs
8 issues- Unable to unlock Atlas after meeting gear power requirement
- Merge quest gets stuck after evolving workers
- Gear inventory freezes and becomes unusable
- Prestige timer resets incorrectly
- Energy system not functioning as expected
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- Progression blocked at certain levels
- Glitches when using multiple maps
- Inability to upgrade gear past gold tier
Requested features
7 requests- Increase prestige frequency
- Improve energy system and offline progression
- Add more content and progression beyond current roadblock
- Implement better quest and progression tracking
- Improve merging and upgrading mechanics
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- Add more ways to earn resources and progress
- Provide better communication channels with developers
Tool Evolution
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes or gets stuck at certain stages
- Tools/characters becoming invisible or disappearing
- Inability to progress past certain levels
- Progress reset or lost after updates
Requested features
4 requests- More content and levels
- Better balance and progression
- Improved stability and bug fixes
- Clearer in-game instructions
In-app purchases
Rock Pusher
- Rune Pack$1.99
- Small Gem Pack$2.99
- Medium Gem Pack$4.99
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- Starter Pack 2$4.99
- Starter Pack With Prestige$6.99
- Small Skip-It Pack$7.99
- Energy Bundle$7.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Large Gem Pack$9.99
- Starter Pack$12.99
- Ice Island Pack$14.99
- Fire Island Pack$19.99
- Epic Gem Pack$19.99
- Large Skip-It Pack$30.99
- Legendary Gem Pack$39.99
- Ultimate Gem Pack$99.99
Tool Evolution
- Gem Offer 1$0.99
- Resource Pack 1$0.99
- Gem Pack 2$1.99
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- Resource Pack 2$1.99
- Chest Pack 1$1.99
- Resource Pack 3$2.99
- Gem Pack 3$2.99
- No Ads$2.99
- Resource Pack 4$3.99
- Resource Pack 5$4.99
- Starting Pack$4.99
- Gem Pack 4$5.99
- Resource Pack 6$5.99
- Gem Pack 5$9.99
- Gem Pack 6$19.99
