Comparison

Idle vs Snowlore

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

Head to head
About

Idle

Cultivate a variety of molds in your home to become wealthy. Molds grow automatically, even offline, and can be harvested by popping spores. Explore different environments and upgrade your lab to discover unique mold types.

Highlights
  • Automatic mold growth, even offline
  • Harvest mold by popping spores
  • Collect unique and diverse mold types
  • Explore various maps and environments
  • Upgrade lab for enhanced mold cultivation
Features
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Pop spores, grow molds, and get rich! Breaking News: Mold is the Key Ingredient in Hair Loss Treatment! Ever since it became a key ingredient in hair loss treatments, everyone wants it. Luckily, your home is the perfect place to grow mold. Fill every corner with unique species, harvest rare finds, and turn your moldy home into a thriving business! ■ GROW—even while you’re away Your mold keeps growing while you’re offline. Supply growth formula, return to a full harvest, and keep your operation running. ■ DISCOVER unique mold species From everyday objects to the most unexpected surfaces, mold can grow almost anywhere. Collect species with distinctive shapes, colors, and rarities to complete your collection. ■ EXPAND throughout the house Unlock new areas, including the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room. Each location offers a different environment and new mold species to discover. ■ UPGRADE and unlock rarer mold Improve temperature, humidity, and nutrients to create the ideal growing conditions. The better your facilities, the rarer—and more valuable—your mold becomes. *Support email: cs@pondstudio.tv *Discord: https://discord.gg/gvE2cX4A

About

Snowlore

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Ski down a mountain. Tilt your phone to steer, tap to jump, and try not to hit anything. Snowlore is a remake of a small game I made in 2010, rebuilt from nothing with the one feature the original never got: animals crossing the slope in front of you. A hare bolts. A deer stops dead and stares. A bear does not hurry for anyone. FORTY-TWO COURSES, SEVEN MOUNTAINS Work up a branching map from the nursery slope to the summit, and then on to the next mountain: the Himalaya, Fuji, Triglav, Jotunheimen, Aconcagua, Hekla, Kilimanjaro. Each course is the same every time you ski it, so a better line is something you can learn rather than something you are given. Stars come from your time, the energy you have left, and how close you dared to pass. A PAGE OF LORE FOR EVERY COURSE Finish one and it gives you something back: a short tale about the place, and underneath it one thing that is true. Why a deer freezes instead of running. What a whiteout actually does to your eyes. Where the word "abominable" came from, and the mistranslation behind it. ENDLESS No finish line. It keeps getting harder for as long as you last, and past a point something starts following you down — and once you have beaten the creatures of the seven mountains, it is not always the same one. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF No advertising. No in-app purchases. No analytics. The developer receives nothing about you at all. Your scores go to Apple Game Center so they can be ranked — to Apple, never to the developer — and everything else stays on your phone. It is free because it was made for the pleasure of making it, and there is nothing in it to buy. Plays in twelve languages, with tilt or touch controls.

Screenshots

Idle4 screens
Snowlore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snowlore at none against Idle's 10. Snowlore also leads on ads (none vs shown). Idle's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and update cadence 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. Idle sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Snowlore asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle ships an update every 8 days, Snowlore every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle versus Snowlore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdleSnowlore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (58 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings58 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size814 MB122 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHYUNG GYU KIMMITJA FORTUNA

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Idle

One-time8
  • Special Revive Potion2 variants$0.49
  • Smart Farming Package$2.99
  • Super Genetic Machine$2.99
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  • Smart Farming Package$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Prime Package2 variants$4.99
  • Prime Package$5.99
  • Prime Package$6.99
None

Snowlore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle free?
Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snowlore free?
Snowlore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle or Snowlore have ads?
Idle shows ads; Snowlore does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle or Snowlore?
Idle ships an update every 8 days, and Snowlore every 2 weeks. Most recently, Idle was updated on November 8, 2026 and Snowlore on November 6, 2026.

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