Comparison

PegIdle vs Getting Home

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

Head to head
About

PegIdle

Aim and shoot balls to clear peg-filled boards in this idle game. Earn gold and prestige points to upgrade balls, buckets, and unlock permanent bonuses. Features numerous balls, peg types, upgrades, and challenges.

Highlights
  • Clear boards of pegs
  • Earn gold and prestige points
  • Upgrade balls and buckets
  • Unlock permanent prestige upgrades
  • Collect 20+ different balls
  • Encounter 7 different peg types
  • Complete 37 challenges
Features
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Aim and shoot your balls at the pegs to clear the board! In PegIdle, your goal is to clear the board of pegs. Each time a board is cleared, a new one spawns. Each time a new board spawns in, each peg has a chance to be a golden peg, prestige peg, or other unique pegs. Hitting golden pegs will give you gold, which can be spent on new balls and on ball upgrades. Gold is also aqcuired by dropping balls into the moving bucket. Both the bucket and the golden pegs can be upgraded! Prestige points can be aqcuired by hitting prestige pegs! Spend your aqcuired prestige points on permanent prestige upgrades. KEY FEATURES 20+ Balls *7 Different pegs *150+ Prestige upgrades *10 Levels *37 Challenges *AND MORE!

About

Getting Home

Features
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Land your rocket with precision. Getting Home is a lander game where every drop of fuel counts. You are an astronaut lost in deep space with one mission: get home. Guide your ship through asteroid fields and cosmic hazards, manage your thrust, and touch down gently on the pad. Slow and steady wins. FEATURES • Simple controls that are easy to learn and hard to master, with game controller support on every device • 54 handcrafted levels with challenge stages • Real physics, limited fuel, and deadly obstacles • Cinematic story moments about love, perseverance, and finding your way back FREE TO PLAY Download and play for free. On iPhone and iPad, short ad breaks play between levels. On Mac and Apple TV, there are no ads, and the first 12 levels are free. A single one-time purchase upgrades the game on all your Apple devices: it removes ads on iPhone and iPad and unlocks every level on Mac and Apple TV. CONTROLS iPhone and iPad: touch or Bluetooth game controller. Mac: keyboard or Bluetooth game controller. Apple TV: Siri Remote or Bluetooth game controller.

Screenshots

PegIdle4 screens
Getting Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Getting Home at Free against PegIdle's $3.99. PegIdle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Getting Home is free to download; PegIdle costs $3.99 up front. Getting Home sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PegIdle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PegIdle ships an update every 3 days, Getting Home every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
PegIdle versus Getting Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPegIdleGetting Home
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size273 MB661 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon EftestølArctic Meadow

In-app purchases

None

PegIdle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Getting Home

One-time1
  • Full game$2.99

Questions

Is PegIdle free?
PegIdle costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Getting Home free?
Getting Home is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PegIdle or Getting Home have ads?
Getting Home shows ads; PegIdle does not.
Which is updated more often, PegIdle or Getting Home?
PegIdle ships an update every 3 days, and Getting Home every 2 weeks. Most recently, PegIdle was updated on October 30, 2026 and Getting Home on November 13, 2026.

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