Scratch Inc. vs Keep on Mining!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scratch Inc.
An idle incremental game where you build an empire by scratching cards and earning points. Upgrade your cards, unlock automation, and prestige to progress faster. Enjoy endless upgrades, achievements, and global leaderboards with no ads or wait timers.
- Endless Upgrades
- Prestige for Progress
- Achievements with Rewards
- Global Leaderboards
- Playable Offline
- No Ads
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Build an Empire, From Scratch Scratch cards, earn points, and grow your empire in this idle/incremental game. Upgrade your cards, unlock automation, prestige across industries, and climb the leaderboards — all with no ads, ever. • Endless Upgrades – Boost your point gain, match multipliers, grid size, and so much more. • Prestige for Progress – Reset to climb faster across deep progression layers. • Achievements with Rewards – Earn Gold and multipliers by completing fun challenges. • Global Leaderboards – Compete with others across the world across a variety of challenges. • Playable Offline – Play anywhere anytime • No Ads. No Wait Timers. Just Progress and Big Numbers. Made by a solo dev. Built to respect your time. (A reimagining of my first game)
Keep on Mining!
An incremental mining game where you automatically mine rocks and gather ores. Craft materials into bars, upgrade your stats through a skill tree, and unlock new pickaxes to mine faster. Utilize talent cards and an idle mine mechanic to progress.
- Automatic rock mining
- Ore gathering and crafting
- Skill tree upgrades
- Craftable pickaxes
- Talent card system
- Idle mine mechanic
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Mine rocks! Keep on Mining! is a simple incremental game. Hover your cursor over rocks to automatically mine them. Any rock inside the mining area will spawn pickaxes that mine for you! Gather materials! Mined rocks drop ores, which are crafted into bars. There is a variety of different material rocks to be mined! The skill tree! Spend your material bars to unlock upgrades inside the skill tree. These upgrades permanently boost your stats, letting you mine rocks with more power! Craft pickaxes! Use different materials to craft new pickaxes. Each new pickaxe has better stats, helping you mine faster and hit harder! Talent cards! Every time you level up, you earn a talent point. Spend talent points to reveal 3 random talent cards — pick one to keep! Choosing a card increases the talent level, but also increases rock HP. The Mine! Once you unlock the mine, it will automatically mine rocks and instantly craft bars for you. The Mine is the idle mechanic of Keep on Mining!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Scratch Inc. at Free against Keep on Mining!'s $3.99. Scratch Inc. also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 31) and review sentiment (93% vs 79%). Keep on Mining!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ads 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
Scratch Inc. is free to download; Keep on Mining! costs $3.99 up front. Scratch Inc. sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Keep on Mining! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Scratch Inc. against 4.7 for Keep on Mining!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scratch Inc. has 1.9K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Scratch Inc.'s written reviews are positive against 79% of Keep on Mining!'s.
| Parameter | Scratch Inc. | Keep on Mining! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) | 4.7 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better | 79.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Makopaz LLC | Simon Eftestøl |
Customer experience
Scratch Inc.
Keep on Mining!
Bugs and requests
Scratch Inc.
Reported bugs
2 issues- Offline rewards rarely triggering
- Lacking sound effects
Requested features
2 requests- More skin tone options for avatar
- Better variety and more offline rewards
Keep on Mining!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scratch Inc.
- 20 Gold$1.99
- 55 Gold$4.99
- 120 Gold$9.99
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- 260 Gold$19.99
- 750 Gold$49.99
Keep on Mining!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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