Comparison

MapMinter vs Asteronium

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

Head to head
About

MapMinter

Features
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MapMinter turns your real-world travels into a global collecting adventure. Every city you visit becomes a unique digital coin you can mint, trade, and show off—building a living map of everywhere you've been. MINT CITY COINS Arrive in a city and mint its coin on the spot. Eligible places include cities with 125,000+ residents and capital cities. Each coin is a souvenir of a real journey. TRADE WITH TRAVELERS Send a coin to anyone with a simple QR code—and keep your own copy forever. Meet fellow travelers, swap coins from cities you haven't reached yet, and watch your collection grow. See the "Past Travelers" who once carried each coin around the world. EXPLORE FOR REAL-WORLD LOOT Materials and famous historical personalities appear on a live map around you. Walk within range to collect them—just like the cities themselves, your loot is tied to where you actually are. BUILD WORLD LANDMARKS TOGETHER Use collected materials to unlock an artwork with quirky facts about the city.Join a Construction Party of up to 100 travelers to build faster—bigger parties need fewer materials per person, so teamwork pays off. Completed artworks are saved forever in your City Archives. CITY HALL & AUCTION HOUSE Trade materials and personalities with other players for gold in the Auction House, where prices move with the market. Browse your Citizen Registry of historical figures and revisit every landmark you've helped build. CHASE ACHIEVEMENTS & CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS Earn Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals, complete entire countries, and create your own custom community challenges for others to join. Compete on global Points and Coins leaderboards. DISCOVER LOCAL GEMS Add and browse attraction and restaurant recommendations on every city's coin—real tips from real travelers, filtered by price and cuisine. Whether you're a frequent flyer, a weekend explorer, or a collector at heart, MapMinter rewards your curiosity and turns every trip into something you can keep. Pack your bags. Mint the world. Note: MapMinter uses your location to mint city coins and find nearby materials, and requires an internet connection.

About

Asteronium

Develop a deep-space industrial empire by strategically building and managing your space station. Optimize resource extraction, refine materials, and trade goods to become an idle mining tycoon. Research new technologies and upgrade modules to maximize efficiency, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Build and manage space station
  • Optimize resource extraction
  • Refine materials and trade goods
  • Research new technologies
  • Offline progression
  • Upgrade modules
Features
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Build your industrial space station and become an idle miner tycoon in a deep-space economy. Lay out your colony smartly: link ships that mine asteronium to factories that refine it, then route goods to trade drones — every connection matters, every bottleneck is yours to solve. Expand around the asteroid, upgrade your modules, and keep production flowing even while you’re offline. Research new technologies, earn permanent boosts between runs, and push your throughput to the limit. Balance mining speed against asteroid stability, then launch to Earth to refine rare finds and come back stronger. Watch your numbers soar, your layouts evolve — and chase the rumor of a mysterious element hidden at the cores of the largest asteroids. Should we explore?

Screenshots

MapMinter4 screens
Asteronium3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MapMinter at none against Asteronium's 10. MapMinter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Asteronium sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. MapMinter asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapMinter ships an update fortnightly, Asteronium monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
MapMinter versus Asteronium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapMinterAsteronium
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB186 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJasper von HammersteinMarina Kornilova

In-app purchases

None

MapMinter

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Asteronium

One-time10
  • Station Eta$0.99
  • Station Theta$0.99
  • Station Eta$1.99
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  • Station Theta$1.99
  • Station Zeta$2.99
  • Station Eta$2.99
  • Station Theta$2.99
  • Station Eta$3.99
  • Station Theta$3.99
  • Mega Station$4.99

Questions

Is MapMinter free?
MapMinter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Asteronium free?
Asteronium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MapMinter or Asteronium have ads?
Asteronium shows ads; MapMinter does not.
Which is updated more often, MapMinter or Asteronium?
MapMinter ships an update fortnightly, and Asteronium monthly. Most recently, MapMinter was updated on November 8, 2026 and Asteronium on November 12, 2026.

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