Comparison

Dig Rare vs Keep Mining

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

Head to head
About

Dig Rare

Embark on an addictive mining adventure to unearth valuable minerals and hidden treasures. Sell your findings for cash or craft powerful items to increase profits. Upgrade your tools and explore deeper to become an underground tycoon.

Highlights
  • Dig for minerals and treasures
  • Craft powerful items
  • Upgrade pickaxe and tools
  • Discover mystery minerals
  • Become an underground tycoon
Features
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Pickaxe, Profit, and a Pocket Full of Mystery! Ever dreamed of striking it rich with just a pickaxe and a big dream? In this addictive mining adventure, you’ll dig deep to uncover valuable minerals, mysterious rocks, and hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. Sell what you find for instant cash — or take it to the next level by crafting powerful batteries that sell for way more. Upgrade your pickaxe, buy tools like dynamite and torches, and keep your gear in top shape—because a worn-out pickaxe won't get you far. And just when you think you’ve seen it all... Boom! You crack open a mystery mineral and discover something totally unexpected. Repair, upgrade, explore, repeat. Will you become just another miner… or a legendary underground tycoon? Start digging. Fortune favors the bold.

About

Keep Mining

Features
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Keep Mining is a pick-up-and-play push-your-luck game about greed, gut feel, and knowing exactly when to walk away. Tap MINE to swing your pickaxe. Every hit drops diamonds into your run stash — and every hit makes the next one a little more likely to end in a cave-in, a gas pocket, or a very bad dynamite mishap. Cash out and the diamonds are yours forever. Push one tap too far and you lose the run — plus a chunk of the bank you've been building. So… one more tap? HOW IT PLAYS • Tap MINE to dig and collect diamonds • Watch the Run Risk meter climb from Steady → Tense → Risky → Dangerous → Critical • Bigger risk = bigger payouts and rarer jackpots • Cash out anytime to bank your stash safely • Blow up and you lose the run AND up to 65% of your bank WHY YOU'LL GET HOOKED • Pure one-thumb gameplay — perfect for elevators, queues, and "five more minutes" sessions that turn into thirty • Every run is a fresh decision: play it safe and bank small, or chase the deep-mine jackpot • Satisfying haptics, chunky sound design, and a real "ohhh nooo" moment when the screen flashes red • Track your Bank, Best Run, and Deepest Dig across sessions • No timers, no energy bars, no waiting — play whenever you want NO ACCOUNT. NO NONSENSE. Open the app, start mining. That's it. Built for short bursts. Engineered to make you say "okay, ONE more run." Good luck down there. The diamonds are deep. So is the dynamite.

Screenshots

Dig Rare4 screens
Keep Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keep Mining at none against Dig Rare's 1. Keep Mining also leads on ads (none vs shown). 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. Dig Rare sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Keep Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Dig Rare versus Keep Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDig RareKeep Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size464 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmelly CatPandO Holdings Limited Liability Company

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dig Rare

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$9.99
None

Keep Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dig Rare free?
Dig Rare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keep Mining free?
Keep Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dig Rare or Keep Mining have ads?
Dig Rare shows ads; Keep Mining does not.

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