Idle Ant Colony vs Supernova
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Ant Colony
Transform a patch of soil into a thriving ant colony. Manage resources, recruit specialized ants, and build underground chambers. Explore different environments and make strategic choices to grow your nest.
- Build underground chambers
- Recruit specialized ants
- Forage for resources
- Explore different environments
- Strategic decision-making
- Offline resource collection
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Start with a queen. Turn a quiet patch of soil into a living ant colony. Watch animated workers travel through a warm underground nest as you forage, recruit ants and build useful chambers. Grow at your own pace, with clear goals and thoughtful choices along the way. Open food stores, a nursery, a fungus garden and the queen's chamber. Storage extends your offline capacity, the nursery hatches workers while you play, and nurse ants help your fungus garden produce more honeydew. Workers carry extra supplies. Scouts find shorter routes. Soldiers protect the squad. Carpenters repair crossings and help you build more efficiently. Before dispatch, see the supplies, travel time, success chance and income your nest will give up while the team is away. Follow short stories in the Home Garden, Fallen Orchard and Wild Woodland. Reinforce a crossing, establish trade or discover a shortcut. Choose a reliable approach or take a calculated risk, with clear rewards and setback payouts. Every ant returns. Ascend with a focus on Builders, Gatherers or Explorers. Strengthen construction, foraging or expeditions, with a predictable next honeydew goal. Royal upgrades, relics and established trails stay with you as your new colony begins. See actual upgrade gains, exact encounter rewards and running boost timers. Return to a clear breakdown of honeydew gathered while you were away. Offline collection pays 50% of calculated production, with storage upgrades extending capacity from eight to twelve hours. Build a nest worth returning to, on iPhone and iPad.
Supernova
An idle space tycoon game where you fuse hydrogen to grow and detonate stars. Earn permanent power-ups with each supernova to accelerate future runs. Features offline progress and a visually evolving star.
- Fuse hydrogen to create and grow stars
- Offline progress and production
- Visually evolving star stages
- Prestige system with supernova cinematics
- Deep multiplier stacking and research upgrades
- Daily missions and streaks
- Fully offline gameplay
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Fuse hydrogen into a living star. Grow it. Then blow it up — on purpose. SUPERNOVA is a premium-feel idle game about running a cosmic forge. Tap to spark fusion, build 12 generators from Hydrogen Wisp to Singularity Seed, and watch your star physically evolve — protostar, blue giant, red supergiant — until it is ready to collapse. Detonating it is the point: every supernova grants Neutron Cores, permanent power that makes each new universe faster than the last. WHY YOU'LL STAY • Real progress while you're away — production continues offline (extend the cap up to 24 hours with research), and a welcome-back doubler greets your return • A star that actually changes — five visual stages, rendered live, no canned art • Prestige that feels like a finale — a hand-built supernova cinematic, then a stronger start • Numbers that get gloriously big — Million, Septillion, and far beyond • Milestones every few minutes early on, deep multiplier stacking later • Daily missions and streaks that respect your time • 20 research upgrades that shape every run FAIR BY DESIGN • No ads. None. • No energy bars, no forced waits, no progress walls • Fully offline — no account, no sign-in, no internet required • Nothing collected, nothing tracked • Optional purchases exist (time warps, photons, a one-time Supporter Pack), and the entire game is balanced to be completed without spending anything THE LOOP 1. Tap your star and let generators forge Stardust 2. Hit ownership milestones — each one doubles a generator's output 3. Buy research, stack a Photon Surge boost, fill your Piggy Bank 4. Reach collapse readiness... and go SUPERNOVA 5. Keep your Neutron Cores forever. Start again, faster. Built by a solo developer in SwiftUI and SpriteKit. Every pixel is procedural — no asset packs, no stock art. Dark theme, tuned haptics, Reduce Motion respected. Your first universe is waiting. It starts with one atom.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Idle Ant Colony at 5.0 against Supernova's 4.4. Idle Ant Colony also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Supernova's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Idle Ant Colony sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Supernova sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Ant Colony holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Supernova has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Idle Ant Colony's written reviews are positive against 78% of Supernova's.
Idle Ant Colony ships an update daily, Supernova every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Ant Colony | Supernova |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | cameron drury | HUGO ANATOLE PAUL MORICEAU |
Customer experience
Idle Ant Colony
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In-app purchases
Idle Ant Colony
- 100 Gems$0.49
- 500 Gems$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- 1500 Gems$5.99
- 3000 Gems$9.99
Supernova
- 50 Photons$0.99
- Time Warp: 4 Hours$1.99
- Break the Piggy Bank$2.99
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- Automation Core$3.99
- Supporter Pack$4.99
- Time Warp: 24 Hours$4.99
- 300 Photons$4.99
- 700 Photons$9.99
- Time Warp: 7 Days$14.99
- 1600 Photons$19.99
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