Comparison

Idle Ant Colony vs Supernova

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Idle Ant Colony4 screens
Supernova4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Idle Ant Colony versus Supernova: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Ant ColonySupernova
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.4 (63 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings163 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercameron druryHUGO ANATOLE PAUL MORICEAU

Customer experience

Idle Ant Colony

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Supernova

All ratings63 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative18.5%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Ant Colony

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.49
  • 500 Gems$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
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  • 1500 Gems$5.99
  • 3000 Gems$9.99
10 purchases

Supernova

One-time10
  • 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

Questions

Is Idle Ant Colony free?
Idle Ant Colony is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Supernova free?
Supernova is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle Ant Colony or Supernova?
Idle Ant Colony is rated higher. Idle Ant Colony averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Supernova averages 4.4 from 63 ratings.
Do Idle Ant Colony or Supernova have ads?
Neither Idle Ant Colony nor Supernova shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Ant Colony or Supernova?
Idle Ant Colony ships an update daily, and Supernova every 2 days. Most recently, Idle Ant Colony was updated on October 19, 2026 and Supernova on October 17, 2026.

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