Comparison

Tiny Factory vs Drill Down

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Factory

Build a profitable factory from a small workshop. Earn passively while you're away, and actively optimize production by clearing bottlenecks and triggering boosts. Upgrade machines and workers to maximize your earnings.

Highlights
  • Idle profits with active optimization
  • Clear quick bottlenecks
  • Trigger Overdrive boost
  • Upgrade machines and workers
  • Complete daily goals
Features
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Turn a tiny garage workshop into a profit machine. Tiny Factory is an idle tycoon where your lines run automatically but the real money comes from smart, satisfying fixes. Clear quick bottlenecks, trigger Overdrive for a huge boost, and upgrade your machines to keep the cash flowing. FEATURES - Idle profits with active optimization: earn while you’re away, then jump in for fast upgrades. - Quick bottlenecks: clear jams, cool overheating machines, and keep supplies moving (fast, satisfying taps). - Overdrive boost: trigger a short burst of speed when it matters most. - Upgrade your factory: level up machines, workers, conveyors, and storage to remove limits. - Daily goals: complete quick quests for extra rewards. Whether you play for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, there’s always something satisfying to optimize. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Drill Down

Explore a procedurally generated mine by drilling downwards, collecting minerals, and upgrading your equipment. The mine evolves with your choices, creating a unique map each time. Uncover a story as you delve deeper into the earth.

Highlights
  • One-thumb portrait controls
  • Persistent, non-regenerating mine
  • Dynamic environmental hazards (water, gas, lava)
  • Visible rig upgrades
  • Surface camp progression
  • Offline play
Features
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Drill Down is a beautiful portrait mining game where every run takes you a little deeper, until one of them reaches the centre of the earth. You drive one machine into one mountain. Put a finger anywhere on the glass and the rig turns toward it and eats its way there. No buttons, no menus while you are down, just a heading and a tank of fuel. When the tank runs low the hoist pulls you home with whatever you were carrying. Nothing you cut is ever undone. The bore you opened yesterday is the road you ride down today, so the mine slowly becomes a map of your own decisions: the shortcut you drilled, the flooded gallery you gave up on, the seam you followed sideways for two hundred metres. Between runs, the surface is where you spend it: • a machine rebuilt part by part, every upgrade bolted on where you can see it • a museum that fills up with the minerals you carried out • a camp that quietly changes as the shaft gets deeper Hard ground refuses a weak cutter outright. Water finds your tunnels and sits in them. Gas collects along the roof and waits for a spark off the wrong rock. Deeper still, the ground is hot enough to cost you fuel just for being in it. There is no losing here. There is only the gap between where you stopped and where you were trying to get to, and the mountain will be exactly as you left it when you come back. Underneath all of it, a professor pays you by the load and does not say why. Others came this way before you. Their rooms are still down there, and what they left behind is the reason none of them made it home. Features: • one thumb, portrait, no second control anywhere • runs of a few minutes that fit into a gap in the day • a mine that is never regenerated and never reset • layers of ground that each look, sound and cut differently • flooding, gas and lava that behave like themselves rather than like traps • minerals to find, haul out and put on a shelf • upgrades visible on the rig from the moment you buy them • a surface camp that grows out of what you bring back • a neighbour with a boat, a borrowed digger and work of his own • expeditions to places that are not your mountain • a story on the radio, and an older one written into the rock • an ending, and a way to reach it • no ads, no in-app purchases, no timers, fully offline Keep going down. It stops sounding like rock long before you arrive.

Screenshots

Tiny Factory4 screens
Drill Down4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drill Down at 100% against Tiny Factory's 0%. Drill Down also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Tiny Factory's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tiny Factory is free to download; Drill Down costs $1.99 up front. Tiny Factory sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Drill Down asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Factory ships an update every 3 days, Drill Down every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tiny Factory versus Drill Down: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny FactoryDrill Down
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB156 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrett JonesLuis Herskovic

Customer experience

Tiny Factory

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Drill Down

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tiny Factory

Subscriptions2
  • Battle Pass (Season)$4.991 Month
  • Battle Pass Premium$19.991 Month
One-time8
  • Blueprint Blitz Bundle$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Gems Pack (250)$2.99
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  • Starter Bundle$4.99
  • Respect Tokens (Medium)$14.99
  • Gear Pack (Expert)$19.99
  • Respect Tokens (Large)$49.99
  • Gear Pack (Whale)$49.99
None

Drill Down

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Factory free?
Tiny Factory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drill Down free?
Drill Down costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tiny Factory or Drill Down have ads?
Tiny Factory shows ads; Drill Down does not.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Factory or Drill Down?
Tiny Factory ships an update every 3 days, and Drill Down every 4 days. Most recently, Tiny Factory was updated on October 30, 2026 and Drill Down on October 31, 2026.

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