Idle Spirits vs Rhythm Painter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Spirits
Summon, merge, and collect pixel-art spirits to build a thriving sanctuary. Your spirits gather resources even when you're away, ensuring progress. Enjoy a dynamic world with changing weather, special events, and a classic block-breaker mode.
- Summon and merge 24 pixel-art spirits
- Grow and upgrade elemental homes
- Offline progress for up to 24 hours
- Dynamic world with real-time weather and events
- Star Return (prestige) system
- Classic block-breaker mini-game
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An idle game where you summon pixel-art spirits, merge them, and grow a little sanctuary. Your spirits keep gathering mana while the app is closed, so the sanctuary is a bit livelier every time you come back. ◆ SUMMON AND MERGE Meet 24 spirits across six elements: Grove, Tide, Gale, Ember, Lumen and Umbra. Put two of the same spirit together and they merge, growing from little to grown to elder. Merging roughly doubles their output and frees up a home, so there's never a bad time to merge. ◆ GROW THEIR HOMES Level up a home for each element (a tree house, a spring, a windmill, a hearth, a light altar and a moon shrine) to house more spirits and boost production. The pixel art of each building changes as it grows. Spirits living in their own element's home produce twice as much. ◆ PROGRESS WHILE AWAY Production continues while the app is closed (up to 8 hours at first, 24 hours with research). Collect it all when you return. ◆ A LIVING WORLD Morning, day, dusk and night follow your real clock, with rain, wind, fog, snow and rainbow days. The time and weather change which elements shine. Shooting stars, wandering visitors, merchants and musicians, festivals that boost production 7x, and the Murk, a boss you tap to purify, all drop by now and then. ◆ BUILT TO LAST - Star Return (prestige): gather starlight and raise all production - Send spirits into the Deep to bring back dew and legend shards - 11 Star Book research upgrades, elemental awakening and 6 x 5 constellations - 6 legendary spirits and rare shiny variants (1%) - Complete the Spiritdex to earn elemental blessings ◆ MUSIC 55 original tracks that change with the scene, plus a jukebox to pick your favorite. You can also layer a 40Hz tone in settings. ◆ CLASSIC The original Idle Spirits block-breaker is still here as Classic in the menu, with all your collection records intact. Every sprite is drawn pixel by pixel with a hand-built rasterizer. Take your time and grow your own sanctuary.
Rhythm Painter
An arcade game that combines rhythm-based gameplay with drawing mechanics. Players use tilt controls and physics to create art synchronized with sound. It offers a unique creative challenge for players.
- Rhythm-based gameplay
- Drawing with sound
- Tilt controls
- Physics-based mechanics
- Arcade challenges
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Challenge your rhythm and draw with sound! Arcade game based on tilt and physics
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rhythm Painter at 5.0 against Idle Spirits's 4.5. Rhythm Painter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Idle Spirits's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rhythm Painter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Idle Spirits ships an update every 3 weeks, Rhythm Painter every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Spirits | Rhythm Painter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KeiK LLC | Mohamed Jafer |
Customer experience
Idle Spirits
Rhythm Painter
In-app purchases
Idle Spirits
No in-app purchases
Rhythm Painter
No in-app purchases
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