Comparison

Idle Spirits vs Wool

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Wool

Features
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Wool is a handcrafted world stitched together from yarn, patches and pins - where you guide our patched-up plush hero through a cozy, tactile adventure. How far will you be able swing? Download Wool today!

Screenshots

Idle Spirits4 screens
Wool3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Wool at none against Idle Spirits's shown. Idle Spirits's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Spirits ships an update every 3 weeks, Wool every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Idle Spirits versus Wool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle SpiritsWool
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB152 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiK LLCElias Steffen

In-app purchases

None

Idle Spirits

No in-app purchases

None

Wool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Spirits free?
Idle Spirits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wool free?
Wool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Spirits or Wool have ads?
Idle Spirits shows ads; Wool does not.
Which is updated more often, Idle Spirits or Wool?
Idle Spirits ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wool every 2 months. Most recently, Idle Spirits was updated on October 9, 2026 and Wool on October 6, 2026.

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