Comparison

BlackSun Net vs ColdWire

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

Head to head
About

BlackSun Net

Engage in a simulated cyberpunk hacking experience where you build and upgrade your virtual rig. Breach targets, earn rewards while offline, and compete on global leaderboards without any real-world consequences.

Highlights
  • Simulated cyberpunk hacking gameplay
  • Virtual rig component upgrades
  • Idle rewards while offline
  • Interactive network map with mission tiers
  • Skill trees for character progression
  • Global leaderboard competition
Features
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Jack in. Breach the network. Build a machine nothing can stop. BlackSun Net is a cyberpunk idle hacker for iPhone and iPad. Run timed breaches across a living network map, beat a mini-game to boost every payout, and turn the spoils into a rig that keeps getting faster, even while you're away. NEW IN 1.2: BEYOND TIER 5 Your hardware no longer stops at Tier 5. Five new tiers (Prototype, Military, Black-Ops, Quantum and Singularity) take every module to Tier 10. Recover rare Schematics from Tier 6 to Tier 10 missions, compile three into one of the next tier in the Fabricator, and upgrade your way to a Singularity rig. Drop odds are published in the game, and a signal meter guarantees progress through long dry streaks. BREACH • Ten mission tiers, from one-minute probes to twelve-hour deep breaches • Five mini-games that raise your rewards: Packet Injection, Memory Dump, Port Scan, Cipher Crack and Firewall Breach • Run up to four missions at once on an interactive network map BUILD • Five module types (CPU, RAM, Motherboard, NIC and Firewall) across ten tiers • Six skill trees with 90 nodes and 450 upgrades • Stats that compound, from faster missions to cheaper upgrades RUN THE ECONOMY • Data Farms that keep extracting while you're offline • A Black Market for trading resources • Overclocks for timed boosts • A Chip Shop for boosts and cosmetics COME BACK DAILY • A seven-day login streak • Three daily contracts with a completion bonus • A reward wheel and a weekly bonus rotation COMPETE • A global leaderboard with Game Center • Your own hacker handle and avatar • Every result is verified on our servers, so the rankings stay fair PRIVACY FIRST • No ads and no third-party analytics • No location tracking • Delete your account at any time from Settings Designed for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. Requires iOS 18 or later and an internet connection. Privacy Policy: https://blacksun.network/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Premium Access is an auto-renewable monthly subscription that unlocks a 4th simultaneous mission slot. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings.

About

ColdWire

Engage in a strategic cyber-heist experience on a hostile global grid. Scout targets, bypass security, and disconnect before being traced. Upgrade your operation, take on contracts, and compete with other players in asynchronous PvP raids.

Highlights
  • Terminal-noir cyber-heist strategy
  • Global grid exploration and target scouting
  • Layered security breaching mechanics
  • Operation and tool upgrades
  • Asynchronous PvP raids and defense building
  • Crew system and season leaderboards
  • Daily and live-ops content
Features
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You are an operator on a global grid. Somebody pays you to get into a machine you have no business being inside, take the one thing they asked for, and leave nothing behind that says you were there. Every connection starts a countdown. ROUTE IN Bounce through relays scattered across the world map. More hops and harder relays buy you time. A direct connection is fast and puts your own address in their log. BREACH UNDER TRACE Crack the security stack layer by layer while the trace climbs toward you. Recon first and you learn what you are walking into: how many walls, how hard, and which two have a gap a bypass kit can slip through. Go in blind and you find out the expensive way. Deep systems want more than a password. Mint a one time code from their own token seed, or ride a session somebody else already authenticated. Plant a toolkit beside their seeds and that machine hands you a code every visit for five hours. TAKE IT AND GO Read the files. Copy the archive, drain the vault, rewrite the record, plant the payload. Then overwrite the access log, because the line it keeps has your address on it, and disconnect before the trace finds home. THE WORK Jobs come from sixteen clients who all want different things and say so in their own voice. A grade fixed before a scholarship review. A record scrubbed a week before an immigration interview. A charge filed against somebody who never earned it. A company whose real machine does not face the internet, reachable only through the gateway you have to read properly first. Or the one job where nobody breaks in at all: a client was hit last week and cannot tell you how. They hand you credentials. Read their access log, find the intruder among a dozen honest connections, name the service that should never have been exposed, and say which file went out of the door. WHAT YOU LEARN ON THE WAY Real services on real ports. A field manual that fills itself in as you meet each one, in plain language. Firewall rules, address ranges, jump hosts, second factors, why a log matters. By the third job you will know what 5432 is without anyone telling you. OTHER OPERATORS Build a subnet of walls, honeypots and tarpits, because other players raid your credits while you sleep. Scout them first, take thirty percent on a clean breach, and watch the replay. Join a crew and climb a season. Free to play. Server authoritative. No ads.

Screenshots

BlackSun Net4 screens
ColdWire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ColdWire at none against BlackSun Net's 10. ColdWire also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). BlackSun Net's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

Both are free to download. BlackSun Net sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ColdWire asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BlackSun Net against 5.0 for ColdWire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BlackSun Net ships an update monthly, ColdWire every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
BlackSun Net versus ColdWire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlackSun NetColdWire
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB79 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGravityFish, LLCOlamide Olufade

Customer experience

BlackSun Net

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ColdWire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

BlackSun Net

Subscriptions1
  • Mission Slot 4 Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time9
  • 100 Cache Pack$0.99
  • 100 Data Pack$0.99
  • 100 Chips Pack$0.99
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  • 500 Cache Pack$2.99
  • 500 Chips Pack$2.99
  • 2500 Metal Pack$9.99
  • 2500 Cache Pack$9.99
  • 2500 Data Pack$9.99
  • 2500 Chips Pack$9.99
None

ColdWire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlackSun Net free?
BlackSun Net is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ColdWire free?
ColdWire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BlackSun Net or ColdWire?
BlackSun Net and ColdWire are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BlackSun Net or ColdWire have ads?
Neither BlackSun Net nor ColdWire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BlackSun Net or ColdWire?
BlackSun Net ships an update monthly, and ColdWire every 10 days. Most recently, BlackSun Net was updated on November 5, 2026 and ColdWire on October 31, 2026.

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