Comparison

Fish Dept. vs Idle Loom

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

Head to head
About

Fish Dept.

Features
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- One-tap switch between Work Mode and Fish Mode. When the boss alert shows up, hide instantly. - Tap to feed—fish grow and generate coins. - Unlock new fish and tank upgrades in the shop to build your desk aquarium. - Daily login bonus, but if you’re away too long there’s a small penalty (coins deducted / a fish may leave).

About

Idle Loom

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Idle Loom is an idle game about running a weaving mill, and about the cloth itself. Start with a single hand loom. Sell your first metres of fabric, buy another, and climb through seven generations of weaving machinery: hand looms, shuttle looms, rapiers, projectiles, air-jets, Jacquard machines, and finally the mill line. Your floor fills up as you grow, and the camera leans in with it. TIME THE MARKET Cloth prices drift. Sell into a peak and pocket the difference; sell into a trough and learn for next time. The market band tells you when the moment is right; a small decision that keeps every session interesting. DRAFT YOUR OWN WEAVES This is the part no other idle game has. When you're ready to prestige, you don't press a button; you sit down at the dobby grid and draw a weave, cell by cell, the way drafts are written on real point paper. Watch it become cloth in the live preview as you draw. Twills, basket weaves, weft-faced drapes, figured damasks: the game reads your pattern's real structure: floats, interlacing, symmetry; and stamps it Plain, Sound, Fine, or Masterwork. Better cloth, better rewards. SIGN IT. KEEP IT FOREVER. Signing a contract resets your mill for the next run and files your design in the gallery, the actual pattern you drew, woven up, with its date and its rank. Share any design as an image. Your gallery is the story of your craft, and nothing can take it from you. GROW THE GROUND ITSELF Earn stars with every signature and spend them on special projects and ground expansions; new terraces that wrap around your mill floor and make room for the heaviest machinery. HONEST BY DESIGN • Progress is earned. No purchase can buy stars, design ranks, or a better draw - ever. • A handful of optional extras exist (a production doubler, an auto-seller, time warps, thread colours). All of them are conveniences; the whole game is completable without spending anything. • No account. No sign-in. Your save lives on your device, and the mill keeps weaving while you're away. Warp up. The market is waiting.

Screenshots

Fish Dept.2 screens
Idle Loom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Dept. at none against Idle Loom's 5. On price, ads, 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. Idle Loom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Fish Dept. asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Fish Dept. versus Idle Loom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish Dept.Idle Loom
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeimeng GongMai Studio OU

In-app purchases

None

Fish Dept.

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Loom

One-time5
  • Warp - 2 Hours$0.99
  • Threads$1.99
  • Foreman$2.99
Show 2 more
  • Warp - 8 Hours$2.99
  • Doubler$4.99

Questions

Is Fish Dept. free?
Fish Dept. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Loom free?
Idle Loom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fish Dept. or Idle Loom have ads?
Neither Fish Dept. nor Idle Loom shows ads.

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