Comparison

Pixel Miner vs Keep Mining

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Miner

An idle mining clicker game where your miner digs automatically, filling your pocket with pixels. Return to collect, upgrade tools, and dig deeper across multiple planets. Features retro pixel art and no advertisements.

Highlights
  • Idle mining with offline progress
  • Hard-capped pocket system
  • 12 upgradeable tools
  • Prestige and Ascension mechanics
  • Six unique planets to explore
  • Retro CRT visual style
  • No ads
Features
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Pixel Miner is a free idle mining clicker with no ads. Your miner digs on his own, pixels fill the pocket, and when the pocket is full the mine waits for you: come back, collect, upgrade, dig deeper. Formerly known as Dig Too Deep. HOW IT PLAYS - Idle mining: the miner keeps digging while the app is closed. Offline progress fills your pocket. - Hard-capped pocket: when it is full, mining stops. Short check-ins, real decisions, no endless overflow. - Upgrades: 12 tools from Hammer to Black Hole, speed multipliers, 10 pocket sizes. - Prestige: reach the core, reset the run, earn Crystals, build a permanent base. - Six planets: Earth, Moon, Mars, Europa, the Sun and an endless Black Hole, each with its own trade-offs. - Ascension: a second prestige layer that earns Star Dust for permanent upgrades. - Treasures, caves, challenges, achievements and active abilities on top of the incremental loop. RETRO CRT LOOK Pixel art with scanlines and a palette borrowed from the Amiga and ZX Spectrum era. NO ADS Nothing to watch, ever. The whole game is free. One optional purchase, the Miner's License, doubles your pocket and adds 10% pixels. No subscriptions. Optimized for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo.

About

Keep Mining

Features
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Keep Mining is a pick-up-and-play push-your-luck game about greed, gut feel, and knowing exactly when to walk away. Tap MINE to swing your pickaxe. Every hit drops diamonds into your run stash — and every hit makes the next one a little more likely to end in a cave-in, a gas pocket, or a very bad dynamite mishap. Cash out and the diamonds are yours forever. Push one tap too far and you lose the run — plus a chunk of the bank you've been building. So… one more tap? HOW IT PLAYS • Tap MINE to dig and collect diamonds • Watch the Run Risk meter climb from Steady → Tense → Risky → Dangerous → Critical • Bigger risk = bigger payouts and rarer jackpots • Cash out anytime to bank your stash safely • Blow up and you lose the run AND up to 65% of your bank WHY YOU'LL GET HOOKED • Pure one-thumb gameplay — perfect for elevators, queues, and "five more minutes" sessions that turn into thirty • Every run is a fresh decision: play it safe and bank small, or chase the deep-mine jackpot • Satisfying haptics, chunky sound design, and a real "ohhh nooo" moment when the screen flashes red • Track your Bank, Best Run, and Deepest Dig across sessions • No timers, no energy bars, no waiting — play whenever you want NO ACCOUNT. NO NONSENSE. Open the app, start mining. That's it. Built for short bursts. Engineered to make you say "okay, ONE more run." Good luck down there. The diamonds are deep. So is the dynamite.

Screenshots

Pixel Miner4 screens
Keep Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keep Mining at none against Pixel Miner's 1. Keep Mining also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Pixel Miner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Keep Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pixel Miner versus Keep Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel MinerKeep Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech BorczykPandO Holdings Limited Liability Company

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Miner

One-time1
  • Miner's License$4.99
None

Keep Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Miner free?
Pixel Miner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keep Mining free?
Keep Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Miner or Keep Mining have ads?
Neither Pixel Miner nor Keep Mining shows ads.

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