Comparison

Pixel Miner vs Ballin Tycoon

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Miner

Mine through the earth pixel by pixel, upgrading equipment and exploring celestial locations. Collect treasures, complete challenges, and build your base to unlock powerful bonuses. The miner works even when you're away, ensuring a full pocket upon return.

Highlights
  • Pixel-by-pixel digging
  • Equipment upgrades
  • 12 equipment tiers
  • 6 unique locations
  • Treasure collection
  • Base building
  • Offline progress
Features
Read full description

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

Ballin Tycoon

Experience a satisfying idle arcade game by dropping balls down a peg board, aiming for jackpots, and using wins to unlock new worlds, upgrade abilities, and collect unique pets. Engage in daily quests, tournaments, and mini-games for continuous rewards and progression.

Highlights
  • Idle Plinko gameplay
  • Four unique worlds to explore
  • Collect and upgrade 36 pets
  • Daily quests and weekly tournaments
  • One-handed portrait play
  • Guilds and leaderboards
Features
Read full description

Experience a deep incremental idle simulator built for fans of the genre! Drop, bounce, collect, upgrade, raid?! your way through a massive incremental ball drop arcade in this lengthy, content-rich idle tycoon game! Ballin Idle Pet Tycoon has A LOT to keep you grinding, including: ๏ The Hoard - Build up your pet crew's damage to crack chests and break the gates. Every gate you break unlocks new menus, new upgrades and new content for your idle empire ๏ LOTS of upgrades - Bins collect ores, ores craft into bars, bars buy upgrades. Board upgrades, world upgrades, the Armory, a 55-node skill tree and research projects, lots of them locked behind gates and milestones ๏ 69 pets - Open pet crates to find them, level them up, fuse duplicates, evolve your favourites and hunt the shiny versions. Every pet is a stat for your run and a worker for your tycoon ๏ Systems unveiled over time - Boss Raids, Ball Grove, Chest Rush, the pinball arcade, Expeditions, the Ball Factory, Research, Prestige?! ๏ Active and idle gameplay - Tap to launch, hold to send a hundred balls, or let auto-drop and your pets do the work and come back to offline progress. A true incremental game either way ๏ Five worlds - Break out of the first board into the frozen Aurora Vault, overgrown Flora, the deep Maelstrom and the volcanic Inferno. Each world is a new board with new ores, new pets and its own pet crate ๏ Prestige - Unearth powerful artifacts that boost your stats on every run after ๏ 4-player boss raids - Pick a class, bring your pets and take the Warden down together, then open the loot chest and hunt the rare drop ๏ Collect everything - Sticker packs and seasonal albums, 38 skins for your miner, trophies, titles and a pet dex. Completionists have a very long list to work through Why players love Ballin Tycoon: ๏ No Ads: Free to play, no ads, no energy timers ๏ Satisfying Incremental Progression: Watch your numbers explode as every upgrade makes the next ball drop worth more. The idle loop stacks for good ๏ Deep Management Loops: Balance ores, bars, pets and upgrades to squeeze the most out of every board. It's not just a clicker; it's an incremental simulator with real decisions ๏ Offline Progress: Your bins never stop. Your idle empire keeps growing while you're away, then you come back and spend it on the next upgrade ๏ Always Something On: Daily quests, bounties, weekly tournaments, monthly bingo, Cake Party and seasonal events keep the grind fresh ๏ Community: Guilds, pet trades, sticker trading, global hiscores and an active Discord full of players comparing boards ๏ Incremental Depth: Whether you are an idle game veteran or new to clickers and incremental games, there is always another number to push What are you waiting for? Let's get ballin'! Available in 13 languages. Privacy Policy: https://ballintycoon.com/legal

Screenshots

Pixel Miner4 screens
Ballin Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Miner at 5.0 against Ballin Tycoon's 3.7. Pixel Miner also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Ballin Tycoon's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Ballin Tycoon sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Miner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Miner ships an update every 2 days, Ballin Tycoon weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pixel Miner versus Ballin Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel MinerBallin Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB457 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech BorczykFathom

Customer experience

Pixel Miner

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ballin Tycoon

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Miner

One-time1
  • Miner's License$4.99
10 purchases

Ballin Tycoon

One-time10
  • Bonus Pet Slot 1$4.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$4.99
  • 1.25X Golden Balls$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Deluxe Bundle - High Roller Pack$19.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$19.99
  • Bonus Pet Slot 2$19.99
  • 1.5X Golden Balls$19.99
  • Bonus Pet Slot 3$49.99
  • +50 Ball Cap$49.99
  • 2X Golden Balls$49.99

Questions

Is Pixel Miner free?
Pixel Miner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ballin Tycoon free?
Ballin Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Miner or Ballin Tycoon?
Pixel Miner is rated higher. Pixel Miner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Ballin Tycoon averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Pixel Miner or Ballin Tycoon have ads?
Neither Pixel Miner nor Ballin Tycoon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Miner or Ballin Tycoon?
Pixel Miner ships an update every 2 days, and Ballin Tycoon weekly. Most recently, Pixel Miner was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ballin Tycoon on October 28, 2026.

Other comparisons