Comparison

Pixel Miner vs Idle Space 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

Idle Space Mining

Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental mining empire building
  • Strategic doctrine choices
  • Prestige system with Dark Matter
  • Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
  • Offline earnings
  • Challenging game modes
  • Comet catching events
Features
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.

Screenshots

Pixel Miner4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Miner at 5.0 against Idle Space Mining's 4.3. Pixel Miner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Idle Space Mining's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, monetization model 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. Idle Space Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Miner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Miner ships an update every 2 days, Idle Space Mining weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pixel Miner versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel MinerIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech BorczykISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

Customer experience

Pixel Miner

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Idle Space Mining

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Miner

One-time1
  • Miner's License$4.99
None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Miner free?
Pixel Miner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Miner or Idle Space Mining?
Pixel Miner is rated higher. Pixel Miner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Idle Space Mining averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Pixel Miner or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Idle Space Mining shows ads; Pixel Miner does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Miner or Idle Space Mining?
Pixel Miner ships an update every 2 days, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, Pixel Miner was updated on November 5, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on November 5, 2026.

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