Comparison

Pixel Miner vs Vibe Idle

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

Vibe Idle

Features
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You used to write the code yourself. Then autocomplete wrote it. Now you just tap Accept. VIBE IDLE is an idle clicker about how software actually gets made now. Tap to write code. Earn enough to buy something that writes it for you. Then buy something to manage that. Your output goes up, your understanding goes down, and the numbers keep climbing anyway. It keeps earning while the app is closed, so you can check in for a minute and come back to a pile of progress. Reset for permanent bonuses when you are ready. Spend Insight on an upgrade tree. Four eras to get through, each one further from anyone actually reading a diff. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. Nothing about you is collected, because there is nowhere to send it. The game runs entirely on your device, offline, forever. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no advertising SDK. The only network the app ever touches is Apple's own, and only if you choose to make a purchase. Apple's privacy label will tell you the same thing: Data Not Collected. Optional token packs exist if you want to skip ahead. They are convenience only. They can never unlock content or move you forward, all of which comes from playing. Nothing is timed, nothing nags, nothing is gated behind a wallet. Built by one developer and a small crew of AI agents, with a sprite compiler for the art, a sound compiler for the chiptune, and a headless simulator that plays 2,000 hours of the economy before a single balance number ships.

Screenshots

Pixel Miner4 screens
Vibe Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pixel Miner and Vibe Idle are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Vibe Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pixel Miner versus Vibe Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel MinerVibe Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech BorczykANDREW HEE,TAE HONG

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Miner

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

Vibe Idle

One-time3
  • Sprint Fund$0.99
  • Seed Round$4.99
  • Series A$19.99

Questions

Is Pixel Miner free?
Pixel Miner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vibe Idle free?
Vibe Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Miner or Vibe Idle have ads?
Neither Pixel Miner nor Vibe Idle shows ads.

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