Comparison

Button Factory vs Elementex

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

Head to head
About

Button Factory

Tap and upgrade to build a massive button production empire. Earn resources even while offline and utilize rebirth systems to achieve infinite growth. Discover new layers and multipliers to push your factory beyond its limits.

Highlights
  • Tap gameplay
  • Factory expansion
  • Exponential upgrades
  • Rebirth and prestige systems
  • Idle progression
  • Infinite growth
Features
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Tap. Upgrade. Multiply. Build your button empire. Start with a single button and turn it into a massive production machine. Every tap makes you stronger. Every upgrade multiplies your power. Every reset pushes you further. FEATURES • Simple and satisfying tap gameplay • Build and expand your button factory • Exponential upgrades and scaling • Rebirth and prestige systems • Idle progression — earn while offline • Huge numbers and infinite growth UNLOCK MORE Discover new layers, stack multipliers, and push your factory beyond limits. What starts simple quickly becomes something much bigger. How far can your factory go?

About

Elementex

Features
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element — push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. • Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing • Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) • One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold • A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element • Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool • A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs • No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

Button Factory4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Button Factory at none against Elementex's 5. Elementex's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Button Factory asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 9, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Button Factory versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterButton FactoryElementex
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHurol OzturkTassilo Posegga

In-app purchases

None

Button Factory

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 550 Gems$3.99
  • 1,200 Gems$8.99
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  • 2,500 Gems$17.99
  • 6,500 Gems$44.99

Questions

Is Button Factory free?
Button Factory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Button Factory or Elementex have ads?
Button Factory shows ads; Elementex does not.
Which is updated more often, Button Factory or Elementex?
Button Factory ships an update every 3 weeks, and Elementex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Button Factory was updated on September 9, 2026 and Elementex on September 9, 2026.

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