Comparison

Voidle vs Idle Runner

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

Head to head
About

Voidle

An idle RPG focused on deep character customization through a vast skill tree and gear corruption. Engage in automated combat, reset progress for permanent bonuses, and craft powerful potions. Offers a single optional purchase to remove a rewarded-ad gate.

Highlights
  • 1090-node skill tree
  • Prestige loop for permanent bonuses
  • Gear corruption for trade-offs
  • Automated combat system
  • Multiple character classes
  • Potion crafting and enchanting
  • Offline progression
Features
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Descend into the void. Gather strange equipment, shape your build, and see how far it can carry you. Voidle is a dark idle RPG built around automatic combat and the decisions you make between battles. Choose a Warden, Stalker, Occultist or Revenant, then follow your own path through the Skill Graph. Combine skills, passive bonuses and Mutations as you push toward the next Milestone Boss. Fill the Bestiary. Every creature in the depths is hand-inked and animated, from the smallest blob to the ten Milestone Bosses. Meet a creature to add its plate to your Bestiary, and defeat enough of them to fill in its page. Make your equipment part of the strategy. Enchant useful finds, salvage the rest, experiment with corruption, and brew potions for your descent. Artifacts and Ascension Relics open more ways to build. Prestige to earn Skill Points from new depths, then pursue Ascension for another layer of progression. Explore the Compendium whenever a rule needs explaining. Press and hold any dotted term for a quick explanation, then follow it to the full entry. For a different challenge, start a Weekly League save. Each week brings shared generated classes, skills and a Skill Graph, with its own depth leaderboard. Return after time away to claim Away Rewards based on your build. Adjust your equipment, try another route, and descend again.

About

Idle Runner

Master upgrades and strategy in this fast-paced idle RPG where your hero automatically battles waves of enemies. Progress even when the app is minimized or your phone is locked. Explore unique worlds, collect companions, and unlock powerful abilities.

Highlights
  • Automatic hero battles
  • Background progression
  • Deep upgrade systems
  • Wave-based combat
  • Multiple unique worlds
  • Companions and cosmetics
  • Season Pass and quests
Features
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Your hero holds the line. You build the machine that keeps it standing. Idle Runner is an AFK defense RPG. Your hero stands its ground and fights on its own — firing at range, meleeing whatever gets close — while you decide where every coin goes. IT REALLY RUNS WHILE YOU'RE GONE Most idle games just estimate what you missed. Idle Runner keeps simulating. Close the app, lock your phone, walk away — waves keep coming, coins keep dropping, your build keeps earning. A notification tells you when your hero finally falls, so you know exactly when to come back. 8 WORLDS, ENDLESS WAVES Enchanted Forest, Dark Cavern, Scorched Desert, Corrupted Forest, Volcanic Wastes, Void Realm, Celestial Spire and Frostbound Forest. Each brings its own enemies, its own look, and a boss every 10 waves. Goblins, trolls, knights, vampires and necromancers all behave differently — and punish different mistakes. A BUILD WORTH OPTIMIZING • Workshop — permanent upgrades that stack run after run • Ascension — push past max level for bonuses that never reset • 10 active powers — Fireball, Frost, Berserker, Timewarp, Shadow Clone, Fire Nova and more, each upgradeable • Equipment — six rarities up to Mythic, with magical powers, sockets, merging and salvage • Runes — offense, defense, economy and utility, with synergy sets • Passive skills that unlock as you hit milestones Maxing an upgrade doesn't finish it. Ascend it for bonuses that ignore the cap, then raise the ascension ceiling itself through Awakening — and go again. The waves never stop, and your coin counter stops fitting normal notation long before you run out of things to buy. THE ENDGAME IS THE POINT • Sanctum — long-form rituals that reshape how your run behaves • Awakening — a deep node tree with real tier gates • Artifacts — craft them, attune them, complete the set bonuses • Jewelry — rings and amulets with procs that chain, burn and explode • Forge — turn raw materials into the gear you actually wanted • Trials — modifier runs for players who want the ceiling raised • Dark spells — a separate resource with its own risk COMPANIONS, SKINS, SEASONS Animated companions fight beside you and level from every wave survived. Hero skins bring their own look and bonuses. A season pass runs free and premium tracks side by side, with daily and weekly quests, and War Banners that snowball the longer you last. BUILT FAIR No energy bar. No paywall. No timer telling you to stop. Diamonds come from playing — chests, quests, milestones and optional ads. Everything in the game is reachable without spending a thing. BUILT TO LAST Cloud save across devices. An in-game encyclopedia for when you want the actual numbers instead of a guess. Runs that take minutes, and a progression curve measured in months. Actively developed — new worlds, new systems and new seasons keep landing while you're still climbing the last one. Hold the line.

Screenshots

Voidle4 screens
Idle Runner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Voidle at none against Idle Runner's shown. Idle Runner's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Voidle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Idle Runner 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

Idle Runner holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 31 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 70% and 70% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voidle ships an update every 6 days, Idle Runner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Voidle versus Idle Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoidleIdle Runner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (16 ratings)4.7 (31 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1631 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB110 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCyan Penguin Studio Ltd.BLACKBYTE sp. z o. o.

Customer experience

Voidle

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%

Idle Runner

All ratings29 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral6.9%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Voidle

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
10 purchases

Idle Runner

One-time10
  • 100 Diamonds$0.79
  • Hero's Starter Pack$0.99
  • Season Pass$3.99
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  • 550 Diamonds$4.99
  • 1,200 Diamonds$9.99
  • Quality of Life Pack$12.99
  • 3,250 Diamonds$19.99
  • Remove Ads$24.99
  • Ultimate Pack$49.99
  • Aether 2500$74.99

Questions

Is Voidle free?
Voidle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Runner free?
Idle Runner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Voidle or Idle Runner?
Idle Runner is rated higher. Voidle averages 4.3 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Idle Runner averages 4.7 from 31 ratings.
Do Voidle or Idle Runner have ads?
Idle Runner shows ads; Voidle does not.
Which is updated more often, Voidle or Idle Runner?
Voidle ships an update every 6 days, and Idle Runner every 3 days. Most recently, Voidle was updated on October 10, 2026 and Idle Runner on October 21, 2026.

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