Comparison

Laundry Machine 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

Laundry Machine

Features
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Run your own laundromat, one garment at a time. Dirty laundry piles up on the shop floor. Drag it into a washing machine, hit start, and tip the load back out. Now it's wet, so it goes to the dryer. Dry clothes head to the ironing board one at a time and come back pressed, with a little star. Stack three matching pressed garments and they fold into a bale in that garment's own color. Drag the bale to the delivery van and get paid. That's the whole game: a production line you run with your thumb. WHAT YOU DO - Drag dirty laundry into a washer, four garments per load - Move the wet load to a dryer - Press dry garments on the ironing board, one at a time - Fold matching pressed garments into bales at the packing table - Load the delivery van to cash out EVERY STAGE HAS A PRICE Handing a damp shirt straight to the van pays pocket change. Take it all the way to a folded bale and it pays properly. Short on cash for another machine? Sell early. Playing the long game? Finish the line. BUILT FOR THUMBS - Pure drag and drop, no menus to fight - Only the right machine lights up, so you cannot misfeed the line - Every station is hand-drawn, right down to the drum paddles and the van's wheels - iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape - Works offline - Playable in 15 languages Wash. Dry. Press. Fold. Deliver. Repeat.

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

Laundry Machine4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Laundry Machine at none against Idle Space Mining's shown. Idle Space Mining's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Laundry Machine ships an update every 3 months, Idle Space Mining weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Laundry Machine versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLaundry MachineIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMuhammed Emin BUGDAYCIISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

In-app purchases

None

Laundry Machine

No in-app purchases

None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Laundry Machine free?
Laundry Machine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Laundry Machine or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Idle Space Mining shows ads; Laundry Machine does not.
Which is updated more often, Laundry Machine or Idle Space Mining?
Laundry Machine ships an update every 3 months, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, Laundry Machine was updated on September 13, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on September 20, 2026.

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