Comparison

Idle Trash Masters vs Cabling Tycoon

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

Head to head
About

Idle Trash Masters

Build a thriving waste recycling empire from the ground up. Manage recycling stations, collect trash with trucks, and expand your business to become a wealthy tycoon. Automate operations and develop strategies to maximize profits in this business simulation game.

Highlights
  • Build a recycling empire
  • Manage waste collection
  • Upgrade stations and trucks
  • Automate operations
  • Maximize profits
  • Become a tycoon
Features
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Do you dream of becoming waste recycling mogul? Ready to manage a thriving waste recycling empire? Become a trash recycling tycoon, rake in the cash, level up, hire waste collector and garbage trucks, grow rich, and build the biggest business the world has ever seen in this Trash Recycling Simulator! Begin with a humble recycling station, move up to a trash collecting truck, and then open your very own Trash Recycling Business. Before you know it, you'll be running your own Trash Collecting and Recycling Empire! Expand your empire, automate operations, and develop the perfect strategy to maximize your profits! Trashventure is a business game where you manage various types of waste. Use your earnings to purchase new stations and start recycling even more expensive waste! Become the world's ultimate Waste Recycling Millionaire!

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Cabling Tycoon

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LAN cables aren't something you memorise. They're something your hands learn. Cabling Tycoon is a shop management game where you build RJ45 cables by hand and sell them to the customers waiting at your counter. Strip the jacket, untwist the pairs, lay eight wires down in order, seat the connector and crimp it — the real sequence, repeated under your thumb. You end up knowing T568A and T568B because you ran a shop, not because you drilled flashcards. ■ Who this is for · Anyone studying for a network technician exam with a hands-on cabling section · Anyone who hesitates every time between straight-through and crossover · New engineers about to pick up a crimping tool for the first time · People who like simulation and tycoon games ■ 1. Cables you actually make Bite the jacket with the stripper, turn it, pull it off. Rub the four twisted pairs apart, then place all eight wires one slot at a time: white-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown. Push the connector home, squeeze the tool, and one cable is done. Every cable has two connectors, so you build both ends. ■ 2. Straight-through or crossover? The customer is asking "Connecting a PC to a hub — two of them, please." Read the pair of devices in their speech bubble and hand over the right cable. Same layer of device means crossover, different layers mean straight-through — then a hub's uplink port flips the answer, and coupler orders make you combine your cable with the one already in the wall. The cheat sheet is one tap away whenever you're unsure, but the clock keeps running while it's open. ■ 3. A daily target Close the day short of the target and the shop closes for good. The goal sits in a gauge at the top of the screen all day, and with thirty seconds left and the target unmet, the shop starts shouting. Let a customer walk out on a cable that was sitting on your shelf and it costs a heart. String flawless deliveries together and a combo multiplier lifts what every cable pays. ■ 4. Spend the takings on the bench The power stripper cuts the work out of the jacket, the pair separator hands you pairs already untwisted, the insert guide and power crimper shorten the finish. Inspection glasses cut the lockout when you place a wire wrong. A bigger signboard buys a longer working day. What no tool ever does is place those eight wires for you — that part is yours. There are one-shot items too: an energy drink for more time on the clock, focus coffee to freeze the queue's patience, a parts box that doubles the cable on your bench, a megaphone to win back waiting customers. ■ 5. Practice mode Just the cable, with no clock and no customers. It remembers your fastest wire placement and which pin numbers you get wrong most, so you can see exactly where your hands stall. ■ 6. Online record room Post a finished run's takings to the hall of fame. No account, no login — a nickname is enough. ■ Light and quiet · No sign-up, no login · Game records stay on your device · No camera, microphone, contacts or location permissions · English and Korean Open the shop again today, until those eight wires are muscle memory. ※ A learning simulation. For real installations, follow site regulations and the manufacturer's instructions.

Screenshots

Idle Trash Masters4 screens
Cabling Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cabling Tycoon at none against Idle Trash Masters's 5. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Idle Trash Masters sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Cabling Tycoon asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Trash Masters ships an update every 3 weeks, Cabling Tycoon every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Idle Trash Masters versus Cabling Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Trash MastersCabling Tycoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size645 MB70 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVoodooSiU Ahn

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Trash Masters

One-time5
  • Gem Pouch$0.99
  • Gem Stash$4.99
  • Remove Ads$5.99
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  • Gem Vault$9.99
  • Starter Pack$9.99
None

Cabling Tycoon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Trash Masters free?
Idle Trash Masters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cabling Tycoon free?
Cabling Tycoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Trash Masters or Cabling Tycoon have ads?
Both Idle Trash Masters and Cabling Tycoon show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Trash Masters or Cabling Tycoon?
Idle Trash Masters ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cabling Tycoon every 4 weeks. Most recently, Idle Trash Masters was updated on November 5, 2026 and Cabling Tycoon on November 6, 2026.

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