Comparison

Digline vs Keep on Mining!

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

Head to head
About

Digline

Drill deep into a mysterious world, collecting resources and upgrading your rig. Explore diverse biomes, craft items, and uncover secrets in this relaxing, one-finger controlled simulation game. Progress over weeks with persistent tunnels and a growing map.

Highlights
  • One-finger portrait controls
  • Multiple biomes and resources
  • Workshop upgrades and crafting
  • Persistent tunnels and map
  • Daily Dig challenges
  • Achievement collection
Features
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Digline is a relaxed and easy to learn drilling game where every descent is a gamble between progress and risk, and the real reward lies deeper underground. Start each run in your workshop, pick your setup, and head down with limited fuel and a scrappy rig. Carve your path through shifting layers of earth, decide what to collect, and choose what to upgrade and what to trade before everything runs out. Each dive reveals new materials, rarer finds, and unexpected patterns beneath the surface. What begins as simple digging gradually turns into a careful balance between exploration, efficiency, and timing. Back at the surface, refine your strategy and improve your runs: • Upgrade your drill, fuel capacity, and efficiency • Unlock new materials with higher value and deeper placement • Optimize routes to maximize each descent Progress builds steadily, but every run carries tension. Go too safe and you leave value behind. Push too far and risk losing it all. Shape your own rhythm underground: short and efficient runs, deep high-risk dives, or a steady climb toward mastering what lies below. Top 10 casual game in the US and UK, Top 5 in Germany, Norway, and others. Come join the fun! What starts as a simple search for resources gradually becomes something stranger. Your old tunnels remain, your map expands over time, and the underground begins to feel less random and more like a place with its own history. Digline is designed to be easy to pick up, fun in short sessions, and rewarding over the long term. Quick digs, short descents, tons of relaxing fun. Features: • intuitive one-finger portrait controls • short runs that fit easily into a minute or two • persistent tunnels and a map that grows with each expedition • multiple underground regions with different materials, hazards, and surprises • resources to gather and use for crafting upgrades, and better preparation • a workshop that turns each successful run into permanent progress • a market system for trading what you bring back • progression that builds across many sessions, not just a single run • a calm, cozy atmosphere with a sense of discovery underneath it • no ads, no in-app purchases, and no pay-to-win systems • achievements and Daily Dig leaderboard competition The deeper you go, the more the mine will reveal.

About

Keep on Mining!

Engage in an incremental mining adventure, collecting ores and unlocking new worlds. Progress through a vast skill tree with over 200 upgrades and craft powerful pickaxes to enhance your mining capabilities.

Highlights
  • Mine rocks and collect ores
  • Unlock new worlds with talent points
  • Progress through a skill tree with 200+ upgrades
  • Craft and upgrade pickaxes
  • Discover unique pickaxe equip bonuses
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Mine rocks and collect ores! Keep on Mining! - Worlds is a simple incremental mining game about mining rocks. The sequel keeps the core gameplay loop from Keep on Mining! but adds many more worlds, upgrades, artifacts, pickaxes and some cool new stuff! Unlock new worlds! Make progress though the game via unlocking new worlds! Worlds can be purchased using your talent points. Talent point are gathered via leveling up. Every time you purchase a new world, 5 talent cards will appear. Choose 2 to keep! Purchase upgrades! Purchase permanent upgrades inside the Skill Tree! The Skill tree features 200+ upgrades and has a variety of fun upgrades. Craft pickaxes! Use your gathered bars to craft new pickaxes. Pickaxes can also be upgraded with your gems! Upgrading your pickaxe will improve every pickaxe stat. Every pickaxe also has a unique Equip Bonus that will only apply to the equipped pickaxe.

Screenshots

Digline4 screens
Keep on Mining!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keep on Mining! at none against Digline's 3. Keep on Mining! also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Digline's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model and chart position 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

Digline costs $2.99 and Keep on Mining! $4.99 up front. Digline sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Keep on Mining! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Digline holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Digline's written reviews are positive against 50% of Keep on Mining!'s.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Digline versus Keep on Mining!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiglineKeep on Mining!
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (20 ratings) — better4.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better6
Update frequencyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#199#86 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size264 MB302 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuis HerskovicSimon Eftestøl

Customer experience

Digline

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral15.2%
Negative30.3%

Keep on Mining!

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Digline

One-time3
  • 20 fuel to storage$0.99
  • +75 fuel to storage$2.99
  • +200 fuel to storage$4.99
None

Keep on Mining!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Digline free?
Digline costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Keep on Mining! free?
Keep on Mining! costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Digline or Keep on Mining!?
Digline is rated higher. Digline averages 4.8 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Keep on Mining! averages 4.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Digline or Keep on Mining! have ads?
Neither Digline nor Keep on Mining! shows ads.
Which is more popular, Digline or Keep on Mining!?
Digline currently peaks at #199 in the App Store charts, and Keep on Mining! at #86. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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