Comparison

Idle Boxer vs Quiet Lab

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

Head to head
About

Idle Boxer

Build your boxing career from humble beginnings to world champion. Train your fighter, upgrade equipment, and unlock new abilities to dominate opponents. Progress continues even offline, with rewards earned while you're away.

Highlights
  • Build a boxing career
  • Train and upgrade fighter
  • Improve skills and equipment
  • Unlock new abilities
  • Idle progression and rewards
  • Progress through fights and arenas
Features
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Step into the ring and build your own boxing career from the ground up. In Idle Boxer, you start in a rough back alley with nothing but weak punches and big ambition. Fight your way through tougher opponents, improve your skills, and rise toward the world stage. Train your boxer to become stronger with every match. Upgrade your equipment to boost power, speed, and endurance, and unlock new abilities that give you the edge in every fight. Each improvement brings you closer to becoming a true champion. Progress continues even when you are not playing. Earn rewards, grow stronger, and return to a boxer that is ready for bigger challenges. Plan your upgrades carefully and watch your fighter evolve into a knockout machine. As you gain fame, you will unlock new opportunities and supporters who help accelerate your progress. From small fights to major arenas, every victory pushes you further along your journey. Start from nothing and build your legacy in Idle Boxer.

About

Quiet Lab

Learn to create music and beats with a pixel cat instructor. Explore various genres, record your own sounds, and experiment with generative music machines. Offers lessons, a studio mode, and animated characters.

Highlights
  • Interactive DJ lessons
  • Beat making studio mode
  • Record custom sounds
  • Eleven music genres
  • Generative music machines
  • Animated characters
  • Classic piano melodies
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A cat in headphones builds a track in front of you, and teaches you to build your own. It starts with a hat. Then a kick, a snare, a bass line, a lead, one lane at a time, and it says what it just did as it goes. By the end the whole grid is lit and the cats are dancing. LEARN TO DJ Pixel Cat teaches Build mode one short lesson at a time, on the real grid: the kick on every beat, the snare on two and four, ghost notes, swing, bass, a lead, the mix, nine genres, a song's shape. Each lesson has a target on the grid, hints, SHOW ME, lamps for a clean pass, and ranks that change the cat's headphones. Twenty four lessons, and the crown at the end makes the cat BEAT KING. The first three are free. Then BY EAR, ten more: hear a genre's beat and build it without seeing it. MAKE YOUR OWN Switch to Build and the screen becomes a small studio: the grid large, five strips with a level fader, mute and solo, swing and tempo. Tap the cells you want, press play, and it plays exactly what you put there. YOUR OWN SOUNDS Tap the microphone on any lane to record a sound or bring one in from Files; a bass or lead lane plays your one note at every pitch. Arrange sections over your beat, with risers and drops, and the clip opens on I MADE THIS BEAT. ELEVEN GENRES, NINETY FOUR TRACKS House, techno, dubstep, drum and bass, rock, trap, disco, lo-fi, deep house, hip hop and rap. In RAP the words run under the grid, karaoke style, so you can rap along. The first house, techno, lo-fi and hip hop tracks are free to watch, and Build mode is free to try for five minutes. The lessons, Build mode and the other ninety tracks come with the one payment. NEW: 8-BIT Five pixel characters, MECHA CAT, KAIJU CAT, STARFIGHTER, NEON DRAGON and RAVE GOD, in four paints, each built and animated to the track you pick, hit for hit, with the beat grid under it. MECHA CAT is free, with the free tracks. A PIANO THAT PLAYS ITSELF Twenty eight classics fall onto the keys, most of them every note of the printed edition: Für Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Clair de Lune, Chopin's Nocturne, the Raindrop Prelude, Toccata in D minor, Rondo alla Turca, Maple Leaf Rag and twenty more. Slow any of them down or speed them up. Für Elise is free. NOTHING IN THE MUSIC IS A RECORDING Every kick, snare, hat, bass, lead and piano note is generated in code as it plays, unless you recorded it or brought it in yourself. No samples, nothing licensed, and the tempo slider changes the music, not its pitch. THIRTY FOUR MACHINES THAT RUN THEMSELVES Nobody aims, nobody scores, nothing to lose. You set a few numbers, press Play, and watch what the rules do. Merge Flask. A stream that falls, fuses and climbs. Harmony. Two notes swing, and the simpler the ratio, the cleaner the shape. Marble Sorter. Three tubes, one belt, and every marble finds its colour. Glass Eater. Every gate multiplies them, and every one takes a bite of the glass. And thirty more. The physics is a solver written for this app. MAKE A CLIP Any machine, track, beat, lesson, character or piece records a run at the settings on screen, with its sound. Save it to Photos or share it. No extra purchase. ON YOUR TV With Screen Mirroring every mode gets a wide TV layout; the phone is the remote. HOW IT IS PAID FOR Merge Flask is free forever. Any other simulation opens with a one time purchase, or open the other thirty three at once. DJ Beat Maker, with Build mode and the lessons, the piano and 8-BIT are each sold on their own, one payment each. Everything in Quiet Lab is one payment for every simulation, track, lesson, piece and 8-BIT character, including the ones added later. Some new installs are offered Everything yearly or weekly instead, renewing until cancelled in Apple Account settings. No account, no sign in. Sound plays even when your phone is on silent, because the sound is the point. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://synappsai-web.web.app/privacy

Screenshots

Idle Boxer4 screens
Quiet Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Quiet Lab at #46 against Idle Boxer's unranked. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Idle Boxer sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Quiet Lab sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Boxer ships an update every 2 days, Quiet Lab every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
Idle Boxer versus Quiet Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle BoxerQuiet Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (497 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings497 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#46 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB48 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTap NineSYNAPPS AI LTD

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle Boxer

One-time10
  • Small Gem Pack$3.99
  • Ice Bath Pack$5.99
  • Medium Gem Pack$12.99
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  • Sunset Sparring Pack$14.99
  • No Ads$17.99
  • Legendary Boxer$17.99
  • VO2 Max Pack$22.99
  • Crowd Favorite Pack$34.99
  • Large Gem Pack$44.99
  • Undisputed GOAT Pack$89.99
10 purchases

Quiet Lab

Subscriptions2
  • Everything on Quiet Lab, weekly$4.997 Days
  • Quiet Lab Unlock Everything 1 Year$29.991 Year
One-time8
  • 8-Bit Mode: Every Character$9.99
  • DJ Beat Maker$9.99
  • Piano Pro$9.99
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  • Everything in Quiet Lab$19.99
  • Unlock All Simulations$19.99
  • Piano Pro$19.99
  • DJ Beat Maker$19.99
  • Everything in Quiet Lab$29.99

Questions

Is Idle Boxer free?
Idle Boxer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quiet Lab free?
Quiet Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Boxer or Quiet Lab have ads?
Both Idle Boxer and Quiet Lab show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Boxer or Quiet Lab?
Idle Boxer ships an update every 2 days, and Quiet Lab every 3 days. Most recently, Idle Boxer was updated on November 5, 2026 and Quiet Lab on November 6, 2026.

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