Comparison

Author Career vs Tiny Fates

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

Head to head
About

Author Career

Build a writing career from scratch, managing finances, energy, and skills. Write across multiple genres, publish books, and grow your audience week by week. Track your progress and career milestones.

Highlights
  • Week-by-week career progression
  • Write various book formats
  • Manage energy, money, and skills
  • Publish books and grow audience
  • Track royalties and reviews
  • Genre-specific fan bases
Features
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Start with a blank page, a little cash, and one week at a time. In Author Career, you build a writing life from the ground up. Choose what to write, manage your energy, improve your skills, publish your books, and watch your audience grow across genres. Every week brings a decision. Work a job to cover expenses, train your craft, draft a new manuscript, edit a book, submit to publishers, or launch your next release. Each choice shapes your money, fans, skills, reviews, and long-term career. Write across Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Literary Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, and Adventure. Pick formats, generate titles, set prices, compare publishing paths, and track the results as your catalog grows. Features: Build a week-by-week author career Write short stories, novellas, novels, and epics Manage energy, money, debt, expenses, and career tradeoffs Improve skills like creativity, grammar, plotting, character development, prose, and discipline Edit manuscripts, choose prices, and prepare book launches Grow general and genre-specific fan bases Track book history, royalties, reviews, milestones, and yearly progress Play a focused single-player writing career sim Build your catalog, find your audience, and see how far your author career can go.

About

Tiny Fates

Experience a full modern life, one year at a time. Make choices about career, love, and finances, and see how they impact your reputation, family, and legacy. This simulation game explores the consequences of your decisions with dark humor and realistic economic challenges.

Highlights
  • Branching life moments
  • Multiple career paths
  • Realistic economy simulation
  • Tax and prison mechanics
  • Real estate and investments
  • Daily challenges and leaderboards
  • Dynasty mode for legacy play
Features
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HOW WILL YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE? Will you become a millionaire whose family remembers them kindly — or end up in prison, brought down by choices you made decades ago? Live a modern life where choices return years later. Every one of them. With interest. Tiny Fates is a text-based life simulator about work, money, love, family, health, reputation, and the compromises that shape a lifetime. Age one year at a time, choose your response, and watch old decisions open doors — or return with a bill. SHARE YOUR EXACT FATE Every life gets a Fate Code. Share it with a friend and they can replay your exact life — every choice, year by year — as a spectator. With thousands of choices and ending ribbons to collect, no two lives are the same. YOUR CHOICES LEAVE RECEIPTS A school rivalry can become an adult alliance. A hidden family debt can reshape trust. A reputation hit can follow you into a future opportunity. Your history matters beyond the next stat change. LIVE ANY LIFE • Follow careers from ordinary jobs to ambitious leadership paths • Date, marry, raise children, and sit down to multi-person family dinners and work hangouts • Born into royalty? Choose your birth era — dot-com, 2008 crisis, pandemic, or the AI boom • Adopt or foster — build a family however it comes together • Save, invest, borrow, buy property, and survive economic shocks • Face illness, crime, fame, burnout, retirement, and rare turns of fate • Set custom goals, try a harder start, export a life transcript, and replay with new origins PLAY EVERY DAY Daily challenges, weekly themed runs, and streak rewards give you a reason to come back — and each run is a fresh, shareable fate. QUICK TO PLAY, HARD TO FORGET Tap to age up. Read a sharp event. Make the call. A life can move quickly, but its consequences build across decades. When the story ends, keep the epitaph and begin again with a new plan. PLAY ANYWHERE Offline and on the go. Your life lives on your device. Available in many languages. PLAY YOUR WAY The core life simulation is free, with ads and no loot boxes. Rewarded ads are optional. Fates Pass is an optional subscription: five actions per in-game year instead of three, one risk insight per age, premium story events, and automatic ad removal while subscribed. God Mode (Founder Pack) is a separate one-time purchase: one fate edit per age, up to three rewinds per life, timeline tools, and automatic ad removal. Its permanent tools do not require a subscription. Fates Pass is sold separately. Make the choice. Meet the future version of it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://tinyfates.com/terms

Screenshots

Author Career4 screens
Tiny Fates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Author Career at 4.4 against Tiny Fates's 2.5. Author Career also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Tiny Fates's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, ratings volume, 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. Tiny Fates sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Author Career asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Author Career holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Author Career ships an update every 8 days, Tiny Fates every 4 days. Both last shipped on September 9, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Author Career versus Tiny Fates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAuthor CareerTiny Fates
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB233 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperMatthew GreenFAINTECH SOLUTIONS SRL

Customer experience

Author Career

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Tiny Fates

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Author Career

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tiny Fates

Subscriptions2
  • Fates Pass Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Fates Pass Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Founder Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Author Career free?
Author Career is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Fates free?
Tiny Fates is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Author Career or Tiny Fates?
Author Career is rated higher. Author Career averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Tiny Fates averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Author Career or Tiny Fates have ads?
Both Author Career and Tiny Fates show ads.
Which is updated more often, Author Career or Tiny Fates?
Author Career ships an update every 8 days, and Tiny Fates every 4 days. Most recently, Author Career was updated on September 9, 2026 and Tiny Fates on September 9, 2026.

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