Comparison

Aura Farm vs Dev Idle

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

Head to head
About

Aura Farm

Features
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Aura Farm: Tap & Grow is a cozy offline idle tapper built around original crop cosmetics, simple upgrades, and deterministic daily rewards. Tap to earn Glow, unlock collectible crops, buy upgrades, and come back later for offline progress. The game is local-first and does not require an account, online multiplayer, chat, leaderboards, location, or user-generated content. Features: - Original crop cosmetics and flavor text - Eight upgrade tracks for tap and idle progress - Offline earnings with a clear cap - Deterministic daily reward table - Optional lifetime Premium for premium cosmetic crops and a longer offline harvest cap Aura Farm is entertainment only. The words Aura and Glow are gameplay terms; the app does not measure, read, or assign personal qualities, mood, health, or real-world traits. No loot boxes, no gacha draws, no consumable currency packs, no real-money gambling, and no paid random rewards.

About

Dev Idle

Tap to code and build your developer empire, from simple copy-pasting to advanced quantum compilation. Ship versions to earn reputation, unlock permanent upgrades, and eventually IPO for massive boosts. Enjoy an idle game experience with offline earnings and no ads.

Highlights
  • Tap to write code
  • Hire automated developers
  • Ship versions for reputation
  • Permanent upgrades via Lab
  • IPO for massive progress boosts
  • Offline earnings with reports
  • Live Activity for App Review countdown
Features
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You started by pasting an answer off Stack Overflow. Twelve tiers later you are running an autonomous agent fleet, a server farm and a quantum compiler, and the changelog has started calling the next one The Singularity. Dev Idle is an idle game about being an iOS developer, made by one. Tap to write code, hire the pipeline that writes it for you, then ship a version and do the whole thing again, faster. THE LOOP • BUILD — Twelve generator tiers, from "Stack Overflow copy-paste" to "The Singularity". Every 10, 25, 50 and 100 you own doubles that tier's output. Forever. There is no last milestone. • SHIP — Submit a version for App Review, wait out the thirty-minute queue like the rest of us, and bank Reputation for a permanent income multiplier. This wait is the game's clock, and yes, that is the joke. • LAB — Every ship also pays Commits, which buy permanent upgrades that survive every reset. A bad run still pays. No run is wasted. • SHOP — Conference Tickets buy time, never content: expedite a review, double an offline haul, or collect eight hours at once. • PASS — A four-week Sprint Pass season, 50 tiers, earned entirely by playing. THE PART THAT MAKES IT LAST Get big enough and you can IPO. Trade your whole Reputation for Shares, raise the level cap on every permanent upgrade, and watch the forty hours of progress you just gave up come back in four. Then the horizon moves again. BALANCED BY SIMULATION, NOT BY VIBES The economy runs in a harness that plays thousands of prestige cycles before a number ships. Tier 4 inside two minutes. Your first version out the door in about an hour. The Singularity considerably later. THINGS WE CARED ABOUT • Offline earnings, with a proper "while you were away" report when you come back. • A Live Activity that counts your App Review down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Unlockable editor themes. All of them dark, because it is that kind of game. • Every number monospaced, so counters tick without jittering. • No ads. Not between screens, not for a bonus, not ever — there is no ad code in the app at all. • Plays entirely offline. No account, no sign-up, nothing personal collected — no name, no email, no advertising identifier, no tracking. Your save syncs through your own iCloud. FREE TO PLAY, AND MEANT IT Optional purchases shorten the road. Not one of them unlocks content you cannot reach by playing, because a wall you cannot climb is a game you stop opening. Dev Idle Pro — $4.99 per month with a 7-day free trial: ×2 income, offline earnings at full rate with double the cap, a bigger daily Ticket bonus, an exclusive editor theme, and every season's premium Sprint Pass track included. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel it in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you buy the subscription. Terms of Use: https://devidle.petrina.me/terms Privacy Policy: https://devidle.petrina.me/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Aura Farm4 screens
Dev Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Aura Farm at 17.0 against Dev Idle's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. Aura Farm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dev Idle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Aura Farm versus Dev Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAura FarmDev Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCosmic Production d.o.o.David Petrina

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Aura Farm

One-time1
  • Aura Farm Premium (Lifetime)$4.99
10 purchases

Dev Idle

Subscriptions1
  • Dev Idle Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time9
  • Hotfix — 100 Tickets$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Sprint Pass Premium Track$2.99
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  • Monthly Card — 40 a Day$3.99
  • Overtime$4.99
  • Sprint — 600 Tickets$4.99
  • Release — 1,400 Tickets$9.99
  • Major Version — 3,200 Tickets$19.99
  • Enterprise — 9,000 Tickets$49.99

Questions

Is Aura Farm free?
Aura Farm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dev Idle free?
Dev Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Aura Farm or Dev Idle have ads?
Neither Aura Farm nor Dev Idle shows ads.

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