Comparison

AFK Camp 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

AFK Camp

Features
Read full description

AFK Camp is a cozy idle game that turns screen‑free time into a magical hero collection. Earn campfire minutes, unlock new heroes, breed them, trade on the market, and compete on leaderboards. How it works Start a campfire session (10–120 minutes) and put your phone aside. When you return, claim your minutes and Coals – the camp's special currency. Spend 30 minutes to generate a hero. Each hero is born from a random 256‑bit genome: race, element, passive abilities, stats, and rarity. Hero collection Collect knights, mages, elves, dragonkin, and more. Every hero appears as their own campfire: flame color, glowing coals (passives), stones, and smoke reveal their traits. Explore passive abilities on an interactive hexagonal grid – tap a coal to learn what your hero can do. Breeding heroes Combine two heroes in the camp to create offspring with new gene combinations. Crossover and mutations produce surprising results – from common to mythic. Inherit the best passives from parents or discover completely new ones. Coals Market Spend Coals on hero crates (common, rare, epic, legendary, mythic). Buy boosts, rename tokens, and campfire skins. Choose what fits your playstyle. Achievements & Leaderboards Earn achievements for heroes collected, collection rarity, campfire hours, and successful breeds. Compete with other players on global or friends leaderboards by total campfire time. Track your progress and climb the ranks. AFK Camp doesn't demand constant attention – short sessions, deep gameplay, cozy atmosphere. Perfect for anyone who wants to spend less time on the screen without losing game progress. Download AFK Camp and build your legendary camp today.

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
Read full description

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

AFK Camp3 screens
Dev Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AFK Camp at none against Dev Idle's 10. AFK Camp also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Dev Idle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. AFK Camp asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
AFK Camp versus Dev Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAFK CampDev Idle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxim PazhukovDavid Petrina

In-app purchases

None

AFK Camp

No in-app purchases

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
Show 6 more
  • 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 AFK Camp free?
AFK Camp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dev Idle free?
Dev Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AFK Camp or Dev Idle have ads?
Neither AFK Camp nor Dev Idle shows ads.

Other comparisons