Comparison

UPTIME vs Idle Space Mining

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

Head to head
About

UPTIME

Features
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Your phone is a datacenter. Keep it alive. UPTIME is an idle/incremental game with a twist: the whole screen is a real ops console. Tap to serve requests, build infrastructure for passive revenue… then drop everything when the pager rings. ACTIVE INCIDENTS — not your average idle When things break, you don't just watch. DIAGNOSE the failing service from live logs, run the RUNBOOK in the right order, then STABILIZE before uptime hits zero. Every second of downtime costs you. BUILD AND SCALE From a single bare-metal server to planet-scale: load balancers, Kubernetes, CDNs, edge, satellite uplinks and beyond. 14 tiers of infrastructure, your datacenter visualized rack by rack. CLIMB THE LADDER 13 SRE career ranks, from Junior to Uptime Immortal. Resolve incidents, earn promotions, prove yourself in SEV0 gauntlets. PRESTIGE FOREVER Migrate your architecture for permanent multipliers, then found new startups for Equity. The growth never ends. HARDCORE MODE Separate save, brutal incidents, moving QTEs, rack thermals and meltdowns. For those who want the pager from hell — with exclusive cosmetic rewards. LEGENDARY INCIDENTS Rare, named outages (BGP Hijack, Certificate Apocalypse, DNS Doomsday…) with a unique Triage Storm climax. MAKE IT YOURS 20+ unlockable themes with live effects. Game Center leaderboards and achievements. Dozens of secrets to find. FAIR BY DESIGN No pay-to-win. Ever. In-app purchases are cosmetic only; ads are opt-in and rewarded. The game plays exactly the same whether you spend or not. Built for anyone who's ever been on call — and anyone who likes watching numbers go up. Stay green.

About

Idle Space Mining

Build and expand a space mining empire through incremental upgrades and strategic choices. Reset your progress to gain permanent bonuses and achieve ultimate power. Earn resources even while offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental mining empire building
  • Strategic doctrine choices
  • Prestige system with Dark Matter
  • Permanent upgrades via Star Shards
  • Offline earnings
  • Challenging game modes
  • Comet catching events
Features
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Tap an asteroid. Build a mining empire. Then destroy it — and come back stronger. IDLE SPACE MINING is an idle game about scale. You start hand-mining ore from a bare rock. You end up rewriting local physics so the ore was always there. BUILD THE COLONY Twenty-six machines, from a rickety Drone Hangar to the Terminus Drillhead. Each one runs its own harvest cycle — watch the bars fill, watch the ore land. Every 10 you own doubles that machine's output, and every tier lifts the one beneath it. CHOOSE YOUR DOCTRINE At each tier you pick ONE of three paths and forfeit the other two. Triple your early generators, or cut the price of everything, or tighten your milestones. There is no right answer — and you re-decide every single run. ASCEND When growth stalls, collapse the whole colony into a singularity. You lose your ore, your generators, your tech. You keep DARK MATTER — and every scrap you have ever earned makes you permanently stronger. Dark Matter is deliberately scarce. Each one matters. HEAT DEATH Then there's the prestige above prestige. Let the universe run down, trade everything — even your Dark Matter — for Star Shards, and buy upgrades that survive the end of everything. TAKE ON CHALLENGES Mine with no hands. Run with triple-length cycles. Build with only three generator types. Beat one and keep the bonus forever. CATCH COMETS Comets drift past while you play. Tap one for a lump of ore or a burst of production. EARN WHILE YOU SLEEP Your colony keeps mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, and only if you want it: watch a Supply Drop for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers, no countdown "offers". Just numbers going up, forever.

Screenshots

UPTIME4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Space Mining at none against UPTIME's 4. Idle Space Mining also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. UPTIME sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Idle Space Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UPTIME ships an update every 4 days, Idle Space Mining weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
UPTIME versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUPTIMEIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMathieu VigneISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

In-app purchases

4 purchases

UPTIME

One-time4
  • Cyber Pack$2.99
  • Cosmic Pack$2.99
  • Cozy Pack$2.99
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  • Supporter - Enterprise Plan$3.99
None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UPTIME free?
UPTIME is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do UPTIME or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Both UPTIME and Idle Space Mining show ads.
Which is updated more often, UPTIME or Idle Space Mining?
UPTIME ships an update every 4 days, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, UPTIME was updated on October 5, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on October 24, 2026.

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