Comparison

Idle Mage Academy vs OpenIdle

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

Head to head
About

Idle Mage Academy

Rise from a failing student to a legendary archmage through idle training and strategic growth. Your spells and rewards accumulate even when you're offline. Progress through the academy, unlock new abilities, and compete globally.

Highlights
  • Idle growth and offline rewards
  • Webnovel-style narrative
  • Unlock new spells and dungeons
  • Library research for permanent buffs
  • Duel Club for tactical combat
  • Rebirth system for endless progression
  • Global online ranking
Features
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"I was the worst dropout at the academy. Then I turned back time to become an archmage." Start as the weakest failing student of the Mage Tower and rise, one log line at a time, into a legendary archmage. Your training never stops — even when the screen is off. ■ Idle growth — spells train themselves; rewards pile up while you're away. ■ Webnovel-style log — read your underdog's struggle unfold in real time. ■ Year 1 to Archmage — promotions unlock new spells, libraries, and dungeons. ■ Library research — gather Knowledge for permanent power-ups. ■ Duel Club — pick your tactics and outwit rivals. ■ Rebirth system — reach Archmage, return to school, and grow forever via Engravings. ■ Dimension dive & online ranking — compete worldwide for the deepest floor. Easy in one hand, endlessly deep. Enroll in the Mage Tower today.

About

OpenIdle

Features
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You've got a laptop, a credit card, and an opinion about AGI. Time to found your own AI lab. OpenIdle is a satirical idle game about the race to artificial general intelligence — and the way the finish line keeps politely moving. Found a company in a garage, train a model lineage, hire a workforce, generate hype, and allocate compute, data, and influence as you climb toward a post-AGI prestige loop. Hire, ship, hype, rebalance, and watch the target move with institutional grace. Cross an AGI goalpost and the definition quietly advances. Prestige, refound, and run the same race a little sharper. The numbers go up. The goalposts go further. - Bootstrap an AI lab from a garage to a sprawling research org - Train a model line with a personality — and opinions - Split compute, data, and influence across competing priorities - Ride market events, generate hype, ship on schedule - Cross AGI goalposts that refuse to hold still - Prestige into a faster, stranger version of the loop All companies and models depicted are fictional. The compute, tokens, alignment budgets, and moving goalposts they abstract are not. The treadmill, as far as we can tell, is perpetual.

Screenshots

Idle Mage Academy4 screens
OpenIdle3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: OpenIdle at none against Idle Mage Academy's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Idle Mage Academy versus OpenIdle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Mage AcademyOpenIdle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSONGHWA CHAEDawnsurfer Studios LLC

In-app purchases

None

Idle Mage Academy

No in-app purchases

None

OpenIdle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Mage Academy free?
Idle Mage Academy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenIdle free?
OpenIdle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Mage Academy or OpenIdle have ads?
Idle Mage Academy shows ads; OpenIdle does not.

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