Comparison

Mint Master 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

Mint Master

Features
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Every great fortune starts with a single penny. Mint Master is an idle coin tycoon game: press humble Wheat Pennies, hire legendary workers to automate the mint and watch your fortune climb from dollars to trillions and beyond. An idle clicker and incremental money game built on real coin history instead of the usual factory floor. STRIKE RARE ERROR COINS Any press can strike a coin wrong, just like a real mint: a Doubled Die, an Off-Center Strike, a Wrong Planchet, a Clipped Planchet or the ultra-rare Double Strike. Every new kind you find adds income to that coin forever and fills the error shelf in your Collection. PLAY THE COIN PUSHER An arcade coin pusher waits on the Rewards page. Drop a coin, nudge the pile over the edge and collect in-game coins and rare error coins. Tokens come only from playing - the Daily Vault, the daily gift, quests and an optional reward bonus - and can never be bought. RACE IN THE MINT RALLY A 3-day race against 29 rival mints. Press coins, hire workers and strike rare coins to climb, then claim Collector's Marks and pusher tokens. Finish in the top 3 to win an exclusive rim for your own coin. DESIGN YOUR SIGNATURE COIN Pick the metal, rim, emblem and inscription, strike it and share it. More parts unlock as you play - new worlds, flawless grades, error coins, the coin pusher and the rally. FIVE MINT WORLDS, 50 COINS - The American Mint - the Wheat Penny to the 1933 Double Eagle - The Royal Mint - the Farthing to the Tudor Rose Crown - The Ancient Mint - the Bronze Obol to the Julius Caesar Aureus - The Imperial Mint - dynastic China, from Copper Cash to the Jade Emperor Medallion; opens after your first prestige in the Ancient Mint - The Legendary Mint - Atlantis, El Dorado and the treasury of the gods; forge the Legendary Mint Key and prestige every other mint once to find it Each world has its own mint and scenery. Every coin is a struck-metal render with its own story. A MINT THAT FEELS ALIVE Every tap drives a die into the coin with a solid thunk, with haptics and optional screen shake on the big moments. Every worker talks in their own voice. Welcome Back pours your away earnings into a glass vault as a pile of coins you can knock about. DAILY REWARDS AND STREAKS A 7-day login calendar with a bigger gift on day 7 and bonus Marks at 8, 15, 23 and 30 days played. Keep your streak alive to raise your away earnings, up to double from day 7. Power up with Mint Rush (double income for 4 hours), Time Warp (4 hours of income now) and the Daily Vault. WEEKLY LEADERBOARD SEASON Every week is a new race on the This Week board: Bronze for taking part, Silver for the top 10, Gold for the top 3 and Champion for first place. Every medal pays Collector's Marks, and your best one shows beside your name. The all-time Richest and Marks boards are there for the long climb. COLLECTOR'S MARKS Prestige any world to earn Collector's Marks. Spend them on upgrades that affect every mint: double all taps, extend your away-earnings cap, boost prestige rewards, or unlock the Grand Collection for a production bonus when all four mints run together. GRADE AND PRESTIGE Keep pressing a coin to raise its grade from VF through XF, AU and MS-65 to a flawless MS-70, which adds 5% to that coin's income. Perform a Royal Mint Reset for permanent multipliers that make every run faster, and earn a Collector's Mark to spend on cross-world upgrades. FEATURES - Five tabs: Store, Workers, Mint, Rewards and Ranks - 10 daily quests and optional reminders - Cloud save: reinstall and your mint is still there, no account needed - English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and French - Optional reward bonuses (short ads), plus a one-time Remove Ads purchase that removes intrusive ads for good while your optional reward bonuses keep paying out - An internet connection is required to play - No pay-to-win - everything is earnable by playing From a copper penny to a legendary fortune: become the ultimate coin tycoon.

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
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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

Mint Master4 screens
Idle Space Mining4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Space Mining at none against Mint Master's 1. 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. Mint Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Idle Space Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mint Master ships an update every 10 days, Idle Space Mining weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Mint Master versus Idle Space Mining: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMint MasterIdle Space Mining
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB121 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBrownaro Studios LLCISAAC MICHAEL FRETT

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mint Master

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mint Master free?
Mint Master 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 Mint Master or Idle Space Mining have ads?
Both Mint Master and Idle Space Mining show ads.
Which is updated more often, Mint Master or Idle Space Mining?
Mint Master ships an update every 10 days, and Idle Space Mining weekly. Most recently, Mint Master was updated on October 12, 2026 and Idle Space Mining on October 7, 2026.

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