Scrap Orbit vs TinyMine Idle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scrap Orbit
Manage an idle orbital salvage company, collecting dead satellites for profit. Automate your operations, build fleets, and strategically reset your progress for permanent upgrades. Haul in riches while you sleep.
- Idle orbital salvage simulation
- Automated rig purchasing
- Live radar with bonus hauls
- Timed contracts with payouts
- Permanent Alloy upgrades
- Offline hauling up to 16 hours
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Forty thousand dead satellites are worth a fortune to whoever hauls them in. That's you. Scrap Orbit is an idle salvage-company sim played through a mission console: monospace telemetry, an amber radar sweep, and numbers that climb while you sleep. • Eleven salvage rigs, from Magnet Skiffs to the Mass Driver • Live radar: tap priority windows for instant bonus hauls • Rotating timed contracts with real payouts — deliver tonnage, build fleets • DEORBIT: burn the whole operation into permanent Alloy (+12% each) and spend it on tech that survives every reset • Automation bays that buy rigs for you, up to once per second • Milestone bonuses at 10/25/50/100/200 of every rig • Rigs keep hauling offline (up to 16 h) • Fully on-device: no account, no connection, nothing collected Hold orbit. Get rich. Burn it down. Repeat.
TinyMine Idle
An idle mining game where a tiny miner digs, hauls, and sells ore while you're away. Upgrade gear, unlock new zones, and complete mining goals. Everything can be earned through gameplay.
- Offline mining progression
- Gear upgrades
- Zone unlocking
- Mining goals
- No ads
- No account required
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I made this game for the quiet minutes. A tiny miner walks, digs, and hauls ore while you watch, and he keeps working after you close the app. You start on the Pebble Path with a stone pick and a small bag. Sell what he digs, buy him better gear, and open the way down. There are eighteen zones, and the last few take real patience to reach. Along the way you'll spot gems on the path, chase mining goals for every ore, and maybe, eventually, run out of mine. I'm digging more. Things I care about, so they're built in: • He mines while you're away, with a cap, so it stays a game and not a chore. • No ads. Ever. • No account, no sign-up, nothing collected. Your save lives on your phone. • Everything in the game can be earned by playing. The few purchases are shortcuts and tips, not walls. This is my first game. I built it alone: the pixel art, the cave sounds, the ore prices I argued with myself about for weeks. If something feels broken or unfair, tell me through the support page and I'll fix it. Thanks for giving the tiny miner a look.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TinyMine Idle at Free against Scrap Orbit's $2.99. TinyMine Idle also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Scrap Orbit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating 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
TinyMine Idle is free to download; Scrap Orbit costs $2.99 up front. TinyMine Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Scrap Orbit asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scrap Orbit against 5.0 for TinyMine Idle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TinyMine Idle has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Scrap Orbit | TinyMine Idle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Wegner | Chad McKerlie |
Customer experience
Scrap Orbit
TinyMine Idle
In-app purchases
Scrap Orbit
No in-app purchases
TinyMine Idle
- Auto-sell Early Unlock$0.99
- Supporter$2.99
- Deluxe Supporter$4.99









