Comparison

Stormbottle vs Idle Bloom

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

Head to head
About

Stormbottle

An idle game where real-time weather affects your harvest. Fill a storm meter to trigger surges and collect resources. Explore different seasons and upgrade your equipment for permanent bonuses.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather cycle impacts production
  • Storm meter for triggering surges
  • Upgradeable harvesters and gear
  • Seasonal zones with unique environments
  • Permanent bonuses through prestige
  • On-device play with no account needed
Features
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Every storm is money if you brought enough jars. Stormbottle is an idle game with a living sky. The weather overhead — clear dusk, overcast, full storm — changes in real time and changes your harvest with it. Fill the storm meter, tap the cloud, and ride a x5 surge while lightning walks the horizon. • A real weather cycle: production climbs as the sky darkens • Charge the storm meter and release surges when it counts • Ten harvesters, lightning rod to Eyewall • Six pieces of leveled gear, five levels each • Chunky x3 milestones at 20, 75 and 150 of every harvester • Chase new Seasons: prestige into permanent superbolts (+10% each, longer surges) • Eight Season zones, each with its own sky, fields and jar to bottle into • The Bottling Journey: fourteen named milestones from First Jar to Sky Emeritus • A Daily Forecast: claim a streak-friendly gift each day — a missed day pauses the streak, never resets it • The Skyworks Ledger: a second, permanent prestige board — spend Storm Sigils on works that never reset • The Charter Board: sign a patron's bottling contract for zaps now and reputation forever — four patrons, permanent perks • Named Tempests: rare, boosted super-storms with names of their own and a live window — ride one hard to bottle a Vintage • The Vintage Rack: a 96-bottle collection graded by how hard you rode each tempest, paying permanent Vintner's Renown • The Label Press: eighteen jar labels struck for real mastery feats — wear your best on the bottle • Field Records: cranks turned, storms weathered, tempests caught, fastest season — your story in numbers • An original quiet theme, synthesized on your device — with soft thunder underfoot • Jars keep bottling for an hour while you're away — bigger jars in the Depot hold 8 or 24 hours, yours forever with a one-time purchase • Entirely on-device — no account, no internet, nothing collected The sky is about to turn. Get the bottles out.

About

Idle Bloom

Features
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Water your plots, then walk away. Your garden keeps growing while the app is closed. Idle Bloom is a gentle idle game about sowing seeds and waiting for flowers. Skip a day and nothing is lost—open the app again and a whole harvest is waiting for you. ■ WAITING PAYS Every species grows at its own pace and sells for its own price. Start with quick meadow flowers, then work up to the alpine and hothouse ones that actually pay. Expand from one plot to eight. ■ FIVE UPGRADES Watering Can, Fertilizer, Bees, Greenhouse, Market Stall. The Greenhouse is the one that matters most—it extends how long your garden keeps earning while you are away. ■ TURN OF THE SEASON Stuck? Turn the season. The garden resets, but everything you earned becomes a permanent growth bonus, and the next season moves far faster. ■ 121 FLOWERS TO COLLECT Twelve tiers, from Meadow to Legends, by way of waterside, dry country, orchid house, carnivores, cloud forest and frozen ground. Every flower you bloom is recorded in your herbarium. ■ A BOUQUET A DAY Fill the day's order and earn nectar. Keep your streak and earn more. Spend nectar to skip the waiting. English and Japanese. Plays offline. No account required.

Screenshots

Stormbottle4 screens
Idle Bloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Idle Bloom at Free against Stormbottle's $2.99. Idle Bloom also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). Stormbottle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown).

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

Idle Bloom is free to download; Stormbottle costs $2.99 up front. Idle Bloom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Stormbottle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stormbottle ships an update monthly, Idle Bloom weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 3 level
Stormbottle versus Idle Bloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStormbottleIdle Bloom
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordan WegnerEuryops corporation

In-app purchases

None

Stormbottle

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Bloom

One-time5
  • Nectar 50$0.99
  • Remove ads$1.99
  • Nectar 250$3.99
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  • Golden Watering Can$5.99
  • Nectar 800$9.99

Questions

Is Stormbottle free?
Stormbottle costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Bloom free?
Idle Bloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stormbottle or Idle Bloom have ads?
Idle Bloom shows ads; Stormbottle does not.
Which is updated more often, Stormbottle or Idle Bloom?
Stormbottle ships an update monthly, and Idle Bloom weekly. Most recently, Stormbottle was updated on October 5, 2026 and Idle Bloom on October 13, 2026.

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