Comparison

Idle Space Mining vs Catfinity

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

Head to head
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.

About

Catfinity

Adopt and manage a colony of pixel cats who earn resources while you're away. Assign them jobs, send them on quests and raids, and strengthen your colony through naps and prestige. Features include fishing, leaderboards, and collecting various cat breeds and items.

Highlights
  • Idle cat colony management
  • 30 unique cat jobs and classes
  • Questing and dungeon crawling
  • Daily world boss raids
  • Pixel fishing with rare catches
  • Seasonal leaderboards and achievements
  • Cat collection and base building
Features
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Catfinity is an idle RPG with an unreasonable amount of game inside it. Adopt a colony of pixel cats, give every one of them a job, and send them after loot. They keep earning while you're away, and NAPPING is literally how you get stronger — the whole prestige ladder is built around the laziest thing a cat does. JOBS Thirty classes, from Rancher and Fishercat to Ninja, Necromancer and Pyromancer. Each has its own hat, its own levels, and abilities that change what your colony earns. QUESTS & DUNGEONS Build a balanced five-cat party — tank, healer, support, damage — choose your own difficulty, and read the real odds before you commit. A failed run costs you time, not cats. RAIDS A daily world boss with stances and weaknesses, holding the only Mythic and Rainbow gear in the game. FISHING A pixel pond stocked with 58 species, rare chests, better rods, and one extremely elusive Rainbow Shark. THE RANCH Raise chickens, ducks, bees, pigs, sheep, cows, horses and more, from wobbly babies to grown-ups, each finding its own colour as it comes of age. Collect eggs, milk and honey, cook with them, and dress every pasture. MOUNTS & ENCHANTING Any grown-up animal can carry a cat, a monster or you. Bees and butterflies lift their rider into the sky. Brew enchantments for gear, mounts and cats with the NekoMancer. LEADERBOARDS Every month is a fresh season that resets for everyone at the same moment, so a new colony is never racing a two-year-old one. 500+ achievements along the way. COLLECT & BUILD 21 cat breeds across five biomes. Potions to brew, ore to mine, herbs to grow, and a dog, a bear and a tortoise who move in and stay. PRESTIGE Naps, cosmic naps, Purrvana, and beyond. THE HONEST PART Free to play forever. Purchases are cosmetics, music tracks and small boosts — no paywalls, no energy timers holding your cats hostage. Ads are optional and rewarded-only. Offline progress means the colony never stops purring. Check in for two minutes or lose an entire evening. The cats don't judge. Much. Another cat game? Yes. You're welcome.

Screenshots

Idle Space Mining4 screens
Catfinity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Space Mining at none against Catfinity's 10. Idle Space Mining also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Catfinity's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Catfinity sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Idle Space Mining asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Idle Space Mining against 5.0 for Catfinity. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catfinity has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Space Mining ships an update weekly, Catfinity every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Idle Space Mining versus Catfinity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle Space MiningCatfinity
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB153 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperISAAC MICHAEL FRETTCatfinity Studios

Customer experience

Idle Space Mining

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Catfinity

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Idle Space Mining

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Catfinity

One-time10
  • Space Cowboy — Music Track$0.99
  • Reflective Rainy Evening$0.99
  • So it Comes to This — Music$0.99
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  • Night Drive — BGM Track$0.99
  • Workshop — In-Game Music$0.99
  • Just Chillin' — Music Track$0.99
  • Freefall — Music Track$0.99
  • Hit the Streets — Soundtrack$0.99
  • Ghost Sax — Game Soundtrack$0.99
  • Retro Melodic — In-Game Music$0.99

Questions

Is Idle Space Mining free?
Idle Space Mining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catfinity free?
Catfinity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle Space Mining or Catfinity?
Idle Space Mining and Catfinity are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Idle Space Mining or Catfinity have ads?
Both Idle Space Mining and Catfinity show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Space Mining or Catfinity?
Idle Space Mining ships an update weekly, and Catfinity every 2 days. Most recently, Idle Space Mining was updated on October 7, 2026 and Catfinity on October 12, 2026.

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