Idle Space Mining vs Space Tap Miner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Space Mining
Dig through galaxies, merge miners to increase their strength, and build machines that mine while you're away. Discover new planets, upgrade your crew, and unlock powerful boosts to speed up your progress. Compete in timed events and earn rewards.
- Incremental mining gameplay
- Miner merging and upgrading
- Idle machine mining
- Galaxy exploration
- Dark Matter upgrades
- Event planets with leaderboards
- Cloud save functionality
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Idle Space Mining is an incremental clicker about digging your way across 12 galaxies. Drag your miners onto rocks and watch them dig. Merge two of a kind into a stronger miner. Dig out machines buried in the ground, build them, and they keep mining while you are away. Mine through the walls, reach the launch pad, and launch to the next planet. DIG WITH YOUR CREW Every rock holds gold ore, and now and then you find a rare Dark Matter rock. Pick which rocks your crew works and collect what they drop. Your crew comes with you to every new planet. MERGE YOUR MINERS Two miners of a level make one of the next. Higher levels dig faster. MINE THROUGH THE WALLS Each area ends in a wall. Dig a way to it, put your crew on it, and mine it down to open the next area. DIG OUT YOUR MACHINES Every planet starts with just the Ore Crusher. Fifteen more buildings lie buried across the galaxies, from the Power Plant and Drill Press to the Refinery, Smelter and Nuclear Plant. Reach one and buy more of it from the Upgrades menu. 96 PLANETS, 12 GALAXIES Eight planets in each galaxy, each with its own look, its own rock and its own walls. Launching earns Dark Matter, which you keep forever. FIVE DARK MATTER UPGRADES Spend Dark Matter on Ore Yield, Dig Speed, Miner Slots, Dark Affinity and Auto-Collect, ten levels each. They make every planet after it faster. RESEARCH AND COLONY BOOSTS Dig out the Power Core to open research, and grow the whole colony with Colony boosts. EVENT PLANETS Event planets open for three days at a time. Everyone starts with the same kit. Mine as many rocks as you can and see your rank on the Game Center leaderboard: your Top %, and where you stand among friends. Nothing is for sale on an event planet. THE LAST PLANET Mine through planet 96 and you have crossed all 12 galaxies. A finish screen marks it, and the event planets keep going after that. COMETS, DAILY GOALS, ACHIEVEMENTS Catch comets for a burst of ore. Clear daily goals. Claim achievements for a permanent bonus. EARNS WHILE YOU SLEEP Your machines keep mining when the app is closed. Come back to a pile. One optional ad, only if you want it: watch it for double production for four hours. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts play. No energy timers. Cloud save keeps your progress safe.
Space Tap Miner
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Space Tap Miner: Idle Frontier An idle clicker set in deep space. Start in low Earth orbit and climb all the way to the galactic core, mining Celestite across 30 sectors. When a timeline runs dry, leap to the next one — your fleet comes with you, and you rise again, faster than before. ------------------------------ [ FEATURES ] 30 sectors, one long climb Earth Orbit · Inner Planets & Asteroid Belt · Outer Planets · Outer Solar System · Interstellar Space · Deep Galaxy. Each sector runs its own production cycle, from 10 seconds to 10 minutes, and pays out in bulk every time one completes. Leap — the heart of the loop When there is nothing left worth mining, leap to the next timeline. Facilities, research and Celestite stay behind; ships, artifacts and leap coins come with you. Every leap earns coins that upgrade your ship modules, so the next life climbs faster than the last. 10 ships, 70 modules From MV-01 "PROSPECT", a mining frigate, to MV-10 "ODYSSEY", a generation ark. Modules upgrade without a cap (Mk system) and grant permanent effects — global output, tap power, starting facilities and more. Completing a ship unlocks a large bonus. 27 artifacts, 7 sets Dig them up by tapping or by opening crates. Drawn from Greek, Norse, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Arabian myth, each artifact reveals a little more of this world's mystery. Complete a set — Traces of Mortals, Remnants of the Labyrinth, Tools of the Gods and four more — to activate powerful bonuses. 265 research projects Facility upgrades, tap power, global multipliers, offline cap extensions. 265 projects decide the build you run in this timeline. Idle or tap, your way Leave it running and production continues on its own, or tap to accelerate a cycle. Offline earnings accrue for up to 8 hours. Achievements and online rankings Eight tiered achievement tracks covering mining, automation, research, leaps, artifact collecting and fleet completion. Compete on the online leaderboard, and link a Google account to carry one save across devices. Available in 9 languages English · Korean · Japanese · Chinese · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Russian ------------------------------ [ FREE TO PLAY, START TO FINISH ] Every piece of content is reachable without spending anything. Watching an ad is a convenience, never a requirement to win. ------------------------------ [ THE STORY ] Humanity learned to cross the walls of spacetime. But the matter held by any single timeline is finite, and there is a ceiling to how high anyone can climb inside one world. So we chose to recycle timelines instead. When everything worth mining has been mined, we leap to the next branch. ------------------------------ [ CONTACT ] Bug reports and suggestions: devyanggames@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://devyang-games.devyanggames.workers.dev/space-tap-miner/privacy-en ------------------------------ Space Tap Miner: Idle Frontier — a miner's journey across timelines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Space Tap Miner at every 4 days against Idle Space Mining's every 10 days. Space Tap Miner also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Idle Space Mining sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Space Tap Miner sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Space Mining ships an update every 10 days, Space Tap Miner every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Space Mining | Space Tap Miner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ISAAC MICHAEL FRETT | WONCHUL YANG |
In-app purchases
Idle Space Mining
- Dark Matter Cache$1.99
- Temporal Shunt$2.99
- Deep Cryo Vault$3.99
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- Dark Matter Flask$4.99
- Overclock$4.99
- Dark Matter Reservoir$9.99
Space Tap Miner
- 100 Gems$0.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
- 550 Gems (+10%)$4.99
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- Remove Ads$4.99
- 1,200 Gems (+20%)$9.99
- 3,200 Gems (+30%)$24.99
- 7,000 Gems (+40%)$49.99
Questions
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