Comparison

Author Life vs Corner Store Tycoon

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

Head to head
About

Author Life

Live the life of a writer, creating books, managing your career, and navigating the publishing world. Make choices that impact your success, from genre selection to marketing decisions. Experience a dynamic world with shifting trends and reader reactions.

Highlights
  • Write books with genre, theme, and trait choices
  • Manage editing, cover art, and marketing
  • React to shifting reader trends and critic reviews
  • Balance finances, inspiration, and reputation
  • Compete with rival authors and win awards
  • Grow your studio and upgrade your craft
  • Experience multiple career endings
Features
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Live the life of a writer, one book at a time. Create your author, write bestsellers (or flops), and build a cozy publishing career — from your writing desk to the bestseller list. WRITE YOUR STORY Pick a genre, theme, and creative traits for every book. Each choice shapes what you publish — and how it's received. PUBLISH & WATCH IT SELL Editing, cover art, and marketing decisions decide how critics score your book and how readers respond. A WORLD THAT REACTS Reader trends shift year to year, critics leave real reviews, and random events — plus the occasional fan letter — make every career different. MANAGE MONEY, INSPIRATION & REPUTATION Balance your finances and creative spark. Spend three years in the red, and it's game over. RIVALS, BESTSELLERS & AWARDS Compete against rival authors, climb the bestseller list, and chase literary awards. GROW YOUR STUDIO Hire an editor, buy equipment and cozy décor for your writing room, and level up your craft over time. YOUR CAREER, YOUR STORY Multiple endings await depending on how you play — from literary legend to cautionary tale. Hand-crafted pixel art, a cozy lo-fi soundtrack, fully bilingual (English/Turkish) — and yes, there are cats. One-time purchase. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, your desk, and the next chapter.

About

Corner Store Tycoon

Features
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A corner store is not a supermarket. No second register, nobody in the stockroom, and the queue does not wait. Corner Store Tycoon is a convenience store simulator for one person behind the counter: order stock, fill the shelves, work the register as cashier, check IDs, all before the next customer loses patience. No subscription, no ads, no account. Ten days free, then a single purchase. Wait too long and they leave. Find nothing and they never come back. WHAT YOU ARE IN FOR • A day takes minutes and consists of many small decisions. Reorder now, or save the money for the cooler. Put in the machine, or widen the shelf first. Raise a price and watch who stays anyway. • Ordering is a skill. Too little means an empty shelf, too much means stock that spoils. Freshness runs out, deposits come back, and both land in the same register. • Customers have minds of their own. Weather, time of day and weekday decide who walks in and what they ask for. The evening rush looks nothing like Sunday morning. • Age restricted goods mean checking ID. Get sloppy and the inspector will cost you. • Build out the kiosk: shelves, cooler, vending machines, more floor space. A small business tycoon game with a real cash count at the end of every day. SIX SHOPS, SIX COUNTRIES Späti in Berlin, Trafik in Vienna, Bar in Italy, Bakkal in Turkey, Konbini in Tokyo, Corner Store in the USA. Each convenience store with its own range, its own prices and its own crowd. The shop follows your device language. WHO IT IS FOR For anyone who likes supermarket simulators, cashier games or retail management sims but would rather run one small store than a chain. Not an idle game: every shift is played by hand, offline, with no timers. NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION, ONE PURCHASE The first ten days are free. If the shop still appeals to you then, a single purchase unlocks the rest. No subscriptions, no ads, no coins, no waiting timers to buy your way out of. HONESTLY No account, no sign up, no ads, no subscription, no tracking. The game plays offline and your save stays on your device. The app only goes online for the purchase: at launch, when buying and when restoring, it checks through Apple and the service provider RevenueCat whether the full version is unlocked, using a random anonymous ID instead of your name. It sends a problem report only when you tap send yourself.

Screenshots

Author Life4 screens
Corner Store Tycoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Corner Store Tycoon at Free against Author Life's $1.99. Corner Store Tycoon also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Author Life's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On 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

Corner Store Tycoon is free to download; Author Life costs $1.99 up front. Corner Store Tycoon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Author Life asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Author Life ships an update every 3 weeks, Corner Store Tycoon every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Author Life versus Corner Store Tycoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAuthor LifeCorner Store Tycoon
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTurgay CeylanMartin Langhammer

In-app purchases

None

Author Life

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Corner Store Tycoon

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99

Questions

Is Author Life free?
Author Life costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Corner Store Tycoon free?
Corner Store Tycoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Author Life or Corner Store Tycoon have ads?
Neither Author Life nor Corner Store Tycoon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Author Life or Corner Store Tycoon?
Author Life ships an update every 3 weeks, and Corner Store Tycoon every 2 days. Most recently, Author Life was updated on October 29, 2026 and Corner Store Tycoon on October 29, 2026.

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