Comparison

Ssalari Sword Master vs Dev Idle

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

Head to head
About

Ssalari Sword Master

Features
Read full description

A tiny rice grain begins the life of a swordsman with a single blade! Raise an adorable rice swordsman in this idle clicker game. Cut training targets to earn gold, improve your stats, and defeat insect swordsmen one dojo at a time. โ—† Training Tap to cut the straw target and earn gold. Improve strength, health, speed, dodge, and critical hits. Raise speed to unlock automatic slashes for idle play. โ—† 18 Training Targets Progress from basic straw bundles to legendary targets. Higher tiers grant bigger gold multipliers, and destroying a target awards bonus gold. โ—† Dojo Challenge: 18 Stages Face 18 insect swordsmen in one-on-one duels. Automatic attacks are disabledโ€”win with your own rapid taps while overcoming enemy dodges and counters. โ—† Wardrobe Collect 10 distinctive swordsman outfits. Each new look also grants a gold bonus. โ—† Sandbox Challenge defeated opponents and slash as much as you want. Keep going until the stress is gone! Join Ssalari and begin the road to becoming a Sword Master!

About

Dev Idle

Features
Read full description

You started by pasting an answer off Stack Overflow. Twelve tiers later you are running an autonomous agent fleet, a server farm and a quantum compiler, and the changelog has started calling the next one The Singularity. Dev Idle is an idle game about being an iOS developer, made by one. Tap to write code, hire the pipeline that writes it for you, then ship a version and do the whole thing again, faster. THE LOOP โ€ข BUILD โ€” Twelve generator tiers, from "Stack Overflow copy-paste" to "The Singularity". Every 10, 25, 50 and 100 you own doubles that tier's output. Forever. There is no last milestone. โ€ข SHIP โ€” Submit a version for App Review, wait out the thirty-minute queue like the rest of us, and bank Reputation for a permanent income multiplier. This wait is the game's clock, and yes, that is the joke. โ€ข LAB โ€” Every ship also pays Commits, which buy permanent upgrades that survive every reset. A bad run still pays. No run is wasted. โ€ข SHOP โ€” Conference Tickets buy time, never content: expedite a review, double an offline haul, or collect eight hours at once. โ€ข PASS โ€” A four-week Sprint Pass season, 50 tiers, earned entirely by playing. THE PART THAT MAKES IT LAST Get big enough and you can IPO. Trade your whole Reputation for Shares, raise the level cap on every permanent upgrade, and watch the forty hours of progress you just gave up come back in four. Then the horizon moves again. BALANCED BY SIMULATION, NOT BY VIBES The economy runs in a harness that plays thousands of prestige cycles before a number ships. Tier 4 inside two minutes. Your first version out the door in about an hour. The Singularity considerably later. THINGS WE CARED ABOUT โ€ข Offline earnings, with a proper "while you were away" report when you come back. โ€ข A Live Activity that counts your App Review down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. โ€ข Unlockable editor themes. All of them dark, because it is that kind of game. โ€ข Every number monospaced, so counters tick without jittering. โ€ข No ads. Not between screens, not for a bonus, not ever โ€” there is no ad code in the app at all. โ€ข Plays entirely offline. No account, no sign-up, nothing personal collected โ€” no name, no email, no advertising identifier, no tracking. Your save syncs through your own iCloud. FREE TO PLAY, AND MEANT IT Optional purchases shorten the road. Not one of them unlocks content you cannot reach by playing, because a wall you cannot climb is a game you stop opening. Dev Idle Pro โ€” $4.99 per month with a 7-day free trial: ร—2 income, offline earnings at full rate with double the cap, a bigger daily Ticket bonus, an exclusive editor theme, and every season's premium Sprint Pass track included. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel it in Settings โ€บ Apple Account โ€บ Subscriptions. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you buy the subscription. Terms of Use: https://devidle.petrina.me/terms Privacy Policy: https://devidle.petrina.me/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Ssalari Sword Master4 screens
Dev Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dev Idle at none against Ssalari Sword Master's shown. Dev Idle also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Ssalari Sword Master's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Ssalari Sword Master sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Dev Idle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ssalari Sword Master ships an update every 4 days, Dev Idle daily. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Ssalari Sword Master versus Dev Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSsalari Sword MasterDev Idle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size143 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developerdohun kimDavid Petrina

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ssalari Sword Master

One-time3
  • ๊ณจ๋“œ 2๋ฐฐ (2์‹œ๊ฐ„)$1.99
  • ์ˆ˜๋ จ ์งš๋‹จ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ๋ฒ ๊ธฐ (2์‹œ๊ฐ„)$3.99
  • ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฑฐ$5.99
10 purchases

Dev Idle

Subscriptions1
  • Dev Idle Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time9
  • Hotfix โ€” 100 Tickets$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Sprint Pass Premium Track$2.99
Show 6 more
  • Monthly Card โ€” 40 a Day$3.99
  • Overtime$4.99
  • Sprint โ€” 600 Tickets$4.99
  • Release โ€” 1,400 Tickets$9.99
  • Major Version โ€” 3,200 Tickets$19.99
  • Enterprise โ€” 9,000 Tickets$49.99

Questions

Is Ssalari Sword Master free?
Ssalari Sword Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dev Idle free?
Dev Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ssalari Sword Master or Dev Idle have ads?
Ssalari Sword Master shows ads; Dev Idle does not.
Which is updated more often, Ssalari Sword Master or Dev Idle?
Ssalari Sword Master ships an update every 4 days, and Dev Idle daily. Most recently, Ssalari Sword Master was updated on October 10, 2026 and Dev Idle on October 7, 2026.

Other comparisons