Comparison

Idle Loom vs Payday Panic

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

Head to head
About

Idle Loom

Features
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Idle Loom is an idle game about running a weaving mill, and about the cloth itself. Start with a single hand loom. Sell your first metres of fabric, buy another, and climb through seven generations of weaving machinery: hand looms, shuttle looms, rapiers, projectiles, air-jets, Jacquard machines, and finally the mill line. Your floor fills up as you grow, and the camera leans in with it. TIME THE MARKET Cloth prices drift. Sell into a peak and pocket the difference; sell into a trough and learn for next time. The market band tells you when the moment is right; a small decision that keeps every session interesting. DRAFT YOUR OWN WEAVES This is the part no other idle game has. When you're ready to prestige, you don't press a button; you sit down at the dobby grid and draw a weave, cell by cell, the way drafts are written on real point paper. Watch it become cloth in the live preview as you draw. Twills, basket weaves, weft-faced drapes, figured damasks: the game reads your pattern's real structure: floats, interlacing, symmetry; and stamps it Plain, Sound, Fine, or Masterwork. Better cloth, better rewards. SIGN IT. KEEP IT FOREVER. Signing a contract resets your mill for the next run and files your design in the gallery, the actual pattern you drew, woven up, with its date and its rank. Share any design as an image. Your gallery is the story of your craft, and nothing can take it from you. GROW THE GROUND ITSELF Earn stars with every signature and spend them on special projects and ground expansions; new terraces that wrap around your mill floor and make room for the heaviest machinery. HONEST BY DESIGN • Progress is earned. No purchase can buy stars, design ranks, or a better draw - ever. • A handful of optional extras exist (a production doubler, an auto-seller, time warps, thread colours). All of them are conveniences; the whole game is completable without spending anything. • No account. No sign-in. Your save lives on your device, and the mill keeps weaving while you're away. Warp up. The market is waiting.

About

Payday Panic

Smash piggy banks to collect coins and pay bills before deadlines in this arcade-style game. Upgrade skills, unlock hammers, and explore different office environments. Play offline with optional rewarded videos.

Highlights
  • Smash 14 types of piggy banks
  • Earn coins through combos and critical hits
  • Pay bills with real due dates
  • Build skills and unlock hammers
  • Explore 15 illustrated workspaces
  • Play offline
  • Optional rewarded videos
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The rent is due. The lamp is on. Your savings are locked inside a piggy bank, and you are holding a hammer. Payday Panic is a late-night arcade smasher. Crack piggy banks for coins, chain combos without missing, and pay every bill before the collector knocks. Miss a deadline and the office changes around you. SMASH - 14 piggy types that crack, run, heal, split and fight back EARN - combos, critical hits, frenzy, bosses and physical cash rewards PAY - readable bills, real due dates and a permanent payment history BUILD - a deep skill web, permanent training, 16 illustrated hammers and automatic desk artifacts EXPLORE - 15 illustrated workspaces and a living office between shifts UNWIND - Piggy Shuffle, Stamp Stack and Quick Count in the Break Room START AGAIN - turn a completed career into permanent Credit Stars Original lo-fi music, detailed haptics and full iPhone and iPad support. No forced ads. Optional rewarded videos are always your choice. Optional support includes a lifetime Union Card and a no-reward coffee tip. Plays offline. Just you, the hammer and the bills.

Screenshots

Idle Loom4 screens
Payday Panic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Payday Panic at none against Idle Loom's 5. Idle Loom's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Idle Loom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Payday Panic asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Idle Loom versus Payday Panic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle LoomPayday Panic
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB49 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMai Studio OUArtem Baygot

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Loom

One-time5
  • Warp - 2 Hours$0.99
  • Threads$1.99
  • Foreman$2.99
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  • Warp - 8 Hours$2.99
  • Doubler$4.99
None

Payday Panic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Loom free?
Idle Loom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Payday Panic free?
Payday Panic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Loom or Payday Panic have ads?
Payday Panic shows ads; Idle Loom does not.

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