Comparison

Idle Loom vs Vibe Idle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” 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 โ€ข Progress is earned. No purchase can buy stars, design ranks, or a better draw - ever. โ€ข 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. โ€ข 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

Vibe Idle

Features
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You used to write the code yourself. Then autocomplete wrote it. Now you just tap Accept. VIBE IDLE is an idle clicker about how software actually gets made now. Tap to write code. Earn enough to buy something that writes it for you. Then buy something to manage that. Your output goes up, your understanding goes down, and the numbers keep climbing anyway. It keeps earning while the app is closed, so you can check in for a minute and come back to a pile of progress. Reset for permanent bonuses when you are ready. Spend Insight on an upgrade tree. Four eras to get through, each one further from anyone actually reading a diff. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. Nothing about you is collected, because there is nowhere to send it. The game runs entirely on your device, offline, forever. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no advertising SDK. The only network the app ever touches is Apple's own, and only if you choose to make a purchase. Apple's privacy label will tell you the same thing: Data Not Collected. Optional token packs exist if you want to skip ahead. They are convenience only. They can never unlock content or move you forward, all of which comes from playing. Nothing is timed, nothing nags, nothing is gated behind a wallet. Built by one developer and a small crew of AI agents, with a sprite compiler for the art, a sound compiler for the chiptune, and a headless simulator that plays 2,000 hours of the economy before a single balance number ships.

Screenshots

Idle Loom4 screens
Vibe Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

Idle Loom and Vibe Idle are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Idle Loom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Vibe Idle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Idle Loom versus Vibe Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle LoomVibe Idle
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size62 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMai Studio OUANDREW HEE,TAE HONG

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
3 purchases

Vibe Idle

One-time3
  • Sprint Fund$0.99
  • Seed Round$4.99
  • Series A$19.99

Questions

Is Idle Loom free?
Idle Loom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vibe Idle free?
Vibe Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Loom or Vibe Idle have ads?
Neither Idle Loom nor Vibe Idle shows ads.

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