Comparison

Idle Loom vs Planet Builder

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

Planet Builder

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Turn a dead rock into a living world โ€” one tap at a time. Planet Builder is an idle clicker where you mine resources, raise mighty buildings, and terraform your very own planet through stunning visual stages. Play actively or let your planet work while you're away โ€” it keeps producing even offline. TERRAFORM YOUR WORLD โ€” Watch your planet transform from barren stone to a thriving world. Choose your destiny: a volcanic Material powerhouse, a deep-blue Ocean world, or a lush Verdant paradise โ€” each path with its own unique buildings and powers. TAP OR IDLE โ€” YOUR CHOICE โ€” Click to mine minerals, water and biomass, or build drills, reactors and harvesters that run day and night. Come back to a fortune. REBIRTH AND GROW STRONGER โ€” Prestige your planet for permanent boosts, spend rebirth tokens in a skill tree built for the long game, climb the rank ladder from Miner to Galactic God, and take on harder difficulties for even greater rewards. COLLECT ANCIENT ARTEFACTS โ€” Discover 70+ artefacts across 5 rarities, upgrade them with shards, and ascend the mightiest into game-changing relics. GO TO WAR WITH YOUR ALLIANCE โ€” Found or join an alliance, chat with your members, and conquer shared goals together. Then fight matchmade alliance wars: weekly battles, war ops to complete as a team, and a ranking that climbs as your alliance proves itself. COMPETE IN LIVE EVENTS โ€” Rotating weekly events, the Eclipse and the Starforge, weekend expeditions with the Galaxy Road minigame, a monthly Convergence for veterans, and global leaderboards. MAKE IT YOURS โ€” Planet skins, avatars, frames and titles, earned or unboxed โ€” show off your style on the leaderboards. MEET PIP โ€” Your companion repair drone, along for the whole journey. Your planet is waiting. How far will you take it?

Screenshots

Idle Loom4 screens
Planet Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Idle Loom at none against Planet Builder's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Idle Loom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Planet Builder sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Idle Loom versus Planet Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle LoomPlanet Builder
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.415.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size62 MB95 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMai Studio OUMatej Spano

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
10 purchases

Planet Builder

One-time10
  • Bag of Diamonds$1.99
  • Starter Pack$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Elite Starter Pack$12.99
  • Sakura Bloom Bundle$17.99
  • Star Voyager Pack$34.99
  • Crystal Spire Bundle$44.99
  • Molten Core Bundle$44.99
  • Polar Aurora Bundle$44.99
  • Galactic Overlord Pack$99.99

Questions

Is Idle Loom free?
Idle Loom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planet Builder free?
Planet Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Loom or Planet Builder have ads?
Planet Builder shows ads; Idle Loom does not.

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