Comparison

IdleWatch vs CEO Simulator

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

Head to head
About

IdleWatch

A collecting game focused on virtual watches. Open cases, trade with other players, and build a prestigious collection. Features mini-games and daily rewards to enhance gameplay.

Highlights
  • Collect rare virtual watches
  • Trade with other collectors
  • Season Pass with rotating rewards
  • Daily rewards and deals
  • Display and showcase collections
  • Mini-games for extra earnings
  • Achievements and challenges
Features
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IdleWatch is a collecting game built entirely around watches — open cases, chase rare pieces, and build a collection you're proud to show off. Every watch is its own parody of a real horology name, sorted into rarity tiers from Common up through the ultra-rare Icon. Each individual piece you pull has its own condition, from Mint down to well-worn, so no two copies of the same watch are quite alike. Collect, don't just open boxes: • A Season Pass with rotating rewards • A Daily Box, Daily Deal, and Daily Rewards to check in on • A Display Case that boosts passive income, and a separate Showcase to feature your favorites when other collectors look you up • Achievements and weekly/daily challenges Trade with real collectors: List watches for sale, browse what others are selling, and build account trust over time to unlock rarer listings. A handful of mini-games — Prize Wheel, Memory Match, Guess the Watch, and watch trivia — give you extra ways to earn along the way. Sign in with Game Center to appear on leaderboards for total earnings, collection value, watches discovered, login streaks, and market activity, and to mark your account as a Verified Trader.

About

CEO Simulator

Experience the thrilling journey of building a startup from the ground up. Make critical decisions about hiring, product development, and funding, facing challenges like investor negotiations and corporate rivalry. Every choice impacts your company's future in this interactive business simulation.

Highlights
  • Interactive story-driven decisions
  • Startup business management
  • Investor negotiation
  • Team hiring and management
  • Corporate rivalry simulation
  • Branching narrative paths
Features
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You spent three years at Titan building someone else's ideas. Then you pitched one of your own, and your boss killed it in a conference room. So you quit, maxed out three credit cards, and started a company in your mother's garage. Eleven months later, Titan walked onto a stadium stage with your slides. CEO is an interactive story where every decision costs money and every dollar has to come from somewhere. Choose where your company lives, who you hire, what you build and what you charge for it. Read resumes, negotiate salaries, and hand work to your team in a living office that grows as you do. Pick your investors carefully, because the fine print on a term sheet can take the company away from you two chapters later. The story follows the real arc of a startup. Launch a beta with a hundred thousand dollars and an old laptop. Put a price on the door and watch your first payday land, or not. Take the seed money and read what you gave up for it. Get sued by Titan, hire a lawyer you can afford, and take the stand in a federal courtroom where every word is on the record. Testify before the Senate. Raise a Series A and find out what it means to own less than half of something you built. Survive the free copycat, the poaching calls, the merger offer and the live television interview opposite the man who stole your idea. Then come the scandal, the boardroom fight for your job, a factory on the other side of the world, and the last decision: go public, sell to Titan, or stay private. Your choices carry forward. The data you trained on in the garage decides whether the publishers come for you. The investor you took decides who tries to fire you. The engineer you hired decides who Titan tries to hire away. Nothing is a fail screen, but everything is remembered. Between the decisions, the company keeps running. Users sign up, revenue comes in, rent and payroll go out, and when the balance can't cover the month, the team gets paid before the story moves on. Timers mark the work that takes time, from the first training run to the migration that moves the whole company onto new machines. A cast with its own agendas: a former CFO who tells you when you're making a mistake, a reporter who calls when things go wrong, a judge who has read the internet's opinion of your model, and a rival who says your name on stage in front of forty thousand people. Nine chapters, from the garage to the stock exchange. CEO Club is an optional subscription that removes waits and ads, adds ten percent to your revenue and new users, and pays you daily cash. It is not required to finish the story. Terms of Use: https://moreclues.com/terms

Screenshots

IdleWatch4 screens
CEO Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: IdleWatch at 100% against CEO Simulator's 4%. IdleWatch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and device support (3 vs 1). CEO Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (157 vs 4) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. IdleWatch sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and CEO Simulator sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IdleWatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CEO Simulator has 157 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of IdleWatch's written reviews are positive against 4% of CEO Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IdleWatch ships an update fortnightly, CEO Simulator every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
IdleWatch versus CEO Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdleWatchCEO Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.5 (157 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better3.7% of reviews
Number of ratings4157 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#142 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB349 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMATTHEW ART TORRESMore Clues LLC

Customer experience

IdleWatch

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CEO Simulator

All ratings157 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive3.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative85.2%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

IdleWatch

One-time5
  • Gem Pouch$0.99
  • Gem Case$4.99
  • Gem Chest$9.99
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  • Gem Vault$19.99
  • Gem Hoard$37.99
10 purchases

CEO Simulator

Subscriptions3
  • CEO Club Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Succession$4.997 Days
  • CEO Club Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time7
  • Petty Cash$2.99
  • Angel Check$4.99
  • Bridge Round$9.99
Show 4 more
  • Growth Fund$19.99
  • Founder's Vault$29.99
  • Board Bonus$29.99
  • Golden Parachute$49.99

Questions

Is IdleWatch free?
IdleWatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CEO Simulator free?
CEO Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IdleWatch or CEO Simulator?
IdleWatch is rated higher. IdleWatch averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while CEO Simulator averages 4.5 from 157 ratings.
Do IdleWatch or CEO Simulator have ads?
Both IdleWatch and CEO Simulator show ads.
Which is updated more often, IdleWatch or CEO Simulator?
IdleWatch ships an update fortnightly, and CEO Simulator every 5 days. Most recently, IdleWatch was updated on November 6, 2026 and CEO Simulator on November 8, 2026.

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