Comparison

Finance Tycoon 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
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Finance Tycoon

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Start with $100. Build a global trading empire. IPO your way to a hedge fund. Finance Tycoon is the definitive idle tycoon game for finance enthusiasts. Tap to trade, hire traders, open offices in 7 world capitals, and prestige into legendary status. TAP TO TRADE Each tap generates income. Build a combo by tapping fast โ€” chain 100 taps and unlock multipliers up to 3x. 5 TRADING DESKS Forex > Stocks > Crypto > Options > Hedge Fund. Each desk multiplies your passive income. Compound your wealth across all asset classes. 7 RANDOM MARKET EVENTS Bull runs, bear markets, insider tips, M&A arbitrage, SEC investigations. Every session is different. OPEN OFFICES WORLDWIDE Unlock New York, London, Tokyo, Dubai, Singapore, Zurich, and Hong Kong. Each city gives a permanent income bonus. Early access via in-game currency. 8-TIER PRESTIGE (IPO) Reset your desks but keep your reputation for compounding bonuses. Progress from Founder Exit to Sovereign Wealth across 8 distinct tiers. COMPLETE PROGRESSION SYSTEM - 100 XP levels with milestone rewards - 20 achievements (Common through Legendary) - Daily login rewards (7-day streak) - Offline progress (up to 8 hours) - Backup & restore 5 VISUAL THEMES Bull (green), Bear (red), Classic (gold), Cyberpunk, Bitcoin. NO PAY-TO-WIN Diamonds unlock cosmetics and time-savers โ€” never gameplay advantage. 100% playable as free-to-play. BUILT FOR IDLE PLAY Your firm keeps growing even when the app is closed.

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Dev Idle

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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

Finance Tycoon4 screens
Dev Idle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Finance Tycoon at 15.0 against Dev Idle's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. Finance Tycoon sells 5 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.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Finance Tycoon versus Dev Idle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinance TycoonDev Idle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperENRIQUE VALEROS MURIANADavid Petrina

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Finance Tycoon

One-time5
  • Booster Pack$0.99
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Pro Pack$2.99
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  • Hedge Fund Pack$29.99
  • Whale Pack$49.99
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
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  • 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 Finance Tycoon free?
Finance Tycoon 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 Finance Tycoon or Dev Idle have ads?
Neither Finance Tycoon nor Dev Idle shows ads.

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