Comparison

Dev Idle vs Ants Eat Everything

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

Head to head
About

Dev Idle

Tap to code and build your developer empire, from simple copy-pasting to advanced quantum compilation. Ship versions to earn reputation, unlock permanent upgrades, and eventually IPO for massive boosts. Enjoy an idle game experience with offline earnings and no ads.

Highlights
  • Tap to write code
  • Hire automated developers
  • Ship versions for reputation
  • Permanent upgrades via Lab
  • IPO for massive progress boosts
  • Offline earnings with reports
  • Live Activity for App Review countdown
Features
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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 • BUILD — 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. • SHIP — 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. • LAB — Every ship also pays Commits, which buy permanent upgrades that survive every reset. A bad run still pays. No run is wasted. • SHOP — Conference Tickets buy time, never content: expedite a review, double an offline haul, or collect eight hours at once. • PASS — 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 • Offline earnings, with a proper "while you were away" report when you come back. • A Live Activity that counts your App Review down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Unlockable editor themes. All of them dark, because it is that kind of game. • Every number monospaced, so counters tick without jittering. • No ads. Not between screens, not for a bonus, not ever — there is no ad code in the app at all. • Plays entirely offline. No account, no sign-up, nothing personal collected — 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 — $4.99 per month with a 7-day free trial: ×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 › Apple Account › 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

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Ants Eat Everything

Features
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Ants Eat Everything is a satisfying idle ant game. Your hungry ant colony marches out of its hole, climbs a giant 3D voxel snack and eats it cube by cube, then carries every crumb home. WATCH THE ANTS EAT - Hire more ants and watch them swarm a juicy strawberry, a frosted donut, a stack of pancakes and more - Every bite pops a cube off the food until nothing is left - Tap to hurry the ants, or hit the boost to send the whole colony into overdrive UPGRADE YOUR COLONY - Dig more holes so the ants carry food home faster - Build conveyor belts that haul the cubes for you - A giant tower crane swings whole pallets of cubes into the holes - A big vacuum sucks cubes straight off the top HOW IT PLAYS Each island's food is built from hundreds of 3D voxel cubes. The ants eat from the top down, so the food shrinks layer by layer until the last cube is gone. Spend the coins they earn on more ants, more holes and bigger machines, and clear the island even faster. It's an easy idle simulator: start it up, then sit back and watch. THE UNDERGROUND COLONY - Grow a Fungus garden for more coins from every cube - Fill the Storeroom so your ants earn longer while you're away - Level up the Workshop and every new island starts with your machines already built - Feed the queen the food your ants bring home and she lays more ants ENDLESS ISLANDS OF FOOD So many tasty foods to eat: strawberry, donut, pizza, burger, banana, cherries, cookie, pancakes, waffle, taco, sushi, hot dog, milkshake, cherry pie and many more, each in new flavours. Finish a food and a bridge builds itself to the next island, and your ants march across to their next feast. The islands never run out. GIANT CAKE LANDMARKS Later on, your ants become master builders and take down huge cake structures: a castle cake, an Eiffel Tower cake, a pagoda, a lighthouse, a windmill and more, piece by piece, for a big reward. RELAXING IDLE GAMEPLAY - Your ants keep eating while you're away: collect the coins when you come back - No timers and no pressure, just calm, crunchy, satisfying ASMR - Plays offline, anytime If you like ant simulator games, ant colony games, satisfying eating games and food ASMR, you'll love watching your ants eat everything!

Screenshots

Dev Idle4 screens
Ants Eat Everything4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dev Idle at none against Ants Eat Everything's shown. Dev Idle also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). Ants Eat Everything's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Dev Idle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ants Eat Everything sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dev Idle ships an update daily, Ants Eat Everything every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Dev Idle versus Ants Eat Everything: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDev IdleAnts Eat Everything
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid PetrinaWodh LTD

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Dev Idle

Subscriptions1
  • Dev Idle Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time9
  • Hotfix — 100 Tickets$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Sprint Pass Premium Track$2.99
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  • Monthly Card — 40 a Day$3.99
  • Overtime$4.99
  • Sprint — 600 Tickets$4.99
  • Release — 1,400 Tickets$9.99
  • Major Version — 3,200 Tickets$19.99
  • Enterprise — 9,000 Tickets$49.99
6 purchases

Ants Eat Everything

One-time6
  • Bag of coins$0.99
  • Starter pack$1.99
  • Speed pass$2.99
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  • No ads$3.99
  • Chest of coins$4.99
  • Vault of coins$9.99

Questions

Is Dev Idle free?
Dev Idle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ants Eat Everything free?
Ants Eat Everything is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dev Idle or Ants Eat Everything have ads?
Ants Eat Everything shows ads; Dev Idle does not.
Which is updated more often, Dev Idle or Ants Eat Everything?
Dev Idle ships an update daily, and Ants Eat Everything every 2 days. Most recently, Dev Idle was updated on October 29, 2026 and Ants Eat Everything on October 29, 2026.

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