Dev Idle vs Ants Eat Everything
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Ants Eat Everything
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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!
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Verdict
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
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.
Dev Idle ships an update daily, Ants Eat Everything every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Dev Idle | Ants Eat Everything |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Petrina | Wodh LTD |
In-app purchases
Dev Idle
- Dev Idle Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 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
Ants Eat Everything
- 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





