Haystack Needle Quest vs Idle Haystack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Haystack Needle Quest
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A precision challenge where you must find a single needle buried deep inside a massive haystack. With 10 levels of difficulty and time tracking, your focus, reaction speed, and finger accuracy will be pushed to the limit. In the training level, the needle flashes red, making it easy to learn the basics. Once you get used to the controls, increase the difficulty and dive into the dense maze of hay. As the level rises, the hay becomes finer, thicker, and the needle becomes nearly impossible to spot. It's the true experience of "finding a needle in a haystack." Can you find it? A perfect game for stress relief and concentration training. Slide the needle upward with delicate, precise movements—and claim your victory.
Idle Haystack
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There is a needle in this haystack. There is a needle in the next one too. Tap the stack. Straws fly. Somewhere in there is a needle, and the only way to find out where is to keep digging. FIND THE NEEDLE Every haystack hides one needle somewhere between a third of the way down and the very bottom. Sometimes you get lucky on the tenth tap. Sometimes you earn every single straw. HIRE HELP Farmhands, a barn cat, a seasonal crew and eventually a combine thresher. They keep digging while the app is closed, for up to eight hours, and they never ask for a break. COLLECT ELEVEN NEEDLES From the entirely unremarkable Sewing Needle to the Golden Needle, the Obsidian Needle and the one they told you about. Six rarity tiers. Better luck pulls better needles. BALE OUT Clear eight haystacks and you can burn the whole barn down for a permanent hay multiplier. You keep the collection. You lose everything else. It is worth it. ONE THUMB, NO PRESSURE No timers demanding you come back. No lives. No punishment for putting it down for a week — the crew will have been busy. Idle Haystack is free to play and supported by optional ads. Watching one is always your choice: nothing in the game is gated behind an advert.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle Haystack at none against Haystack Needle Quest's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Haystack Needle Quest sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Idle Haystack asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Haystack Needle Quest | Idle Haystack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | akira ohmachi | ZIGL Ltd |
In-app purchases
Haystack Needle Quest
- Remove Ads$1.99
Idle Haystack
No in-app purchases





