Comparison

Idle Bloom vs Torque

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

Head to head
About

Idle Bloom

Features
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Water your plots, then walk away. Your garden keeps growing while the app is closed. Idle Bloom is a gentle idle game about sowing seeds and waiting for flowers. Skip a day and nothing is lost—open the app again and a whole harvest is waiting for you. ■ WAITING PAYS Every species grows at its own pace and sells for its own price. Start with quick meadow flowers, then work up to the alpine and hothouse ones that actually pay. Expand from one plot to eight. ■ FIVE UPGRADES Watering Can, Fertilizer, Bees, Greenhouse, Market Stall. The Greenhouse is the one that matters most—it extends how long your garden keeps earning while you are away. ■ TURN OF THE SEASON Stuck? Turn the season. The garden resets, but everything you earned becomes a permanent growth bonus, and the next season moves far faster. ■ 121 FLOWERS TO COLLECT Twelve tiers, from Meadow to Legends, by way of waterside, dry country, orchid house, carnivores, cloud forest and frozen ground. Every flower you bloom is recorded in your herbarium. ■ A BOUQUET A DAY Fill the day's order and earn nectar. Keep your streak and earn more. Spend nectar to skip the waiting. English and Japanese. Plays offline. No account required.

About

Torque

Build increasingly complex gearboxes from a single gear to massive industrial projects. Progress through six distinct engineering eras, unlock new materials, and automate your factory. Enjoy offline progress and a no pay-to-win model with optional ads for boosts.

Highlights
  • Build complex gearboxes
  • Six distinct engineering eras
  • Real engineering principles
  • Materials lab with alloys
  • Factory automation
  • Offline progress
  • Optional rewarded ads
Features
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One gear. One crank. Many orders of magnitude. In Torque you build gearboxes: first at the workbench, then in the workshop, your own factory, the test center, a whole industrial group and finally megaprojects like a tunnel boring machine or a Mars rover. And when it's all done, you hand the company to the next generation. Every gear ratio loads the motor, every stage runs in, and each era ends with a new prestige layer. • Seven eras – everything unlocks step by step • Real engineering: worm gears, planetary gears, differentials, CVTs, strain wave gears • Materials lab with real alloys: bronze, brass, Invar, Hastelloy … • Endless endgame: heirlooms, a family endowment with compound interest and a portrait gallery of your dynasty • Active at first, automated later – with foremen, plant manager, supervisory board and family council • Offline progress, 100+ achievements and many secret ones • In English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Japanese • Dark mode, choice of number notation • No pay-to-win: ads only if you choose – for 4 hours of double speed For everyone who loves big numbers – and gears.

Screenshots

Idle Bloom4 screens
Torque4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Torque at none against Idle Bloom's 5. Idle Bloom's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Idle Bloom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Torque asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Bloom ships an update every 3 days, Torque every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Idle Bloom versus Torque: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle BloomTorque
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEuryops corporationPascal Dohmeier

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Idle Bloom

One-time5
  • Nectar 50$0.99
  • Remove ads$1.99
  • Nectar 250$3.99
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  • Golden Watering Can$5.99
  • Nectar 800$9.99
None

Torque

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle Bloom free?
Idle Bloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Torque free?
Torque is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Idle Bloom or Torque have ads?
Both Idle Bloom and Torque show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Bloom or Torque?
Idle Bloom ships an update every 3 days, and Torque every 4 days. Most recently, Idle Bloom was updated on October 26, 2026 and Torque on October 29, 2026.

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