Idle Bloom vs Orbit Miners
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Bloom
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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 lostโopen the app again and a whole harvest is waiting for you. โ 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. โ FIVE UPGRADES Watering Can, Fertilizer, Bees, Greenhouse, Market Stall. The Greenhouse is the one that matters mostโit extends how long your garden keeps earning while you are away. โ 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. โ 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. โ 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.
Orbit Miners
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A space idle game where the rockets do the digging. Rockets fly out from your base and land on planets. The crew steps out, swings pickaxes, loads the ore into crates, and brings it home. Just watch the ore pile up. HOW IT WORKS - Spend ore to open new planets: the farther out, the more they pay (ice, iron, crystal, gas, plasma, dark matter, antimatter) - More rockets come from the spaceports at your base - Tap a planet to zoom in and see its card; pinch to zoom - It keeps going while the app is closed (up to 8 hours). Come back and collect it all FEATURES - A universe screen that is fun to watch: the base, planets that all look different, landing rockets, astronauts at work - 60 upgrades in three branches: mining, automation, exploration. Auto-repair and auto-shield - Meteors fly in now and then. Prepare with shields (meteors never touch the vault) - 96 planets in 12 zones, and the scenery changes as you go outward. Nothing ever resets: the universe just keeps growing - A town inside your base: build and grow a space colony with thirteen kinds of buildings, from homes and apartments to mining stations, labs, shops, parking lots and a spaceport that launches rockets. Residents walk the streets and kids play in parks. View it from any angle, from day through night (with small bonuses) - A history log of what happened - Random events: space merchants, solar flares, magnetic storms and space pirates, plus seasonal events like Halloween - Opening planets unlocks titles and astronaut suits - Codex of 96 planets, achievements, daily and weekly missions - iCloud sync: move to a new iPhone without losing progress - Game Center leaderboard ABOUT PURCHASES - Free to play, with a banner ad at the bottom. Watch a video ad to double mining for 30 minutes - Orbit Miners Pro (one-time): no ads, income doubled forever, up to 24 hours offline - Optional tips: they never change the gameplay. As thanks, astronaut suits (looks only)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit Miners at daily against Idle Bloom's every 3 days. Idle Bloom's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Idle Bloom sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Orbit Miners sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Bloom ships an update every 3 days, Orbit Miners daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Idle Bloom | Orbit Miners |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily โ better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Euryops corporation | yojiro motoba |
In-app purchases
Idle Bloom
- 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
Orbit Miners
- Orbit Miners Pro$0.99
- Small thanks$0.99
- Thanks$2.99
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- Big thanks$5.99









