Comparison

Idle Bloom vs Orbit Miners

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” 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 lostโ€”open 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 mostโ€”it 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.

About

Orbit Miners

Features
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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)

Screenshots

Idle Bloom4 screens
Orbit Miners4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle Bloom ships an update every 3 days, Orbit Miners daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Idle Bloom versus Orbit Miners: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle BloomOrbit Miners
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEuryops corporationyojiro motoba

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
4 purchases

Orbit Miners

One-time4
  • Orbit Miners Pro$0.99
  • Small thanks$0.99
  • Thanks$2.99
Show 1 more
  • Big thanks$5.99

Questions

Is Idle Bloom free?
Idle Bloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Miners free?
Orbit Miners is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Idle Bloom or Orbit Miners have ads?
Both Idle Bloom and Orbit Miners show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle Bloom or Orbit Miners?
Idle Bloom ships an update every 3 days, and Orbit Miners daily. Most recently, Idle Bloom was updated on November 6, 2026 and Orbit Miners on November 6, 2026.

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