Pitloop vs Ore & Earn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pitloop
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Your car never stops. Pitloop races while your phone is in your pocket. Pick a track and your car races on its own: a short race every three minutes, twenty an hour, whether the app is open or closed. Every finish pays prize money, so a faster car earns more while you're away. Close the app, go to work, come back to a stack of results. GRAND PRIX IN ONE TAP When you want to race yourself, start a Grand Prix. Lights out, two laps, thirty seconds. Then the full classification, scored off the lap each car actually set, and your winnings to claim. A Grand Prix pays the full purse, drops parts, and is the only thing that spends fuel. Nothing automatic touches your tank, so you always come back to a full one. KNOW YOUR ODDS Every track shows your win and podium chance before you race, so you always know what you are walking into. A new track starts hard and eases as the car improves. Seven cars line up on every grid, so a podium means the same thing on the first track and the tenth. RACE WHERE YOU LIKE Ten tracks, each with its own performance band: Kitchen Oval, Hallway Sprint, Garden Loop, Parking Deck, Attic Figure, Boardwalk, Rooftop Ring, Cellar Maze, Ballroom GP and the Club Grand Prix. Outgrow one and the next opens, but the old one stays open too, at 40% of its prizes. Moving up is your call, not the game's. BUILD THE CAR Three garage slots. Twenty-five cars across five tiers, from the Shed Special to the Apex One. Six parts on every car: engine, tires, suspension, brakes, aero and gearbox. No part can climb more than three levels above your weakest, so a quick car is built all-around. TRAIN THE DRIVER Three skills, a hundred levels each. Driving makes the car quicker. Insight reads the race, with a chance to double the prize money and better parts turning up sooner. Logistics grows your cash and stretches the offline window. Every race fills an XP pool; you choose which skill drinks from it. MAKE IT YOURS Eight liveries, six trails and eight plate colors, all visible on track. EVERY DAY The day's cash is three rungs to climb: the first free, the two above it paid for with an ad if you want them. Plus a seven-day bonus and three daily challenges. Ads are always your choice, nothing in the game is locked behind one, and there are no banners and no interstitials. CLUB PASS An optional one-time purchase. It doubles the prize money, XP and scrap your car earns on its own, doubles how fast the tank refills, opens the offline window from 8 hours to a full day, and adds Gems to the daily gift. It never raises a car, never raises a skill, and never decides a race. PLAYS OFFLINE No connection needed to race. Your garage syncs to your own private iCloud, so a new phone picks up exactly where the old one stopped.
Ore & Earn
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You start with nothing but a pickaxe. Time your swings, keep your combo, slice glowing veins — that's active income: when you stop, it stops. Then invest what you earn in miners, elevators, carts, refineries and managers, and let the mine run itself — that's passive income. The orange/teal bar at the top always shows where your money comes from. Your goal: grow the teal. HANDS-ON DIGGING • Timing ring: tap as it closes for a Perfect ×2 • Combos, crits and glowing veins (slice one for ×12) • Cave-in warnings — hold still or swipe up to brace; shut the valve when gas leaks • 8 pickaxe skills that level up as you dig • Sparks, debris and haptics make every swing feel good A MINE WITH REAL DEPTH • 5 layers, 10 shafts, 10 ores — the deeper, the richer • Logistics bottlenecks: shaft → elevator → cart; the slowest link sets your output • Refinery with 9 recipes and multi-step chains (copper ingot → bronze gear, ruby crown…) • Managers with 7 traits × 3 rarities — put them in the right post • A market where prices drift and news can spike or crash them; auto-sell is easy, selling by hand at the top pays more • Timed contracts and a mining fund (simple vs. compound interest) • 17 research upgrades, offline earnings, Legacy (prestige) with permanent perks and a roadmap all the way to 10^68 • 29 achievements and optional Game Center leaderboards and achievement LEARN MONEY IDEAS AS YOU PLAY • A 14-step quest path from "trading time for money" to "money working for you" • 18 bite-size lesson cards on reinvesting, bottlenecks, compounding and assets vs. income • An Income Analysis screen that charts active vs. passive income over time PLAY WITH PEACE OF MIND • Plays offline. No account, no ads; only anonymous gameplay statistics (can be turned off in Settings) • Everything is playable for free. Paid items are cosmetics, convenience, and one permanent ×2 earnings boost • Traditional Chinese and English, dark UI, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support Privacy policy: https://neversaynever.work/apps/miner-tycoon/privacy/ Support: https://neversaynever.work/apps/miner-tycoon/support/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ore & Earn at none against Pitloop's shown. Ore & Earn also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Pitloop sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Ore & Earn sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pitloop ships an update every 4 days, Ore & Earn daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Pitloop | Ore & Earn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIVALOUT LTD | kailin yen |
In-app purchases
Pitloop
- 15 Gems$0.99
- 40 Gems$1.99
- 120 Gems$4.99
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- Pass Club$9.99
- 280 Gems$9.99
- 650 Gems$19.99
- 1800 Gems$49.99
Ore & Earn
- 極光燈籠$0.99
- 請礦工喝咖啡$0.99
- Golden TNT ×3$0.99
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- 水晶鎬$1.99
- 熔岩鎬$1.99
- 礦長便利包$2.99
- Golden TNT ×12$2.99
- 黃金礦脈 ×2$4.99
- Golden TNT ×30$5.99








