mine4miles vs Mini Mine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mine4miles
Embark on a mining adventure to unearth a thousand unique gems across ten mine shafts. Strategically place diggers, collect ore for coins, and use your earnings to expand your mine with more equipment. Advance through levels by identifying gems and contribute to a global mining effort.
- Mine for 1,000 unique gems
- Collect ore and earn coins
- Expand mine with diggers and dynamite
- Identify gems to advance levels
- Global mining community expansion
- Discover quotes and nuggets of wisdom
- Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements
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mine4miles is a mining simulation game where the object is to mine for as many miles as you can while trying to collect and identify 1,000 unique gems buried in 10 different mine shafts. Place diggers to unearth ore that you collect for coins. Use your coins to add more diggers and dynamite to keep expanding your mine. Earn nuggets to hurry up digging, to speed up ore carts and to identify the gems you collect. Collect and identify gems to advance to new levels and mine for different types of ore. Help the mining community to expand the global mine to more than one billion miles! • 1,000 different quotes and nuggets of wisdom to discover while mining. • Game Center support for Leaderboards and Achievements. • iCloud support for syncing your game to multiple devices. • Play for Free for as long as you like. • No Ads! We hope you enjoy playing mine4miles. NOTE: You may disable in-app-purchases on your device using the Settings application.
Mini Mine
Tap to mine rocks and earn money in this addictive idle game. Unlock rarer resources, upgrade your equipment, and expand your mining empire across different planets. Explore new worlds and discover valuable elements.
- Tap to mine rocks
- Unlock rare rocks, elements, and ores
- Upgrade mining equipment
- Travel to new planets
- Build a mining empire
- Explore galactic elements
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Don't let the playful dwarf smile fool you. This game is more addicting and fun than you can possibly imagine! You will never have boring spare-time again! Claim your Mini Mine today! Start with a tiny dwarf pick axe and start tapping (mining)! As you mine rocks you will make money, spend that money on unlocking more rare rocks, elements, ores, and mini mines! Once you earn enough you will be able to afford a rocket ship off your planet and onto a rarer one with galactic new elements, rocks, and ores worth even more coins! Grow your mini mine empire today and explore new worlds and ores! Play today! - Mini Mine is a term of Apps4Life, LLC. - 2016 Mini Mine is for entertainment purposes only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mini Mine at 4.1 against mine4miles's 3.7. Mini Mine also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (143 vs 11). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. mine4miles sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Mini Mine sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mini Mine holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mini Mine has 143 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of mine4miles's written reviews are positive against 73% of Mini Mine's.
mine4miles ships an update every 2 weeks, Mini Mine every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mine4miles | Mini Mine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (11 ratings) | 4.1 (143 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 143 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Aijala | Apps4Life, LLC. |
Customer experience
mine4miles
Mini Mine
Bugs and requests
mine4miles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mini Mine
Reported bugs
4 issues- Achievements not registering properly
- Offline earnings not always credited
- Freezing and lagging issues
- Compatibility problems on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Reduce frequency of ads
- Improve mini-game difficulty and fairness
- Add more variety to gameplay
- Optimize performance for longer play sessions
In-app purchases
mine4miles
- 100,000 Coins$0.99
- 10 Nuggets$0.99
- 1,000,000 Coins$4.99
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- 100 Nuggets$4.99
- 5,000,000 Coins$9.99
- 500 Nuggets$9.99
Mini Mine
- Small bag of Crystals$1.99
- Tote full of Crystals$4.99
- Crate full of Crystals$9.99
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- Chest full of Crystals$19.99
- Dungeon full of Crystals$49.99
- Empire's worth of Crystals$99.99
