mine4miles vs IdleSpiral
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.
IdleSpiral
An idle, incremental game where players aim to grow a spiral. It combines simple gameplay with mathematical beauty for long-term engagement.
- Idle gameplay
- Incremental progression
- Spiral mathematics
- Long-term engagement
- Simple mechanics
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Idle Spiral is a beautiful idle and incremental game inspired by spirals and mathematics. Grow your spiral farther and farther from the origin. Improve its parameters, discover formulas, challenge enemies, collect rewards, and watch simple mathematical rules create increasingly complex patterns. The controls are simple, but the progression is deep and designed to be enjoyed over a long time. Play actively when you want to optimize your build, or return later and continue from your offline progress. Features: • Deep idle and incremental progression • Spiral growth based on mathematical formulas • Upgrades, battles, challenges, achievements, and daily rewards • Optional ads and in-app purchases • Account, shared Mileage, and cross-platform save foundations • Performance and battery-use options for mobile devices How far can you grow your spiral?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: mine4miles at none against IdleSpiral's shown. mine4miles also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 54%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). IdleSpiral's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 IdleSpiral sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
IdleSpiral holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IdleSpiral has 79 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of mine4miles's written reviews are positive against 54% of IdleSpiral's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
mine4miles ships an update every 2 weeks, IdleSpiral every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mine4miles | IdleSpiral |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (11 ratings) | 4.2 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 54.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 235 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Aijala | Idle System, Inc. |
Customer experience
mine4miles
IdleSpiral
Bugs and requests
mine4miles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
IdleSpiral
Reported bugs
28 issues- Game is unresponsive
- Ads don't work or give rewards
- Patterns are random
- Bar at the bottom center not growable
- Phone gets super hot and drains battery
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- Translation is poor
- Offline progress not accumulating
- Game speed items cause overheating
- Game becomes laggy
- Last two Z Reactors missing
- Last three challenges missing
- Game not idle, requires active play
- Rewards reset when app is closed
- Memory of Formula system confusing
- Battles no longer progress offline
- Text is too small
- Daily bonus not working
- Offline gains broken
- Achievements not unlocking
- Offline battles don't increase difficulty
- Stats not functioning
- Social sharing (screenshot/tweet) broken
- Daily rewards unclear
- Challenges past first versions inaccessible
- Save process wipes progress
- Offline enemy kills not counting
- Spiral Equations not working
- Difficulty of fighting tab not increasing offline
Requested features
10 requests- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve ad rewards and length
- Make the game truly idle again
- Fix offline gains and progress
- Improve translation and text display
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- Bring PC version content to mobile
- Fix social sharing features
- Add dark mode
- Fix challenges not appearing
- Fix Z-Reactors not appearing
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
IdleSpiral
- Spiral Point 500$1.99
- Bubble Spiral$4.99
- Arrow Spiral$4.99
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- Space Spiral$9.99
- Bonfire Spiral$9.99
- Permanent Bonus$9.99
- Pixel Spiral$9.99
- Railway Spiral$9.99
- Spiral Point 3000$12.99
- Spiral Point 10000$29.99
