Plunging Pudding vs Idle Pocket Planet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plunging Pudding
Embark on a rocket-powered plunger adventure to clean up. Navigate left or right, dodge enemies, and gather gold to unlock new customizations. Experience a fun and engaging arcade-style challenge.
- Rocket-powered plunger gameplay
- Left/right rail movement
- Enemy avoidance
- Gold collection
- Unlockable themes and accessories
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Happy Pudding is cleaning up! Explore new depths on a rocket powered plunger. Hold the screen to move to the left or right rail, watch out for the mean flies, and collect as much gold as you can to unlock new themes and accessories.
Idle Pocket Planet
Explore and colonize a mysterious galaxy by merging settlements and ships to build technological fortresses. Collect artifacts, expand your empire across unusual planets, and enjoy a relaxing idle experience as your colonies grow automatically.
- Colonize mysterious galaxies
- Merge settlements and ships
- Discover new planets
- Collect artifacts
- Expand galactic empire
- Idle gameplay
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Grow your little planets into technological fortresses and discover new (and kind of weird) galaxies! Set out on a cosmic voyage into the vast expanse and discover new planets to claim! COLONIZE this mysterious galaxy as your technological achievements lead you to new stages of scientific evolution! COMBINE your settlements and ships to create new constructs, each more powerful than the last and able to yield greater rewards! COLLECT tons of artifacts to complete your scientific journal and decorate your ship! EXPAND your galactic empire into sci-fi colonies, and settle on unusual planets! RELAX in a contemplative idle experience as you marvel at the soothing strangeness of space while your colonies grow on their own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Plunging Pudding at none against Idle Pocket Planet's shown. Plunging Pudding also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Idle Pocket Planet's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (2.2K vs 14). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Plunging Pudding sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Idle Pocket Planet sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Idle Pocket Planet holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Pocket Planet has 2.2K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Plunging Pudding's written reviews are positive against 92% of Idle Pocket Planet's.
Plunging Pudding ships an update every 8 months, Idle Pocket Planet monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plunging Pudding | Idle Pocket Planet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) | 4.8 (2.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 91.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 2.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Monthly — 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 | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 202 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Retro Dreamer | Mum Not Proud |
Customer experience
Plunging Pudding
Idle Pocket Planet
Bugs and requests
Plunging Pudding
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Idle Pocket Planet
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Issues with ad rewards not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- More planets and content to explore
- Ability to customize planets further
- Cross-game integration with other Hyperbeard titles
- Improved tutorial and guidance
In-app purchases
Plunging Pudding
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Small Gold Pack$0.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
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- Medium Gold Pack$4.99
- Premium Pack$4.99
- Large Coin Pack$9.99
Idle Pocket Planet
- Pack 1$0.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Pack 2$3.99
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- Pack 3$9.99
- Special Offer$11.99
- Pack 4$19.99
- Pack 5$24.99
Questions
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