Comparison

Cookies Inc. vs Almost a Hero

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cookies Inc.

Build a massive cookie empire in this idle tycoon game. Unlock hundreds of unique cookies and upgrades, manage your bakery, and earn billions offline. Enjoy optional multiplayer and a relaxing swipe-to-collect mechanic.

Highlights
  • Build a cookie empire
  • Unlock 300+ unique cookies
  • Over 1,000 upgrades
  • Optional co-op and competitive multiplayer
  • Offline progress
  • Swipe to collect cookies
  • Prestige system
Features
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Played 100,000+ times each day! Only 1% of players get $10 million within 3 minutes - can you?! • NO annoying forced video ads bothering you • Completely optional competitive or casual co-op multiplayer • Unfolding gameplay where you unlock and discover new features • 300+ unique hand drawn cookies including pizza cookies (yes, you read that right) • 1,000+ super cool upgrades to give you amazingly cool boosts • Very active community and always listening to your feedback about cool new things to add Come and check out the best incremental (clicker) game you’ve ever played! Go on an adventure to build your massive cookie empire and earn millions and billions of cookies creating your tycoon business! Enjoy the best idle cookie simulator offline or online with co-op and competitive multiplayer with teams. If that’s not your thing, this is one of the best offline games around! There are no ads (video) that you’re forced to watch. All video ads are opt-in only. It’s rare to find an ad free idle game but we promise we won’t annoy you with ads! Endless gameplay that will make sure you’re never bored. There are always new upgrades, boosts, prestige and items to collect. You’ll experience a roller coaster of upgrades with hundreds of unique buffs. No internet connection required and lots of auto clickers that will help you on your adventure. Instead of merge or clicking gameplay, Cookie Inc. - Idle Tycoon Games lets you swipe to collect cookies. No strain on your finger and it’s much more relaxing. Play it casual and chill or play hardcore and be competitive with your team and leagues. The idle gameplay works like an automatic auto clicker so you’re always making progress. Enjoy idle inc style games? This is the one for you! The best idle simulator and the best idle tycoon game. No forced video ads, optional multiplayer with teams, tons of upgrades, super easy to use and simple to learn interface, secrets to discover, optional weekly seasons and leagues with loot, constant updates with new content - what’s not to love! Bake cookies and farm resources to get super rich! Auto tappers and autoclickers will help you on your epic cookie quest. Level up many times with unique prestige gameplay that unlocks new upgrades each time you prestige. Create your dream bakery with the most realistic simulator that involves cookies (yes, that’s a real category). You will have to manage your cookie business and spend cookies where it matters to get the best upgrades. Become a cookie capitalist and make it rain billions of cookies. Let the game idle and continue earning cookies when you’re offline. Manage and create your dream bakery with this addicting idle game. Baking has never been so fun! Start your idle journey and play through the cookie saga and uncover the secrets of the Cookieverse. Instead of your usual cooking games, Cookie Inc. - Idle Tycoon Games has unique clicker gameplay to always keep it fun and easy. Become a collector and mine millions of cookies. Your idle empire has never been so close! Run your own bakery and jam out to some super catchy music while you’re at it. If you love incremental (clicker) or idle games, we sure you'll love ours! :)

About

Almost a Hero

Assemble a team of unlikely heroes and guide them through idle adventures and challenging dungeons. Unlock new characters, powerful gear, and permanent upgrades to help your team become true heroes. Your heroes battle even when you're away, allowing you to reap rewards and strategize for future runs.

Highlights
  • Assemble a team of unique heroes
  • Idle auto-battles
  • Unlock new characters and abilities
  • Permanent artifact upgrades
  • Seasonal challenges and timed trials
  • Customize hero outfits and equipment
Features
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Want the bravest, smartest, and deadliest heroes on your team? Tough luck. We have only gotten these unless idiots for you. But,do you have what it takes to help each Almost a Hero to become the true Heroes they were always meant to be? In this idle RPG, assemble a team of Almost Heroes. Send them on adventures, into deadly dungeons, and seasonal challenges! Along the way, unlock more Hero Characters, new powerful Rings, Pets with fantastic abilities, and finally permanent Artifact upgrades to make your next run just that little bit less deadly for your Almost Heroes team. *** ASSEMBLE - FIGHT - UPGRADE *** 17 absolute zeroes just waiting for you to help them become slightly good heroes. Assemble a team by choosing between your usual cannon fodder, a blacksmith dwarf, a pyromaniac, a blind wizard, a paper bagged bard, a thieving goblin, a cuddly granny, and even an angry tree! When the going gets tough, just restart your adventure by prestiging! We’re almost certain you will do better next time. *** AFK BATTLES *** Your team fights, dies, revives, and fights again even when you are away! Just come back when you feel like to reap their rewards. Eventually using upgraded Artifacts, you can also level them up automatically. After all, what would these Almost Heroes do without your strategic guidance? *** UNLOCK GAMEPLAY MODES *** Your Almost Heroes keep unlocking new game modes for you to send them on. While a few Heroes are battling epic bosses in the Adventure mode, test your strategic might in timed trials! There are also weekly Seasons with tough challenges for only the foolhardy. Thankfully, you can take pets like a sheep, an armadillo, and even a spectacularly dumb pigeon into battle. *** CUSTOMIZE YOUR ALMOST HEROES *** Even if your Almost Heroes don’t fight so well, they can at least look sharp while doing it! Choose from many Outfits for each hero. Upgrade their equipment to more epic versions. Give them trinkets that will help them suck a little less in battle. Are you ready for this challenge? Your next medieval fantasy adventure awaits.

Screenshots

Cookies Inc.4 screens
Almost a Hero4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cookies Inc. and Almost a Hero both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of Cookies Inc.'s written reviews are positive against 77% of Almost a Hero's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cookies Inc. sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Almost a Hero sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Cookies Inc. against 4.8 for Almost a Hero. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6.8K and 17K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Cookies Inc.'s written reviews are positive against 77% of Almost a Hero's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cookies Inc. ships an update every 4 weeks, Almost a Hero monthly. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cookies Inc. versus Almost a Hero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCookies Inc.Almost a Hero
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.8K ratings)4.8 (17K ratings)
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews — better76.8% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K17K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB366 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperPIXELCUBE STUDIOS INC.Deca Games EOOD

Customer experience

Cookies Inc.

All ratings6,817 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews756 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative7.0%

Almost a Hero

All ratings17,005 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews1,195 reviews
Positive76.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative16.7%

User reviews

Cookies Inc.

From 6.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🍪 Satisfying cookie-collecting experience
  • 🕹️ Addictive and engaging gameplay
  • 👍 No forced ads
  • 🏆 Competitive leagues and teams
  • 💰 Easy to earn in-game currency

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Cheating issues and lack of anti-cheat measures
  • 🤖 Ads covering important UI elements
  • ⏱️ Slow progression and high upgrade costs
  • 🔑 Difficulty accessing online features offline

Almost a Hero

From 17K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Highly addictive
  • 👍 Engaging mechanics
  • 👍 Lots of content and features
  • 👍 Generous with free resources
  • 👍 Responsive developers

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🐛 Bugs with progression and save data
  • 💰 Pushy with microtransactions
  • 🐛 UI issues and glitches

Bugs and requests

Cookies Inc.

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Bakery reset bug
  • Showcase item boost changes causing regression
  • Cookie mastery not registering properly

Requested features

9 requests
  • Bulk open for mystery/team/crown packs
  • Option to turn off frenzies
  • More use for cupcakes
  • Team management features (password, kick/ban)
  • Offline cupcake generation
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  • Showcase item progress indicator
  • Bakery name change option
  • Milk and cookie set ideas (robotic, zodiac, etc.)
  • Competitive league system with rewards

Almost a Hero

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Progression reset after updates
  • Inability to progress past certain stages
  • Unresponsive UI elements
  • Ads not rewarding properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More stages and progression
  • Multiplayer and co-op modes
  • Ability to merge/upgrade equipment
  • More character customization options
  • Offline progress tracking improvements

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Cookies Inc.

One-time14
  • Magical Tip Jar I$0.99
  • Oven #1$0.99
  • Oven #2$0.99
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  • Oven #3$0.99
  • Super Pass$1.99
  • Level Master$2.99
  • Event Boost$2.99
  • Special Pack$2.99
  • Super Auto Collector$2.99
  • Mega Magnet$2.99
  • Second Helpings$2.99
  • Silver Starter Pack$2.99
  • Magical Tip Jar$3.99
  • Magical Tip Jar$4.99
11 purchases

Almost a Hero

One-time11
  • Common Pack$1.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Starter Pack$3.99
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  • Stage 500 Limited Offer$3.99
  • Rare Pack$4.99
  • Stage 300 offer$4.99
  • SCRAP MINE$4.99
  • Stage 100 offer$5.99
  • Currency Pack$9.99
  • SEASONAL OFFER$12.99
  • Epic Pack$19.99

Questions

Is Cookies Inc. free?
Cookies Inc. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Almost a Hero free?
Almost a Hero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cookies Inc. or Almost a Hero?
Cookies Inc. and Almost a Hero are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6.8K and 17K ratings respectively.
Do Cookies Inc. or Almost a Hero have ads?
Both Cookies Inc. and Almost a Hero show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cookies Inc. or Almost a Hero?
Cookies Inc. ships an update every 4 weeks, and Almost a Hero monthly. Most recently, Cookies Inc. was updated on September 23, 2026 and Almost a Hero on September 23, 2026.

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