Comparison

Quirkies Evolution vs Idle Evolution

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

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About

Quirkies Evolution

Explore the fascinating process of evolution through interactive gameplay. Guide populations of creatures by selecting mates and influencing traits to ensure survival and adaptation. Discover new characteristics, learn through engaging content, and track your progress via a detailed family tree.

Highlights
  • Simulate natural selection and reproduction
  • Influence trait evolution through mate selection
  • Explore genetic recombination and mutation
  • Learn via educational videos and podcasts
  • Earn badges and survival points
  • Manipulate genes in the biolab
  • Track lineage with family tree and population view
Features
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This game teaches how evolution works: quirkies evolve through natural selection, reproduction, recombination and mutation of genes. The basics: by selecting mates who get to reproduce, you and other players simulate the environment in which the best quirkies survive. You can choose a trait that you would like the population to have (do this on the settings screen). As you play the game, try to select quirkies with that trait. In each generation, the offspring inherit the genes from the parents. The trait that you picked will become common throughout the population. Your fitness score at the top of the main screen will improve, and you win the game with high enough fitness over generations. But quirkies might also be rejected by mates, experience harmful mutations, and risk extinction. As you play, quirkies will entertain you with funny comments (even with speech), quiz your understanding of evolution, and make suggestions from an amazing range of educational videos and podcasts. Earn badges through these activities! Your quirkies will evolve new traits such as colors, nose, mouth, limbs, hair, and more by regulatory gene adaptations. Explore it all through the family tree (showing how genes are inherited) and population view. You can also earn survival points with mini-games: help your offspring feed, fight challengers, and find their parents. And don't tell anyone, but if you get to the biolab, you can manipulate your quirkie's genes! Evolved a really cute quirkie? You can give it a name (it will also get a scientific species name), save it for later, and share it with your friends! (Parents, no worries --- your kid cannot post on social media without your permission.) You can get news updates, when one of your quirkies has new siblings or offspring. And then you can explore the families of your quirkies: their parents, siblings, mates, and offspring. Iris Menczer (4th grade) and her dad created this game for kids to have fun learning about evolution. Evolutionary biologists have helped make it more educational. Hope you enjoy both the fun and the learning!

About

Idle Evolution

Simulate the entire evolutionary journey from single-celled organisms to humans. Collect cells, build organs, and evolve diverse life forms. Become a tycoon of life on Earth.

Highlights
  • Cell to human evolution simulation
  • Creature improvement system
  • Collect fish, viruses, people, animals
  • Tap tap clicker mechanics
  • Organ and body creation
  • World tycoon gameplay
Features
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Idle evolution - from cell to human - simulator of the evolution and origin of all life on the planet. Every person, every animal, every insect or plant owes its origin to life - the photocells! And you can track the whole path of life. How? Easy, just downloading idle construction 3d game! In Idle evolution - from cell to human, you will see a unique system of improving creatures. Excellent graphics of game objects, a new experience in creating a living organism. In this skeleton game, it is possible to collect fish, viruses, people, and animals. Tap tap clicker is already waiting for you! Your goal is to accumulate a lot of cells, one, two, three, and, therefore, there are already a million of them, from which you create organs, muscles and full body. Do you want to go through all the stages of evolution, create a Cephalaspis or a human body? Select your animal in the pet shop and pump it. Download an informative game and now create a story and become a tycoon on planet Earth! Make a person, create your world as Darwin created his ladder of evolution. Idle making and idle tycoon game for children and adults. Do not forget about the many functions of accelerating the pumping of cells that will help you create your own living world. Ready to start evolution? Run the game and go all the way from the cell to the Human!

Screenshots

Quirkies Evolution4 screens
Idle Evolution4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Idle Evolution at 4.2 against Quirkies Evolution's 3.7. Idle Evolution also leads on ratings volume (268 vs 10) and update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Quirkies Evolution's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle Evolution sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Quirkies Evolution asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Evolution holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Evolution has 268 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Quirkies Evolution's written reviews are positive against 43% of Idle Evolution's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quirkies Evolution ships an update monthly, Idle Evolution every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Quirkies Evolution versus Idle Evolution: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuirkies EvolutionIdle Evolution
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (10 ratings)4.2 (268 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings10268 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB234 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndiana UniversityAA2G1 LTD

Customer experience

Quirkies Evolution

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

Idle Evolution

All ratings268 ratings
Positive79.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative15.3%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral12.2%
Negative44.9%

In-app purchases

None

Quirkies Evolution

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Idle Evolution

One-time6
  • 60 Crystals$1.99
  • Disable Ads$2.99
  • 120 Crystals$2.99
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  • 300 Crystals$4.99
  • 700 Crystals$8.99
  • 2000 Crystals$23.99

Questions

Is Quirkies Evolution free?
Quirkies Evolution is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Evolution free?
Idle Evolution is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quirkies Evolution or Idle Evolution?
Idle Evolution is rated higher. Quirkies Evolution averages 3.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Idle Evolution averages 4.2 from 268 ratings.
Do Quirkies Evolution or Idle Evolution have ads?
Idle Evolution shows ads; Quirkies Evolution does not.
Which is updated more often, Quirkies Evolution or Idle Evolution?
Quirkies Evolution ships an update monthly, and Idle Evolution every 11 days. Most recently, Quirkies Evolution was updated on October 9, 2026 and Idle Evolution on October 12, 2026.

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