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Best Idle Evolution Game Apps for iPhone (2026)
Cell to Singularity: Evolution is the top-ranked of 28 idle evolution game apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 23,062 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 23,062 ratings · score 95 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 16,078 ratings · score 92 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 100,341 ratings · score 92 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 23,758 ratings · score 91 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,849 ratings · score 89
What belongs in this list
Play an idle game where I tap and wait to evolve creatures or species through stages over time.
Not here: an idle tycoon with businesses alone; an idle rpg with hero battles alone; a general clicker with no evolution alone; a creature collector with no idle play alone; a biology fact app alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 23,062 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 16,078 ratings · score 92 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 100,341 ratings · score 92 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 23,758 ratings · score 91 · best in class
- 5Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,849 ratings · score 89 · excellent
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 11,154 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 7
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,093 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 8
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 9,489 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 9,930 ratings · score 80 · good - 10
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 5,464 ratings · score 79 · good - 11
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 26,263 ratings · score 78 · good - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 207,006 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,074 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 14
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,094 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,361 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 16
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 3,098 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 17
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,136 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,707 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 19
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 10,559 ratings · score 68 · situational - 20
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,832 ratings · score 67 · weak · provisional - 21
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,071 ratings · score 63 · weak - 22
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,186 ratings · score 61 · weak - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 23,231 ratings · score 61 · weak · provisional - 24
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 5,868 ratings · score 59 · weak - 25
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,997 ratings · score 56 · weak - 26
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,194 ratings · score 55 · weak - 27
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,646 ratings · score 54 · weak - 28
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 2,721 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional
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- Kotodama Diary (C)
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Questions people ask
- What is the best idle evolution game app for iPhone?
- Cell to Singularity: Evolution, S tier, ranked #1 of 28, rated 4.8 by 23,062 people.
- Which idle evolution game apps are free?
- 28 of 28 are free to download: Cell to Singularity: Evolution (S), Evolution Galaxy: Evolve Space (S), Idle Human (S), Cow Evolution: Merge to Evolve (S) and more. 11 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which idle evolution game app has the best App Store rating?
- Kotodama Diary at 4.9 from 3,098 ratings.
- How many idle evolution game apps reach S or A tier?
- 8 of 28. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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