Idle Daddy - Card Farmer

Contains adsIn-app purchases
3.3
9.61K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Idle Daddy lets you easily unlock your Steam™ Trading Cards using your mobile device. It works by simulating playing the games in your Steam™ library that have trading cards available and waiting for the cards to drop.

Features
- Automatically farm your Steam™ trading cards.
- Idle your games to boost hours
- "Offline" farming mode (your friends can't see you farming)
- Activate game keys
- Activate free games via appid or subid

Idle Daddy is free software released under the GPLv3 license
https://github.com/steevp/UpdogFarmer

Idle Daddy is made possible thanks to SteamKit and the JavaSteam port by Longi94:
https://github.com/Longi94/JavaSteam

Idle Daddy Steam group:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/idledaddy

FAQ
Q: Can I get VAC banned for using Idle Daddy?
A: To my knowledge, Idle Daddy doesn't do anything that would trigger a VAC ban. It doesn't connect to any VAC servers or modify your games to cheat. However, I would still recommend stopping Idle Daddy completely before playing VAC games on your PC.

Q: Will my Steam™ account get banned?
A: I think it's very unlikely. Similar programs have existed on PC for years and so far nobody has been banned for using them.

Q: Am I able to play Steam games on my PC while Idle Daddy is running?
A: Idle Daddy will get disconnected from the Steam network if you play a games your PC while Idling. Just to be safe I'd recommend stopping Idle Daddy completely before playing games on your PC.

Q: How does the farming algorithm work/Why is Idle Daddy only farming one game at a time?
A: The issue with farming all of your games at the same time is that you don't really get trading cards while idling multiple games. Steam reduces the drop rate to pretty much 0. For this reason, it's only useful for getting your games "ready" (i.e. getting their playtime high enough for them to begin dropping cards) before farming them one at a time.

The farming algorithm works like this:
1. First Idle Daddy will farm games (one at a time) that have at least HoursUntilCardDrops (3 hours by default, but can be changed in the settings) hours of playtime.
2. If it can't find any, Idle Daddy will idle multiple games (up to 32 which is the max Steam supports at the same time) until they reach HoursUntilCardDrops
3. Repeat 1 and 2 until all trading cards are farmed

Q: Why does Idle Daddy say I have 0 games left to farm?
A: First thing you should do is check whether your account actually has cards remaining. If all you see on that page is "No card drops remaining," then there is nothing for Idle Daddy to farm.
Next you should check if your account has Family View enabled. If Family View is enabled, a parental PIN is required to unlock your account. You can enter this PIN in the Idle Daddy settings.

Q: Why doesn't login happen through the Steam™ website?
A: Idle Daddy works the same as the official Steam™ client, which doesn't login through the website either (you just enter your account credentials into a dialog). The reason for this is that we are logging into the Steam Network, not the website. The website doesn't provide access to all the features that Idle Daddy needs (namely, playing games through your account).

Q: Why aren't free-to-play games like DOTA2 or TF2 appearing in my library?
A: For free-to-play games to appear in your Steam™ library, the following must be true:
1. "Include Free Played Games" must be enabled in Idle Daddy's settings (should be enabled by default)
2. Your account must have >0 hrs of playtime in these games

Note: Due to the way that Idle Daddy works, it requires your Steam™ username and password to function. This information is only sent to the official Steam™ servers.
Updated on
May 4, 2022

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.3
9.36K reviews
Josh Price
June 9, 2023
Used to be great, but now I can't get it to idle for longer than a couple of minutes. Battery is set to unrestricted and I've cleared storage/cache. App is currently broken and needs to be updated. Sucks because I found it to be the most convenient to use compared to desktop idle apps. Would give it 4 stars when it actually worked, but even then you'd have to restart it after idling for a few hours.
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Arron Reed
June 29, 2023
Pretty good app, does what it says on the tin. I like that I can search my library to idle specific games rather than being forced to idle my whole library. It'd be cool to have a whitelist to compliment the blacklist feature, but the library select is a good alternative. My only problem is the app is stubborn about fully closing. I don't like that the active notification won't go away even if I'm not idling or I'm logged out. I don't want to have to kill the app manually to clear the notif.
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Blueberry Poptart
October 4, 2023
This used to be a 5 star for me, but now since I updated my phone Galaxy S23 (no clue if it's the phone or the app itself, but I check all setting and changed a lot and nothing helps) but it does not stay connected anymore and disconnects every-time I go to check it after minutes or hours. I have not had any of the connection issues that others have seemed to have and guessing it has something to do with new phones as my last one as an old Galaxy S5 and worked perfectly until I got a new phone.
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What's new

2.1.1:
* Attempt to fix login issues some users were having. Your login might timeout on the 1st try, but try again and it will use a fresh server list.
2.1.0:
* Updated JavaSteam to 1.1.0 (Thanks Longi94 & LossyDragon!)
* Fixed image loading in games screen again
* New adaptive app logo
* Updated to support Android 12