Verdict up front: ETH Mining : Ethereum Miner states in its own description that it is a simulation with a simulated ETH balance, “designed for entertainment”. It sells in-app purchases and is filed under Productivity. Do not pay for anything inside it.
Key facts — checked 23 September 2026
App: ETH Mining : Ethereum Miner · Package: com.ethminingapp.etheriumminer · Developer: Routh’s · Store: Google Play — 4.6★, 998 reviews, 10K+ installs · Monetisation: Contains ads · in-app purchases · Category: Productivity · Last updated: 15 September 2026
It tells you, in the right place, quietly
Buried in the description: the app offers a simulated ETH balance and is designed for entertainment. That sentence is the honest part of the listing, and it is also the part almost nobody reads, sitting as it does beneath a title, an icon and a set of graphics that all say Ethereum Miner.
To be clear about what the disclosure means: no Ether is mined, no Ether accrues, and nothing in the app can be withdrawn. The counter is a number in a game.
Filed under Productivity
Google Play has a Simulation category. It has a Games section. This app, which describes itself as a simulation for entertainment, is filed under Productivity — the aisle people browse for tools that do work. A self-declared game placed among utilities reaches exactly the audience least likely to read the small print before buying.
⚠ Verified evidence — checked 23 September 2026
- The description says the app provides a “simulated ETH balance” and is “designed for entertainment”.
- It is listed under Productivity — not Simulation, and not Games.
- It carries ads and in-app purchases on top of a self-declared simulation.
- The title and icon both say Ethereum Miner, a service that has not existed since September 2022.
- It shows 998 reviews on 10K+ installs at 4.6 stars — roughly one in ten installs leaving a review.
What the purchases buy
In a simulation, an in-app purchase buys a faster counter. That is all it can buy, because the balance it accelerates is not real. The purchase is not fraudulent in the narrow sense — the disclosure exists — but the packaging is built so that the buyer believes they are buying mining capacity, and the category placement compounds it.
Ethereum stopped being mineable in 2022
The network moved to proof of stake with the Merge in September 2022. Mining ended. Any 2026 app promising Ethereum mining is either running a simulation, as this one admits, or describing something that does not exist.
The review ratio
998 reviews on 10,000+ installs is close to one in ten, several times the organic rate for a free app. Combined with a 4.6-star average on a product that cannot deliver what its title promises, the rating is worth nothing as a signal.
Check it in one minute
Before you install any mining app, tap Read more on the description and search it for “simulation”, “simulated”, “virtual” and “entertainment”. If any of those words appear, no cryptocurrency is coming out — whatever the title says.
Our view: ETH Mining : Ethereum Miner is a self-declared entertainment simulation, filed under Productivity, selling in-app purchases for a simulated balance. Do not pay for it.
Sources, checked 23 September 2026: Google Play listing for com.ethminingapp.etheriumminer, read 23 September 2026 · developer Routh’s · full description, category, rating and install count as displayed; Ethereum Foundation records of the September 2022 Merge.
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