Wiki · Paper Drift
Coins, energy, storage and the shop
How paper coins are earned and spent, how energy works, what lands in the Storage and what the shop sells. Everything for sale is optional and either cosmetic or convenience: nothing makes the game easier.
Data taken from the game’s code · version 2.0 · Updated 29 September 2026
Paper coins
Where they come from
| Source | How much |
|---|---|
| Coin trails (Endless and Daily Drift) | 1 per coin. Trails of up to 5 in the free air between beams, the first at 9 m and then one every ~25 m. 1 trail in 8 carries a big coin worth 5. |
| Window figures | 10 per figure tapped. |
| Time Attack medals | 50 / 150 / 300 / 500 the first time per course. → |
| Daily gift | 100 free every UTC day, no advert. |
| Coin video | 100 per video (or tap with Remove Ads), 3 every 8 hours. |
| DOUBLE on results | The run’s coins again, 3 times every 8 hours. |
| Shop | Packs of 600 to 46,500. |
- They are banked at the end of the run. Quit from pause and you keep none.
- An ordinary player makes about 25–30 coins per minute of flight, and 45–55 going after them: about 2,000 an hour of play, menus included.
- Coins score nothing and never touch the physics: taking one changes nothing about the flight.
What they buy
| What | Coins |
|---|---|
| Plane and trail colourways (1st / 2nd / 3rd) | 200 / 400 / 800 |
| Millionaire plane, Millionaire trail | 100,000 each |
| Each Millionaire colourway | 100,000 |
| Post office envelopes (green / blue / red / yellow) | 100 / 300 / 500 / 1,000 |
The ×2 boost
From the Title’s wallet: each video (or tap with Remove Ads) adds 10 minutes during which runs bank double coins, stacking to 30 minutes at most, 3 times every 8 hours. It runs in real time, even with the game closed. It does not touch Time Attack medal bounties.
Energy
- 1 point comes back every 4 minutes while you are under 30: an Endless run every 12 minutes, a full tank in 2 hours.
- A new save starts at 50 (over the maximum). That surplus does not regenerate once spent.
- Energy from the Storage can take the tank past 30, up to 50. Every other top-up stops at 30.
- Winding the phone’s clock forward can at most fill the tank; winding it back loses you nothing.
Unlimited energy passes
Each pass is 1 hour in which Endless and Time Attack cost no energy. You use them one at a time whenever you like, from the energy window, and they stack up to 6 hours in a row.
Free every day, and the limits
| Offer | Reward | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free energy | +5 | 1 a day (UTC), no advert |
| Free coins | +100 | 1 a day (UTC), no advert |
| Energy refill | +5 | 3 every 8 h |
| Coin video | +100 | 3 every 8 h |
| ×2 boost | +10 min | 3 every 8 h (30 min max) |
| DOUBLE coins | ×2 | 3 every 8 h |
| Quest reroll | Another quest | 3 every 8 h |
| Revive | Keep flying | 2 per run |
| Daily Drift extra run | +1 | 1 a day |
| New quests | 4 quests | 2 a day, with all 4 done |
An 8-hour window opens on the first tap and comes back whole when it closes: unused taps do not carry over. They are the same for everyone, with or without Remove Ads; the only difference is that with Remove Ads every video is a tap.
The Storage
What you earn by playing lands in the Storage (the fourth key on the Title screen) and waits until you choose to USE it. If the tank or the unlimited clock cannot take it whole, it stays stored instead of being wasted. Every source pays once, and older saves are paid for what they had already done.
| When | What | Times |
|---|---|---|
| Levels 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 | +5 energy | 5 |
| First gold (or dev) on a Time Attack course | +3 energy | 8 |
| A full Showcase case | 20 min of unlimited energy | 9 |
| A stamp finished for the first time | +5 energy | 13 |
Cases: one for each of the 8 maps, plus the events case. In all, up to 114 energy and 3 hours of unlimited energy.
The shop
Bought with real money from the energy and wallet windows. The prices below are the reference euro prices; each store shows its own in your country and currency, and the “extra” and “save” ribbons are worked out from those.
| Coins | Price | Extra | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 600 | €0.99 | — | |
| 1,350 | €1.99 | +10% | |
| 3,700 | €4.99 | +20% | Popular |
| 8,000 | €9.99 | +30% | |
| 17,000 | €19.99 | +40% | |
| 46,500 | €49.99 | +50% | Best value |
| Passes | Price | Saving | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 h | €0.99 | — | |
| 2 h | €1.69 | 10% | |
| 3 h | €2.49 | 15% | Popular |
| 4 h | €2.99 | 20% | |
| 5 h | €3.49 | 25% | |
| 6 h | €3.99 | 30% | Best value |
Remove Ads · €6.99 — For good. It removes every advert, and every reward that asked for a video (revives, refills, coins, boost, DOUBLE, the extra run, quests) becomes a tap, with the same limits.
- Coins and passes can be bought again; Remove Ads is permanent and comes back with RESTORE PURCHASES.
- No planes, trails, XP or stamp pieces are sold for money: money only buys coins, energy or no adverts.
Adverts
- Rewarded videos are always optional: you pick them on a button.
- There is an advert between runs, but only in Endless and the Daily Drift, at most one every 10 minutes, never within 5 minutes of another advert, and never right after opening the game. Watching any rewarded video pushes the next one back 5 minutes.
- There are never adverts between Time Attack attempts or between races.
See it for yourself
Paper Drift is free on iPhone and Android.
