Comparison

Pango Build & Explore City vs Train Kit

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

Head to head
About

Pango Build & Explore City

Design and construct your own city by drawing roads, placing buildings, and populating it with characters. This open-ended game encourages creativity, organization, and exploration for young children.

Highlights
  • Draw roads and rails
  • Place buildings and monuments
  • Populate city with characters
  • Open-ended construction
  • Develops creativity and organization
  • Child-safe environment
Features
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IMAGINE YOUR CITY… AND BRING IT TO LIFE! Draw your roads, lay your rails, place your buildings and create a city just the way you like it: small houses, tall buildings, parks, shops, monuments… Here, everything begins with a simple swipe of a finger. Place Pango and friends in their roles: firefighter, mail carrier, doctor, shopkeeper… They drive, work, visit, wander around, go home to sleep at night… and bring life to everything you create. Every street becomes a story, every district an adventure. Pango Build City is an open-ended construction game that develops creativity, organisation, exploration and fine motor skills. An intuitive, open experience perfectly suited for children aged 3 and up. A PANGO CREATION With over 15 years of experience and more than 15 million children worldwide, Pango is a trusted name for parents looking for calm, intelligent and gentle games. Pango Build City continues this philosophy: a lively building game designed to spark creativity, logic and the pride of creating. WHY PARENTS LOVE PANGO BUILD CITY - Boosts imagination and sense of organisation - Builds logic and understanding of how a city works - Strengthens fine motor skills through road and rail placement - 100% open construction: children create, modify and expand their city freely - A gentle, lively world with no stress or competition - Simple, smooth and perfectly adapted to small hands - 3 pre-built cities to support younger children A 100% CHILD-SAFE GAME • No in-app purchases • No advertising • No external links • Built-in parental controls • Complies with children’s data protection standards THE PANGO VALUES: CREATIVITY, AUTONOMY, KINDNESS At Pango, we design experiences from a child’s perspective: simple, open and enriching. Our games nurture curiosity, encourage independence and let every child imagine their own world. Need help? A question? pango@studio-pango.com More information: www.studio-pango.com DOWNLOAD PANGO BUILD CITY and let your child imagine, build and bring their own city to life: A WORLD TO CREATE, ADVENTURES ON EVERY CORNER!

About

Train Kit

Build and explore a space train system on different planets. Design intricate tracks, manage resources for survival, and enjoy a first-person train driver view. A creative sandbox for young space explorers.

Highlights
  • Build space rail systems on planets
  • Explore the solar system
  • Deep space survival challenges
  • 3D train driver view
  • Snap-together track tiles
  • Create unique trains
Features
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Calling all space cadets! It's time to take your train building skills into orbit! BUILD A SPACE RAIL SYSTEM Choose a planet to colonise, and then start to build. Add straights, curves, tunnels, and bridges over craters. Switching tracks allow your trains to navigate around the space port you have created. Add your trains and continue to build as they whizz around the planet. EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM Choose your planet carefully, watch out for dangerous atmospheres or icy surface conditions. Do you dare to colonise a fiery meteor? DEEP SPACE SURVIVAL What will you need to add to protect your trains on a hostile planet. Add some lasers to blast dangerous meteors before they destroy your tracks. Wind turbines and solar panels will help generate power but how will you feed the occupants of your space station. 3D TRAIN DRIVER Switch to train driver view to get a first person view of your interplanetary space port as you whizz around. TRAIN KIT A standalone game based on the much loved Train Kit FEATURES + Add track tiles which snap together in a grid + Tunnels and bridges over craters + Switching tracks allow your trains to take different routes by tapping the switch button. + Drop space exploration trains and carriages onto your railroad. + Mix locomotives and carriages to create your own unique trains + Simple train controls allow you to speed up, slow down or reverse your trains + Add scenery objects to your world + Switch trains in 3D Train driver view REVIEWS FOR TRAIN KIT “Only just downloaded this brilliant app for my Granddaughter and I had to see just how it works and I am just like a young kid again setting up my train set......but the beauty about this app is that not only is it easy to assemble your track, trains and scenery but you can ride any of the trains in 3D around the system you have just set up.....I know for sure that my Granddaughter will love this and she is nine years old ( and I am sixty going back to nine for a time). Kids of all ages will love this app if they can stop a parent from playing with it.......” “This is an amazing game where you can use your imagination and create your own city with trains, bridges, archways, buildings, windmills, and so much more! Download this awesome game now!” “My four-year-old loves this game… The controls are easy enough that it’s easy to let him go with the game and even do some building with his grandparents…“ “This is a great little app. It is fun and simple to play. Almost like having one of those small wooden train sets. Easy assembly of the tracks and just drag objects to the water boundary to remove. This is a good game for little kids because there are no in app purchases, settings, feedback, connect Facebook, etc.“ “While recommended for ages 6-8, this kid-at-heart loves playing with Train Kit. The simple to use touch controls make it a joy to create train lines and diorama, then watch the trains run through your custom worlds, even in first person view.“ ABOUT OUR APPS Our range of Kit apps are designed to allow children to create fun immersive worlds to explore. We focus on open-ended creative play with no rules. This enables a stress-free gaming experience. We avoid distractions such as in app purchases, confusing settings and social media links. PRIVACY We do not collect user data within our apps

Screenshots

Pango Build & Explore City4 screens
Train Kit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Train Kit at free against Pango Build & Explore City's paid. Train Kit also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 117 months) and review sentiment (83% vs 72%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Pango Build & Explore City costs $6.99 and Train Kit $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Pango Build & Explore City against 4.6 for Train Kit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Train Kit has 573 ratings behind it against 89, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Pango Build & Explore City's written reviews are positive against 83% of Train Kit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pango Build & Explore City ships an update every 117 months, Train Kit every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pango Build & Explore City versus Train Kit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPango Build & Explore CityTrain Kit
Price$6.99$6.99
Rating4.5 (89 ratings)4.6 (573 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89573 — better
Update frequencyEvery 117 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio PangoPhd Apps LLC

Customer experience

Pango Build & Explore City

All ratings89 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative25.0%

Train Kit

All ratings571 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Pango Build & Explore City

No in-app purchases

None

Train Kit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pango Build & Explore City free?
Pango Build & Explore City costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Train Kit free?
Train Kit costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pango Build & Explore City or Train Kit?
Train Kit is rated higher. Pango Build & Explore City averages 4.5 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while Train Kit averages 4.6 from 573 ratings.
Do Pango Build & Explore City or Train Kit have ads?
Neither Pango Build & Explore City nor Train Kit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pango Build & Explore City or Train Kit?
Pango Build & Explore City ships an update every 117 months, and Train Kit every 5 weeks. Most recently, Pango Build & Explore City was updated on November 1, 2026 and Train Kit on October 29, 2026.

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