App Tycoon vs Foundermode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
App Tycoon
Experience the life of an app developer and business owner in this simulation game. Start from a garage and grow your company by developing, customizing, and selling apps. Compete with others and aim for the top charts.
- Develop, update, and sell apps
- Build and manage your own app company
- Customize app titles, icons, and features
- Unlock items and skills
- Compete with other developers
- Upgrade workplace and tools
- Play offline
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Ever wanted to be an app developer and get into the app industry? Want to know the ups and downs of running an app business? Wait no more, App Tycoon will let you experience these, plus MORE! App Tycoon is a unique simulation game where you play the role of an app developer who makes a living by developing and selling apps. You start as a fledgling app developer working from a garage and move your way up the ladder to become a tycoon. Are you up for the challenge? Key Features: - Develop, update and sell apps! - Run and build your own app company! - Customize your apps--clever title, app icons, features etc. - Unlock dozens of items and skills - Beat the top charts! - Compete with other developers (players) - Upgrade your workplace, tools, hardware, etc. - Play offline! (internet connection not required) - Guaranteed fun for hardcore and casual players! Website: http://www.kuyimobile.com/ Support and Feedback: http://www.kuyimobile.com/support.php Twitter: @kuyimobile Facebook: http://facebook.kuyimobile.com/
Foundermode
A challenging single-player simulation where you guide a startup from its inception to a potential IPO or sale. Manage hiring, funding, product development, and crucial board decisions in this realistic business simulator.
- Startup simulation from inception to IPO
- Manage hiring, funding, and product
- Realistic business challenges
- Single-player experience
- Offline gameplay
- No ads or tracking
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Founder Mode is a single-player startup simulator. You take a company from a spare room toward an IPO or a sale. Most runs do not get there. The whole simulation runs on your phone. Saves stay on the device. There are no ads and no tracking. You hire, you raise, you ship product, you sit in board meetings, you decide whether to take the deal. Cash runs out. The board can remove you. Competitors ship. Difficulty is set when you create the founder and does not change. This is meant to be hard. Surviving should feel like you earned it. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no energy timers. If the game crashes, an optional crash report can leave the device. That is off if you turn Crash reports off in Settings. Details: the privacy policy URL on this page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Foundermode at 100% against App Tycoon's 45%. Foundermode also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). App Tycoon's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (103 vs 1). On ads 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
App Tycoon is free to download; Foundermode costs $4.99 up front. App Tycoon sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Foundermode asks for nothing beyond the download.
Foundermode holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: App Tycoon has 103 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of App Tycoon's written reviews are positive against 100% of Foundermode's.
| Parameter | App Tycoon | Foundermode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.2 (103 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kuyi Mobile | Stefan Sathianathen |
Customer experience
App Tycoon
Foundermode
Bugs and requests
App Tycoon
Reported bugs
39 issues- Won't load
- Game won't load
- Runtime error
- Field 'Day' missing in date table
- App crashes
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- Game freezes
- Black screen and freezes
- Cannot load game
- Missing field 'day'
- Freezes all the time
- Won't open
- Stops loading
- Error when trying to open
- Script day could not be loaded: error
- Game crashes upon setting a name
- Buttons glitch
- Cannot get past the first screen
- Game crashes when first started
- Money disappearing
- Infinite loading screen
- Cannot select advanced features
- App no longer functions
- Menu stays up after tapping to launch
- Cannot go to other pages
- Menu doesn't go away
- Weird bug where couldn't update game
- Runtime error and can't play
- Bug in app instantly
- Cannot play with WiFi
- Problem with adding/removing features
- Hard click needed for options
- Buggy as hell
- Not loading after playing for an hour
- Bought energy not received
- Game won't load after playing for an hour
- Energy not helping the game
- Takes a long time to publish a game
- N-word used in top apps
- Energy not really helping
Requested features
22 requests- Make more apps available
- Add more content/features
- Improve money making system
- Add a way to check reviews
- Allow playing others' games
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- Add more genres
- Add workers to help create apps
- Hire workers to help create apps
- Add a "Reset Tycoon" button
- Improve speed of game
- Add customizable office and character design
- Make money easier to make
- Increase speed of payment
- Add more game mechanics for easier progress
- Allow selection of advanced features
- Make debugging easier before launch
- Less penalty for bugs on first launch
- Add more genres
- Add more stuff to the game
- Make money faster
- Make more of this
- More updates and games like this
Foundermode
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
App Tycoon
- Buy 10 energy$0.99
- Buy 25 energy$1.99
- Buy 75 energy$4.99
Foundermode
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is App Tycoon free?
Is Foundermode free?
Which has better reviews, App Tycoon or Foundermode?
Do App Tycoon or Foundermode have ads?
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