Comparison

Trashbot vs RoboSimL

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

Head to head
About

Trashbot

Build and battle custom robots in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for parts, assemble unique machines with a manipulator and welder, and fight in tournaments and against enemy bases to save humanity.

Highlights
  • Robot assembly with manipulator and welding
  • Scavenge for parts and resources
  • Robot battles and constructor tournaments
  • Customizable robot parts
  • Capture enemy bases
  • Mobile assembly station in battle
Features
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Robots seized the Earth, the humankind is almost destroyed. You are a trash robot, one of few resistance fighters. Your goal is to capture bases of the Corporation located in your region. To achieve the main goal, trashbots will help you. They collect resources and parts of robots scattered at junkyards. Construct your own robots with the help of a manipulator and welding, take part in robot battles and constructor tournaments, execute orders of resistance fighters and expand your own might. Save the humankind from total destruction and create a new union of people and robots! Game features: - Over 60 parts differing in appearance, purpose and design (wheel bases, energy shields, batteries, armor, shotguns, rifles and machine guns). - Assembly of robots using a manipulator arm and welding. - Robot battles based on the play-off system with impressive rewards. - Constructor tournaments, in which you will need to assemble robots according to an example as quickly and accurately as possible. - Orders for the assembly of robots from resistance fighters. - Enemy bases retain the damage received, which allows to capture bases as a result of several attacks. - Junkyards to search for resources and parts using trashbots. - When the robot is assembled, you can test its parameters, adjust them, save or disassemble it into parts. - Assembly of robots right in battle using selected parts with the help of a mobile assembly station located inside your truck. - A possibility to inflict damage to enemy robots by firearms or body. - A possibility to leave the battlefield at any time and take all the parts found and the robot. - 16 enemy bases of the Corporation. - 4 geographic zones differing in appearance, the strength of enemies, the number of resources and parts rarity. - Unique parts for the assembly of a heavy-duty X-robot.

About

RoboSimL

Practice driving and operating custom robots with realistic physics and controls. Simulate your team's actual robot designs from CAD files. Works offline with no ads or purchases.

Highlights
  • Realistic robot physics simulation
  • Custom robot import from CAD (FBX, URDF)
  • Configurable on-screen controls
  • Functional simulated mechanisms
  • Offline gameplay
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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A driving practice tool for competition robotics teams. Every robot in the app began as a team's own CAD. Each one is rebuilt part by part — real joints, real pivots, real drivetrain geometry — so what you drive on your phone moves the way the machine on the field moves. DRIVE Twin on-screen sticks and a set of mechanism buttons. Pick a robot, tap Drive, and you are on a full-size field with cups, pins and toggles to rotate. MECHANISMS THAT WORK LIKE THE REAL ONES Claws open and close and actually hold a game piece. Cascade lifts and double reverse four-bars run through their real travel. Pneumatic cylinders snap between two positions the way a solenoid does, in the real 25 / 50 / 75 mm stroke classes. Intakes pull pieces in. Nothing here is an animation — each mechanism is a physics joint being driven by a motor model. PHYSICS TUNED AGAINST THE MACHINE Wheel speed is set from the drivetrain's real free-spin RPM. Slam the sticks into reverse and the robot plows to the traction limit instead of stopping dead. Raise a lift and the robot rolls in turns, exactly as a tall robot does. Robots have real mass, and a heavy arm out front changes how the whole thing drives. CONTROLS YOU CAN MAKE YOURS Resize the sticks, change their opacity, drag every button where your thumbs actually are, and reassign what each one does. Switch a mechanism between one-button toggle and two-button hold. Set drive and turn sensitivity. Choose which end of the robot the sticks treat as the front. YOUR ROBOT IN THE APP Send us your robot from inside the app — an FBX exported out of your CAD, or a URDF — and we will build it into a drivable robot and send it back to you. Choose whether it is listed for everyone or unlocked only by a code you pass to your own team. It takes a few days and we tell you when it is done — or tell you what to re-export if the file cannot be made to drive. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO PURCHASES There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. Your settings never leave your device. The app works offline. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VEX Robotics, Innovation First International, or the REC Foundation. Robot designs remain the property of the teams that built them.

Screenshots

Trashbot4 screens
RoboSimL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RoboSimL at none against Trashbot's 4. RoboSimL also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 months). Trashbot's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Trashbot sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. RoboSimL asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RoboSimL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trashbot has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trashbot ships an update every 10 months, RoboSimL daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Trashbot versus RoboSimL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrashbotRoboSimL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (13 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size269 MB488 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander TavintsevAnsis Atteka

Customer experience

Trashbot

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%

RoboSimL

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Trashbot

One-time4
  • 100 coins$0.99
  • 300 coins$1.99
  • Disable Ads$1.99
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  • 500 coins$2.99
None

RoboSimL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Trashbot free?
Trashbot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RoboSimL free?
RoboSimL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Trashbot or RoboSimL?
RoboSimL is rated higher. Trashbot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while RoboSimL averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Trashbot or RoboSimL have ads?
Trashbot shows ads; RoboSimL does not.
Which is updated more often, Trashbot or RoboSimL?
Trashbot ships an update every 10 months, and RoboSimL daily. Most recently, Trashbot was updated on November 2, 2026 and RoboSimL on November 5, 2026.

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