Startup Idle vs Train Manager!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Startup Idle
Manage your own startup office, hire employees, and collect their earnings to build your capital. Deposit money into your safe to accumulate wealth and grow your business empire.
- Manage startup office
- Hire employees
- Collect money
- Deposit earnings
- Accumulate capital
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You are the manager of your startup in your office! Hire your employees, collect the money they earn you and take it to your safe deposit box to accumulate a large capital!
Train Manager!
Manage your own train by fueling it with coal and collecting fares from passengers for meals and tickets. A simple simulation game focused on operational tasks.
- Fuel management
- Fare collection
- Passenger service
- Train operations
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Manage the train. Put coal on the train, collect the money for meals and tickets for the passengers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Train Manager! at 33% against Startup Idle's 0%. Train Manager! also leads on rating (2.0 vs 1.8). Startup Idle's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Train Manager! holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Startup Idle's written reviews are positive against 33% of Train Manager!'s.
Startup Idle ships an update every 9 days, Train Manager! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Startup Idle | Train Manager! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (4 ratings) | 2.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 233 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kirill Kozlov | Mood Games OU |
Customer experience
Startup Idle
Train Manager!
In-app purchases
Startup Idle
No in-app purchases
Train Manager!
No in-app purchases
