HM | DCC vs Your Tracks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HM | DCC
Control your model railway system wirelessly with this app. Build your locomotive library, customize their settings, and design your dream layout with untethered control over points, signals, and turntables. Enjoy free sound profiles and upgrade existing systems.
- Wireless model railway control
- Locomotive customization
- On-the-fly setting adjustments
- Layout design tool
- Controllable points, signals, turntables
- Free locomotive sound profiles
- Bluetooth® device linking
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The official app for setting up and controlling your HM7000 range of products. HM | DCC is the new model railway control system that makes it simple to build your library of locomotives and have ultimate control over them in the palm of your hand. Customise your locomotives with images, tinker, tailor & test settings on the fly to perfect your locomotive’s running style. Design your dream layout and manoeuvre locomotives through controllable points, signals, and turntables with untethered control. Easily set up your system. Log in*, link up your Bluetooth® HM devices, power-cycle and away you go. Control your system free of wires. Complete wireless & untethered control of your layout. Upgrade previous systems without ripping out installed controllers and components. Personalise your locomotives. Fill your engine shed with your fleet of locomotives, choose the perfect photo, and programme their settings to see locomotive running styles change instantaneously. Enjoy completely FREE locomotive sound profiles. Connect your HM7000-TXS decoders to HM | DCC and relish a plethora of class locomotive sounds for download. Keep up to date with the latest releases and get more locomotive sound profiles to play with on the day of release. Design your dream layout. Use the in-built Track Builder to draw up and design the perfect layout. Then, export a list easily to know what you need to build it. Everyone’s included. Functions with OO, TT and N scale gauges. Upgrade your previous DCC products to work with HM | DCC. Upgrade “DCC ready” locomotives to HM | DCC app control with HM7000 decoders. Control locomotives fitted with non-Bluetooth® and HM7000 Bluetooth® decoders in parallel. Explore the different ways you can upgrade via the Hornby.com website. *Please note: A Hornby.com account is required for HM | DCC app use. This can be easily created from the Hornby.com website. Internet access is required for device reset, profile download, hardware updates, app updates and app login. Disclaimer: Please ensure that your device is fully compatible with both the HM | DCC app and the HM7000 range of products prior to any purchase. Devices older than 5 years may work but cannot be recommended for control. If unsure, please visit the Hornby.com website or contact Hornby Hobbies customer care.
Your Tracks
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Plan your brick train layout, run a train round it, then see it at real size on your floor. Ever spent an hour laying track on the living-room floor, only to find you're two curves short? Your Tracks is the design studio for brick-built railways — from a first oval with the kids to a two-table club layout. Snap real pieces together, let the app close the loop for you, and know it'll fit before you open a single box. NEW: SEE IT ON YOUR FLOOR Point your iPhone or iPad at the floor and drop your layout down at true 1:1 size. Walk round it, check it clears the sofa, then send a train round the track and tap the switches to change its route. Tabletop mode shrinks it to 1:8 for the desk, and snapshots save straight to Photos. NEW: CLOSE GAP Two loose ends that won't meet? Select them and Your Tracks finds up to three ways to join them with real pieces — adding a few gently bent flex sections when nothing else fits exactly. Preview each option, then add it with one tap. PLAN • Smart snapping — pieces join at their real connection points, rotations worked out for you, and you'll know the moment a loop closes • Brick-track library — straights, half and quarter straights, R40 curves, switches, crossings, the double crossover and flex track, all to true scale in studs • TrixBrix range — 100+ pieces: wide curves, switches, crossings, narrow and dual gauge • Baseplates — 32×32 and 16×16 plates in 11 colours, to plan the town around your railway • Areas — mark the space you really have: rectangles, circles or ovals, in centimetres or plates, with floors from carpet to wood EDIT • Select whole routes, or just the run between two pieces • Move, rotate, flip and duplicate whole sections at once • Copy and paste between layouts — even paste a mirror image • 50 levels of undo, shake to undo and the three-finger swipe RUN • Virtual train — steam, TGV or classic brick • Tap to go faster, flip switches as it runs, and watch it follow every curve and crossover KEEP & SHARE • Unlimited layouts, favourites and auto-save • Parts list — see exactly how many of each piece you need, so the shopping list writes itself • Crisp PNG exports for your group chat, forum or club • Three looks: cel-shaded, minimal or bricks Built for iPhone and iPad. No account. No ads. No in-app purchases. Designed by train builders, for train builders. TrixBrix is a trademark of its respective owner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HM | DCC at Free against Your Tracks's $1.99. HM | DCC also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Your Tracks's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and chart position (#177 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
HM | DCC is free to download; Your Tracks costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HM | DCC ships an update every 4 months, Your Tracks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HM | DCC | Your Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #177 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hornby Hobbies Ltd | Bryan Simpson |
In-app purchases
HM | DCC
No in-app purchases
Your Tracks
No in-app purchases
Questions
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