Design A Train vs Toy Train 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Design A Train
Design and color your own trains with a variety of tools and stickers. Once complete, you can save, share, print, or integrate your creations into other train-themed games.
- Customize train cars and engines
- Easy one-touch coloring
- Add and reposition stickers
- Assemble and rearrange full trains
- Export to other train games
- Save, share, and print creations
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Do you love trains? Do you love coloring? Then Design A Train is the perfect app for you - or your train-loving toddler. Design A Train allows you to select a train car or engine and customize it to your heart's delight. Simply pick a train car or engine, color it in as desired with easy one-touch fill, and then add some stickers for extra fun. When you're done with your locomotive masterpiece you can save it to your device, share it with the family - or perhaps print it out for a prize place on the family fridge. FEATURES: - CUSTOMIZE & COLOR Easily add color to your train. Just tap a color from the palette and then tap your train. - ZOOM (iPhone/iPod Touch only) Easily zoom in to color some of the smaller regions. - STICKERS Browse a range of stickers and then tap to add to your train. Change your mind about a sticker? You can drag stickers to reposition them or just double-tap to delete. - PLAY WITH YOUR TRAIN Once you have customized a car or engine, you can add it to your full train and then rearrange and place your train cars as desired. - INTEGRATION WITH BUILD A TRAIN Customize your train and then with one tap, you can export your very own personal train for use with Build A Train. - INTEGRATION WITH BUILD A TRAIN PUZZLES Customize your train and select the train yard of your choice. Then with one tap, you can export your very own customized puzzle for use with Build A Train Puzzles. - SAVE, SHARE AND PRINT You can save your train cars to your device library, easily send them to friends or print them out. Note: printing is supported for devices running iOS 4.2+ that are connected to AirPrint enabled printers. "Highly recommend" - http://Best10Apps.com Got suggestions for improving Design A Train? Leave a review and let us know! We love to hear constructive feedback - it helps make the app better. -- To learn more about Playtend please visit us at http://playtend.com
Toy Train 3D
Experience the joy of operating a miniature railway with this model railroad simulator. Design and build your own unique train layouts to bring your railway dreams to life.
- Model railroad simulation
- Train operation gameplay
- Customizable layout creation
- Realistic toy train experience
- Intuitive design tools
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Toy Train 3D is a model railroad simulator. You can enjoy running a train. You can create the original layout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Toy Train 3D at Free against Design A Train's $1.99. Design A Train's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Toy Train 3D is free to download; Design A Train costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Design A Train against 4.5 for Toy Train 3D. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Design A Train's written reviews are positive against 75% of Toy Train 3D's.
Design A Train ships an update every 2 months, Toy Train 3D every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Design A Train | Toy Train 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (25 ratings) | 4.5 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Playtend Apps LLP | Kouichi Hayashi |
Customer experience
Design A Train
Toy Train 3D
In-app purchases
Design A Train
No in-app purchases
Toy Train 3D
No in-app purchases
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