Comparison

Design A Train vs ModelRailway Millionaire Light

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

ModelRailway Millionaire Light

Design and manage a miniature railway empire. Build intricate track layouts, populate them with detailed 3D models, and develop a thriving economy to expand your holdings. This free version offers a taste of the full simulation experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable terrain editing
  • Extensive 3D model library
  • Intuitive track layout creation
  • Automated train operations
  • City building and population management
  • Economic simulation and resource management
Features
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This game is a mix of model railway and economic simulation. You can select the size of your layout and edit the terrain by painting it using different textures and creating hills, rivers, lakes, platforms, slopes, or select different premade terrain types. Then populate the layout with beautiful 3D models of engines, wagons, buildings, plants etc., but only as you wallet - which is limited in is this free version - enables to buy the new items. It is very important to build a working economics from the beginning, so that your money resources never run out. Creating the track layout is very easy with the self explaining menus, which offer always only the possible actions during the use. The track can climb up to the hills or go through them with tunnels. The length of the track is practically unlimited. You can add as many switches as you want, only your fantasy limits the complexity. Put engines and wagons on the built track and just push them with your finger, and they start to move. They will travel the prepared track and stop automatically at the placed industrial buildings and stations. The trains will deliver automatically food, steel and oil to the city stations, and if your cities are big enough you can transport passengers between them. If you build big cities, deliver enough food, steel and oil, and offer transportation to the city inhabitants, your game money may increase till the limits of this free version.

Screenshots

Design A Train4 screens
ModelRailway Millionaire Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ModelRailway Millionaire Light at Free against Design A Train's $1.99. Design A Train's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (71% vs 55%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

ModelRailway Millionaire Light 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Design A Train holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Design A Train's written reviews are positive against 55% of ModelRailway Millionaire Light's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Design A Train versus ModelRailway Millionaire Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDesign A TrainModelRailway Millionaire Light
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (25 ratings) — better3.5 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better54.5% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB223 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaytend Apps LLPrbskft

Customer experience

Design A Train

All ratings25 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral9.5%
Negative19.0%

ModelRailway Millionaire Light

All ratings14 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative35.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral18.2%
Negative27.3%

In-app purchases

None

Design A Train

No in-app purchases

None

ModelRailway Millionaire Light

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Design A Train free?
Design A Train costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ModelRailway Millionaire Light free?
ModelRailway Millionaire Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Design A Train or ModelRailway Millionaire Light?
Design A Train is rated higher. Design A Train averages 4.4 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while ModelRailway Millionaire Light averages 3.5 from 21 ratings.
Do Design A Train or ModelRailway Millionaire Light have ads?
Neither Design A Train nor ModelRailway Millionaire Light shows ads.

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