Whopping Diggers vs Train Sounds Effects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whopping Diggers
This app offers a collection of videos, photos, and games featuring construction machines for young children. Designed for easy navigation by little fingers, it provides hours of entertainment with diggers, tractors, and dumpers. It works offline for on-the-go fun.
- Automatic video playback
- Swipe navigation for videos/photos
- Over 70 minutes of video content
- Memory matching game
- Mini puzzle game
- Offline functionality
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Vroom, vroom! Does your little one love diggers and other construction machines? Whopping Diggers is a simple entertainment app for small kids and toddlers, delivering endless fun with excavators, tractors, dumpers and other heavy machinery. The app is 100% free to use forever. Over a million downloads since 2011 – join the team of happy kids now! Whopping Diggers offers tons of videos (more than 70 minutes) and photos and an awesome digger themed games all in one toddler-sized app for iPhone or iPad. It's made for little fingers (ages 1+) to explore on their own, and works without an internet connection so you can take the fun anywhere! Designed for free use, In-App purchase just optional. -= DESCRIPTION =- TODDLER VIDEO PLAY - Videos start automatically, no buttons to press - Swipe left or right to move to the next photo or video - Now whopping 44 free videos and 100+ photos (more than 70 minutes of machine action!) - HD-quality resolution and sound MEMORY GAME — DIGGERS - Simple to learn, easy to play - Fun sounds whether you guess right or wrong - Learn and play at the same time! - Global hi-scores MINI PUZZLE - Find the right spot for a piece - Super-easy gameplay - Many different image sets -= MORE WHOPPING APPS AVAILABLE =- The entire Whopping Apps collection of video apps was created by a father of three rambunctious toddlers. All content has therefore been thoroughly evaluated, critiqued, banged on, and licked by an entire in-house staff of discerning toddlers with sticky fingers. Your little tike will love it too! ;) Check out the other Whopping Apps including: Whopping Trains, Whopping Fire Trucks, Whopping Planes and more. -= USER COMMENTS =- My 3 year old loves these - Got this for my son who is fascinated with heavy trucks and he loves it. We have all the whopping apps now. The fire trucks one is his favorite. Great for tractor loving boys - Since tractor loving boys picked the videos, it's just great for boys who loves to watch machines in action, and then immediately afterwards watch different machines in different action.Watch out though, because there's videos of little boys driving lawn tractors, and you may get put on the spot to buy your kid his own lawnmower (again). Two year old loves it - Brilliant. If you have a digger-mad child like me you will find this app invaluable. We have this and Whopping Diggers 2, and he never tires of watching either - we have to ration it as a treat! -= TATTLE ON US =- Please rate and write a review for Whopping Apps if your toddler loves it as much as ours. For questions, concerns, bug reports, or improvements, please write directly to us via the app's Parents Zone or: Email: support@whoppingapps.com Facebook.com/whoppingapps YouTube.com/whoppingapps
Train Sounds Effects
Enhance your model railway experience with a variety of realistic train sound effects. Control playback with switches for continuous loops or buttons for single plays, and adjust individual volumes. Import your own sounds to further personalize your setup.
- Expand model railway with sound effects
- Use iPad or external speakers
- Control playback with switches (loop) or buttons (once)
- Individually adjust volume for each element
- Import custom sound effects
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With Train-Sounds you expand your model railway with additional sound effects. Thus the joy deepens around your model railway. Use your iPad speakers or external speakers to listen these effects. The combination of switches and buttons allow you to determine how these effects are to be played. With switches, the effects are playing in a continuous loop and with buttons only once. At each switching element, you can adjust the volume individually. Buy through the in-app you add value to your version of Train-Sounds, you can bring your own sound effects into the program.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Whopping Diggers at 105 against Train Sounds Effects's 10. Whopping Diggers also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.3). Train Sounds Effects's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 64%). On price, rating, 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. Whopping Diggers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Train Sounds Effects sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Whopping Diggers holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Whopping Diggers has 105 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Whopping Diggers's written reviews are positive against 73% of Train Sounds Effects's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Whopping Diggers ships an update every 2 months, Train Sounds Effects every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whopping Diggers | Train Sounds Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (105 ratings) — better | 4.1 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.5% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 623 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appsipaja Oy | Janko Enke |
Customer experience
Whopping Diggers
Train Sounds Effects
Bugs and requests
Whopping Diggers
Reported bugs
8 issues- Paid version still has ads
- App freezes after updates
- App won't open after updates
- Half of the videos don't work
- Zombie ad appeared
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- Banner ads are inappropriate
- Shop icon broken
- App doesn't work on older devices
Requested features
8 requests- Remove ads from paid version
- Option for ad-free paid version
- More video content
- Improve usability
- Add interactive features (looping, pinch/zoom, pause)
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- Automatic advancement between videos/stills
- Minimize touch/swipe actions
- Alternative contact methods for support
Train Sounds Effects
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Whopping Diggers
- The Pro Pack$1.99
Train Sounds Effects
- Extra Package$0.99
Questions
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