Comparison

Start Your Business vs Silicon

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

Head to head
About

Start Your Business

Experience the world of game development and build your own empire. Prove your capabilities and try your luck in this simulation game.

Highlights
  • Game development simulation
  • Build your empire
  • Showcase your capabilities
  • Try your luck
Features
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Try your own luck in world of game development. Show everyone, what you are capable of.

About

Silicon

Build a tech empire from a garage to a global scale by designing, manufacturing, and selling innovative devices. Compete with rivals, manage your factory, and research new technologies to dominate the market. This premium simulation game offers deep customization and strategic gameplay.

Highlights
  • Design custom tech products
  • Build and manage a 3D factory
  • Time market launches and trends
  • Compete with AI rivals
  • Play the stock market
  • Research new technologies
  • Build and manage a team
Features
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Build a tech company from a one-room garage to a global empire — one device at a time. Silicon is a premium business simulation and tycoon game. You don't just watch numbers tick — you DESIGN the products, BUILD the factory that makes them, and RUN the company that sells them. Found a startup, ship something great, crush your rivals, take it public, and rule the industry. DESIGN EVERY DEVICE Customize phones, tablets, laptops, consoles, monitors and AR glasses from the inside out — chip, display, battery, materials, camera array, finish and color — and watch each one render live in a crisp vector preview. Every choice moves your cost, your margin, and how the market reacts. Form matters too: a striking design sells. BUILD A REAL FACTORY Factory Mode is a living 3D production line you build yourself. Lay conveyor belts, place and upgrade machines, and wire the floor so it builds faster — each device needs the right machines (a phone wants a screen bonder, a laptop a chassis mill). Decorate with props and painted walls, expand the building, and take Side Order commissions to keep the line busy between launches. TIME THE MARKET Consumer taste shifts week by week. Read the trend, price it right, pick the campaign that fits your budget, and find your launch window. The game always tells you WHY a product won or flopped — so every launch teaches you something. MAKE ENEMIES Race a dozen fictional rivals up the live industry leaderboard. One becomes your arch-rival — a living nemesis you clash with again and again. When a rival strikes your category, duel their device head-to-head and answer back. Every year the Silicon Awards judge every launch across Device of the Year, Design and Value — sweep the ceremony or build a grudge. PLAY THE MARKET Trade rival shares, buy a board seat for insider intel, take a controlling stake for a discounted hostile takeover, or acquire a rival outright to absorb its brand, fans and patents. Then take your own company public and beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. GO GLOBAL License new regions — each with its own taste and market size — then weather regional events: booms to ride, tariffs to answer, and rival surges to defend your standing. RESEARCH THE FRONTIER Develop a deep tech tree over time on a live progress ring — queue your next breakthroughs, commit to research doctrines that give your products identity, and chase Eureka flashes of insight for a jackpot. BUILD A TEAM AND HQ Hire engineers, designers and marketers — each with a specialty, a trait and a mood that moves their output. Senior staff grow into mentors and masters. Watch your real-time 3D headquarters fill with life from garage to campus. FREE TO PLAY. NO DARK PATTERNS. No ads. No timers. No energy. No currencies. No loot boxes. Design devices, read the market and grow your company through the Garage and Growth eras for free, with a fresh seeded challenge every day, fully offline. SILICON PRO An optional subscription opens the rest of the industry: the Platform and AI eras, every scenario, New Game+ and Ascension, the Platform Division, Creative Mode, the Vault and the Device Museum, and the Time Machine that rewinds your company to any of the last five quarters. Monthly or yearly with a free trial, or buy it once with Pro Lifetime. Nothing you can buy changes the simulation in your favour. Found your company. Ship something great. Run the industry. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wrexist.github.io/Silicon-Tech-Tycoon/privacy/

Screenshots

Start Your Business3 screens
Silicon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Start Your Business at none against Silicon's 4. Start Your Business also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Silicon sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Start Your Business asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.0 for Start Your Business against 2.0 for Silicon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Start Your Business ships an update every 4 days, Silicon every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Start Your Business versus Silicon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStart Your BusinessSilicon
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)2.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarian MaliIsac Molin

Customer experience

Start Your Business

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Silicon

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Start Your Business

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Silicon

Subscriptions2
  • Silicon Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Silicon Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Creative Mode$2.99
  • Silicon Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Start Your Business free?
Start Your Business is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silicon free?
Silicon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Start Your Business or Silicon?
Start Your Business and Silicon are both rated 2.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Start Your Business or Silicon have ads?
Neither Start Your Business nor Silicon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Start Your Business or Silicon?
Start Your Business ships an update every 4 days, and Silicon every 8 days. Most recently, Start Your Business was updated on November 5, 2026 and Silicon on October 31, 2026.

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