Flagtown vs Engine Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flagtown
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Gather round and prove your flag knowledge, earn gems by playing the streak challenge and build your island up to show off you shiny new flag collection. Don't know the flags of the world yet? Well test yourself and learn the ones you don't know! If you love flags you'll love flag town. (Now featuring optional capital cities learning! I still don't know em all... but I'm learning :)
Engine Lab
Explore engine mechanics with a touch-first simulator. Build, tune, and test custom engines, observing animations and hearing synthesized exhaust sounds. Export your creations as WAV files.
- Touch-first engine simulation
- Build and save custom engines
- Tune engine parameters
- Simulated dyno pulls
- Crank and piston animation
- Native exhaust synthesis
- Export WAV audio
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Build an engine and hear it run. Engine Lab is a touch-first engine simulator: design anything from a single to a V12, then hear it idle, rev and pull to the limiter, live on your iPhone or iPad. BUILD BENCH • Set the layout, 1 to 12 cylinders, bore, stroke, firing order and redline. • Hear each change as you make it, and hold to rev. • Try different headers, exhausts and mufflers. • Compare against a saved version by ear or on the dyno. SEE IT IN 3D • Every engine, including your own builds, becomes a 3D model driven by the live simulation: pistons, crank, cams, valves and glowing headers. • Orbit, zoom, slow it down, switch between X-ray and solid, and tap any part for live readings. The classic 2D cutaway is one tap away. DRIVE IT • Manual or automatic gearbox with clutch and road speed, plus a gearing chart with top speed in each gear. • Simulated dyno pulls with torque and power curves. • Six built-in engines: Honda B18C5 VTEC, Honda TRX520 single, BMW M52B28, Toyota 2JZ, Audi 2.3 inline-5 and GM LS V8. IMPORT AND SHARE • Import engine-sim .mr scripts and share your builds as .mr files. • Export a WAV recorded by the on-device simulator. No account, network service or microphone permission is required. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks advanced tuning and unlimited saved builds; the free plan keeps three. Values are simulated estimates for exploration, not certified engineering measurements.
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Verdict
Flagtown and Engine Lab are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Flagtown sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Engine Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Flagtown | Engine Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jericho Rock-Archer | Jan Sokol |
In-app purchases
Flagtown
- 20 Gems$6.99
- 50 Gems$12.99
- 200 Gems$24.99
Engine Lab
- Engine Lab Pro$4.99
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