VirtuTrade vs The Crypto Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VirtuTrade
Practice cryptocurrency trading without risking real money. This app simulates trades, offering a safe environment to learn and experiment with digital assets. It does not provide financial advice or actual trading services.
- Simulated trading environment
- No real money involved
- Learn cryptocurrency trading
- Experiment with digital assets
- Safe practice platform
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VirtuTrade is designed for experimentation and learning. All trades are simulated and no real money is involved. VirtuTrade does not provide financial advice or real trading services.
The Crypto Simulator
Practice cryptocurrency trading with a virtual portfolio and simulated cash. Track your simulated investments, explore market data, and build a watchlist without any financial risk. Ideal for beginners and experienced traders looking to test strategies.
- Virtual crypto portfolio
- Simulated buying and selling
- Portfolio balance and performance tracking
- Market data and coin details
- Personal watchlist
- Claim virtual free cash
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Crypto Simulator is a virtual crypto portfolio simulator built for learning, practicing, and tracking the crypto market without using real money. Start with virtual cash, explore popular cryptocurrencies, build a simulated portfolio, and watch how your decisions perform over time. Crypto Simulator gives you a clean dashboard for balance, holdings, daily returns, all-time performance, market data, watchlists, coin detail charts, and trade history. Whether you are new to crypto or want a safer way to test trading ideas, Crypto Simulator helps you practice in a realistic market-style environment. Key Features • Build a virtual crypto portfolio with simulated cash • Practice buying and selling crypto without financial risk • Track portfolio balance, cash, holdings, and performance • View Today and All-Time return data • Explore market prices, volume, market cap, supply, ATH data, and more • Sort crypto assets in a detailed market table • Search coins by name or symbol • Add coins to a personal watchlist • View coin detail pages with charts, stats, holdings, and order history • Claim virtual free cash to continue practicing • Optional one-time purchase to remove ads Crypto Simulator is designed for education, practice, and market exploration. It does not provide financial advice, brokerage services, real trading, or real-money investing. Keywords crypto simulator, crypto portfolio, bitcoin, ethereum, trading simulator, virtual trading, paper trading, crypto tracker, market data, watchlist, portfolio tracker, coin prices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VirtuTrade at none against The Crypto Simulator's 1. VirtuTrade also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). The Crypto Simulator's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. The Crypto Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VirtuTrade asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VirtuTrade against 5.0 for The Crypto Simulator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
VirtuTrade ships an update fortnightly, The Crypto Simulator every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 27, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VirtuTrade | The Crypto Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JASIN MARKU | Vaibhav Pandya |
In-app purchases
VirtuTrade
No in-app purchases
The Crypto Simulator
- Remove Ads$2.99
