Train Sim Builder vs MobileBVE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Train Sim Builder
Design and operate your own train world with realistic 3D graphics. Build custom layouts, place hundreds of items, and drive over 80 different trains with detailed cabin views. Enjoy regular content updates and exciting train derailments.
- Realistic 3D graphics
- Customizable track layouts
- Hundreds of decorative items
- Drive 80+ trains and locomotives
- Interior cabin views
- Train derailment physics
- Regular content updates
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Train Sim Builder includes everything you need to build and operate your own dream train world. You can build a fun layout in minutes, or spend hours perfecting your own train environment. Then drive one of the 80+ trains included in Train Sim Builder. Control speed, direction, sound horn and bell, control train lights, switch between night and day mode all with multiple camera angles. Watch as the train goes by from a station or sit inside a realistc 3D cabin. - Awesomely realistic 3D graphics - Customize the track layouts - Place 100s of items to complete your perfect Train Environments - Drive one of the 80+ included Trains and historical Locomotives - 60+ Rolling Stock Train Cars - Play or customize one of the pre-made Train Levels - Interior cabin views for all trains - Train derailments - No in app purchases - Regular content updates
MobileBVE
Experience realistic train simulation on your mobile device with direct support for existing routes and trains. Enjoy advanced features and multiplayer capabilities for both online and local LAN play.
- Direct OpenBVE/BVE Trainsim route/train support
- Easy route/train importing
- Accurate train simulation
- Scenery animations
- Online and LAN multiplayer
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Introducing MobileBVE, an effort at porting OpenBVE to Mobile Devices. Took some time, hours of bugfixing and multiple headaches, but hey, it works. You might ask, why install this when Hmmsim exists? Well, it's free. And it's more advanced. Well what are the features anyways and how advanced is it? • Direct OpenBVE/BVE Trainsim 2/4 routes/trains support, no conversion needed • Easy route/train importing • Accurate Train Simulation just like OpenBVE or Hmmsim • Proper Scenery Animations • And much much more There's even support Multiplayer play(which OpenBVE nor Hmmsim has), which allows for Online or Local LAN Network Multiplayer Play. More updates to come.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MobileBVE at none against Train Sim Builder's shown. MobileBVE also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (21 vs 3). Train Sim Builder's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Train Sim Builder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MobileBVE has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Train Sim Builder's written reviews are positive against 80% of MobileBVE's.
Train Sim Builder ships an update daily, MobileBVE weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Train Sim Builder | MobileBVE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 79.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 346 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1788918 Alberta Ltd | co.eggtart.darkchess.app |
Customer experience
Train Sim Builder
MobileBVE
In-app purchases
Train Sim Builder
No in-app purchases
MobileBVE
No in-app purchases
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