Comparison

TapBrew vs Dealer Simulator

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

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About

TapBrew

An idle simulation game where you brew authentic beer recipes, manage multiple stages of production, and grow your brewery from a small garage to a full-scale facility. The game features a patient tycoon experience with no ads or pay-to-win mechanics.

Highlights
  • Authentic brewing pipeline with six stages
  • Progressive brewery upgrades across four tiers
  • Unlockable beer recipes
  • Idle-friendly gameplay with offline progress
  • Prestige system for permanent bonuses
  • Privacy-focused with no tracking or ads
Features
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TapBrew is an idle brewing game built for people who love beer and patient simulation. No flashy ads. No pay-to-win. Just a clean, deep tycoon experience: brew authentic recipes, manage parallel fermenters across six real stages, and grow from a single home garage into a full production hall. ▸ AUTHENTIC BREWING PIPELINE Six real stages — mashing, boiling, cooling, fermenting, conditioning, bottling. Every recipe needs water, malt, hops, and yeast. Hops and yeast spoil if you take too long, so timing matters. ▸ FOUR GARAGE TIERS Start with one fermenter in a home garage. Upgrade to a brewing shed, a microbrewery, and finally a full production hall with twelve concurrent fermenters. Sale prices scale up to 4×. ▸ FOUR RECIPES Pilsener, Porter, IPA and Imperial Stout. Unlock as you scale up. Each recipe has its own ingredient list, yield and lifetime revenue tracking. ▸ IDLE-FRIENDLY Batches advance while the app is closed. Welcome-back recap shows what finished while you were away. Optional local notifications when a batch is ready to bottle. ▸ PRESTIGE AND REPUTATION Master the late game, prestige, and bank permanent reputation points that multiply every future brew. Soft reset keeps the loop fresh. ▸ MADE FOR EVERYONE Fully localized in 19 languages. Four currencies. Full haptic and sound control. Settings → Export save lets you back up to clipboard or share preferences with a friend. ▸ YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE No advertising SDKs. No tracking. Your save lives on your phone by default. Optional anonymous cloud sync. Privacy by design. Published by Evnola OÖ. Privacy: tapbrew.evnola.com/privacy-policy

About

Dealer Simulator

Manage all aspects of a car dealership, from sales and service to finance and expansion. Hire staff, handle repairs, manage inventory, and grow your automotive empire through various campaigns and a sandbox mode.

Highlights
  • Manage sales floor and staff
  • Oversee service department repairs
  • Handle dealership finances and budgeting
  • Track market trends and inventory
  • Expand your automotive empire
  • Engage in scenario-based campaigns
  • Utilize sandbox mode for free play
Features
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You just took over Apex Motors, a franchise store that the last GM left bleeding. You have $120,000, thirty-eight cars, a service department that can't carry the building, and a rival across the highway that wants your best closer. Run every department like a real one: • THE FLOOR — hire from real résumés with traits that matter, turn dead deals over to the desk, work the be-back list, set objectives, run Saturday meetings and contests, pick from five pay plans, and take the big pencil yourself. • THE SHOP — a flat-rate catalog of real repairs with book times, a tech ladder from lube rack to shop foreman, an express lane, loaners, a tire program, a wholesale counter, EV tooling, a body shop, and service contracts that come back as repair orders. • THE BOOKS — deals that fund through contracts in transit, factory schedules, a twelve-item month-end close, budgets, used-car water, a controller, a bank that renews your line once a year, and owners who expect a distribution. • THE MARKET — new and used lines that age differently, a book value that drifts weekly, interest rates and gas prices that move the whole county. • THE 20 GROUP — a peer composite with sixteen KPIs, the guide set by the top half of stores like yours, and a monthly action plan you're held to. • THE EMPIRE — buy the corner lot, the buy-here-pay-here, two franchise points, and finally Crestline itself. Ask Diesel, the old-timer who wanders your lot, anything about the business. Take on a twelve-scenario campaign with stars: the embezzler, the flood, the recall, the audit, the rust-belt turnaround, the empire. Learn the trade at Dealer University. Climb from Sales Manager to Dealer Principal, sell the group, and start again with a perk. Fifty-two achievements, three leaderboards, controller support, and a sandbox where nothing can go wrong.

Screenshots

TapBrew4 screens
Dealer Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TapBrew at every 6 days against Dealer Simulator's every 3 weeks. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TapBrew against 5.0 for Dealer Simulator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapBrew ships an update every 6 days, Dealer Simulator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
TapBrew versus Dealer Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapBrewDealer Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEvnola OUCheryl Turner

In-app purchases

None

TapBrew

No in-app purchases

None

Dealer Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TapBrew free?
TapBrew is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dealer Simulator free?
Dealer Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TapBrew or Dealer Simulator?
TapBrew and Dealer Simulator are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do TapBrew or Dealer Simulator have ads?
Neither TapBrew nor Dealer Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TapBrew or Dealer Simulator?
TapBrew ships an update every 6 days, and Dealer Simulator every 3 weeks. Most recently, TapBrew was updated on October 31, 2026 and Dealer Simulator on November 2, 2026.

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