Digicity vs Minaa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digicity
Build and manage a city from 1900 through different eras, facing challenges like pollution and demand. Visualize city data to understand growth and make informed decisions.
- Isometric city building simulation
- Zone residential, commercial, industrial areas
- Manage power, water, and transportation infrastructure
- Visualize city data layers (pollution, crime, etc.)
- Scenario mode with era-based rule changes
- Procedurally generated maps
- Undo functionality
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Start small. Think big. Build a city that feels like yours. Digicity is an isometric city builder for iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon. Turn a randomly generated 128x128 landscape into connected neighbourhoods, busy industry and a city shaped by your decisions. CHOOSE HOW YOU PLAY Open Build is a free sandbox with every building tool and the whole map. No ads, energy meters or play timers. Saving requires a purchase. Scenario guides a new city through four historical eras, with goals and report cards as it develops. Era purchases unlock Scenario one era at a time; Ultimate includes them all. Everyone can preview 11 established challenge cities. Ultimate is required to start them, including the new recovery challenges The River That Burned and Aftershock. Take over a working city, tackle its problems and follow suggested approaches and live goals. BUILD A CONNECTED CITY Zone homes, shops and industry. Lay roads, tram lines, freight rail, power lines and water pipes. Connect residents to jobs, provide essential services and balance tax income against upkeep. Traffic, pollution, land value and demand shape what grows. BUILD ACROSS THE WATER Add rivers when founding a city. Connect the banks with low or high road bridges, extend local routes with secondary terminals and watch boats travel usable waterways. High bridges leave room for shipping; low bridges can block it. Inspect access and locate known blockages before planning your next crossing. CHOOSE YOUR CITY RULES With Ultimate, choose Standard, Relaxed or Custom rules before founding a Scenario city. Everyone can inspect the conditions. Decide which pressures apply, including pollution, fires and earthquakes. Rules stay fixed for that city. When enabled, river fires, earthquakes and aftershocks create new recovery problems. Review debris clearance costs before rebuilding. UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR CITY NEEDS Use data overlays, tile details and the city overview to explore population, finances, utilities and transport. In Scenario, choose transport priorities and emergency-service funding, compare city figures after policies take effect and pursue optional ambitions. Pause to plan or choose Normal, Fast or Fastest. SAVE AND RECOVER Saving and Ultimate are one-time purchases that include named saves and device-local autosaves. Without saving access, your city is lost if the app closes or the system terminates it. Autosave is on by default and keeps up to three recent recovery versions per city history. Force quitting can lose changes made after the last successful autosave. Ultimate includes saving, all Scenario eras, city rules and all 11 challenge cities. Purchases are not subscriptions and do not expire. Purchasing Saving or Ultimate supports future updates and continued development. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch are available. Digicity follows a supported device language or falls back to English; choose another supported app language in Settings. We use AI for translations from English. They may contain mistakes; share suggestions through Translation feedback in the city menu. Play in landscape on iPhone, build on iPad or use a Mac with Apple silicon. No account or sign-in is required. https://digicitybuilder.app/privacy
Minaa
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Mina is a quiet place to build. Tap the water and land rises out of the sea. Tap the land and a house appears, with its own roof, windows, door and chimney. Keep tapping and a harbour town grows around you: crooked streets, arched passages, bridges over the water, roof terraces with gardens on top. There is no score, no timer, no enemies and nothing to unlock. You build until it looks right. BUILD BY TAPPING • Tap water to raise a tile, tap land or a rooftop to stack the next block • Roofs, windows, doors, shutters, chimneys and balconies are all generated for you • Tap the side of an upper floor to float a room on arches, or span the water to make a bridge • Hold to remove. Undo and redo anything. A TOWN THAT FEELS LIVED IN • Townsfolk stroll between the plazas, cross the bridges and walk their dogs • Gulls circle overhead and perch on the roof ridges • Boats moor along the quays and rock on the waves • Fountains, benches, lamp posts, trees, palms and cypresses fill the squares TWENTY-FOUR SWATCHES, NOT JUST COLOURS • Thirteen house colours, from coral and sun to indigo and cream • Three stone tones that build castles instead, with battlements and slit windows • Eight civic buildings with architecture of their own: a police station, a café, a souk, an office, a hospital, a school, a gas station and a company headquarters. The café spills tables onto the plaza next door. The souk sets up stalls of produce on every open wall. The office gets glass curtain walls and air conditioners on the roof. SEVEN TOOLS • Build, Paint, Style, Terrain, Paths, Decor and Erase • Style cycles six roof shapes: hip, gable, turned gable, terrace, dome and automatic • Terrain raises hills that lift the houses with them, and slopes beaches into the sea • Stairs appear on their own between plazas of different heights WEATHER, SEASONS AND THE HOUR • Move from day to sunset to night: windows light up, lamps glow, the stars come out • Clear, rain with umbrellas out and gulls sheltering, autumn with leaves falling, and snow on every roof and bush • Flags, awnings, tree canopies and fountain spray move in the wind • Or let the day run by itself in a slow loop while you build SEE IT UP CLOSE • Photo mode hides the interface so you can frame a picture and share it • Walk mode drops you into your own streets at eye height, joystick to move, drag to look • Grow a Village Here builds a whole neighbourhood around the spot you are looking at, with a fountain, streets, a café, a souk, a hill and a beach KEEP EVERYTHING • Unlimited towns, each saved automatically with its own thumbnail • Towns mirror through iCloud between your iPhone and your iPad • Export any town as a 3D model that Blender and MeshLab open No ads. No in-app purchases. No account, no sign-in. Nothing is collected. Works completely offline. Privacy Policy: https://ghassanjaa.github.io/MinalLandingPage/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://ghassanjaa.github.io/MinalLandingPage/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Minaa at 17.0 against Digicity's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Digicity sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Minaa sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Digicity ships an update every 9 days, Minaa fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digicity | Minaa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Secret Company, LLC | Ghassan Jaam |
In-app purchases
Digicity
- Scenario: 1900-1930$1.99
- Scenario: 1930-1970$1.99
- Scenario: 1970-2010$1.99
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- Scenario: 2010 onword$1.99
- Save your cities$9.99
- Everything, forever$19.99
Minaa
- Mina Plus$7.99









