Digicity vs Skyline Sim
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
Skyline Sim
Manage and grow your own airline from a single leased plane to a global mega-empire. Make strategic decisions about routes, fleet, staff, and finances in a detailed simulation. Compete against real rivals and navigate industry events to achieve profitability and dominance.
- Route planning and network building
- Fleet acquisition and customization
- Staff management and development
- Financial analysis and reporting
- Competitive industry simulation
- Regional economic differences
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You are nobody with a plane. Your aunt staked you a little seed money. The industry has carriers that have never heard of you. The only aircraft you can afford is a leased eleven-seat turboprop. Everything you will ever own, you will have earned: the first profitable week, the first plane with your registration on it, the first jet, the first time a rival you used to look up at appears below you on the ladder. Skyline Sim is an airline management game built like a flight deck. Dark instruments, live numbers, decisions with weight. ROUTES Real cities on a real satellite map, with your network drawn between them. Weekly demand tells you who wants to fly and where nobody flies them direct. Every route is a boarding pass with load factor, on-time performance and weekly profit. Set the fare, set the frequency, watch the pass fill. FLEET Lease on day one, buy used when you can, order new when you have earned it. Fifteen airframes across turboprops, regional jets, mainline jets and widebodies, unlocked tier by tier as your market cap grows. Each aircraft carries three dials for wear, condition and range. Configure the cabin seat by seat. LIVERY Pick a paint scheme and a fin emblem. It goes on every aircraft the day it joins the fleet, tail, cheatline and all. PEOPLE Pilots, cabin crew, and ground and maintenance, each with happiness and workload meters, a wage you set, and job ads you post. Overwork shows before it bites. Fill the executive desk with a Head of Operations, Maintenance, People and Finance, and unlock a research tree of twenty-three upgrades. MONEY This is where you find out whether the quarter worked. Revenue and profit draw as traces on a black display. Unit cost as RASK against CASK. Break-even load factor for every route. A quarter report grades you, and a bank and investors watch how you do. THE INDUSTRY Sixty-eight carriers on a ladder, real rivals with real names, suppliers you bargain with, fuel prices that move, and a deck of events that can hand you a windfall or a cyclone warning. Crashes, courts and recalls arrive when you are big enough to be worth suing. FOUR HOME COUNTRIES The United States is the premium game: rich fliers, expensive union crews. India is the volume game. China is the patience game. Australia is the optimisation game of long thin routes. HOW IT PLAYS Time only passes while you are playing. Nothing happens behind your back. A session is a few weeks of the sim; a campaign runs from survival to empire. Free, with one optional sponsor ad you can choose to watch for an in-game bonus, and one short interstitial at most per quarter. No purchases, no accounts, no sign-in. Three save slots, all on your device. Plays fully offline. Built for iPhone. Requires iOS 18.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Digicity at 4.7 against Skyline Sim's 4.0. Digicity also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). Skyline Sim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Skyline Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Digicity holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digicity has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Digicity ships an update every 9 days, Skyline Sim fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digicity | Skyline Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Secret Company, LLC | Prakhar Singh |
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
Skyline Sim
No in-app purchases









