Comparison

Auto vs Tuning Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Auto

Features
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Get behind the wheel and learn to drive a manual (stick shift) car, just like for real, in a detailed 3D city. Auto-École 3D guides you step by step, from starting the engine to the trickiest situations of the driving test. REALISTIC MANUAL DRIVING • Clutch, accelerator, brake and H-pattern gear lever • Learn to pull away without stalling, shift up and shift down • Realistic pedals: press like with your foot, the pedal percentage is shown • Handbrake, indicators, lights, horn: everything works like in a real car • Driver view with dashboard and mirrors, or outside view REAL DRIVING FEEL • The car dives when you brake hard and shakes on impact • The engine stalls with jolts if you release the clutch too fast • Adjustable phone vibrations, camera shake and on-screen display GUIDED LESSONS • Short, progressive lessons to master the basics • Clear tips at every step • Your progress is saved on your device MISSIONS: REAL SITUATIONS • Overtaking and merging on the highway while checking your mirrors • Roundabouts, priority to the right, hill starts • School zone, emergency vehicle, roadworks, country road… PARKING MODULE • Parallel parking (easy, tight, on the left), bay parking forwards and in reverse, angled parking • Underground parking garage, three-point turn • An "exam" level that chains everything together ROAD RULES AND WARNING LIGHTS • 117 questions to review the rules of the road • Learn to recognize dashboard warning lights and road signs 5 LANGUAGES English, French, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese. Perfect to prepare for your driver's license, practice before the test, or simply discover how to drive a manual car safely. Free, with ads. A one-time in-app purchase removes the ads. Auto-École 3D is a practice game: it does not replace lessons with a qualified driving instructor. Road rules in the game follow the French Highway Code.

About

Tuning Simulator

Simulate engine tuning on a virtual dyno. Adjust fuel maps, timing, and boost to optimize power curves and engine health. Features a realistic engine model, multiple engine types, and a career mode with customer jobs and rival shops.

Highlights
  • Realistic engine simulation
  • Adjustable fuel maps and timing
  • Boost and wastegate control
  • Multiple engine types and parts
  • Career mode with customer jobs
  • Daily challenges and leaderboards
  • Guided tutorials and lessons
Features
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A simulated engine on a dyno, run by a standalone ECU you tune yourself. Change the fuel map, the timing or the boost and watch what happens to the power curve, the mixture and the knock sensor. It behaves like the real thing. The engine model runs every combustion event. Lean it out and it misfires. Add too much timing and it knocks, then cracks a piston. Fit bigger injectors without telling the ECU and it floods. THE ECU - Fuel VE, lambda targets, ignition, boost target and wastegate duty, idle, warmup, cranking, accel enrichment and dead times - Closed loop, knock control, rev and boost limiters, auto learn and "Fix from pull" - Select cells, drag curves, type values, interpolate and smooth, in a grid or in 3D - Lay the data log over any table and see which cells ran lean or knocked THE ENGINES - Ten engines: fours, a flat four, straight sixes, V6s and V8s - Naturally aspirated, turbo, twin turbo, supercharged and nitrous - Nearly 100 parts: injectors, pumps, lines, regulators, turbos, housings, wastegates, blowers, cams, pistons, rods, head gaskets and fuels, E85 included THE DYNO - Hold any rpm at any throttle, or do a full wide open throttle pull - Power, torque, mixture, boost and timing on every run - A full data log you can zoom into - Engine health: knock, over-revving, boost and heat all wear parts out, and some failures are sudden CAREER MODE Start with a rented unit, a small dyno, a stock project car and $1,500. Customers bring in cars with vacuum leaks, tired fuel pumps, stuck wastegates, burnt valves and lying sensors, or ask for a power target on a budget. Find the fault, fix it, tune it and hand it back for a test drive that grades your work. - Eleven kinds of job, from base tunes to E85 conversions, race class builds, blown engine rescues and cars three other shops couldn't fix - Four rival shops with owners and an 8-week season. Beat them at Dyno Day and their customers switch to you - Cars come back weeks later. A tune too close to the edge breaks on a hot day and returns on warranty; a safe one turns the customer into a regular - Intermittent faults that only show hot, cold, under boost or near redline - Eight story customers who bring the same car back chapter after chapter, with your parts and tune still on it - Diagnostic tools, a bigger dyno, more bays, weather, deadlines, rent and 31 achievements DAILY CHALLENGE One broken engine a day, the same for every player. Nine hours on the clock to find the faults and tune it, then see where you land on the leaderboard. Tuesdays and Saturdays are free on the Turbo Four. LEARN A guided tutorial takes a broken project car from flooding on the stand to a full tune. Twelve more lessons cover VE tuning, MBT, knock, boost control, injector swaps, fuel system limits, E85, nitrous, big cam idle and cold starts. GAME CENTER Leaderboards for the daily challenge, peak horsepower and horsepower per litre. A pull only counts if the engine is still alive five seconds later. FREE AND PRO The Turbo Four, the guided tutorial and the Tuesday and Saturday daily challenges are free, with every part and every table. Tuning Simulator Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks all ten engines, custom builds, every lesson, Career mode and the daily challenge every day. No subscription, no ads, no account.

Screenshots

Auto4 screens
Tuning Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tuning Simulator at none against Auto's shown. Tuning Simulator also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1) and chart position (#121 vs unranked). Auto's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Auto sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Tuning Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Auto holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tuning Simulator has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Auto ships an update every 3 days, Tuning Simulator every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Auto versus Tuning Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAutoTuning Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews—72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings115 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
Best chart rank—#121 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size319 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWael TarchounaScott Busby

Customer experience

Auto

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tuning Simulator

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Auto

One-time9
  • Bémo Série 1 · 140 ch$1.99
  • Pass conduite libre$1.99
  • Auria A5 · 150 ch$1.99
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  • Wolf GTX · 210 ch$2.99
  • GITI Sport · 180 ch$2.99
  • Supprimer les pubs$2.99
  • Pack VIP$3.99
  • Pack Sport : Auria + GITI$3.99
  • Premium : 2 voitures sans pub$3.99
1 purchases

Tuning Simulator

One-time1
  • Tuning Simulator Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Auto free?
Auto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tuning Simulator free?
Tuning Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Auto or Tuning Simulator?
Auto is rated higher. Auto averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tuning Simulator averages 4.7 from 15 ratings.
Do Auto or Tuning Simulator have ads?
Auto shows ads; Tuning Simulator does not.
Which is updated more often, Auto or Tuning Simulator?
Auto ships an update every 3 days, and Tuning Simulator every 2 days. Most recently, Auto was updated on November 12, 2026 and Tuning Simulator on November 10, 2026.

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