TrainDesign vs mybrunner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrainDesign
Design and plan your model railroad tracks with ease. This app allows you to create custom layouts, modify track segments, and adjust curves to your specifications. Unleash your creativity and build intricate routes with intuitive touch controls.
- Plan model railroad tracks
- Create custom track lines
- Modify track segments (orient, stretch, shrink)
- Adjust curve width, angle, and radius
- Determine track altitude
- Intuitive touch controls
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TrainDesign is born with the purpose to plan your model railroad track. In a few minutes you can create lines of any kind. Using a set of tracks you can choose the type of binary-to-use, orient, stretch or shrink it. The curves can be modified to width angle and radius of curvature. TrainDesign stands out for its ease of use and the versatility, giving space for creativity. You will learn that it is very easy to edit lines, determine the altitude, change every single piece in an intuitive and simple manner. With only the use of your fingers, you can create small or large tracks, focus on building a single part using the touch or see the route as a whole.
mybrunner
Control your Brunner fireplace and heating system remotely via smartphone or laptop. Monitor the burn-off process or adjust your heating before arriving home for convenient, app-controlled comfort.
- Remote fireplace monitoring
- Heating system regulation
- App-based control
- Smartphone and laptop compatibility
- Convenient heating management
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With the new MyBrunner app you can control your Brunner fireplace and heating system comfortably via app on your smartphone or laptop. Wether you would like to check the burn-off process of your fireplace or regulate your heating system even before you are at home, with the MyBrunner app convenient heating becomes reality – everywhere
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: mybrunner at Free against TrainDesign's $1.99. mybrunner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). TrainDesign's advantage is rating (2.4 vs 1.0) and review sentiment (33% vs 0%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
mybrunner is free to download; TrainDesign costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TrainDesign holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrainDesign has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of TrainDesign's written reviews are positive against 0% of mybrunner's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrainDesign | mybrunner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (14 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kind of Blue | Ulrich Brunner GmbH |
Customer experience
TrainDesign
mybrunner
Bugs and requests
TrainDesign
Reported bugs
18 issues- App locks up after selecting first track
- Saving changes to existing layouts results in original disappearing
- Cannot move selected track
- Rotate icon greys out after one rotation
- App crashes on load
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- Editor does not work, cannot rotate pieces
- Cannot place track where desired
- Small graphics on black background make components hard to see
- Zooming is sketchy, losing track
- Cannot switch red dot to continue with different track
- Pinch gesture sends track work out of view, becomes unselectable
- Turntable not available as shown in demo
- App keeps freezing
- Switches are not calibrated correctly
- Layout limited to about 5’ X 5’ for movement
- Zooming in/out is problematic outside the 5x5 zone
- Flex track shaping is difficult
- Simple oval has misaligned track pieces
Requested features
11 requests- Add more track libraries (e.g., Rokuhan Z, Hornby, Lionel Fastrack, Realtrax, Fleishmann profi ho)
- Improve track connection and alignment
- Fix rotation and movement issues for track pieces
- Add a 'save as' function for layouts
- Include inch/feet measurement options
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- Add a tutorial or help screens
- Allow using track from multiple manufacturers in one plan
- Add models of coaches to visualize train appearance on curves
- Improve zooming and panning functionality
- Add print function for plans and parts lists
- Support for Mac
mybrunner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TrainDesign
No in-app purchases
mybrunner
No in-app purchases
