TrainDesign vs Tempus Fugit
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.
Tempus Fugit
A beautifully designed pendulum clock app that offers a calming visual experience. It includes a Pomodoro focus timer with gentle chimes and customizable dial skins and numeral styles. Enjoy an immersive full-screen mode for distraction-free focus.
- 16 hand-designed dial skins
- Pomodoro focus timer with bell chimes
- Six numeral styles
- Day-date complication
- Smooth-sweep or tick-by-second motion
- Hourly bell chime
- Full-screen immersive mode
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A pocket of calm, all yours. Tempus Fugit is a beautifully crafted pendulum clock for your iPhone. The pendulum swings, the second hand sweeps, and the bell can chime softly on the hour. Tap once for full-screen immersive mode and let the clock take over. WHAT'S INSIDE • 16 hand-designed dial skins · Brass Classic, Midnight, Retro LCD, Marble & Steel, Rose Gold, Emerald Night, Porcelain, Noir, Art Deco, Mid-Century, Sunset, Copper Patina, Vintage Bronze, Saffron, Cinnabar, Sapphire • Pomodoro focus timer · the whole clock becomes your focus session, with a soft bell at each interval • Nine numeral styles · Roman, English, Devanagari, Arabic-Indic, Chinese, Greek, Thai, Bengali, Hebrew • Day-date complication that follows the active skin • Smooth-sweep or tick-by-second motion (with a quiet mechanical tick) • Hourly bell: every 30 minutes, on the hour, or just at midnight • Add your own signature to the dial • Subtle haptics and a calm, full-screen immersive mode TEMPUS PRO Unlock every dial skin, custom signatures, and every future skin we add. Weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase that supports Family Sharing with up to 6 people. Made with care by Sunil Targe. A small, calm thing · hope it brings you a little quiet to keep beside you. SOUND CREDITS 'Single Strike Church Bell' by Orange Free Sounds (CC BY-NC 4.0) Clock tick sample #0007 by Joseph SARDIN / bigsoundbank.com (CC0) Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://suniltarge.com/pendulum/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tempus Fugit at 100% against TrainDesign's 33%. Tempus Fugit also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (3.0 vs 2.3). TrainDesign's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (15 vs 4). On 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
Tempus Fugit is free to download; TrainDesign costs $1.99 up front. Tempus Fugit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. TrainDesign asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tempus Fugit holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of TrainDesign's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tempus Fugit's.
TrainDesign ships an update every 4 months, Tempus Fugit weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrainDesign | Tempus Fugit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (15 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kind of Blue | Sunil Targe |
Customer experience
TrainDesign
Tempus Fugit
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
Tempus Fugit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TrainDesign
No in-app purchases
Tempus Fugit
- Tempus Pro Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Tempus Pro Yearly1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime - GET 50% OFF$14.99
- Tempus Pro Lifetime$29.99
Questions
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