Comparison

Bus Simulator vs PTS

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

Head to head
About

Bus Simulator

Experience realistic city driving as a bus driver. Choose from various bus types, customize them, and complete routes in diverse global locations. Enjoy career, free-ride, and multiplayer modes with detailed interiors and advanced physics.

Highlights
  • Realistic global maps
  • Variety of bus types
  • Bus customization
  • Career, Free-ride, and Multiplayer modes
  • Detailed interiors
  • Bus company management
Features
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Bus Simulator : EVO puts you in the driver’s seat and lets you become a real Bus Driver! Featuring detailed maps all over the world, a wide variety of modern city buses, coach buses and school buses with realistic interiors and a groundbreaking 1:1 physics engine. Get behind the wheel and drive your bus to complete all the routes! Drive a diesel, hybrid, electric, articulated, coach bus or school bus and customize your bus as you wish. This bus simulation game features next-gen graphics, a wide variety of buses to choose from, and multiple cities from around the world to explore in career mode, freeride, and online multiplayer with friends. Completely realistic Coach Bus Simulator. Features: - Realistic intracity and outside of city maps: United States of America (San Francisco,Texas, Boston, and Interstate 95), South America (Buenos Aires), Europe (Germany, Spain, Berlin, London, Prague, St. Petersburg), Dubai, Shanghai and more… - Multiple diesel, hybrid, electric, articulated, coach bus and school buses to choose from. - Six real coach bus - Career, Free-ride and Multiplayer modes. - Lots of bus customization options including paint, accessories, body parts, air conditioning, flags, decals and many more. - Detailed and customizable interiors. - Open/Close Doors button, animated people entering/exiting the bus - Steering wheel, buttons or tilting controls. - Locations of any kind: city, countryside, mountain, desert and snow - Multiple time of day and weather conditions to choose from. - Drive kids to school using three different school bus models. - Bus company management system with hired drivers for your buses and custom route scheduling. - Intelligent Traffic System - Immersive online multiplayer cooperative gameplay. - Add your friends, use live chat and invite them to play in coop bus routes. - Leaderboards, achievements and rankings. Become the best bus driver in the world with Bus Simulator : EVO! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Official website: https://www.ovilex.com/ TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@ovilexsoftware Follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OviLexSoft Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OvilexSoftware Privacy Policy - https://www.ovilex.com/privacy-policy/

About

PTS

Experience the life of a bus driver in this simulation game. Pick up passengers, deliver them to their destinations, and earn money to customize and upgrade your fleet. Enjoy a realistic driving experience with highly detailed and customizable coach buses.

Highlights
  • Realistic coach bus driving
  • Passenger pick-up and drop-off
  • Bus customization and upgrades
  • In-game currency for purchases
  • Detailed bus models
Features
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Hey bus drivers. Coach buses need to be driven. People need to be delivered to their destination. If you are up to the task, jump into a coach bus, all of them are highly customizable and fully modeled. Pick up people from the terminal and take them to their destination. Doing this earns you money, which you can spend to buy new buses or upgrade and tune your current one. Enjoy and have fun.

Screenshots

Bus Simulator4 screens
PTS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bus Simulator at monthly against PTS's every 8 months. Bus Simulator also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 1.6K) and chart position (#112 vs unranked). PTS's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bus Simulator sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PTS sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Bus Simulator against 4.5 for PTS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bus Simulator has 23K ratings behind it against 1.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Bus Simulator's written reviews are positive against 88% of PTS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bus Simulator ships an update monthly, PTS every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Bus Simulator versus PTS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBus SimulatorPTS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (23K ratings) — better4.5 (1.6K ratings)
Positive reviews68.3% of reviews87.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23K — better1.6K
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#112 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB149 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlexandru MarusacSkisoSoft

Customer experience

Bus Simulator

All ratings22,603 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews2,520 reviews
Positive68.3%
Neutral11.3%
Negative20.4%

PTS

All ratings1,601 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews369 reviews
Positive87.8%
Neutral5.4%
Negative6.8%

User reviews

Bus Simulator

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Realistic and detailed graphics
  • 🚌 Variety of bus models and customization options
  • 👍 Immersive driving experience
  • 🎨 Ability to customize bus with company logo and name

Room to improve

  • 💰 Buses and upgrades are very expensive
  • 🚦 Sensitive braking system and strict penalties
  • 🚗 Unrealistic and aggressive AI traffic behavior
  • 🛑 Certain routes locked behind specific bus types

PTS

From 1.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and engaging
  • 🚀 Realistic simulation
  • 💡 Detailed graphics
  • 🚌 Wide variety of buses

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🚦 Unrealistic AI traffic
  • 🔄 Slow acceleration and turning
  • 🕰️ Long passenger boarding/deboarding times

Bugs and requests

Bus Simulator

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game progress and purchases not carrying over between updates
  • Crashes and glitches when switching between game modes
  • Inconsistent performance and loading issues on some devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more cities and countries to drive in
  • Introduce a free roam mode with open doors
  • Implement a fuel system and refueling stations
  • Add more interactive features like wheelchair ramps
  • Improve traffic light and stop sign detection

PTS

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Fuel icon remaining on screen after refueling
  • Passengers getting stuck or not boarding properly
  • Sudden loss of control and steering issues
  • Black screen when entering bus depot

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add free mode
  • Improve collision avoidance system
  • Introduce pedestrians and more dynamic traffic
  • Expand map and route options
  • Add interior customization and features
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  • Implement company management and scheduling

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Bus Simulator

Subscriptions1
  • VIP Membership2 variants$4.991 Month
One-time12
  • 200.000 money + 350 coins$0.99
  • Winter Special Offer$2.99
  • 250.000 money + 450 coins$2.99
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  • Get 50,000 money!$2.99
  • Get 200 coins!$3.99
  • Unlock all levels!$4.99
  • Get 100,000 money!$4.99
  • Get this articulated bus now!$6.99
  • Get 500 coins!$7.99
  • Get this articulated bus now!$7.99
  • Get 250,000 money!$9.99
  • Get 1000 coins!$12.99
9 purchases

PTS

One-time9
  • $12000$0.99
  • Update 1.2 vehicles$0.99
  • Update 1.3 vehicle$0.99
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  • All Colors$1.99
  • Update 1.1 vehicles$1.99
  • Update 1.4 vehicles$1.99
  • $30000$2.99
  • Update 1.0 vehicles$4.99
  • $100000$5.99

Questions

Is Bus Simulator free?
Bus Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PTS free?
PTS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bus Simulator or PTS?
Bus Simulator is rated higher. Bus Simulator averages 4.6 out of 5 from 23K ratings, while PTS averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Do Bus Simulator or PTS have ads?
Both Bus Simulator and PTS show ads.
Which is updated more often, Bus Simulator or PTS?
Bus Simulator ships an update monthly, and PTS every 8 months. Most recently, Bus Simulator was updated on September 25, 2026 and PTS on September 23, 2026.

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