Free to play on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Digicity is an isometric city builder. You get a 128×128 map and a clock that starts in 1900. Choose where to zone and how to connect it; buildings grow into different kinds as nearby streets, services, land value and other buildings shape the neighbourhood.
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Residential, commercial and industrial demand responds to what you have already built, so every road and every plant changes what grows next.
Mark land residential, commercial or industrial, at light, medium or heavy density.
Drag out roads, power lines and water pipes. A lot without a road, power or water will struggle to grow.
Buildings arrive when the city wants them and the land is worth building on. You set the conditions; the city decides.
When a district stalls, lay an overlay over the map and see which of those conditions it is missing.
In Open Build nothing is locked behind a timer, a level or a purchase. Roads, utilities and services are ready from the first tile, and 22 kinds of buildings can grow as the city develops. On iPhone, open a Build category before choosing a tool; after choosing, use Pan map before dragging the map so you do not place another tile. Hold a tool and choose What is this? to see what it places and what it needs to work.
Roads, tram lines, power lines and water pipes, each drawn by dragging.
Two coal plants, hydro, wind, nuclear and a gas turbine, plus a district heat plant that lowers what a district draws.
Water pumps, water towers, and an artesian well that draws from under the city rather than from beside it.
Police stations, fire stations, treatment works that clean fouled water, and a reclamation yard that puts stained ground back.
Bus and train terminals that extend how far your commute reaches.
Residential, commercial and industrial, each at light, medium or heavy density.
Found a city around an anchor (a port, a university or a hospital) and play it forward through four eras. Each era changes the rules rather than just the date, and report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you actually built.
Scenario mode and its first thirty years: found a city, site its anchor, and grow it on foot and by streetcar.
Cars stretch the city and then make its streets hard to live beside.
The ground remembers. Old industry stains the land it stood on, and the stain outlasts the bulldozer.
The city has to move goods, not just people. Power and water stop being limitless, and a district drawing more than its plants supply goes dark at its edges.
Every city starts on a randomly generated map, and you can reroll until you find one worth building on. It tells you how much of it is water before you commit. In Open Build you can also start with a small town already standing: ten lots around a street, powered and watered, for you to extend.
Run the clock at three speeds or stop it, with the space bar to toggle. One step of undo takes back the last thing you built and refunds what it cost, including whatever it flattened on the way in.
Space pause and resume
One download from the App Store runs on all of them. VoiceOver labels and keyboard shortcuts are available throughout; there is no account, sign-in, game analytics or connection needed to play.
iOS 26.0 or later
Plays in landscape. The whole game, not a trimmed one: the same map, the same simulation, the same saves.
iPadOS 26.0 or later
Built around touch, with keyboard shortcuts throughout when a keyboard is attached.
macOS 26.0 or later on a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later
The iPad game on an Apple silicon Mac, with its keyboard shortcuts.
Your cities, on every device. With Saving, turn on Keep my cities in iCloud on each device, and your saved cities appear on every device signed in to the same Apple Account.
Open Build, the sandbox, is free and complete. Everything else is a one-time purchase. None of it is a subscription, and none of it expires.
Free
The sandbox, complete. Every tool, every building, the whole map. No timers, no energy meters, no ads.
$9.99
Keep as many cities as you like and come back to them whenever.
$1.99
Scenario mode, sold one era at a time and played in order: The Rail Era opens it, and each later era extends the calendar once you own the ones before it.
$19.99
Saving and every era, present and future. Bought once, yours through every update.
The free game cannot save. Close Digicity, or let the system reclaim its memory while you are in another app, and the city is gone. Digicity tells you this before you build anything, so you can decide later.
US prices. The App Store shows the price in your country. Restore purchases from the game's menu (☰).
Download on theApp StoreNeighbourhoods grow into 22 distinct building types, with their own shapes and effects on the city. Larger developments can join four lots, and clearer iPhone menus make it easier to choose a tool, build, and get back to moving the map.
Cottage rows, warehouses, office towers, refineries and more give growing districts their own character. Nearby streets, services, land value and other buildings influence what appears.
Five larger building types can combine four suitable lots into one 2×2 development. Each kind grows through three visible stages.
A building’s type changes what it earns and uses. Warehouses carry more freight; office towers earn more tax and draw more power. Brief +/− amounts show changes to a lot’s monthly tax.
Build categories now open before selecting a tool. One consistent blue back control returns a level, then closes Build from the top menu.
The HUD names your active tool and offers Pan map. Tap it before dragging with one finger to move the city without placing another tile.
Power warnings no longer make the iPhone status bar unusually tall or squeeze text into narrow columns. Large-text layouts and speed-button touch areas are improved.
Yes. Open Build, the sandbox, is free and complete: every tool, every building and the whole map, with no timers, no energy meters and no ads. What is for sale is Saving ($9.99), Scenario mode one era at a time ($1.99 each), and Ultimate ($19.99), which is saving and every era, present and future. None of it is a subscription and none of it expires. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows your local price.
iPhone with iOS 26.0 or later, iPad with iPadOS 26.0 or later, and Mac with macOS 26.0 or later on an Apple M1 chip or later. It is one App Store download for all of them, and a purchase made on one can be restored on the others signed in to the same Apple Account.
No. On Mac, Digicity needs Apple silicon: an M1 chip or later, running macOS 26.0 or later.
No. On iPhone the game plays in landscape only. It is the whole game rather than a trimmed one, laid out for a screen held sideways.
The free game cannot save. If you close Digicity, or the system reclaims its memory while you are in another app, the city is gone and cannot be recovered. The game tells you this before you build anything. Saving, a one-time purchase, lets you save cities from the game's menu and load them later. There is no autosave, so anything since your last save is lost if the app is closed.
A second way to play. You found a city around an anchor (a port, a university or a hospital) and play it forward through four eras from 1900. Each era changes the rules rather than just the date, and report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you actually built. Eras are sold one at a time and played in order, starting with The Rail Era, or all together in Ultimate, which also covers the eras still to come.
No. There is no account and no sign-in, and no network is needed to play. Purchases go through the App Store.
There are no ads and no analytics in the game. Purchases are processed by Apple, and the game checks what you own with RevenueCat using an anonymous ID, so your unlocks can be restored. Your cities stay on your device, or in your own iCloud if you turn that on.
Yes. Digicity has a public TestFlight beta, and the "Test the beta on TestFlight" button on this page joins it: install Apple's TestFlight app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, open the link there, and you get builds before they reach the App Store. Apple's rules come with it — a beta build replaces your App Store copy of Digicity on that device, each build stops opening within 90 days of being uploaded, and anything you buy in a beta is free and does not carry over — so the App Store is still where you get the finished game and buy Saving or an era. Joining through a public link does not tell us your name or email address.
Digicity is built with VoiceOver labels on its controls, and keyboard shortcuts throughout, including the space bar to pause. It has not been through a full VoiceOver audit, so if a screen does not read the way it should, tell us at https://asc.is/support and we will fix it.
Free to play, with every tool and the whole map. No ads, no account, no connection needed to play.
iPhone · iPad · Mac with Apple silicon