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. Report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you built. Take charge of eleven established challenge cities, choose transport priorities and emergency-service funding, and pursue seven optional ambitions. Everyone can preview the challenges; starting one requires Ultimate. Each offers two suggested approaches and an optional opening goal.
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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. Play in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish or Dutch. Other languages are translated from English using AI; translations may contain mistakes, and English is the original source.
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 named saves and come back whenever. Device-local autosaves are on by default, with up to three recent recovery versions per city history.
$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. Choose city rules before founding and start all eleven challenges. One purchase, yours through every update.
What Ultimate includes →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 StoreOptional rivers with low and high bridges and local shipping, Standard, Relaxed and Custom city rules, river fires and earthquakes, two new disaster challenges with Ultimate, and a home screen for every game type.
Choose optional Rivers when founding a city and see the banks in the map preview. New river banks taper into the surrounding hills. Existing cities keep their terrain.
Connect the banks with low or high road bridges. Low bridges carry roads across short gaps but block ships; high bridges leave a shipping channel beneath. Secondary terminals extend local port routes.
Before founding a Scenario city, everyone can inspect eleven conditions. Standard is the default; Ultimate lets you choose Relaxed rules or a Custom set. The rules stay with the city after saving.
Two optional disasters. Flames on the water cannot be extinguished and burn out on their own; fire crews protect the buildings beside them. Earthquakes can damage or destroy buildings, and an aftershock can follow.
The River That Burned and Aftershock bring the challenges to eleven. Each offers two suggested recovery approaches and live goals. Everyone can preview them; starting one requires Ultimate.
First launch opens a home screen with Open Build, Scenario and Challenges, each with a short description. Optional links open the website’s game-type guide in your language.
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. Optional purchases are Saving ($9.99), each Scenario era ($1.99), and Ultimate ($19.99), which includes saving and every era, present and future. Everyone can preview eleven challenge cities, and Ultimate unlocks starting them, including for existing owners. None of the purchases is a subscription or 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 or Ultimate lets you keep named saves and includes device-local autosaves, on by default, with up to three recent recovery versions per city history. Named saves stay separate. Force quitting can lose changes after the last successful autosave.
Found a city around a port, university or hospital and play it through four eras from 1900. Each era changes the rules, and report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you built. Eras are sold separately and played in order, starting with The Rail Era, or together in Ultimate. Scenario also offers eleven established challenge cities (free to preview; Ultimate required to start), transport and emergency-service policies, and seven optional ambitions with a goal you can pin.
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 confirms what you own with Apple alone, so your unlocks can be restored. Versions before 26.10.3 also checked purchases with RevenueCat using an anonymous ID. 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