Engine Simulator
Build & dyno-tune real engines, now with on-device AI
What it does
Engine Simulator is a physics-based piston engine sandbox. The sound and motion come from a real rigid body simulation of the crank, pistons, valves, and combustion, not recordings. Start an engine, work the throttle, and tune its fuel and ignition maps in the ECU. Build one from scratch or describe what you want and have it generated by AI. Engine Simulator for iOS is an unofficial port. It is not affiliated with AngeTheGreat, the creator of the original open source Engine Simulator.
Engine Simulator builds, tunes and revs real piston engines with rigid-body physics, now on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Procedural 3D geometry, a full engine builder, ECU tuning, live dyno, OBD-II diagnostics, an on-device AI builder and a global leaderboard.
Build it, tune it, rev it. Rigid-body physics down to the crank degree, now on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Block, head and crank modelled from spec. One cylinder to V12, plus the weird stuff. Eleven sections of real engineering knobs. Set them once and the engine derives the rest. Brush ignition and fuel cells across load by RPM. Cells flood red when you push past safe. Real torque and power curves with peak callouts. Tune, run, retune until it pulls clean. Live wireframe scan. Real fault codes. Break it, then one tap to repair. Describe the engine you want. The model drafts the full spec, ready to fine-tune. A native Mac, iPhone and iPad app, built for Apple Silicon. The entire engine simulation…from enginesimulator.app
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