ThrottleCard

Name: ThrottleCard
Rating: 4.3 (14 reviews)
Author: Ryan Gant

By: Ryan Gant

WiThrottle & DCC-EX controller

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Features & Capabilities

All aboard! Take control of your model railroad with this elegantly designed app that brings vintage charm to modern model train control. Whether you're a seasoned engineer or just starting your journey in model railroading, ThrottleCard delivers powerful features wrapped in a beautiful, easy-to-use interface.

Hear what the community is saying:

"FINALLY! The BEST Model Railroad Mobile App for IPhone?" - DIY and Digital Railroad YouTube Channel

KEY FEATURES:

Control multiple trains simultaneously with intuitive multi-throttle support
Beautiful vintage-inspired gauges and controls with realistic animations
Game Controller Support! Easily drive your Trains with a PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, or MFi Game Controller with pre-mapped buttons
Landscape mode on iPhone is optimized for excellent compatibility with handheld MFi Game Controllers.
Easily create consists on the fly right from within the app
Automatic command station discovery
Comprehensive locomotive function control
Full turnout (switch) control
Routes Support
Fast Clock Support
Supports WiThrottle and DCC-EX Protocols
Roster with locomotive images
A variety of classic railroad inspired themes
Haptic Feedback for intuitive responsiveness and operation
Mirror-Mode mode for comfortable operation in either hand
Multiple classic railroad-inspired themes
iPad support
Apple Watch Support

With many more exciting features in the roadmap!

To use ThrottleCard, simply connect to any WiThrottle Protocol enabled command station including JMRI, DCC-EX, and various commercial offerings. ThrottleCard can be used for free without a subscription to control the speed, direction, and functions of a single locomotive at a time, throw turnouts, and change to any of the railroad inspired themes.

Subscribe to Premium for $0.99/Month or $9.99/Year - 16% off - to unlock the ability to control multiple trains (cards), multiple locomotives in a consist, game controllers, routes, locomotive programming* and to support the future development of additional, exciting features! We’ll even give you a week free to try it out.

ThrottleCard Watch will mirror the throttles you have setup on your phone and will allow for remote control of speed with the Digital Crown as well as light, horn, and bell control right from your wrist. For best results, change the "Return to Clock" settings for ThrottleCard watch to "After 1 Hour" by going to Settings (on watch or watch iOS app) > General > Return To Clock > ThrottleCard > Choose "Custom" > Choose "After 1 Hour" below. This will keep ThrottleCard open on your watch longer while it's in the foreground.

We’re committed to making the best tools possible for the model railroad community and would love to hear your feedback on the features you’d like to see next.

Get started with the latest in model railroading today!

*DCC-EX Command Station is required for locomotive programming.

The ‘WiThrottle protocol’ is a communications protocol developed by Brett Hoffman. ‘WiThrottle’ is a trademark owned by Brett Hoffman.

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User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Ryan Gant

Rating:

4.30

(14)

Version:

3.0.1 Last updated: 2026-01-09

Version code:

881358647

Creation date:

2025-01-09

Compatible devices:

Size:

116.65MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

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# 338,014 ▼ 1,384

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Developed by:

Ryan Gant

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/throttlecard/id6739982126

Website:

https://throttlecard.com

User Reviews

Having issues on my club layout using the WiThrottle protocol with JMRI. By default, JMRI adds locomotives at 28 speed steps vs. 128. When in the default 28 mode in JMRI, the app doesn’t let locomotives run at full speed and acts like the speed is set to 28/128. Only after changing the locomotive from the default 28 to 128 speed steps in the JMRI desktop throttle, does ThrottleCard control the speed correctly. Other apps like the WiThrottle app don’t have this problem. Also would be nice if you could have multiple locomotives in your roster with the same address (e.g., your club only lets you use a few addresses, adding new locos), or at least gives you a warning so you don’t accidentally save over another locomotive.

by 40*****, 2026-05-24

The combination of DCC-EX and ThrottleCard was the *perfect* way for me to transition from DC to DCC. Very low cost compared to other DCC options, easy to operate, beautifully designed, and as a bonus the ability to run trains from my Apple Watch is a fun party trick. The devs have been very responsive to feature requests so the new 3.x is literally everything I’d hoped for.