RailModeller Express is the free edition of our app portfolio for planning model railroad and slot car layouts on macOS.
The app is available exclusively on the Mac App Store.
The app is available exclusively on the Mac App Store.
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- SCARM means Simple Computer Aided Railway Modeller – a free software for easy and simple design of model railway layouts and railroad track plans. With SCARM you can easily create the layout of your dreams – just download the setup package, install it and start editing your first track plan.
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The Express Edition offers many of the features supported by RailModeller Pro with some limits regarding the size of layouts you can build.
This way you can try out our macOS model train track planning app right away for free.
This way you can try out our macOS model train track planning app right away for free.
Here's how the Pro and Express editions compare:
Express Edition | Pro Edition | |
Number of Elements | Up to 50 tracks | Unlimited |
Libraries included | 250+ (Scale-specific & universal TruScale libraries) | 250+ (Scale-specific & universal TruScale libraries) |
Model Scales per Layout | 1 | Unlimited |
Number of Layers | 1 (In-App Purchase: 5) | Up to 99 |
Image Import | Not available | Up to 10 images (PDF, JPEG, PSD, ..) |
Baseboards | Rectangular Baseboards | Templates for common shapes (L, U, ..) & custom baseboards |
Stock | Not available | Integrated Stock Management |
Community Layouts | Browse and open layouts | Browse, open and share layouts |
Layout Dimension | Up to 500m (or yards) In original scale | Up to 10km or 6.2mi Scale of drawing canvas |
JMRI Export | Not available | Export layouts for JMRI's PanelPro |
Required macOS Version | macOS 10.11 or newer | macOS 10.11 or newer |
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Free Model Railroad Planning Software
RailModeller Express comes bundled with all the track libraries included in our Pro Edition enabling you to try out for yourself whether RailModeller Pro is a good fit for you and if it suits your needs - or whether you're perfectly happy with its little brother.