Comparison

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki vs Help for Rust

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki

This comprehensive guide provides in-depth tips, tricks, and strategies for the game. Discover detailed information on bosses, items, enemies, NPCs, and crafting recipes across all platforms. Easily search and filter through a vast database of game content.

Highlights
  • Strategy guide with tips and tricks
  • Searchable item database
  • Item filtering options
  • Crafting recipes and details
  • Enemy and NPC lists
  • Armor set information
Features
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Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki is the offline companion for the 1.4.5 update of the classic 2D sandbox adventure. Look up any item, plan any craft and track your whole playthrough, even with no signal. EVERYTHING IN YOUR POCKET • 6,000+ items, 750+ creatures and every boss, updated for game version 1.4.5.8 • Full stats, crafting recipes, drops and "used in" lists, with every name tappable • "How to get it" on each page: who sells it, which crates and bags contain it, and what it turns into with Shimmer • Sort and filter by progression stage, damage, defense or tool power • Fast search across items and creatures • Works fully offline TOOLS THAT DO THE MATH • Crafting calculator: every raw material and station for any item, in the right order • Bosses & Events: tick what you've beaten, see what to fight next and how to summon it • NPC Housing: happiness, prices and pylons for every town • Weapon prefixes: the best reforge for each weapon type • World Seeds: every secret seed code, one tap to copy • Fishing: quest fish locations and catch tables • Armor sets with total defense and set bonuses • Collections: Journey research, Bestiary, banners and permanent boosters • Achievements checklist and favourites MADE FOR YOU • Separate profiles for each world or character, with backup to a file • Home screen widget for your boss progress • Dark mode, large text support and a two-column iPad layout • Optional reminders when seasonal events begin • English, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese PREMIUM (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) The guide is free with ads. Premium removes all ads for good and unlocks extra conveniences: • Saved towns and the best-neighbour finder • Crafting goals with one combined shopping list • Fishing power calculator • Loadout builder with full stat totals • Tick a whole list at once in Collections

About

Help for Rust

This app helps players of a survival game calculate resource costs for destroying building elements. It also provides guidance on efficiently arranging ore in furnaces for optimal smelting. The tool includes a constantly updated list of basic building blocks and barriers.

Highlights
  • Resource cost calculation for building destruction
  • Ore decomposition guide for furnaces
  • List of building blocks and barriers
  • Constantly updated content
Features
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Have you decided to evict your neighbors or take revenge on the enemy? Do you know how much resources are needed for this? Do you know how to effectively use large furnaces? Help for Rust is an indispensable tool for such tasks. The application can show you how much certain resources are needed to destroy the building element. Also, this app can show you how to rationally decompose the ore in the furnace. Help for Rust contains the basic building blocks and barriers. The list is constantly updated.

Screenshots

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki3 screens
Help for Rust4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Help for Rust at 60% against Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki's 17%. Help for Rust also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.3) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Help for Rust sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki has 834 ratings behind it against 108, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki's written reviews are positive against 60% of Help for Rust's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki ships an update every 8 months, Help for Rust every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki versus Help for Rust: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Sandbox Guide & WikiHelp for Rust
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (834 ratings) — better3.3 (108 ratings)
Positive reviews17.3% of reviews60.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings834 — better108
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhung DoanhEvgeny Dorofeev

Customer experience

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki

All ratings834 ratings
Positive70.9%
Neutral6.6%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews127 reviews
Positive17.3%
Neutral21.3%
Negative61.4%

Help for Rust

All ratings108 ratings
Positive56.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews134 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral11.9%
Negative27.6%

Bugs and requests

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on click
  • Ads won't close
  • Distorted/missing images

Requested features

4 requests
  • Update to latest Terraria version
  • Add search functionality
  • Improve organization and navigation
  • Include more comprehensive item/enemy/boss information

Help for Rust

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
1 purchases

Help for Rust

One-time1
  • Remove ads$3.99

Questions

Is Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki free?
Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Help for Rust free?
Help for Rust is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki or Help for Rust?
Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki is rated higher. Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki averages 3.9 out of 5 from 834 ratings, while Help for Rust averages 3.3 from 108 ratings.
Do Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki or Help for Rust have ads?
Both Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki and Help for Rust show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki or Help for Rust?
Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki ships an update every 8 months, and Help for Rust every 2 months. Most recently, Pixel Sandbox Guide & Wiki was updated on October 16, 2026 and Help for Rust on October 14, 2026.

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