Dododex vs Help for Rust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dododex
This app is a comprehensive companion and taming calculator for ARK players. It offers detailed information on every creature, including taming strategies, recipes, stats, and admin commands. It's regularly updated with new content and player-sourced data.
- Taming calculator for all ARK creatures
- Kibble and saddle recipes
- Creature stats and rankings
- Knock-out information
- Breeding timers and incubation temperatures
- Admin commands and ARK IDs
- Crowdsourced player tips
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Elevate your ARK game with the Dododex taming calculator and companion app used by over 12 million ARK players. Compatible with all versions: ARK: Survival Ascended, ARK: Survival Evolved, and ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition. Dododex provides a comprehensive and frequently-updated guide for every creature in ARK: Survival Ascended (and ARK: Survival Evolved), including taming calculations, kibble and saddle recipes, admin commands, stats, timers, knock-out information for any weapon, as well as original tips and crowdsourced data from thousands of ARK players. Updated regularly for over 10 years! FEATURES - Taming calculator and guide for every dinosaur in ARK: Survival Ascended/Evolved - Player tips on taming, battling, and utilizing every ARK creature - Kibble recipes and flow chart - Saddle recipes - Breeding timers - Knock-out details for each creature and weapon, including custom weapons - Stat calculator - List of dropped items and gathering efficiency ratings for every creature from 300,000+ Dododex users. - Breeding times and egg incubation temperatures - Starve timer for starve taming - Torpor timer - Recipes & dyes - Find out which creatures are carryable by flyers - Creature stats and rankings - Taming multipliers for unofficial ARK servers - Admin commands, ARK IDs, and cheats - Maps - Access the official ARK: Survival Ascened/Evolved Wiki directly from the app - Details on Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis, Fjordur and all DLCs! - PLUS: Dino stickers for iMessage! Details on new creatures are added as soon as information becomes available in ARK: Survival Ascended. "A must-have app for any ARK player — new or veteran." —Proof187, App Store Review "Best taming calculator out there" —Troy Richards, App Store Review Have a feature request? Share it here: dododex.com/discord Dododex is an unofficial ARK: Survival Ascended app.
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.
- Resource cost calculation for building destruction
- Ore decomposition guide for furnaces
- List of building blocks and barriers
- Constantly updated content
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dododex at 4.9 against Help for Rust's 3.4. Dododex also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 60%) and ratings volume (50K vs 107). Help for Rust's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Dododex 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.
Dododex holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dododex has 50K ratings behind it against 107, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Dododex's written reviews are positive against 60% of Help for Rust's.
Dododex ships an update every 3 months, Help for Rust every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dododex | Help for Rust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (50K ratings) — better | 3.4 (107 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.6% of reviews — better | 60.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50K — better | 107 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dan Leveille | Evgeny Dorofeev |
Customer experience
Dododex
Help for Rust
Bugs and requests
Dododex
Reported bugs
2 issues- Torpor timer resets when app is closed
- Certain creature information not up-to-date
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to track tamed creatures and their stats
- Integration of resource and crafting calculators
- Expanded information on creature abilities and uses
- Interactive maps with spawn locations and resource hotspots
- Filtering options for community tips (e.g., mobile-specific)
Help for Rust
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dododex
- Dododex Pro$4.99
Help for Rust
- Remove ads$3.99
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