A vs Help for Rust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A
This unofficial companion app provides essential tools for Ark: Survival Evolved players. It features a taming calculator, engram planning, breeding calculators, and detailed creature information, all updated with the latest game data.
- Taming calculator
- Engram and breeding calculators
- Dino stats and overviews
- Map locations
- Admin commands
- Recipe guides
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Are you a fan of Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended? Then this unofficial Ark taming calculator and companion app guide is a must-have for you, as it offers an taming calculator to let you know how much resources and time you need for tame dinosaurs and other creatures. This Ark companion guide app delivers everything you should expect from such Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended guide and wiki apps, and it even sets the bar to a higher level by offering data from DevKit and personal testing data, engram calculations and planning, maps, breeding calculations, admin commands (cheats), dino stats, recipes, and a lot more calculators and important overviews with frequently-updated data. A-Calc Ark Tools Main Features for Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended at a Glance: • Various calculators and guides for every tameable creature or dinosaur in Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, DLC Genesis 1&2, Lost Island and the new DLC map Fjordur • Dino taming and foodrate multipliers for unofficial Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended server - e.g. "0.5" / "2" / "5" / "0.25" • An all-in-one cross-platform wiki guide & Ark companion app • Always newest Dev Kit data and personal testing data • Knockout details and calculations • Torpor and starve calculated timer • Dino stats, dino trainee level calculator and Wiki links for extended usefully informations • Overviews for dinos and creatures: carryable by, can damage, trapped by, fits through, gathering efficiency, XP for crafting and farming, weight reduction for resources, dino base stats, explorer notes, buffs, biomes and a lot more • Admin commands (cheats), engram calculator, breeding times, breeding calculator, recipes and dyes, kibble recipes, patchnotes for all playable platforms • Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended maps for cave locations, creature spawns, resources and explorer notes • Available in different languages: English, Spain, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, German, Portuguese-Brazilian and Turkish • Clean and neat design with fresh and intuitive interface No matter you play Ark: Survival Evolved | Ascended on your Gaming PC, Xbox One / Xbox Series X, PS4 / PS5, Switch or Mobile Version we've got you taming tools covered. Fair Use Act Disclaimer Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. © 2016 coded by A-Calc www.a-calc.de an unofficial community driven app and is not affiliated with the game publisher. App content is available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors (Studio Wildcard). All rights reserved.
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: A at 4.2 against Help for Rust's 3.4. A also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Help for Rust's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Help for Rust sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. A asks for nothing beyond the download.
A holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 101 and 107 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of A's written reviews are positive against 60% of Help for Rust's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A | Help for Rust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (101 ratings) — better | 3.4 (107 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.1% of reviews — better | 60.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 101 | 107 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ronny Schulz | Evgeny Dorofeev |
Customer experience
A
Help for Rust
Bugs and requests
A
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes when changing level
- Admin codes are incorrect
- Timers pause when app is in background or phone locks
- Torpor value resets to default
- Alarm feature does not work
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- Crashing when deleting torpor countdown
Requested features
5 requests- Add zoom option for text
- Improve graphic UI
- Lower price for Pro version
- Add taming calculator (already present, but requested again)
- Make ads removable for a reasonable price
Help for Rust
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
A
No in-app purchases
Help for Rust
- Remove ads$3.99









