Rail Baron Tools vs Blither
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rail Baron Tools
Enhance your railroad empire strategy game experience. Quickly access crucial game data like destinations, payoffs, and region information to optimize your decisions and speed up gameplay. This reference tool is designed to complement the physical board game.
- Look up destination regions by dice roll
- Look up destination cities by dice roll
- View payoffs for destinations and city routes
- Store player information
- View detailed region and city information
- Access railroad prices and connected cities
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Rail Baron, the game of Building Railroad Empires, is an entertaining strategy game, where you are a Railroad mogul, buying up Rail Lines across America, attempting to become the ultimate Rail Baron. The game is a lot of fun to play, with the only frustration being, the time that it takes to look up information (Destinations, Payoffs, etc.) on the provided charts; which really slows down the game. Rail Baron Tools, is an Rail Baron reference app that takes the drudgery out of this, by allowing you to quickly look up the data you need, and helping you to optimize your decision making and strategies. Rail Baron Tools does not replace the game (i.e. you still play on the game board, using the actual playing pieces, money, dice etc.), but is meant to enhance it. The app provides data based on the 1977 edition Game published by The Avalon Hill Game Co. Features - Look up your destination Region based on a Dice Roll - Look up your destination City based on a Dice Roll - Look up a Payoff for completing a Destination - Look up a Payoff between any two Cities - Use an optional scaling factor, when calculating Payoffs - Store Player information including Name and Home City - View detailed Region information, including odds of rolling the Region - View detailed City information, including odds of rolling the City - View detailed Railroad information, including Price, Cities along the Railroad, and odds of rolling a City on the Railroad
Blither
A two-player abstract strategy game where players move and place pieces to capture territory. Win by surrounding opponent pieces or groups. Offers AI and local multiplayer modes with customizable boards and multiple win conditions.
- Move and place pieces
- Capture by surrounding
- Play against AI
- Local human multiplayer
- Customizable board sizes
- Multiple win conditions
- Dark mode support
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Blither is a simple capture and territory game for two players. Turns are simple: MOVE a piece, then PLACE a piece. Capture by surrounding one of each of your opponent's piece types (or a group of pieces of the same type) to win the game! The app features: - play against AI or human opponents (on the same device) - play a custom game on larger or smaller boards - multiple win condition (play "high score mode" for a different experience!) - the app supports dark mode via your system settings (or you can choose from the options screen) - saves various statistics
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Rail Baron Tools at Free against Blither's $0.99. Rail Baron Tools also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). Blither's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Rail Baron Tools is free to download; Blither costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rail Baron Tools against 5.0 for Blither. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rail Baron Tools has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Rail Baron Tools ships an update every 11 months, Blither every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rail Baron Tools | Blither |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ewert Technologies | Martin Grider |
Customer experience
Rail Baron Tools
Blither
In-app purchases
Rail Baron Tools
No in-app purchases
Blither
No in-app purchases









