Help for Rust vs Redstone Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Redstone Guide
Learn to build complex redstone contraptions in Minecraft with step-by-step guides. Covers doors, traps, farms, and detailed explanations of redstone items and circuits. Compatible with Java and Bedrock editions.
- Step-by-step building instructions
- Redstone doors, traps, and farms
- Detailed item descriptions
- Basic circuit layouts
- Redstone wiring techniques
- Image slides and crafting guides
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This redstone guide can be used on all platforms: Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. Learn how to use redstone and follow step-by-step instructions for building redstone structures such as redstone doors, redstone traps, farms, and other contraptions. Redstone Minecraft guide features: ••Redstone doors ••Traps ••Farms ••In-depth descriptions of all redstone items ••Basic redstone circuit layouts and descriptions ••Redstone wiring techniques ••Accompanying image slides ••How to craft each redstone item NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Redstone Guide at 4.4 against Help for Rust's 3.3. Redstone Guide also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (1K vs 108). Help for Rust's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Help for Rust sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Redstone Guide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Redstone Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Redstone Guide has 1K ratings behind it against 108, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Help for Rust's written reviews are positive against 66% of Redstone Guide's.
Help for Rust ships an update every 2 months, Redstone Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Help for Rust | Redstone Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (108 ratings) | 4.4 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews | 65.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — 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 | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeny Dorofeev | Stefan Kuklinsky |
Customer experience
Help for Rust
Redstone Guide
Bugs and requests
Help for Rust
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Redstone Guide
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ads preventing full access to content
- Redstone builds not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with newer Minecraft versions
Requested features
4 requests- More advanced Redstone builds like flying machines, elevators, and mob farms
- Better visuals and step-by-step instructions
- Support for both Java and Bedrock editions
- Fewer ads or optional ad-free version
In-app purchases
Help for Rust
- Remove ads$3.99
Redstone Guide
- Full Version$2.99
Questions
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