Help for Rust vs Paltopia
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.
Paltopia
This fan-made guide provides comprehensive information for your PalWorld adventure. Discover detailed Pal stats, breeding combinations, and base-building insights. Organize your collection, create teams, and sync your progress across devices.
- Comprehensive Pal information
- Breeding guide and helper
- Filter and search Pals
- Customizable lists
- Team creation and analysis
- Backup and sync functionality
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Paltopia will help you out on starting your PalWorld adventure with useful resources! With This fan made guide you can See more information about all Pals, and more. Keep track of which pals you've received the bonus reward, breeding tree, filter them based on Element, Work Suitability and more. - Full Pals informations: Descriptions, Possible item drops, active skills, stats, locations, and what they will be helpful on your base. - Filters, Search function, and more Breeding Guide and helper - Use 2 different modes to find the perfect pair: - Known Parents: If you want to know what will be the offspring of your two favorite pals - Parent Finder: You know what you want? we'll help you decide the perfect pair! See all available eggs and what they can hatch into. - Lists: Tired of forgetting what you had on a base, or which pals are you missing, or which one you love? No more! Create lists and keep them taps away. Customization: Show/hide the information you want, keep it nice and steady! - Teams: Create your teams, check if your current ingame team got good stats, or create your own! - Backups and sync: Backup your catches, map marks, teams and more, keep them sync in different devices! Paltopia is a fanmade, unofficial app that contains information related to Palworld, pals, items, locations and more. Artworks and names are properties of Pocket Pair, Inc. Paltopia is not affiliated, endorsed or supported by Pocket Pair, Inc in any way. Artworks and content were used on this app in accordance with the laws of Fair Use. No copyright infringement intended.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paltopia at 4.8 against Help for Rust's 3.3. Paltopia also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 108). Help for Rust's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Paltopia sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paltopia holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paltopia has 1.2K 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 70% of Paltopia's.
Help for Rust ships an update every 2 months, Paltopia every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Help for Rust | Paltopia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (108 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews | 70.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 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 — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeny Dorofeev | Eduardo Miquilena |
Customer experience
Help for Rust
Paltopia
Bugs and requests
Help for Rust
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paltopia
Reported bugs
3 issues- Find location feature not working properly
- App became unusable after recent update
- Backup and save options have spelling error
Requested features
4 requests- Add AI assistant to answer specific questions
- Include pal weakness/strength information
- Ability to track caught pals and variants
- Add home screen widget for news and updates
In-app purchases
Help for Rust
- Remove ads$3.99
Paltopia
- Paltopia+$4.99
- Paltopia++$8.99
