Help for Rust vs Raiders Map
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.
Raiders Map
Access an interactive map, loot locations, material breakdowns, and enemy drop lists. Includes quest guides and event timers with notifications. Pro membership unlocks all content.
- Interactive Maps
- Sort and Filter
- Event Timers and Notifications
- Quest Guides
- Material Breakdown List
- Enemy Drop List
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Raiders Map is the all-in-one companion for Arc Raiders: interactive maps, loot locations, event timers, material and recycling breakdowns, enemy drop lists, and full quest-line guides. INTERACTIVE MAPS Every extraction point, boss lair, loot cache and quest marker on fully zoomable maps — now with high-detail tiled maps and buttery-smooth rendering, even with 1,000+ markers on screen. Filter by category, search any marker, and jump straight to it. LIVE EVENT TRACKING See every active and upcoming map event at a glance with real-time countdowns. Turn on notifications and get alerted the moment a hot zone goes live. LOADOUT TOOLS Compare weapon stats side by side across tiers and levels, check what's safe to recycle before you scrap it, and plan your skill tree build before you drop. GUIDES & TRIALS Quest walkthroughs, XP guides and trial objectives — everything you need to progress faster. ENEMY DATABASE Every enemy with its full loot drop table, so you always know what's worth the fight. Raiders Map is the best tool for easy access to everything, along with world class support. You can reach me directly on X for help or to report any issues: All4nDev, or through Discord. Not affiliated with Embark. Raiders Map is independently owned and managed. Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Raiders Map at none against Help for Rust's shown. Raiders Map also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and rating (3.5 vs 3.3). Help for Rust's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 29%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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 Raiders Map sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Raiders Map holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 108 and 227 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Help for Rust's written reviews are positive against 29% of Raiders Map's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Help for Rust ships an update every 2 months, Raiders Map every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Help for Rust | Raiders Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (108 ratings) | 3.5 (227 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews — better | 29.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 108 | 227 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Evgeny Dorofeev | Colby Maloy |
Customer experience
Help for Rust
Raiders Map
In-app purchases
Help for Rust
- Remove ads$3.99
Raiders Map
- Raider Mk. 13 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Raider Weekly$1.397 Days
- Raider Mk. 1$3.497 Days
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- Raider Mk. 2$4.191 Year
- Raider Mk. 2$12.491 Year
- Raider Mk. 3$6.99
- Raider Mk. 3$20.99
Questions
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