5 vs WingMate Companion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5
This app serves as a timer for a cooperative card game, helping players manage mission time. It provides reminders and motivational messages from an AI companion to enhance the gameplay experience.
- Mission time tracking
- Helpful reminders
- Encouragement from AI
- Companion app for card game
- Fast-paced gameplay support
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This timer is a companion app for 5-Minute Marvel, the chaotic, fast-paced, cooperative card game. With this app, you'll be able to keep track of the time left in your mission and receive helpful reminders and encouragement from J.A.R.V.I.S., Iron Man's AI companion.
WingMate Companion
This app enhances the board game experience by managing player actions, goals, and scoring. It offers features like player setup, Automa management, and detailed game result summaries. Unlock full scoring and solo play through in-app purchases.
- Player setup and action cube assignment
- Automa player selection and difficulty
- End-of-round goal tile management
- Automatic scoring for goals and points
- Game result summaries and sharing
- Automa move display and tracking
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WingMate is an unofficial companion app for the award winning board game Wingspan, designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games. The app lets you: * assign a name and action cube color for each player, and order the players based on seating position * select an Automa player as one of the five players as well as difficulty * pick or randomly draw the end-of-round goal tiles * randomly draw the starting player and show the first player for each round * display Automa moves based on the Automa cards included in the game. Automatically tracks face-down birds, eggs and end-of-round cubes * score each player's total for the end-of-round goals, and then display the action cubes on the goal board * total each player's points per category (birds, bonus cards, end-of-round goals, eggs, food on cards and tucked cards) * automatically sum the values of each bird you score by tapping the point value of each bird * show and share a summary of the game results The free version of WingMate lets you score a single player. To fully score a game, you need to purchase the Scoring Unlock via an in-app purchase on the WingMate Store. To play a full solo game, you need to additionally purchase the Automa Unlock. A 7-Day Free Trial is available. WingMate requires iOS 18.0 or later. WingMate is not an official Stonemaier Games product, and is created with permission of Stonemaier Games. Special thanks to Elizabeth Hargrave, Jamey Stegmaier and Natalia Rojas, Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, and Beth Sobel for creating Wingspan, and David Studley and the Automa Factory for creating the Automa. Cardenio Modern by Nils Cordes, Bebas Neue by Font Fabric and Kronos by Lyft are used under their respective licenses. German translation proofreading by Nadine Bomhard. French translation proofreading by Thierry Bordet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WingMate Companion at 4.7 against 5's 3.4. WingMate Companion also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 37%) and ratings volume (267 vs 52). 5's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads 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. WingMate Companion sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. 5 asks for nothing beyond the download.
WingMate Companion holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WingMate Companion has 267 ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of 5's written reviews are positive against 63% of WingMate Companion's.
5 ships an update fortnightly, WingMate Companion every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | WingMate Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (52 ratings) | 4.7 (267 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.7% of reviews | 62.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 | 267 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | Timothy Cherna |
Customer experience
5
WingMate Companion
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
WingMate Companion
- 7-day TrialFree
- European Expansion$0.99
- Automa Unlock$1.99
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- Oceania Expansion$1.99
- Asia Expansion$1.99
- Americas Expansion$1.99
- Scoring Unlock$2.99
- Scoring Bundle (2020)$3.99
- Automa Bundle (2020)$4.99
- Scoring Bundle (2020)$4.99
- Automa Bundle (2022)$5.99
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