Terraforming Assistant vs Spirit Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Terraforming Assistant
This app digitally replaces your physical player mat for the board game Terraforming Mars. It automates generation advancement, resource setup by corporation, and tracks game history, allowing you to restore past game states.
- Automatic generation advancement
- Automatic resource setup by corporation
- View transaction history
- Restore game state
- Supports all expansions and promo corporations
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Replace your physical Terraforming Mars player mat with this easy to use tool. Features include: - Automatic generation advancement adjustments - Automatic resource setup by corporation (including all expansion and promo corporations) - View history of all transactions/adjustments - Restore game state to any point in history Terraforming Assistant is an unofficial companion to the board game Terraforming Mars. Terraforming Mars is the creation of FryxGames and Stronghold Games. Special thanks to Steven Hunnicutt and https://icons8.com/.
Spirit Guide
This app enhances the board game experience by tracking game elements, providing information on spirits and adversaries, and managing game logs. It offers features like a setup guide, randomizer, and scoring calculator, with cloud backup for game logs.
- Energy/Element Trackers
- Spirit, Scenario, Adversary Info
- Achievement Tracker
- Win/Loss Tracking
- Setup Guide
- Randomizer
- Game Log with Cloud Backup
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Spirit Guide is an all-inclusive companion app for the board game Spirit Island. Features: • Energy / Element Trackers • Notifications when innate abilities can be performed • Information on all released spirits, scenarios and adversaries • Achievement tracker to increase replayability • Win / Loss tracking by spirit, scenario or adversary • Setup guide to help new players with setting up the game • Quick access to the official FAQ page within the app • Randomizer that will select random spirits, scenario and/or adversary for multiple player counts • Scoring calculator • Allows for selecting which expansions you currently possess and automatically adjusts the available spirits, scenarios and adversaries. • Ability to track multiple spirits. • Game Log which allows you to fill out of a form that will allow you to say with spirits, scenario, adversary, number of players, etc. was used in a single game, score it, put a date on it, and save it to your device. • The ability for your game log to be uploaded to the cloud for easy backup and to make game logs viewable from the web. • The ability to unlocked elements from your spirit track so resetting the elements will take that into consideration. All copyrighted assets are owned by Greater Than Games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Terraforming Assistant at none against Spirit Guide's 6. Terraforming Assistant also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 79%). Spirit Guide's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (145 vs 28). On price, rating, 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. Spirit Guide sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Terraforming Assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Terraforming Assistant against 4.7 for Spirit Guide. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spirit Guide has 145 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Terraforming Assistant's written reviews are positive against 79% of Spirit Guide's.
Terraforming Assistant ships an update every 6 months, Spirit Guide every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Terraforming Assistant | Spirit Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better | 4.7 (145 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better | 79.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 145 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan You | Nerd Room Software LLC |
Customer experience
Terraforming Assistant
Spirit Guide
In-app purchases
Terraforming Assistant
No in-app purchases
Spirit Guide
- Nice Contribution$0.99
- Good Contribution$2.99
- Jagged Earth DLC$2.99
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- Horizons of Spirit Island DLC$2.99
- Nature Incarnate DLC$2.99
- Great Contribution$4.99
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