Shrines Guide vs Skyward Companion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shrines Guide
This app serves as a comprehensive guide to help players locate all shrines, Korok seeds, and other points of interest within the game world. It provides detailed information on treasures, quests, recipes, and more, acting as an indispensable companion for exploration.
- Shrine locations and treasures
- Korok seed locations
- Miniboss and enemy camp markers
- Quest and armor information
- Cooking recipes
- Stable and horse locations
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Do you need a little help finding all the shrines? Want to explore the entire map, find all the treasures, unlock the most valuable features? This app will help you find that impossible-to-find shrine. It is an indispensable pocket companion for your fun times. Features that the app offers: - Shrines, including their treasures - All Korok locations - Minibosses - Quests - Armors - Cooking recipes - Great fairies - Captured memories - Enemy camps - Stables - Best horses - Chests and EX Chests Shrines - The Complete Guide is a third party App. The developer of this software is not affiliated with Nintendo Co. Ltd. in any way. However, the creation and maintenance is permitted until withdrawal from Nintendo. Privacy policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbefUkiJEiQjav_cDAxmAftQKU3Elz-l Terms of use: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8mTSVZGA9bdmzPnkrQ3fQDGkg2eeIfk
Skyward Companion
An unofficial guide for a popular adventure game, offering checklists and detailed descriptions for collectibles like heart pieces, bottles, and crystals. Track your progress and discover how to obtain various items and upgrade equipment.
- Checklists for collectibles
- Item descriptions
- Equipment upgrade details
- Progress tracking
- Detailed item information
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Unofficial guide for Link's adventure in Skyward Sword. The guide includes checklists and descriptions for: - Heart Pieces - Bottles - Gratitude Crystals - Goddess Cubes - Goddess Chests The app also features a collection of relevant items and how to get them. Also, the equipment and the required items to upgrade them are included. If there is additional information available, just tap on the checklist entry to get a detailed description in a popup. All collectible items can be tracked within the checklists. Disclaimer: Skyward Companion is a third party app. The developer of this software is not affiliated with Nintendo Co. Ltd. in any way. However, the creation and maintenance of this app is permitted until withdrawal from Nintendo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shrines Guide at 4.6 against Skyward Companion's 3.9. Shrines Guide also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 47). Skyward Companion's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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. Shrines Guide sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and Skyward Companion sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shrines Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shrines Guide has 3.3K ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Shrines Guide's written reviews are positive against 59% of Skyward Companion's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shrines Guide | Skyward Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.3K ratings) — better | 3.9 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews — better | 58.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Felipe Braunger Valio Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Ltda | Sebastian Kruse |
Customer experience
Shrines Guide
Skyward Companion
Bugs and requests
Shrines Guide
Reported bugs
3 issues- Filters tab won't close
- Regions not loading properly
- Completed shrines not saving correctly
Requested features
6 requests- Add quest tracking
- Include chest locations
- Add compendium/item database
- Allow marking completed Koroks
- Improve Korok seed accuracy
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- Implement iCloud sync
Skyward Companion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shrines Guide
- Full access (1 Year)$2.991 Year
- Premium Version$0.99
- Premium Version$1.99
- Premium Version$2.99
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- Lifetime purchase$5.99
- Lifetime purchase$7.99
Skyward Companion
- Unlock all our apps$2.491 Month
- Unlock all our apps$5.993 Months
- Unlock all our apps$9.996 Months
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- Unlock all our apps$14.991 Year
- Tiny Tip$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Small Tip$2.99
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- Big Tip$4.99
- Glorious Tip$9.99
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