Comparison

Tools for Old School Runescape vs RuneSkill

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tools for Old School Runescape

Enhance your Old School Runescape gameplay with essential tools and guides. Track player stats, access quest walkthroughs, calculate combat progression, and monitor item prices on the Grand Exchange.

Highlights
  • Player Hiscores with search history
  • Comprehensive Quest Guides
  • Combat Level Calculator
  • Grand Exchange item prices (current & historical)
  • Upcoming Skill Calculators
  • Upcoming Clan Chat feature
Features
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Every Old School RuneScape tool you need in one free app — including the full game map, offline. WORLD MAP The complete map of Gielinor in your pocket, and it works with no signal at all. Zoom from the whole world down to individual tiles. Search 100+ locations — cities, guilds, bosses, dungeons, minigames — and the map flies straight there, with a one-tap link to the wiki. GRAND EXCHANGE Live prices with hourly charts, buy/sell lines and change tracking. Price Alerts ping you the moment an item crosses your target. Flip Calculator gives your exact margin and ROI after GE tax. High Alch Calculator finds your profit per cast instantly. Track items like a portfolio with the Watchlist, and export any item's price history as CSV. HISCORES Look up any player's skills, boss kill counts and activity ranks. Compare two players side by side, pin the accounts you check often, save multiple characters as profiles, and sync with WiseOldMan. CALCULATORS Combat level · Max hit (melee, ranged, magic) · DPS · XP planner · Per-skill training routes · Money making methods · Gear compare · Drop simulator · Drop probability, for when you need to know exactly how dry you are QUESTS All 175 quests with skill requirements, quest prerequisites, quest points and full XP rewards — re-verified line by line against the wiki. QUICK REFERENCE Spellbook · Prayers · XP table · Achievement diaries · Slayer tasks · Fairy ring codes · Clue scroll steps · Fight Caves and Inferno wave guides ALSO INCLUDED Farming and birdhouse timers · Daily task tracker · Reminders · Bond price · Clan tools · Wiki search Every number is checked against the wiki rather than guessed, and the whole dataset gets re-verified when something drifts. Spot anything wrong? Leave a review or reach out — it gets fixed. Free. No ads. No login required. Made by one person. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Jagex Ltd. RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are trademarks of Jagex Ltd.

About

RuneSkill

This app displays your Old School RuneScape skills and progress directly on your Apple Watch. It offers live complications for your watch face and automatic updates without requiring any login or data collection.

Highlights
  • Skill tab view with progress on watch
  • Live complications for watch face
  • Automatic updates
  • No login or data collection
  • Track total level and XP
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Runeskill puts your Old School RuneScape skills right on your Apple Watch. Check your total level and XP, track progress over time, and show off your favorite stats with rich complications. No login, no setup, no data collection. Features: • Skill tab view with progress directly on your watch • Live complications to display any skill on your watch face • Automatic updates with no extra steps • No accounts, no tracking, just stats Perfect for players who want their progress on hand at all times. Whether you’re grinding for max or just curious about your levels, Runeskill makes your wrist the best place to check in. All user and game data is owned by Jagex Limited.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: RuneSkill at 5.0 against Tools for Old School Runescape's 4.4. RuneSkill also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Tools for Old School Runescape's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RuneSkill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tools for Old School Runescape has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tools for Old School Runescape versus RuneSkill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTools for Old School RunescapeRuneSkill
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (19 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB1 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKeith GulbroRitwik Biswas

Customer experience

Tools for Old School Runescape

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

RuneSkill

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tools for Old School Runescape

No in-app purchases

None

RuneSkill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tools for Old School Runescape free?
Tools for Old School Runescape is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RuneSkill free?
RuneSkill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tools for Old School Runescape or RuneSkill?
RuneSkill is rated higher. Tools for Old School Runescape averages 4.4 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while RuneSkill averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tools for Old School Runescape or RuneSkill have ads?
Neither Tools for Old School Runescape nor RuneSkill shows ads.

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