D2 Helper vs D4Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
D2 Helper
This app serves as a comprehensive offline reference for Diablo II players. It allows you to explore runes, runewords, and Horadric Cube recipes, and manage your in-game item collection.
- Browse runes and runewords
- Filter runewords by type, sockets, ladder
- Find runeword combinations
- Track Holy Grail collection
- Manage item mules
- Look up Horadric Cube recipes
- Offline functionality
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The ultimate Diablo II reference companion. Browse all runes and runewords, filter by type, sockets, and ladder status, and find runeword combinations from runes you own. Track your Holy Grail collection, manage mules, and look up Horadric Cube recipes — all offline.
D4Planner
Plan and share Diablo IV character builds with an interactive skill calculator and item builder. Discover powerful builds from other players and track in-game progress with an interactive map. Stay updated on world events with push notifications.
- Interactive skill calculator
- Item build experimentation
- Interactive world map
- Altars of Lilith tracking
- Dungeon and Aspect locator
- Event and Boss notifications
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D4Planner is an unofficial tool to help you plan and share your Diablo IV character builds, and discover powerful builds created by others. Create and share skill builds by using the interactive skill calculator, and experiment with item builds by equipping various legendary aspects and powerful unique items. Explore the interactive map and locate and track Altars of Lilith, Quests, Dungeons, Aspects, Events, Bosses, etc. Get ready for the release of Diablo 4 now by planning out your character build, and track your Diablo 4 world progress! Subscribe to push notifications to never miss a World Boss, Helltide, or Legion event! D4Planner is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: D2 Helper at 96% against D4Planner's 52%. D2 Helper also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (190 vs 40). D4Planner's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
D2 Helper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 190 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of D2 Helper's written reviews are positive against 52% of D4Planner's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | D2 Helper | D4Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (190 ratings) — better | 3.8 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.5% of reviews — better | 52.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 292 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Luca Naterop | THE SINGLES WARD LLC |
Customer experience
D2 Helper
D4Planner
Bugs and requests
D2 Helper
Reported bugs
6 issues- Crashes too often
- Unable to go back to check off sheet
- Some rune words are not real
- Random crashes
- Get stuck in a section with no way to go back
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- Few rune words need updated
Requested features
19 requests- Add recipe for upgrading set items
- Add unique item drop locations and percentages
- Add filter for missile weapons
- Organize found items better (e.g., by character)
- Sort uniques and sets by level
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- Add a character builder
- Include skill tree references
- Add crafted item section
- Add skill point builder
- Add gem transmutation recipes
- Add item type to sort feature for runes
- Add export feature for spreadsheets
- Add quantity of runes and gems tracking
- Add crafting recipes
- Add ability to select one rune to see all possible runewords
- Add filter for runewords by equipment type
- Add pictures for uniques
- Add ability to write what char had item in inventory
- Add comment or mule locations to found items
D4Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
D2 Helper
No in-app purchases
D4Planner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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