MHR Guide vs GameCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MHR Guide
This fan-made guide provides comprehensive data for MH Rise, including monsters, weapons, and armor. It features tools to manage your equipment, suggest builds based on skills and owned items, and track your progress in quests and collections.
- Equipment suggestions based on skills
- Build and manage custom equipment sets
- Track owned talismans, armors, and decorations
- Detailed monster, weapon, and armor information
- Quest and material data
- Map information with mining positions
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MHR Guide is a fans made guidebook for 「 MHR / MH Rise 」. This program provides data of MH Rise / MHRise / MHR. Come and join us. Let's enjoy the fun with MH Rise. Special Features: 「Equipment Suggest」- Check out equipment suggestions based on your selected skills, your owned/not owned armors, talismans and decorations. 「Manage Equipment」- Build your own equipment set and check out the skill and stat. 「Talismans」- Record your owned talismans. You can use it in the「Equipment Suggest」function. Game information. You can check out all the information and mark as collected / owned / clear: 「Monsters」- List all monsters information including ecology, aliments, materials and quests. You can record your gold crown records. 「Weapons」- List all weapons information including attack,sharpness, slots etc. And you can record your 'owned' weapons. 「Armors」- List all armors information including skills, craft materials. And you can record your 'owned' armors. 「Skills」- List all skills information including related armors and decorations. 「Decorations」- List all decoration information including slots, skills and craft materials. And you can record your 'owned' decorations. 「Rampage Skills」- List all rampage skill information including related weapons. 「Quests」- List all quests information including related monsters and monster status. And you can record your 'cleared' quests. 「Materials」- List all material information including source info and usage. 「Maps」- List all maps information including mining position and related quests *DISCLAIMER* This is an unofficial app for MH Rise. This app is not affiliated with the Capcom brand.
GameCat
This unofficial companion app provides comprehensive guides, wikis, and tools for Monster Hunter Stories 2. It serves as a valuable resource for players seeking information and assistance to enhance their gameplay experience.
- Unofficial guides
- Wiki information
- Helpful tools
- Monster Hunter Stories 2 companion
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Unofficial companion app for MHS2. Your best companion forever!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MHR Guide at every 3 days against GameCat's every 2 weeks. MHR Guide also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). GameCat's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 82%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MHR Guide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GameCat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for MHR Guide against 4.8 for GameCat. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 277 and 95 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of MHR Guide's written reviews are positive against 94% of GameCat's.
MHR Guide ships an update every 3 days, GameCat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MHR Guide | GameCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (277 ratings) | 4.8 (95 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 277 — better | 95 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lung Kin Cheng | 九思 李 |
Customer experience
MHR Guide
GameCat
In-app purchases
MHR Guide
- Remove ads$3.99
GameCat
- Unlock Full Version$2.99
