The vs IRONBUILT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The
Access a vast library of video content designed to elevate your competitive tabletop gaming skills. Learn advanced strategies, analyze meta-game shifts, and master specific factions through expert-led sessions and professional match breakdowns.
- Hundreds of hours of video content
- Advanced strategy sessions
- Live streamed professional games
- Deep dives on every faction
- Cutting-edge meta-analysis
- Master class series
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Want to join a global community focused on taking your competitive 40k skills to the next level? The War Room is the subscription for you! Whether you are new to the hobby or a tournament veteran, we offer hundreds of hours of video content focused on making you the best competitive 40k player! If you don't have the time to play dozens of matches, the War Room allows you to skip the steep learning curve of 40k and easily access the combined knowledge of professional players. We've got you covered with advanced strategy sessions, live streamed games between tournament champions, deep dives on every single faction, cutting-edge meta-analysis, and master class series to help you play like the pros. Sign up today to access our entire catalog of videos to start winning with your favorite faction in no time! What video series do we offer? Coaching Matches: Live streamed games between professional 40k players focused on teaching you how to think, ask questions, and develop strategies like the pros. Strategy Session: A weekly session focused on a specific strategic (macro) or tactical (micro) concept. Popular series include the mission series, terrain series, secondary discussions, combat jank, and retrospective analysis of mistakes made during a coach’s games to teach you how to learn from the games you play. Master Class: A series which condenses a coach’s expert knowledge of a faction into a five part video series. The first focuses on the faction’s optimal playstyles. The second and third explain the key datasheets and how to get the most out of them using the faction’s strongest synergies and rules. The fourth zooms out to a macro perspective on suggested gameplans, matchups, how to deploy, utiltize terrain, choose secondaries, and much more. Lastly, the fifth video puts everything you have learned up to that point into practice walking you through high level professional matches demonstrating exactly what you need to do to win with your faction consistently and improve your gameplay! Faction Focus: There are several faction Focus videos each week, which will give you a snapshot of the ever-evolving landscape of what recent lists look like for that faction, tech choices and strategies that are performing well, advice on winning tough matchups, and community Q sessions. Faction Focus - Datasheets: A short form video series that centers on a specific datasheet relevant to the meta that you need to know. It details its significant rules and synergies, how it plays on the tabletop, and its weaknesses for when you fight against it. Know Thy Enemy: A detailed breakdown of everything you need to know about how to play against a specific faction. This series is done in two parts. 1) A macro perspective of the faction’s rules and datasheets and 2) A session showing you how to beat them on the tabletop. To access all features and content you can subscribe to The-War-Room on a monthly basis with an auto-renewing subscription right inside the app.* Pricing can vary by region and will be confirmed before purchase in the app. In app subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of their cycle. All payments will be paid through your iTunes Account and may be managed under Account Settings after the initial payment. Subscription payments will automatically renew unless deactivated at least 24-hours before the end of the current cycle. Your account will be charged for renewal at least 24-hours prior to the end of the current cycle. Cancellations are incurred by disabling auto-renewal. Terms of Service: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/tos Privacy Policy: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/privacy
IRONBUILT
This app helps players build armies for tabletop games, calculate expected damage with simulations, track game progress, and manage tournaments. It also features a social layer for sharing game results and artwork.
- Army list building with full faction and datasheet support
- Mathhammer simulation for expected damage calculation
- In-game score and round tracker
- Tournament management and event hosting
- Social sharing of lists and game reports
- Cross-device synchronization and offline QR code sharing
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IRONBUILT is a modern list builder for games like Warhammer, built for 11th Edition and now in Open Beta. BUILD • Every faction and every datasheet, with points, stats, wargear and abilities, updated within hours of a new release • Full detachment support, with enhancements, leaders and attachment rules checked as you build • Import lists from all other major list builders, or paste plain text • Export to text, with connector for Tabletop Simulator and YellowScribe MATHHAMMER Point any unit at any target and see expected damage before the game. Full Monte Carlo simulation, mixed profiles, contextual modifications, rerolls and defender loadouts, all from inside your list. PLAY A complete game tracker. Pick rosters, dispositions, mission and map, then score primaries, secondaries and command points round by round. Play solo, or sync the same game with your opponent from two phones. TOURNAMENTS Run or join events, submit lists, and track pairings and results in one place. THE VOX A live social layer for your gaming group. Share lists, Mathhammer results and game reports with friends and clans, and follow what they are playing. ART Every datasheet is illustrated with grimdark fan art, and every piece is credited to its artist. SYNC An account keeps your rosters on every device, and a list can be shared with a link or an offline QR code. OPEN BETA Things will occasionally be wrong. Every screen has a Report Bug button, and fixes usually ship the same day. Join the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/xbzQ3cxbyZ IRONBUILT is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Games Workshop. Warhammer 40,000 is a trademark of Games Workshop Limited.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IRONBUILT at none against The's 1. The's advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 10). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. The sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per month. IRONBUILT asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The against 4.9 for IRONBUILT. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The has 116 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
The ships an update every 4 months, IRONBUILT every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The | IRONBUILT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (116 ratings) — better | 4.9 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Art of War Gaming LLC | Noah Pope |
Customer experience
The
IRONBUILT
Bugs and requests
The
Requested features
2 requests- Additional search/organizing/sorting functions (e.g., sort all videos by newest)
- More army-specific content
IRONBUILT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The
- The-War-Room Monthly$39.991 Month
IRONBUILT
No in-app purchases






