Catanerator vs Wood4Sheep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catanerator
Generate balanced and customizable game boards for Settlers of Catan. This tool helps create fair maps with various configuration options, ensuring no player has an unfair advantage. Enhance your gameplay with expansion pack support.
- Customizable board generation
- Adjacent reds configuration
- Max dots per intersection
- Fair port distribution
- Expansion pack support
- Sea Farers support
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The #1 competitive board generator for Settlers of Catan. With countless configurations, including adjacent reds, max dots per intersection, fair ports, and much more. Upgrade your app for the Expansion packs and Sea Farers. Settlers of Catan is an exciting, strategy, social board game which is played around a randomly generated board. Players collect resources, including wood, brick, sheep, wheat and ore, to trade or build new roads and settlements. First person to 10 points wins. Catanerator is a tool used to generate a board which distributes the odds in a fashion that allows a customizable balance. Now you can play Settlers of Catan with a board which does not give unfair advantages to certain players. Check it out and let us know what you think or what you'd like to see! NOTE: The difference between Catanerator Pro and this is that Pro comes with some of the in app purchases by default. Enjoy!
Wood4Sheep
This app helps Catan players track and analyze their dice rolls. It provides statistical proof of luck (or lack thereof) by showing number frequencies, roll history, and game duration. Settle debates about bad luck with concrete data.
- Track every dice roll
- Analyze number frequencies
- View roll history
- Visualize with charts
- Monitor game duration
- Count total rolls
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Wood4Sheep is a companion app for Catan players who want to settle the age-old debate: are you actually unlucky, or does it just feel that way? Track every dice roll during your games and finally get some answers: - See which numbers are actually showing up (spoiler: it's never the ones you need) - Watch your roll history unfold and witness those legendary streaks of terrible luck - Count how many times each number comes up, with beautiful charts to document your suffering - Keep tabs on game duration and total rolls Finally, statistical proof that your terrible luck isn't just in your head.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wood4Sheep at 100% against Catanerator's 53%. Wood4Sheep also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Catanerator's advantage is ratings volume (243 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Catanerator sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Wood4Sheep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wood4Sheep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catanerator has 243 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Catanerator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wood4Sheep's.
Catanerator ships an update every 2 months, Wood4Sheep every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catanerator | Wood4Sheep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (243 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 243 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elevated Pixels Software | Vincent Garcia |
Customer experience
Catanerator
Wood4Sheep
Bugs and requests
Catanerator
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on startup for some users
- Allows adjacent high-value tiles despite setting
- Resets board when switching between portrait and landscape
- Difficulty distinguishing resource types due to color scheme
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions
- Implement a dice roller for Knights and Barbarians
- Allow custom tile placement and saving of custom boards
- Improve board balancing and prevent adjacent high-value tiles
Wood4Sheep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Catanerator
- Standard$0.99
- Expansion$1.99
- Seafarers Small$1.99
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- Seafarers Large$1.99
Wood4Sheep
- Coffee$0.99
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