Catanerator vs Settlers Boards & Analyzer
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!
Settlers Boards & Analyzer
This tool assists players in creating fair game boards that adhere to tournament rules and analyzing starting positions based on resource availability and rarity. Users can customize factors for analysis to ensure enjoyable gameplay.
- Create fair game boards
- Analyze starting positions
- Customize analysis factors
- Ensure tournament rule adherence
- Evaluate resource income and rarity
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Settlers Boards & Analyzer is a tool that helps you with your game. CREATE BOARDS You can create fair boards that assure all tournament rules and are fun to play. ANALYZE YOUR START POSITION Analyze the choice of the first settlements under various factors. This can include resource income, the rarity of resources, and lack of resources. The factors can be weighted as you wish.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Catanerator at 53% against Settlers Boards & Analyzer's 0%. Catanerator also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (243 vs 1). Settlers Boards & Analyzer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads 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. Catanerator sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Settlers Boards & Analyzer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Catanerator holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catanerator has 243 ratings behind it against 1, 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 0% of Settlers Boards & Analyzer's.
Catanerator ships an update every 2 months, Settlers Boards & Analyzer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catanerator | Settlers Boards & Analyzer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (243 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 243 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elevated Pixels Software | Maximilian Zimmermann |
Customer experience
Catanerator
Settlers Boards & Analyzer
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
Settlers Boards & Analyzer
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
Settlers Boards & Analyzer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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