Catanerator vs Catan Dice & Timer App
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!
Catan Dice & Timer App
This companion app helps manage game turns and dice rolls for Settlers of Catan. It enforces timed settlement placement to keep the game flowing smoothly and prevent delays.
- Timed settlement placement
- Dice rolls
- Player turn management
- Game speed enhancement
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A Settlers of Catan companion app: timed settlement placement, dice rolls and player turns. Never let another player take too much time for building and speed up the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Catan Dice & Timer App at 5.0 against Catanerator's 4.0. Catan Dice & Timer App also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Catanerator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (236 vs 2). On price 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. Catan Dice & Timer App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Catan Dice & Timer App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catanerator has 236 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Catanerator ships an update every 2 months, Catan Dice & Timer App every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 9, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catanerator | Catan Dice & Timer App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (236 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 236 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elevated Pixels Software | Andraz Polajzer |
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
Catan Dice & Timer App
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
Catan Dice & Timer App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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