Comparison

Alchemy Guide vs Almanac for Dragonwilds

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Alchemy Guide

This app helps players master potion and poison making in a popular role-playing game. It features an extensive database of ingredients and potion effects, allowing users to find ingredients, track their inventory, and discover the most valuable or specific potions and poisons to create.

Highlights
  • Extensive ingredient and potion effect database
  • Ingredient location information
  • Inventory system
  • Valuable potion and poison recipe finder
  • MagicFilter for specific potion/poison searches
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Ready for PSVR, DLC Included! From the makers of PipClock, the Nuclear Wasteland Survival App, a new amazing app: Alchemy Guide. Master the Art of Potion & Poisons making and become a Mighty Alchemist with the best and most beautiful Skyrim Companion App. Browse the extensive database of ingredients and potion effects, check where you can find specific ingredients, then add your ingredients to the inventory and look for the most valuable potions you can create! Search only potions with specific curative effects or find the most deadly poisons. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK9UMj9Rr08 Alchemy Guide is just the best Skyrim companion! Features: - Fully localized in English, German and Italian - iOS 11 support - All DLC ingredients! (Dragonborn, Hearthfire, Dawnguard) - Extensive database of Ingredients & Potion effects - Direct wiki access for more informations - Inventory system - Show the most valuable recipes you can make with your ingredients or look for potions with specific effects - "MagicFilter" to search for specific potions or poisons (search criteria include: number of ingredients, purity, number of effects, value and up to 3 required effects) - Incredibly beautiful graphic design & animations - Icon badge on the home screen showing the number of potions you can create with your ingredients --Note-- This app is unofficial and is not authorized or created by the creator or publisher of the the mentioned video game. This application complies with US Copyright law guidelines of "fair use". All the aspects of the video game described within this application are trademarked by their respective owners. This application does not copy any portion of the game, nor does it contain screenshots of the game, only original text. If you feel there is a copyright or trademark violation, or that the information within this application does not fall under US Copyright guideline(s) § 107 "fair use", please contact us immediately.

About

Almanac for Dragonwilds

This unofficial companion app provides comprehensive guides, checklists, and maps for a popular fantasy game. It helps players track quests, bosses, items, and recipes, offering both guided and discovery-based gameplay experiences. Offline access and home screen widgets enhance usability.

Highlights
  • Quest and boss tracking
  • Item and recipe database
  • Interactive map with coordinates
  • Offline functionality
  • Home screen widgets
  • Loadout planner
Features
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Every quest, boss, vestige, lore scrap and achievement in Ashenfall, checkable. Every recipe and drop, and where to find it. Or turn Unwritten on and find it yourself. Almanac for Dragonwilds is a free, unofficial companion for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, made for the couch: keep the game on the screen and the checklist on your phone or iPad. UNWRITTEN Reading a wiki spoils the game it is about. Turn Unwritten on and the Almanac shows you the name of a thing and nothing else until you have done it: no locations, no drops, no recipe you cannot make yet. Follow the main quest line and a zone opens, map and all. Already playing? Say how far along the main quest line you are and the Almanac catches up from there. Stuck? Ask for a hint, from a nudge to the exact spot. The Almanac counts every hint, and the tally is yours to share. LEDGER Tick off quests, bosses, vestiges, lore scraps, agility courses and treasure chests zone by zone, with a completion ring for each region and for the whole game. Achievements show Steam's global unlock rates. Hidden achievements stay hidden until you ask. A What next card names the one main-line step to do now and what to make or explore after it. CODEX Items, weapons, armour, tools, trinkets, food, monsters and bosses with their drop tables, spells, skill perks by level, NPCs and what they sell, resource nodes. One search covers the whole Almanac from every tab, accents and all, and a star saves any page. A loadout planner adds up your gear and the power level it gives you. RECIPES Every recipe with its workstation, skill and XP, the full material tree with raw totals, and how it is unlocked: automatically, at a skill level, or from a plan, pattern, vestige or recipe book and where that comes from. Put recipes on a Needed list to see what is left to gather, and where. MAP A map of Ashenfall drawn by the Almanac itself, from the coordinates the community has recorded and nothing else: regions shaded by how much has been found in them, named, with a mark at every temple, ruin, shrine, keep, camp, vault and Nodestone, the fast-travel network joined up, and panels for the vaults and caves that sit off the map. Every entry opens a map of exactly its places in one tap, and Back returns you to where you were. Tap a marker for what it is, mark it found, and drop your own pins for your base or anything you name. The Survey is drawn from community location data, not from the game's map. WHERE Every known location of a thing, grouped by region and landmark with map coordinates, plus who drops it, who sells it and which chests hold it. WIDGET A Ledger widget for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen: your overall progress and the next things left in the zone you are working through. ROADMAP Announced updates, the full update history, and live patch notes from Steam. Made for the couch: works offline, no sign-in, nothing tracked. Every entry links to its source page on the community-written RuneScape: Dragonwilds Wiki. Data as of 1 October 2026, for game version 1.0.0.6. Almanac for Dragonwilds is an unofficial fan-made app by Manu Games LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Jagex Ltd. RuneScape and Dragonwilds are trademarks of Jagex Ltd, used only to identify the game this app is about. The app contains no Jagex-owned artwork, images or text; all artwork is Manu Games' own. Game facts (names, statistics, recipes, drop rates and locations) are compiled from the community-written RuneScape: Dragonwilds Wiki (dragonwilds.runescape.wiki), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, with a source link on every entry. This app is free and non-commercial. Made by Manu Games LLC.

Screenshots

Alchemy Guide4 screens
Almanac for Dragonwilds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Almanac for Dragonwilds at Free against Alchemy Guide's $1.99. Almanac for Dragonwilds also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Alchemy Guide's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Almanac for Dragonwilds is free to download; Alchemy Guide costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Almanac for Dragonwilds holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alchemy Guide has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alchemy Guide ships an update every 3 weeks, Almanac for Dragonwilds every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Alchemy Guide versus Almanac for Dragonwilds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlchemy GuideAlmanac for Dragonwilds
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (63 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings63 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB43 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperRuben FrosaliManu Games LLC

Bugs and requests

Alchemy Guide

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Ingredients get added randomly to the list
  • App becomes unstable after Dawnguard/Dragonborn DLCs

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for DLC ingredients and effects
  • Implement a way to track ingredient quantities
  • Add a search function and quick scrolling
  • Allow removing used ingredients more easily

Almanac for Dragonwilds

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alchemy Guide

No in-app purchases

None

Almanac for Dragonwilds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alchemy Guide free?
Alchemy Guide costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Almanac for Dragonwilds free?
Almanac for Dragonwilds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alchemy Guide or Almanac for Dragonwilds?
Almanac for Dragonwilds is rated higher. Alchemy Guide averages 4.5 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Almanac for Dragonwilds averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Alchemy Guide or Almanac for Dragonwilds have ads?
Neither Alchemy Guide nor Almanac for Dragonwilds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alchemy Guide or Almanac for Dragonwilds?
Alchemy Guide ships an update every 3 weeks, and Almanac for Dragonwilds every 4 days. Most recently, Alchemy Guide was updated on November 1, 2026 and Almanac for Dragonwilds on October 31, 2026.

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