Comparison

Pocket Codex Guides vs Retro Game Guides

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Codex Guides

Access your retro game guides anytime, anywhere with this offline reader. Organize your collection by game and track your progress. Supports HTML, TXT, and PDF files, with iCloud sync for seamless reading across devices.

Highlights
  • Offline access
  • Organize by game
  • HTML, TXT, PDF support
  • Progress tracking
  • iCloud Drive Sync
Features
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Pocket Codex is a a simple, offline reader for retro game guides. Features: Organize your guides by game Support for HTML, TXT, and PDF file types Simple, focused reading experience for each type Built for offline use Progress tracking iCloud Drive Sync for reading across multiple devices

About

Retro Game Guides

Organize and read classic game walkthroughs offline on your iPhone. Import your own guides, save online ones, or use included Standard Editions. Features include adjustable text, searchable content, bookmarks, and automatic progress saving.

Highlights
  • Offline library for classic game walkthroughs
  • Import custom TXT guides
  • Save supported online guides
  • Includes Standard Editions for 14 games
  • Adjustable text styles and reading themes
  • Searchable content with snippets
  • Bookmark and resume reading position
Features
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Retro Game Guides turns old-school walkthroughs into a clean, searchable, offline library built for iPhone. Import the guides you already trust, save supported online guides, or follow an included Standard Edition which is a clear, carefully researched walkthrough from start to finish. Desktop-era guides become comfortable to read without losing the maps, tables, and carefully spaced layouts that make them useful. Retro Game Guides remembers your place, builds clickable Contents, lets you bookmark places you want to revisit, and adds search, highlights, and notes. BUILT FOR OLD-SCHOOL WALKTHROUGHS - Reflow hard-wrapped prose for comfortable phone reading. - Preserve recognized maps, tables, and fixed-width layouts. - Choose Reflow, Original, or No wrap for every guide. - Adjust text size; choose Day or Night ops for the app in Settings. - Keep each guide’s layout and reading position. FIND THE RIGHT PART FAST - Open Contents for sections built from the guide’s structure. - Search this guide, the game’s other guides, or all games with passage context. - Bookmark places you want to revisit, with an automatic heading and useful excerpt. - Collect highlights, notes, and bookmarks in the Notes tab. - Resume the reading position saved for every guide. BRING ONE GUIDE OR A WHOLE COLLECTION Import one or more TXT files from Files, preview a folder before import, skip duplicates, and see which items need review. Add PDFs too, such as a game's original manual: they read as their printed pages, with Contents, a page grid, and search when the PDF has text. Supported online guide pages can also be saved for personal offline reading, with formatted guides keeping their chapters, tables and images. Multiple walkthroughs, FAQs, maps, and notes stay organized under the game they belong to. INCLUDED STANDARD EDITIONS Twenty-three classic games currently include an original Standard Edition. Each carefully researched route states the platform and scope it supports, places consequential warnings before the closing action, and uses the same offline reader, Contents, search, and saved position as every other guide. No separate guide purchase is required. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking. Your guide library, reading progress, highlights, notes, favorites, and bookmarks stay on your device. Finding new guides, loading cover art, and making or restoring a purchase use the network when needed. FREE TO START Keep up to three games in your library, with unlimited guides in each. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited games and larger batch imports. There is no subscription, and Standard Editions do not require a separate guide purchase. Retro Game Guides is not affiliated with GameFAQs, GameSpot, Fandom, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, or any game publisher or guide-hosting website. Game titles and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Personal saved material remains subject to its source site's terms and the guide author's rights.

Screenshots

Pocket Codex Guides4 screens
Retro Game Guides4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Codex Guides at none against Retro Game Guides's 1. Pocket Codex Guides also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 1). Retro Game Guides's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Retro Game Guides sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pocket Codex Guides asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pocket Codex Guides against 5.0 for Retro Game Guides. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Codex Guides has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Codex Guides versus Retro Game Guides: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Codex GuidesRetro Game Guides
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (32 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better1
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony John CacceseMatt Westgate

Customer experience

Pocket Codex Guides

All ratings24 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Retro Game Guides

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Codex Guides

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Retro Game Guides

One-time1
  • Unlimited Library$4.99

Questions

Is Pocket Codex Guides free?
Pocket Codex Guides is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retro Game Guides free?
Retro Game Guides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Codex Guides or Retro Game Guides?
Retro Game Guides is rated higher. Pocket Codex Guides averages 5.0 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Retro Game Guides averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pocket Codex Guides or Retro Game Guides have ads?
Neither Pocket Codex Guides nor Retro Game Guides shows ads.

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