Comparison

Retro Game Guides vs Hunter's Codex

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

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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.

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Hunter's Codex

Features
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Get the gear you want. Know what to hunt next. Your Monster Hunter Wilds guide, build planner, interactive maps and personal hunting journal, together in one offline companion. PLAN YOUR NEXT UPGRADE WITH PRO Choose a weapon, armor piece, full armor set or build. See what materials you still need and which hunts can help you get them. Record what you gather, and your plan updates as you work toward crafting your gear. BUILD AROUND YOUR PLAYSTYLE Create and save builds with weapons, armor, charms and decorations. Check your skills, bonuses, defense and elemental resistances. Use the damage calculator to explore your setup against different monsters and body parts. FIND ANSWERS BEFORE THE HUNT Look up monster weaknesses, breakable parts and rewards. Browse weapon upgrade paths, armor, skills, decorations, crafting materials and quests without switching between browser tabs. EXPLORE WITH INTERACTIVE MAPS Find gathering points, camps, fishing spots and endemic life. Filter the map to focus on what you're looking for. KEEP YOUR OWN HUNTING JOURNAL Record crowns, endemic life, fish, quests and achievements. Keep your discoveries and progress together between hunting sessions. START FREE. UNLOCK PRO ONCE. The guide, maps, journal, manual build tools and damage calculator are free. Unlock ongoing guided crafting goals with a one-time Pro purchase. No subscription. Use the guide and planning tools offline. No account needed. An unofficial companion for Monster Hunter Wilds. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom.

Screenshots

Retro Game Guides4 screens
Hunter's Codex4 screens

Verdict

The call

Retro Game Guides and Hunter's Codex are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and Hunter's Codex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Retro Game Guides versus Hunter's Codex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetro Game GuidesHunter's Codex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB196 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatt WestgateGeert van Drunen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Retro Game Guides

One-time1
  • Unlimited Library$4.99
1 purchases

Hunter's Codex

One-time1
  • Wilds Companion Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Retro Game Guides free?
Retro Game Guides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hunter's Codex free?
Hunter's Codex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Retro Game Guides or Hunter's Codex have ads?
Neither Retro Game Guides nor Hunter's Codex shows ads.

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