Quartermaster vs M3E Crew Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quartermaster
Manage your tabletop miniature armies and forces with this app. Draft new army ideas, organize your existing miniatures, and prepare for game time. Supports a growing list of popular tabletop miniature games with community-created templates.
- Army and force management
- Draft new army ideas
- Organize miniatures
- Community-created game systems
- Create and edit factions
- Printable lists and card grids
- Cross-device syncing
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Quartermaster is the management app for tabletop miniature games that knows how to play nice. As a wargamer, you're constantly thinking about new ways to assemble an army, force, or squadron for your favorite miniature games. Now you’ll be ready to draft your ideas whenever inspiration strikes. And when gaming time comes, you’ll have all your miniatures in order. No more loose pages and scribbled notes! Quartermaster uses game systems and faction templates created by a community of wargamers just like you. You can create and edit your own factions right in the app. The list of community-created games for Quartermaster continues to grow, and currently includes the following tabletop miniature games: - Warhammer: The Old World - Horus Heresy (all editions) - Necromunda - Warhammer Fantasy Battles - Warhammer 40,000 (2nd and 3rd Edition) - Trench Crusade - and more! Quartermaster is constantly evolving to bring you the latest technologies and the best user experience. - iCloud automatically syncs your drafts across your devices. - Share your drafts with your friends (and opponents!) by AirDrop, social media, email, or message. - Prepare a detailed list or card grid for printing. Play nice. Use Quartermaster.
M3E Crew Builder
Create and share custom game crews with friends. Manage encounters, track character conditions and health during gameplay. Access all in-game stat cards for a comprehensive gaming experience.
- Build and share custom crews
- Start and manage encounters
- Track character conditions
- Monitor health during gameplay
- Reference all in-game stat cards
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Build Crews and share them with your friends, start Encounters, track Conditions and Health as you play, reference every stat card in the game, and much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: M3E Crew Builder at Free against Quartermaster's $7.99. M3E Crew Builder also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 64%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Quartermaster's advantage is ratings volume (367 vs 60). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
M3E Crew Builder is free to download; Quartermaster costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
M3E Crew Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quartermaster has 367 ratings behind it against 60, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Quartermaster's written reviews are positive against 85% of M3E Crew Builder's.
Quartermaster ships an update every 3 weeks, M3E Crew Builder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quartermaster | M3E Crew Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (367 ratings) | 4.8 (60 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 367 — better | 60 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sean Rogers | Wyrd Games |
Customer experience
Quartermaster
M3E Crew Builder
Bugs and requests
Quartermaster
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when adding or editing tallies
- Lists and templates randomly deleted
- Faction data disappears on app close
- Only allows one faction at a time
- Cannot add multiple weapons to single units
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- Import failed errors for templates
- Slow interface and list loading
- Parentheses in list names cause deletion
- Cannot share lists via messaging apps
- Formation editing not possible after initial setup
- Incorrect point calculations
- Necromunda faction files not saving
Requested features
12 requests- Comprehensive user guide and tutorial videos
- Weapon and equipment profile displays
- List legality validation system
- In-game tracking aids (casualties, points destroyed)
- Rules and banners summary pages
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- Image/picture support for units
- Faction-specific item organization
- Army percentage calculations during building
- Copy and duplicate list functionality
- List publication/roster format export
- Better formation editing capabilities
- Unit renaming functionality
M3E Crew Builder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quartermaster
No in-app purchases
M3E Crew Builder
No in-app purchases
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