Comparison

Quartermaster vs BattleBase

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

BattleBase

Manage your tabletop wargaming battles with guided setup, phase-by-phase turn tracking, and automatic scoring. Keep track of command points, stratagems, and victory points effortlessly. Connect with friends and review your battle history.

Highlights
  • Guided battle setup
  • Phase-by-phase turn tracking
  • Automatic victory point scoring
  • Command point and stratagem management
  • Connect with friends
  • Battle event logs
  • Dice roller
  • Chess timer
Features
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GUIDED BATTLE SETUP Choose your battle size, muster your armies, select your mission, set up the battlefield, select fixed or tactical secondary missions, deploy your units, determine who will go first, and even remember to resolve your pre-battle abilities! Then hit that start button to begin the fight for glory! PHASE BY PHASE CONTROL Step through the phases of each player's turn as intended by the rules and objectives. Your CP each turn is automatically added so you'll never forget, score primary and secondary objective points at the correct times, get prompted to select secret missions, and more! VICTORY POINT SCORING Simply tap to score points for primary and secondary missions at the correct time. See your overall score and progress for each mission during the battle, and know when you've hit the limit! COMMAND POINT AND STRATAGEM USAGE Automatically gain your CP at the start of your turn, check how many CP you have, see the specific stratagems available to you for the current phase, and simply click a button to activate them and spend your CP. Per-phase limits stop you accidentally using a stratagem twice (we're looking at you, Command Re-roll!). CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Connect with your friends to start a battle that's linked to each of your accounts, see overall stats of your battle history with each friend, and see your friends' battles against other players through our updates feed. BATTLE EVENT LOGS See exactly when that stratagem was used, review the points that were scored, confirm you actually did get your additional CP at the start of your turn (until you realise BattleBase doesn't make mistakes and you stop checking), and more! A HISTORY OF ALL YOUR BATTLES See the full history of your previous battles against your friends, including names, scores, and events. SHARED EXPERIENCE Enable both players to easily access information about the state of the battle, including the primary objective, each player's selected secondary objectives, victory and command points, and stratagems available to their opponent. MULTI-DEVICE SUPPORT The ultimate large screen shared experience via a large screen next to your gaming table. Don't have a large screen? Each player can control the battle using their smartphone. Or for the ultimate experience, use phones or tablets alongside your large screen. BattleBase will keep them all in sync. DICE ROLLER Quickly roll those 100 attacks, rerolling the 1s or all fails, and with exploding sixes! CHESS TIMER Train for that tournament, or just ensure you and your friend can get through that game before your better half threatens to leave you... again! ...and much more! Please refer to https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for terms of use.

Screenshots

Quartermaster4 screens
BattleBase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BattleBase at Free against Quartermaster's $7.99. BattleBase also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 26.0). Quartermaster's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On 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

BattleBase is free to download; Quartermaster costs $7.99 up front. BattleBase sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Quartermaster asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Quartermaster against 4.7 for BattleBase. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quartermaster has 367 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Quartermaster's written reviews are positive against 73% of BattleBase's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quartermaster ships an update every 3 weeks, BattleBase every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Quartermaster versus BattleBase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuartermasterBattleBase
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (367 ratings)4.7 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews72.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings367 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB70 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSean RogersMark McFarlane

Customer experience

Quartermaster

All ratings367 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative28.6%

BattleBase

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%

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

BattleBase

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Quartermaster

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BattleBase

Subscriptions1
  • BattleBase Supporter$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Quartermaster free?
Quartermaster costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BattleBase free?
BattleBase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quartermaster or BattleBase?
BattleBase is rated higher. Quartermaster averages 4.6 out of 5 from 367 ratings, while BattleBase averages 4.7 from 23 ratings.
Do Quartermaster or BattleBase have ads?
Neither Quartermaster nor BattleBase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quartermaster or BattleBase?
Quartermaster ships an update every 3 weeks, and BattleBase every 2 months. Most recently, Quartermaster was updated on September 21, 2026 and BattleBase on September 19, 2026.

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