Comparison

Quartermaster vs The

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

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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

The

Access a vast library of video content designed to elevate your competitive tabletop gaming skills. Learn advanced strategies, analyze meta-game shifts, and master specific factions through expert-led sessions and professional match breakdowns.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of hours of video content
  • Advanced strategy sessions
  • Live streamed professional games
  • Deep dives on every faction
  • Cutting-edge meta-analysis
  • Master class series
Features
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Want to join a global community focused on taking your competitive 40k skills to the next level? The War Room is the subscription for you! Whether you are new to the hobby or a tournament veteran, we offer hundreds of hours of video content focused on making you the best competitive 40k player! If you don't have the time to play dozens of matches, the War Room allows you to skip the steep learning curve of 40k and easily access the combined knowledge of professional players. We've got you covered with advanced strategy sessions, live streamed games between tournament champions, deep dives on every single faction, cutting-edge meta-analysis, and master class series to help you play like the pros. Sign up today to access our entire catalog of videos to start winning with your favorite faction in no time! What video series do we offer? Coaching Matches: Live streamed games between professional 40k players focused on teaching you how to think, ask questions, and develop strategies like the pros. Strategy Session: A weekly session focused on a specific strategic (macro) or tactical (micro) concept. Popular series include the mission series, terrain series, secondary discussions, combat jank, and retrospective analysis of mistakes made during a coach’s games to teach you how to learn from the games you play. Master Class: A series which condenses a coach’s expert knowledge of a faction into a five part video series. The first focuses on the faction’s optimal playstyles. The second and third explain the key datasheets and how to get the most out of them using the faction’s strongest synergies and rules. The fourth zooms out to a macro perspective on suggested gameplans, matchups, how to deploy, utiltize terrain, choose secondaries, and much more. Lastly, the fifth video puts everything you have learned up to that point into practice walking you through high level professional matches demonstrating exactly what you need to do to win with your faction consistently and improve your gameplay! Faction Focus: There are several faction Focus videos each week, which will give you a snapshot of the ever-evolving landscape of what recent lists look like for that faction, tech choices and strategies that are performing well, advice on winning tough matchups, and community Q sessions. Faction Focus - Datasheets: A short form video series that centers on a specific datasheet relevant to the meta that you need to know. It details its significant rules and synergies, how it plays on the tabletop, and its weaknesses for when you fight against it. Know Thy Enemy: A detailed breakdown of everything you need to know about how to play against a specific faction. This series is done in two parts. 1) A macro perspective of the faction’s rules and datasheets and 2) A session showing you how to beat them on the tabletop. To access all features and content you can subscribe to The-War-Room on a monthly basis with an auto-renewing subscription right inside the app.* Pricing can vary by region and will be confirmed before purchase in the app. In app subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of their cycle. All payments will be paid through your iTunes Account and may be managed under Account Settings after the initial payment. Subscription payments will automatically renew unless deactivated at least 24-hours before the end of the current cycle. Your account will be charged for renewal at least 24-hours prior to the end of the current cycle. Cancellations are incurred by disabling auto-renewal. Terms of Service: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/tos Privacy Policy: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/privacy

Screenshots

Quartermaster4 screens
The4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The at Free against Quartermaster's $7.99. The also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Quartermaster's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On 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

The is free to download; Quartermaster costs $7.99 up front. The sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per month. Quartermaster asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 367 and 110 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Quartermaster's written reviews are positive against 100% of The's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quartermaster ships an update every 3 weeks, The every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Quartermaster versus The: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuartermasterThe
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (367 ratings)5.0 (110 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings367 — better110
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB81 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperSean RogersArt of War Gaming LLC

Customer experience

Quartermaster

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

The

All ratings110 ratings
Positive99.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

User reviews

Quartermaster

From 367 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
  • 🚀 Fast app loading and performance
  • 📋 Easy list building and customization
  • ✏️ Editable templates and data files
  • 📱 Offline functionality

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes
  • 🐛 Data loss and list deletion issues
  • ❌ Missing weapon/equipment profiles
  • ❌ Incomplete game system data
  • ⏱️ Slow update cycles for new content

The

From 110 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 High quality content
  • 👍 Excellent for learning 40K
  • 👍 Great value for money
  • 👍 Entertaining personalities
  • 👍 Cutting-edge strategies

Room to improve

  • 💡 More army-specific content needed
  • 💡 Additional search/organizing/sorting functions would be good

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

The

Requested features

2 requests
  • Additional search/organizing/sorting functions (e.g., sort all videos by newest)
  • More army-specific content

In-app purchases

None

Quartermaster

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

The

Subscriptions1
  • The-War-Room Monthly$39.991 Month

Questions

Is Quartermaster free?
Quartermaster costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The free?
The is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quartermaster or The?
The is rated higher. Quartermaster averages 4.6 out of 5 from 367 ratings, while The averages 5.0 from 110 ratings.
Do Quartermaster or The have ads?
Neither Quartermaster nor The shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quartermaster or The?
Quartermaster ships an update every 3 weeks, and The every 5 months. Most recently, Quartermaster was updated on September 21, 2026 and The on September 23, 2026.

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