RaiderBuddy vs Retro Game Guides

RaiderBuddy is a companion app for ARC Raiders with event timers, maps, progress tracking, and loadout tools. Its timers show live conditions and upcoming events across five server regions. Interactive maps identify loot, ARC enemies, resources, locked rooms, and quest locations, and allow user-created markers. Players can track quests and weekly trial objectives, check needed items, and follow blueprint progress. Build tools support planning and sharing skill builds, viewing weapon stats, and creating shareable weapon tier lists. A free Windows overlay displays event timers, trials, and the user's list over the game. The tools work without an account; signing in allows progress to be kept across devices. RaiderBuddy is available on the web, as an extension, and for Windows, with no mobile apps. Premium adds an ad-free experience, event notifications, saved builds, private map markers, blueprint and progress syncing, and trial spawn locations. Premium Yearly is €2.99 a year, billed yearly, and Premium Monthly is €4.99 a month; both list a seven-day free trial. RaiderBuddy describes itself as a fan project unaffiliated with Embark Studios or ARC Raiders.

Retro Game Guides is an iPhone and iPad offline reader and library for classic game walkthroughs. Reflow, Original, and No wrap layouts provide different reading presentations; Reflow adjusts prose to the phone width while preserving recognized maps and tables. Guide headings become a Contents view, search results include surrounding passage context, and each guide keeps its reading position. Readers can highlight passages, add notes, and bookmark locations, collected in the Notes tab. Plain-text imports up to 10 MB support folder previews, duplicate skipping, and review of uncertain matches. Supported online guide pages can be saved as attributed text snapshots for offline reading. The library also includes original Standard Edition walkthroughs whose pages identify game platform and route scope. Once content is available on-device, reading, organization, search, progress, favorites, bookmarks, highlights, and notes work offline. The maker says there is no account, advertising, analytics, tracking, or cloud-sync service. The free plan covers up to three games; Unlimited Library costs $4.99, paid once.