app-comparison.md

A comparison chart of the most popular Gloomhaven Companions Apps

This is a comparison of popular companion apps. Since it was created by the author of Gloomhaven Secretariat, it's biased. If you would like to see features listed here that are missing, feel free to contact me!

• Gloomhaven Secretariat (GHS)
• X-Haven Assistant (XHA)
• Frosthaven Official Companion (FOC)
• Gloomhaven Full Stack (GHFS)
• Gloomhaven Helper (GHH) [discontinued]

Please note that GHS, XHA and FOC are mostly clones/successors of GHH, while GHFS, as the name suggests, is not just a companion app, but a full stack app. So GHFS allows full online play and has many more features than the other apps (and listed here) like full scenario map support and many more (see gloomhaven.smigiel.us/#features). But since GHFS can also be used to replace companion apps like GHH, I listed it here.

This is not a comparison of usability, performance or any visual, so personal taste and expectations may differ from a simple table of features!

• ✅ supported
• ❗ support with limitations
• ⛔ no support
• ❔ missing information
• ➖ no support but due to missing requirement for other features

Tracking	GHS	XHA	FOC	GHFS	GHH
Track all figures (Character, Monster + Standees, Summons, Objectives, Escorts)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Track basic data (HP, Conditions)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Track Initiative (incl. sorting)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Monster Abilities	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Monster Attack Modifier Deck	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Curse & Bless Attack Modifier	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ally Attack Modifier Deck	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Scenario Setup (Monster, Objectives, Escorts)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Separate Rooms/Sections	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Character Attack Modifier Deck	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Character Perks	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Character Scenario XP	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Character Scenario Gold	✅	⛔	✅	✅	✅
Character Progress (XP, Gold/Resources, Items, Perks etc.)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Character Ability Cards	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Campaign Progress	✅	⛔	✅❗	✅	⛔
Event-Decks	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Battle Goal Deck	✅1	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Multiple Parties/Campaigns	✅	✅❗2	✅	✅	⛔
Loot Deck	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Frosthaven Outpost (Calendar, Resources, Buildings, Town Guard etc.)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Town Guard Deck	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Item Management (automatic unlocks etc.)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Integrated Map (interactive)	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Integrated Scenario/Section Book (interactive)	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Random Dungeons	✅❗3	✅❗3	⛔	✅	⛔
World Map	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Scenario Flow Chart	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Editions	GHS	XHA	FOC	GHFS	GHH
Gloomhaven	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Forgotten Circles (including Diviner Mechanics)	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Jaws Of The Lion	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Frosthaven	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Button & Bugs	✅	✅4	⛔	✅4	⛔
The Crimson Scales	✅5	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Trail Of Ashes	✅5	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔
Solo Scenarios (for supported Editions)	✅	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Seeker Of Xorn	✅6	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Ice Rift	✅❗6	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Blood and Sand	✅6	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
supports Envelope X	✅6	✅	⛔	✅	✅
supports Frosthaven Crossover Characters	✅6	➖7	➖7	✅	➖7
support Satire's Extended Battle Goals	✅8	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Additional Features	GHS	XHA	FOC	GHFS	GHH
Synchronize multiple clients	✅9	✅	✅	✅	✅
Right Management for clients	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Undo/Redo function	✅	✅	✅	✅10	✅
Undo/Redo history	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Calculate Abilities (based on stats)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Add Basic Values to Stats	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Show calculated Shield/Retaliate Values	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Inspect/Reorder Monster Ability Cards	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Update Elements	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Consume Elements by Monsters	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Expire Conditions	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅
Automatic Advantage/Disadvantage Draw for AM Decks	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Automaitc apply Conditions (like wound, regenarate etc.)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Automatic ask for applying Conditions (like poison, ward etc.)	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Track Character Shield/Retaliate	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Character Ability Cards Enhancements	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Character Items (manage item states)	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Loot Deck Enhancements	✅	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Assign Loot Cards to Character	✅	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Special Scenario Rules/Notes	✅	✅	⛔	✅	⛔
Apply Special Scenario Rules	✅	✅❗11	⛔	✅	⛔
Support Frosthaven Building 81 Mechanics	✅1	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Support Frosthaven Building 90 Mechanics	✅1	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Automatic Standees	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Assign Standee Numbers	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sort Standees	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Select multiple standees	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Random Standees	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Active Standees	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Hide Standees	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	✅
Drag Values (Initiative, HP, XP, Gold)	✅	✅❗12	✅❗12	⛔	✅
Play without initiative required	✅	✅	✅	⛔	✅
Automatic level calculation	✅	✅	⛔	✅	✅❗13
Apply certain abilities (self conditions, elements, summons)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Automate some special Character Abilities/Perks	✅14	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Ability Card Names	✅15	✅	✅16	✅	⛔
Named Summons	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔
Summon Stats	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Active Summons	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Mark Long Rest	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Automatic apply Long Rest (perform Heal 2)	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Support ≥ 5 Players rules	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Absent Characters	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Scenario Statistics	✅1	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔
Localization	✅17	⛔	⛔	⛔	✅❗18
Offline Support	✅19	✅	✅	⛔	✅
Devices	GHS	XHA	FOC	GHFS	GHH
Web	✅	⛔	⛔	✅	⛔20
Windows	✅21	✅	⛔	✅❗21	❗22
MacOS	✅21	✅	⛔	✅❗21	❗22
Linux	✅21	✅	⛔	✅❗21	❗22
Android	✅❗21	✅	✅	✅❗21	❗22
iOS	✅❗21	✅	✅	✅❗21	⛔20
Contribution	GHS	XHA	FOC	GHFS	GHH
OpenSource License	✅23	✅24	⛔	⛔	⛔
Custom Content	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
Monster Editor (Stats + Abilities)	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔

Footnotes

1. Need to be enabled in Settings Menu ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Manually save/load states for multiple parties ↩

3. Only support monster cards, dungeon cards must be drawn manually ↩ ↩²

4. Some features not fully implemented like AM deck ↩ ↩²

5. Some special rules data not complete, but fully playable ↩ ↩²

6. Need to be enabled in Data Management Menu ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

7. Since no perks or any advanced character management support, there is no need to support those Crossover Characters! ↩ ↩² ↩³

8. Need to be enabled in Data Management Menu, afterwards added in Battle Goals Setup ↩

9. Need separate server component GHS Server, public instance available ↩

10. Unlimitied Undo/Redo ↩

11. Only spawns rules yet ↩

12. Currently HP only ↩ ↩²

13. Level only shown, must be set manually ↩

14. See README for details ↩

15. By default only shown on hovering card or fullscreen card, can be activated permenent in settings ↩

16. only shown on full screen card view ↩

17. Support for English, German, French and Korean (missing translations for CS and FH) ↩

18. Many languages supported, but many label missing: English, Czech, Hungarian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portugues, Russian, Spanish ↩

19. Installable as PWA ↩

20. Not available anymore ↩ ↩²

21. As web application available ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

22. Not officially available anymore ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

23. Source Code (AGPL 3.0) ↩

24. Source Code (AGPL 3.0) ↩