An unofficial helper app for the boardgames Gloomhaven, Frosthaven and any derivative. The aim is to be a good replacement for the Gloomhaven Helper by Esoteric Software that is no longer available. The focus is on good user experience, and to be like a boardgame component rather than a typical material style app. That means most of the functionality will be in one single screen, which makes it seem slightly busy at first glance, but is really necessary to minimize need for user input which is a key factor to good UX for a boardgame component.
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X-haven Assistant FAQ
Is X-haven Assistant free?
Yes, X-haven Assistant is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is X-haven Assistant legit?
🤔 The X-haven Assistant app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
Don’t hesitate. Get this app and streamline everything about the game. I think maybe there is a slight issue with the enemy’s deck. We are playing JOTL and recently, whenever the enemies get an attack with a shuffle icon, that same card reappears VERY FREQUENTLY. Sometimes 2-3 times in a row. Odd.
Connection issues make this worse than worthless
If this didn’t exist my crew would just use cards. But it does exist and so I get to choose between having no idea what the monsters are doing and spending my evening trying to reconnect constantly.
This also makes Frosthaven less enjoyable.
Was good then the networking code got bad
Trying to keep all my groups phones connected to our tablet server is a nightmare. I have never been more frustrated with an ios app as I am with this one.
Updates: awesome! (Old: Nice replacement, needs a few tweaks still)
Nice app, mostly seems to work as well as the no-longer-available app did. A couple of wish list items for me…. 1. Please automatically remove statuses when they expire! Statuses have to be manually removed. Ie, you stun a monster. It should lose that status at the end of its next turn. The app currently doesn’t do that automatically. 2. Let us drag folks around to alter the initiative order. One player can alter their initiative +/- 10 after the initiative reveal, and sometimes we simply mistype in a number for a player. It would be extremely helpful if we could drag a player’s character up/down in the initiative order once we have drawn the monsters initiatives to adjust for those circumstances, as once we have drawn, we currently can neither drag nor can we change the number. 3. Make the various decks a touch bigger. The ally and monster decks are very close together and the “a” and “m” identifying which is which is very small, even on my larger iPad, so when we have an ally taking a turn, it can be very easy to accidentally draw from the monster deck. Edit to add: Thank you! I had tried online for solutions and hadn't found any helpful chatter. Those all work! Changing my review to 5 stars. Great app!
An essential tool for the game!
First off, thank you for this app. I don’t think my group could play without it. The amount of time savings is humongous.
My only complaint is that it seems to absolutely eat battery in client mode on older iOS devices. It’s killed an iPad Air and phone from 100% battery to 0 in two of our sessions. The server device seems to be a bit better.
Amazing community resource
This is an amazing, freely-provided community resource that makes playing any of the -haven games so much smoother. Could not do without it!
Not the prettiest. But pretty much perfect.
Honestly this app is fantastic and makes the "official" helper app look terrible. The only downside is it's pretty ugly, but who cares. It saves us easily 30 minutes a session.
This is the one you want
It takes about 10-15 minutes to learn the UI/UX and what it’s doing, but this is going to be a huge time saver for sessions. Very, very excited to use this.
Perfect app
Currently, tapping on “add scenario” or “add section” darkens the screen as if waiting for a menu to pop up, but one never does. All I can do is tap near the top left to make the darkening go away. It’s still possible to set the scenario manually by adding monsters, but now we have the tables from scenario 15 jotl just hanging out with us XD This is on a 5th gen iPad.
Update: fixed by uninstall and reinstall. Haven’t tried a full scenario since then, but expecting that’s it’s great.
This app automates away so much of the busywork, and helps clear out a lot of room on our small table. Love it!
Nearly perfect
Fantastic app for any GH/FH players - as the old American Express commercial said ‘Don’t leave home without it.’
The only reason I can’t give 5 stars today is an issue with client/host syncing - we are using 2 iPad Pros on home network - since last update (not before) changes on host iPad are not synced to client iPad. Client player touches screen and continuously gets error message ‘your state is not up to date’