Warhammer 40,000: The App

Games Workshop

In-app purchases

About this app

Welcome to the official Warhammer 40,000 app! Here you’ll find everything you need to build armies, engage in brutal battles, and reference stats for your units. It’s your complete digital companion to waging tabletop warfare in the 41st Millennium.

Features:
- Simplified core rules for the most recent edition of Warhammer 40,000
- Complete Indexes and Datasheets for every existing faction and unit
- Specialised Datasheets for games of Combat Patrol
- Build valid armies based on your collection in Battle Forge and crush your foes in combat

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. This app helps you wage it.

Ratings and reviews

The app is pretty useful for checking rules, building lists, and has a special menu that condenses all the rules for your list to use as a reference during play. However, the app slowly becomes less and less functional over time as each new codex paywalls all the information for that army. You can't buy content piecemeal without paying for the physical codex and the monthly sub is very overpriced. Great for rules and building a single army. Bad as a general reference tool.

The app is great until your codex gets released. Then it's a pay wall to see the information that was previously free. You can't even put in the codex code in the app... you have to do it online in your warhammer account. Paying a subscription should be enough money to continue to see all the rules and dataslates WITHOUT having to buy the codex on top of it. Still love the game, but will look for some other list building app that isn't price gouging me at every step.

The app itself is actually pretty fantastic, as long as your faction still only has an index. It's reasonably organized, very responsive, and includes all rules, stratagems, etc. in addition to the datasheets. HOWEVER, as soon as your codex releases, ALL of your faction's info gets locked behind a paywall. The hobby is already expensive enough, at least make the rules more accessible.

What's new

The app has been updated:
- Codex: Orks FAQ is now available in the app
- Codex: Adeptus Custodes FAQ is now available in the app