Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 09:23 am
Spirit Guide – Board Game Review
Spirit Guide is a Board game from Nerd Room Software LLC, first launched in 14th June 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 139+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spirit Guide Stand Out
Spirit Guide is an all-inclusive companion app for the board game Spirit Island.
Features:
• Energy / Element Trackers
• Notifications when innate abilities can be performed
• Information on all released spirits, scenarios and adversaries
• Achievement tracker to increase replayability
• Win / Loss tracking by spirit, scenario or adversary
• Setup guide to help new players with setting up the game
• Quick access to the official FAQ page within the app
• Randomizer that will select random spirits, scenario and/or adversary for multiple player counts
• Scoring calculator
• Allows for selecting which expansions you currently possess and automatically adjusts the available spirits, scenarios and adversaries.
• Ability to track multiple spirits.
• Game Log which allows you to fill out of a form that will allow you to say with spirits, scenario, adversary, number of players, etc. was used in a single game, score it, put a date on it, and save it to your device.
• The ability for your game log to be uploaded to the cloud for easy backup and to make game logs viewable from the web.
• The ability to unlocked elements from your spirit track so resetting the elements will take that into consideration.
All copyrighted assets are owned by Greater Than Games.
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spirit Guide is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th March 2024
Recent improvements include:
- There was a bug where restoring the Nature Incarnate DLC wouldn't properly restore. That has been resolved.
Download & Availability
Spirit Guide is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The interface is passable, but the game-level integration is not sound. Sure, you can leave notes, but they arent connected to anything, and there is no tool to make it easier to connect Spirits to future games or one another in any informed manner. The worst part? Thats easy: they charge for content, despite there being only three rules about making such tools, with the first rule being no charging for it. Oh well. We guess we will just finish up our superior product and release everything for free.
An amazing tool for a perfect game! Any news on when Nature Incarnate will be added.
Love this app, great for quick reference. Did notice an error on the fear card counts though. Was playing Sweden 4 and happened to notice that the app doesnt match the card from the actual game on several levels when listing how to setup the Fear deck. Checked all the adversary cards and noticed several other errors as well. Most notably, almost every adversary has incorrect Fear card numbers for level 2. Thats probably a quick fix and then Id give 5 Stars. Keep up the good work.
Outstanding app, but Horizons if SI content not loading. Ive tried restore, restarting, everything. We have that content selected in settings. UPDATE: Outstanding customer service too as the developer was very attentive in figuring out a solution.
This is hands down the best system you can get. We use it constantly and we cant live without it! So great.
This app works well – we use it almost exclusively for game tracking. The other features are very well put together and we could see it being very useful for element tracking though we havent yet felt the need to use that in game. The only very small issue we came across is that there is no option for level 0 of an adversary – which by the rule book is when you play without any of the levels and only with the escalation and added loss conditions on the top of the card. Id be nice if that was distinguishable from level 1 since it does effect score and itd be nice to see the difference between the 2.
This is an excellent tracker app for card plays, energy, and elements! Since downloading, Ive used it alongside every game of Spirit Island Ive played. Its greatest strength is the instant in-app notifications when youve reached an elemental threshold for an innate power. Each spirits submenu includes all the information listed on the back of its physical spirit board as well as its unique rules. The only things visually missing from the spirit submenus are the growth options, presence tracks, and specifics of each innate power. These (as well as the details of each spirits starting cards) might be good additions to future versions of the app, especially to consult when the physical game isnt nearby. When tracking multiple spirits, you have to double-tap the active spirits icon to cycle in order through the other tracked spirits. It would be nice if you could make another tracked spirit active just by tapping its specific image. Still, a very minor complaint compared to the apps general ease of use! Ultimately, this is an easy app to recommend if you play a lot of Spirit Island! We definitely recommend the extra $2 to unlock all the Jagged Earth and Promo Pack #2 spirits.
We love the app. Hate using the physical tokens when playing with more than 2 people. Problem is, there isnt a way to remove progress elements once you set them. We have to start a new game each time we make a mistake.
Spirit Island is an incredibly complex game with several bonus actions you can choose to take if youve met certain conditions. Its hard enough to remember if youre just playing solo let alone cooperative. Thankfully, this app is butter smooth and can keep track of when youve met criteria and alert you in a non intrusive way. We highly appreciate the interface not to mention the links to the official rules and FAQ.
An awesome supplemental app to the game Spirit Island. Adding up game scores was never really our thing, however since we started using this app, we have really enjoyed keeping track of our statistics within the game to see how we have been doing. With that, our main use in game is the built in FAQ which is a great one stop shop for tule checks without having to open and find it in the main booklet. Very happy to see the addition of all the details for the upcoming Jagged Earth expansion (not sure how you got that info so fast!!) we are enjoying learning of the new spirits as we wait for our copy of the game to get shipped to us. A few suggestions: A few adversaries do not calculate score correctly. (we have a Habsburg Lvl 3 which looks like a base difficulty 0 in terms of score) our wife and we have really enjoyed playing 3 Board games (with only 2 of us). Per the JE expansion there is a way of scoring that difficulty (in an approximate form). Would it be possible to add this into this app? So far we have just been writing it in the game notes. There are a few typos throughout the newer content (In scenario diversity of spirits, the fast icon is used when we think the presence one was intended, etc) Automatically complete an achievement of a game is logged that meets the conditions. In the game log add ability to differentiate between your spirit and your teammates (without completely ignoring them) Summary of your game log on the spirit/adversary menu (not the subpage for each one) stating something like a simple win/loss record like (3-1) to make it easy to browse through and see how you compare with different spirits and against different adversaries/scenarios.
A great app for tracking you spirit island games. Easy to use and Jagged Earth update is complete. It would be interesting to see more achievements like different types of victories (example: Where did everybody go? Fear level 1 victory) and other spirit specific goals similar to Pool Party.
Love the app for tracking games – that said, there are still some scoring issues (Habsburg level 6 registered as 0 difficulty). Also would love for there to be some grand overview graph/chart for all spirits/games.
Would be 5 stars if the difficulty worked right. Points are miscalculated when scoring. The difficulty will not change. Otherwise a great app. The scoring used to work great prior to jagged earth.
We used to use this app as a great tool! Recently got Jagged Earth (which cost money to buy in-app), and was disheartened to see that some of the listed text is flat out wrong…not just misleading, but wrong. As one example, Lure of the Deep Wilderness in the app has the exact opposite of the actual rule listed as its Enthrall the Foreign Explorers ability. In the game, this ability allows you to ignore up to 2 explorers per presence in the land during the Ravage phase and all Ravage events. The app says you can ignore up to 2 explorers per presence except during the Ravage phase and all Ravage events. There are other blatant errors as well. Buyer beware: there is information in this app that is completely misleading! Too bad, because with some clean up it could become an amazing app.
Replaces an Excel spreadsheet we were using. Great job.
We love to use this app every time we play Spirit Island. Easy to use and the achievements section is a fun challenge to try and attempt. Must get if you are into this game.
Expressed an issue with app/expansion spirits on reddit. Developer responded to our concerns and actually solved our problem! We forgot to check the settings for the expansions. Super helpful, we had been using it nearly every game we played even with the issue that we thought we had.
In our copy of spirit island (8th printing) scoring has a different formulas for victory and defeat. This app appears to use only the victory scoring formula for both victory and defeat. Otherwise great tracker app otherwise.
Great game and great app. Thanks so much for making this.
Spirit Island is a fabulous board game, and this companion app provides all manner of helpful tracking and reference features. It even has the main-board setups for each spirit, which are printed on the back of the player boards, so we always forget to check them until after having put all our presence tokens on the other side of the player boards.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.6.1
- Size: 169.92 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Nerd Room Software LLC]()
Last updated: 4th March 2024 | Genre: Board | Developer: Nerd Room Software LLC