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Army builder application comparisons
The following tables compares various army building applications against WarFoundry across a number of features. The features are grouped in categories for easy viewing.
General
WarFoundry | RollCall | Army Builder | Notes | |
Free to use (Free as in Beer) | Yes | Yes | No | WarFoundry and Rollcall are free to download and use, but Army Builder locks out functionality unless you buy a license |
Free to redistribute/modify (Free as in Speech) | Yes | No | No | WarFoundry is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL. RollCall has a custom license and no available source code. Army Builder is a proprietary app with custom licensing |
Runs on Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Runs on Linux | Yes | No | No | Army Builder and RollCall may work through the Wine Windows compatibility layer, but WarFoundry just needs Mono to run the WinForms build |
Has native Linux build | Yes | No | No | |
Runs on Mac OS X | Yes | No | No | As the Linux version |
Has native Mac OS X build | Possible | No | No | WarFoundry on OS X is possible and design suggestions have been made, but no current developers have access to a Mac |
Translator/Non-English speakers
WarFoundry | RollCall | Army Builder | Notes | |
Translatable UI | Yes | No | Planned | WarFoundry will be fully translatable on final release, with ticket:179 fixing the missing translations. Army Builder apparently has the hooks but hasn't made use of them. |
Translatable files | Planned | No | No | Planned in WarFoundry through ticket:202 |
File Writer
TODO
Developer
WarFoundry | RollCall | Army Builder | Notes | |
Free to redistribute/modify (Free as in Speech) | Yes | No | No | WarFoundry is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL. RollCall has a custom license and no available source code. Army Builder is a proprietary app with custom licensing |
Full access to source code | Yes | No | No | WarFoundry source code is under the GNU Affero GPL |
Can write plugins | Planned | No | No | See ticket:93 |
Can be integrated into a website | Yes | No | No | The WarFoundry API can be incorporated in to any server running mod_mono or Microsoft's .Net framework for ASP.Net |