How to Track All Your WoW Alts From Your Phone in 2026
If you main an alt army, the hardest part of modern WoW isn't the content, it's the bookkeeping. Six, eight, a dozen characters, each with their own Great Vault, Mythic+ runs, raid lockouts and weekly chores that reset on a clock. The problem is that the information you need to plan your week lives inside the game, and the game lives on your PC. In 2026, it doesn't have to. Here's how to keep your whole roster in your pocket and do your planning from anywhere.
The away-from-PC workflow
The single biggest unlock for alt players is separating planning from playing. You don't need to be at your gaming PC to decide what to do this week, you only need the numbers. And the numbers are perfectly readable on a phone.
Picture the moments alt management actually matters: you're at work wondering whether you still need a key tonight; on the bus home deciding if it's worth rushing to beat reset; in a cafe mapping out which three alts to play this weekend; in a dungeon queue with two minutes to kill. Each of those is a perfect time to glance at your roster, and a terrible time to boot up the client. The official Blizzard WoW Companion App used to fill some of this gap, but it was retired in July 2024 with patch 11.0 and never replaced. A phone-first tracker picks up where it left off.
What's actually worth tracking
You don't need to mirror the entire game on your phone. For most alt players, four things drive every weekly decision:
1. The Great Vault
The weekly reward chest, with up to nine slots across raid, Mythic+ and world activities. This is the number one thing to track per alt, because it tells you which characters are worth logging at all this week and which need one more run for a better reward. (We wrote a whole guide on checking the Great Vault without logging in.)
2. Mythic+ progress
Your best timed runs per dungeon, your keystone level, your weekly count toward vault thresholds, and whether each run was timed or depleted. Knowing an alt is one +14 away from its second vault slot changes your whole evening.
3. Raid lockouts
Which bosses you've killed this week, on which difficulty (LFR, Normal, Heroic, Mythic), per character. Lockouts are easy to lose track of across a roster, and double-killing a boss you're already saved to is wasted time.
4. Weekly resets
The reset clock is region-specific, US, EU, KR and TW all reset at different times, and it's the deadline behind everything above. A good tracker shows a live countdown for your regionso you're never doing timezone math at 11pm.
Apps vs addons vs websites
There are three ways to track alts, and the best setup uses more than one. In-game addons give you deep, real-time data while you're playing, but they only work when the game is open, on your PC. Armory-style websites are great for looking up any character on a big screen, but clunky on a phone and not designed to manage your own multi-alt roster at a glance. Mobile apps are a pocket dashboard for your whole roster, away from the PC, no login required.
The key thing: this is not a competition. Addons are unbeatable for at-the-keyboard depth, and you should keep yours. A mobile app simply covers the hours you're not at the keyboard. The two complement each other, addons for the game session, an app for everywhere else.
Setting it up with VaultAlts
VaultAlts is a free iPhone and Android app built specifically for the alt-army, away-from-PC use case. Setup takes about a minute:
- Install from the App Store or Google Play and sign up with an email.
- Link Battle.net with one-tap OAuth (read-only wow.profile scope; you log in on Blizzard's page, your password never touches our servers).
- Your full roster appears, pulled from Blizzard's official Game Data and Profile APIs.
From there, every character's Great Vault, Mythic+ runs, raid lockouts and item level are one tap away, with a per-region reset countdown across the top. Data syncs automatically every hour and after each reset, or on demand with "Sync now." You can also tap any equipped item for its full in-game tooltip, browse your mounts, pets and toys, look up any character on the Armory, and follow friends or your guild roster in a live activity feed of kills, keys and drops. Tracking is unlimited and free, with a light and dark theme. See the complete feature list for everything it does.
The bottom line
Tracking a full alt army in 2026 comes down to one habit: do your planning on your phone, do your playing on your PC. Keep your addons for the depth they give you in-session, and let a phone app carry the four numbers that drive your week, vault, Mythic+, lockouts and reset, through every moment you're away from the machine. You'll walk in the door already knowing your plan, and never lose a vault slot to a forgotten dungeon again.
Take your alts with you
VaultAlts tracks Great Vault, Mythic+, raids and collections for unlimited characters, free on iOS and Android.