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 run per dungeon this week, its keystone level, whether it was timed or depleted, and your weekly run count against the vault thresholds. Knowing an alt is one +14 away from its second vault slot changes your whole evening.

3. Raid kills this week

How many bosses each character has put down since the reset, counted the way the vault counts them: unique encounters, across every difficulty, so a Heroic kill on a boss you already cleared on Normal adds nothing. That single number decides whether the raid row opens one slot, two or all three, and it is the easiest thing to lose track of across a roster.

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, with no need to log into the game.

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: pick your region, then log in on Blizzard's own page (read-only wow.profile scope, your password never touches our servers).
• Your full roster for that region appears, every realm included, pulled from Blizzard's official Game Data and Profile APIs.

From there, every character's Great Vault, Mythic+ runs, raid kills and item level are one tap away, with a per-region reset countdown across the top. A character refreshes itself when you open the app and its data is over an hour old, or immediately 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 import your guild roster into an activity feed of their Mythic+ runs, item level milestones and level ups. 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+, raid kills 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.