The WoW Companion App Is Gone: What to Use in 2026 Instead

The WoW Companion App no longer works. Blizzard retired it with The War Within pre-patch on July 23, 2024, it was removed from the App Store and Google Play, and as of September 2026there is no official replacement. For your characters away from the PC, the replacement is a fan made app: VaultAlts, free on iOS and Android, covers the Great Vault, Mythic+, raid kills and the weekly reset for every character on your account. For chat, news and the Authenticator, Blizzard's Battle.net app still exists.

Does the WoW Companion App still work?

No, and it cannot be brought back by reinstalling. Blizzard announced on April 24, 2024that "with the release of The War Within pre-expansion content update, we will no longer support the WoW Companion App" and that players "will not be able to update, download, or use the companion app and its features". The pre-patch went live on July 23, 2024; the next morning the app would not connect, and it left both stores. If you still have it installed, it opens to a login that fails. Nothing in Blizzard's announcements since then mentions a successor.

What was the WoW Companion App?

For years, the official WoW Companion App was the way to touch your characters without sitting at your gaming PC. Depending on the expansion, it let you send followers on garrison and order-hall missions, browse the in-game map, track world quests, manage the Auction House, and chat with your guild. It was never a deep tool, but it was there: a small piece of Azeroth you could carry in your pocket between play sessions.

Then it stopped. With patch 11.0 and the launch of The War Within in July 2024, Blizzard discontinued the Companion App. The mission tables it was built around had largely been retired from the game, the app was removed from the App Store and Google Play, and the remaining features were never rebuilt for the modern game. As of 2026 there is no official first-party mobile app for retail World of Warcraft at all; the only Blizzard app that touches WoW is Battle.net, and it does not show characters.

What players actually lost

The mission-table features are not what people miss. Those systems were already on their way out. What people miss is the simple ability to check on their characters away from the PC. The modern retail game gave players new weekly habits the old Companion App was never updated to cover:

• The Great Vault. Nine reward slots across Mythic+, raids and world content, reset every week. Knowing how close each character is to filling another slot matters before reset hits.
• Mythic+ progress. Your best keys of the week, timed or depleted, and which dungeons still need a run for a better vault reward.
• Raid progress. How many bosses each alt has killed since the reset, which is what decides how much of the raid row it earns.
• The weekly reset clock. Different in every region (US, EU, KR, TW), and easy to misjudge when you are planning your week around work or school.

None of that was in the Companion App when it shut down, and nothing official replaced it. If you run a roster of alts, the gap is even wider: the game gives you no way to see all of them at a glance from your phone.

What replaced it: every WoW app that exists in 2026

Nobody replaced the whole app, because nobody can: the mission tables are gone from the game and the Auction House and guild chat used an API that no longer exists outside the client. What exists instead is one official app for the account and a handful of fan made apps for the characters, each reading Blizzard's public API. Every row below was checked on the App Store and Google Play on September 21, 2026.

The full list, with what each app's own store listing claims and when it was last updated, is on best WoW companion apps in 2026. The old Armory app, which the Companion App had absorbed, has its own page.

The "away from your PC" problem

Here is the real shape of it. Most of the time you spend thinking about WoW is not the time you spend playing it. You think about it on the bus, at your desk between tasks, in a queue, in a cafe, in bed before sleep. That is when the useful question comes up: do I still need a key on my hunter this week? How many raid bosses has my main banked toward the vault? How many hours until reset?

At the PC, addons answer all of this beautifully. Tools like WeakAuras, the Great Vault tracker addons, and the default UI give you everything in raw depth. But addons only exist where the game is installed and logged in. The moment you walk away from the machine, all of that knowledge goes dark. The Companion App used to be the small bridge across that gap, and now it is gone.

What to use in 2026: VaultAlts

VaultAlts is a free mobile app for iPhone and Android, built to be the modern replacement for that missing bridge. It is the companion app for the part of your week you spend away from the game. You link your Battle.net account once with read-only OAuth (the same official access pattern Raider.IO and Wowhead use), and every character you have in that region, on any realm, shows up on your phone.

Instead of mission tables, it covers what the modern game actually has:

• Great Vault tracker for every alt, with how many bosses, keys and activities are left to fill each of the nine slots.
• Mythic+ tracking: your best run per dungeon this week, its keystone level, timed or depleted, and the weekly count that feeds the vault, plus the realm leaderboard for any dungeon.
• Raid kills counted the way the vault counts them, unique bosses since the reset across every difficulty, so you know at a glance which alts still owe the raid row.
• Per-region weekly reset countdowns for US, EU, KR and TW, with optional push reminders before reset that name the alt with the cheapest slot left.
• Character lookup with Mythic+ rating, your mount, pet and toy collections, full item tooltips, rated PvP brackets, and an activity feed for the friends and guildmates you follow.

Everything pulls from Blizzard's official Game Data and Profile APIs, and a character refreshes itself whenever you open the app on data older than an hour, so there is nothing to install in-game and nothing to keep up to date by hand. It runs on both iOS and Android, with light and dark themes and unlimited characters. You can dig into the full feature list if you want the details, and the four setup steps are on download a WoW alt tracker app.

Two things it does not do, so nobody installs it for the wrong reason: it reads retail characters only, so Classic, Hardcore and Anniversary realms do not appear, and it has no Auction House, because Blizzard's public API has none.

An honest note: this complements addons, it does not replace them

VaultAlts is not trying to be your at-the-PC UI. When you are sitting in front of the game, your addons are better. WeakAuras, Details, the vault and key trackers built into the in-game UI, and everything else in the ElvUI ecosystem give you real-time depth that no external app should try to duplicate.

The two solve different problems. Addons are for at the keyboard, mid-session, full depth. VaultAlts is for everywhere else: no game login required, refreshed the moment you open it, your whole alt army at a glance. Think of it the way the old Companion App was meant to work alongside your in-game setup, not against it. The difference is that VaultAlts is built for the systems the modern game actually has.

The short version

The official WoW Companion App was discontinued on July 23, 2024 with patch 11.0, and Blizzard has not replaced it. For checking your Great Vault, Mythic+ progress, this week's raid kills and the weekly reset from your phone in 2026, VaultAlts is the modern, free option that fills the gap, for one character or fifty.