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

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.

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 timed keys of the week, your rating, and which dungeons still need a run for a better vault reward.
• Raid lockouts. Which bosses each alt has already killed this week, across LFR, Normal, Heroic and Mythic.
• 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.

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? Did my main already clear Heroic? 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 on your account 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: best runs of the week per dungeon, keystone level, timed or depleted, and your rating.
• Raid lockouts per difficulty, so you never wonder which boss an alt still owes.
• Per-region weekly reset countdowns for US, EU, KR and TW, with optional push reminders before reset.
• Character lookup, collections, full item tooltips, PvP and a social activity feed of your roster and friends you follow.

Everything pulls live from Blizzard's official Game Data and Profile APIs, so it is always current and there is nothing to install in-game. 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.

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 login required, always current, 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 in July 2024 with patch 11.0, and Blizzard has not replaced it. For checking your Great Vault, Mythic+ progress, raid lockouts and the weekly reset from your phone in 2026, VaultAlts is the modern, free option that fills the gap, for one character or fifty.