If you’ve ever finished a mission in Helldivers 2, glanced at the Galactic War Map, and genuinely had no idea which planet actually needed your boots on the ground, you are not alone. The in-game map has never been the most generous with its numbers.
That’s where the Helldivers Companion app comes in. Built by fans and powered by Arrowhead’s public API, it fills in every gap the game leaves wide open, and it does it for free, with no ads, forever. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
What the Helldivers 2 Companion App Actually Does
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Image Credit: PlayStation/YouTube
Image Credit: PlayStation/YouTube
Image Credit: PlayStation/YouTube
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Image Credit: PlayStation/YouTube
Helldivers Companion (helldiverscompanion.com) is a web app, which means you don’t need to install anything. Just open it in a browser, or add it to your home screen on mobile for the full app-like experience. On iOS, that means opening the site in Safari, tapping the share icon, and selecting “Add to Home Screen.”
The UI was clearly made by someone who has spent way too many hours in Helldivers 2, and that’s a compliment. It mirrors the game’s aesthetic closely enough that switching between the two feels surprisingly natural. More importantly, once you get used to it, the Galactic War Map inside the app is actually easier to navigate than the in-game version, showing live liberation percentages, player distribution, and time-to-outcome predictions all in one place.
It’s also worth noting that this entire project runs on fan donations. No corporate backing, no monetisation agenda, just people who care enough about the war effort to build better tools for fighting it.
Pro Tips to Get the Most Out of Helldivers Companion
Everything the in-game map should have been, and then some. | Credits: Helldivers Companion
The app rewards the curious. Most players open the map tab, check which planet looks spicy, and close it. That is a perfectly valid use of it, but it leaves a lot on the table. On that note, below are a few things worth knowing:
Strohmann News (top-right button) is your single best source for live High Command dispatches. Major Order updates, Strategic Opportunities, Minor Orders, enemy activity warnings, and planet prioritization advisories all land here as they happen.
High Command Overview features a “Distribution of Democracy” pie chart showing the exact percentage of active players deployed on each planet. If you want to find where the playerbase is concentrating at any given moment, this is the only place that shows you.
The Map tab (first icon at the bottom) gives you a full overview of the galaxy at a glance; clicking any planet pulls up detailed stats, including live liberation and loss prediction numbers.
The Campaigns tab (icon next to Map) lists every active campaign across all three warfronts, complete with countdown timers. Very useful for deciding whether a defense campaign is actually winnable before you commit a full operation to it with your squad.
The Planets tab is one of the most underrated features: head to the page, search any planet with a story attached, like Meridia or Penta, for instance, and you can scroll through the left sidebar for its full in-universe history in digestible entries. It’s basically the lore archive High Command never officially released.
The app has been around long enough to have earned its reputation. Anyone still winging the Galactic War without it is essentially diving blind, and Super Earth’s finest deserve better than that.
What feature of the Helldivers Companion app do you find yourself using the most? Let us know in the comments below.
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