Best Warhammer 40K Battle Tracker Apps 2026 — Free & Paid Options

Tracking a game of Warhammer 40K involves a surprising amount of bookkeeping: Victory Points, Command Points, secondary missions, battle round, who has initiative, what died, and — in tournament play — how much time is left on your clock. Get any of it wrong and you can lose a game you actually won on the table.

A good battle tracker takes all of that off your plate. In this comparison we look at the most popular options in 2026 — Tabletop Battles, Warscribe, BattleBase, and GrimSlate — and help you pick the right one for casual games, leagues, and tournaments.

What a battle tracker actually needs to do

Before comparing apps, here's the checklist we scored against. A complete 40K battle tracker should handle:

Nice-to-haves that separate the leaders: chess clock support, game history, sharing a live game with your opponent or spectators, and — the big one — integration with your actual army list.

If you're new to the scoring rules themselves, our guide to tracking VP and CP in 10th Edition covers what you're actually tracking and why.

Tabletop Battles

Tabletop Battles, from the team at Goonhammer, is the best-known dedicated tracker in the hobby and the default recommendation in most competitive communities.

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Best for: Competitive players who already have a list-building workflow and want a proven, dedicated scorekeeper.

Warscribe

Warscribe is a lighter-weight tracker that focuses on doing the basics quickly.

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Best for: Casual players who want a digital scoreboard and nothing else.

BattleBase

BattleBase positions itself between a scoreboard and a full game assistant.

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Best for: Players who play multiple game systems and want one tracker across all of them.

GrimSlate Battle Mode

GrimSlate approaches the problem from the opposite direction: it's a full army builder first, and Battle Mode is built on top of your actual roster. That one difference changes how the whole game flows.

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Best for: Anyone who wants list building and game tracking in one place — especially if you're tired of juggling two apps mid-game.

Head-to-head comparison

Which one should you pick?

The bottom line

The dedicated trackers are all competent scorekeepers, and if that's all you need, any of them will serve. The real question in 2026 is whether your tracker should know what's in your army. Once you've played a game where casualties, stratagems, and scoring all live next to your actual datasheets — instead of in a separate app from a separate company — it's hard to go back.

GrimSlate's Battle Mode is free, works on any device, and takes about thirty seconds to try with a list you've already built. Head to the Game section, start a live game, and see the difference an integrated tracker makes.