Image and video decision
Arc Raiders Map
A competent developer can reproduce the core interactive-map, marker and event features using open mapping libraries, but full parity with the App Store app’s polish, performance optimizations and App Store presence is a multi-week effort and therefore only a partial DIY replacement is realistic.
View on the App Store↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off120 h to build
$20/mo4 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Browse interactive tiled map → filter/search markers → open marker details (loot/enemy/quest) → track events/timers → optionally compare weapons/loadouts.
What it still won’t have
- App Store distribution history, reviews and discoverability
- The developer’s polished rendering and performance optimizations (e.g. 60fps with 1,000+ markers)
- Ongoing small UX fixes and incremental content updates handled by the original developer
What remains hard
- Execution quality
buttery-smooth rendering, even with 1,000+ markers on screen.
- Execution quality
Tiled interactive maps: Riven Tides now renders in high detail at every zoom level
First-year cost
No published price
Arc Raiders Map does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a native iOS companion app in SwiftUI + MapLibre GL (or Mapbox SDK) with a small Node/Express or Supabase backend for hosting marker and event data. In-scope: 1) tile-serving via S3+CloudFront (or Mapbox/MapTiler), 2) client tiled map rendering with marker clustering, category filters and full-text marker search, 3) local JSON-backed enemy/loot/weapon databases with comparison UI and skill-tree planner, 4) event scheduling and local push notifications (APNs) with countdowns, 5) StoreKit in-app purchase and restore flows, and 6) basic CI, error handling and unit/UI tests. Out of scope: large-scale analytics, multiplayer sync, training ML models, and App Store submission negotiation. Provide thorough error handling for network and purchase failures and include automated unit tests for data parsing and UI snapshot tests for core screens.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Evidence score53
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productRaiders Map — App Store
- official pricingPalCodex - Pal Companion — App Store (pricing example)
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
