Batman Miniature Game

Review by eFreeware

Most companion apps for tabletop games are glorified reference sheets. This one takes on the part that actually slows a game night down: assembling a crew. The Batman Miniature Game app, published by Knight Models, is the official tool for putting a roster together, and it handles the arithmetic that comes with it.

That makes it a companion for people who already own the miniatures and the rulebook. If you are partway through a campaign, or you spend the week before a match sketching lists by hand, the appeal is obvious. If you have never pushed a model across a table, there is little here to pull you in, because everything assumes you know what the game is and what a crew needs to do.

It is free, carries no ads and asks nothing for purchases, which is a rare combination for an official licensed app. That alone makes it easy to try if you are curious about how the roster side of the game works.

Building a crew without the spreadsheet

The core of the app is selection. You choose characters for your crew, sorting them into the roles the game uses: leaders, sidekicks, free agents and henchmen, along with vehicles. As you add each one, its reputation is tallied, so you can see the total climb as the crew grows and judge whether you are still inside the limits you are building to.

Money works the same way. Weapons and equipment can be bought for your characters, and the cost comes out of the crew's funding stash automatically. Anyone who has balanced a list by hand knows how quickly that turns into a page of scribbled sums and a calculator, so having the app hold the running total is the main reason to keep it open while you plan.

The characters themselves are presented as interactive cards. Tapping one brings up the abilities text, and any traits that are active in the current build show up on the card as well. That last detail matters more than it might sound: a card that reflects the equipment you have just bought is a card you can read at the table without cross-referencing anything.

Sharing crews, checking rules, and Eternal Mode

Once a crew is finished, the app generates a QR code you can send to the people you play with. That is a tidy way to hand a list over without typing it out again, and it works for the practical cases too, such as passing a roster to a friend who is running the same scenario or keeping a copy for yourself between sessions.

Crews are also stored, so logging in from another device brings them back. If you plan lists on a phone during the week and want them on a tablet on game day, the account is what makes that possible. It also means the roster is not tied to one handset.

Rules are readable in the app at any point, which saves digging out the book mid-game when a question comes up. There is also a mode the developer calls Eternal Mode, which lets you build crews using every character in the game rather than being restricted to what you own or what a given format allows. That is useful for theorycrafting, for checking how a list would look before you commit to buying models, and for the simple pleasure of assembling a lineup you would never field.

What it asks of you, and what it costs

The app is free to download and the developer is explicit that there are no fees, no payments and no ads. Nothing in the way of purchases stands between you and building a crew, and there is no paid tier to weigh.

What it does ask for is an account if you want your crews kept across devices. Crews are stored, so a player who never signs in may not have them kept across devices. The other requirement is knowledge: the app assumes familiarity with the Batman Miniature Game, its roles and its reputation limits. It is a tool for playing, not a tutorial for learning.

The one caveat the developer raises itself is that this is a beta. Feedback is actively requested, and the app can have bugs and malfunctions. That is worth taking at face value. Expect the occasional rough edge, and expect the app to change as that feedback comes in. The app has a 3.0 average from 218 ratings, a middling score for a tool of this kind, and the most recent update, in October 2025, was a compatibility pass for various devices rather than a feature release.

Getting the most out of it on game day

The sensible way to use it is to plan away from the table and read from it at the table. Build the crew in advance, buy the equipment, and let the app hold the totals while you think about how the pieces fit together. Then, when you actually play, the interactive cards give you the abilities and the active traits without a stack of paper.

Sharing by QR code is worth doing early rather than in the moment. If you send the code to the rest of your group as soon as a list is settled, everyone has the same version of it, and nobody is reconstructing it from memory while models are being deployed.

Two features are marked as coming soon, and both point at the same idea: using the app during play rather than only before it. One is a compendium to read, and the other is wound and ammunition tracking, so you could follow what your characters have suffered and what they have spent firing. Neither is described as available yet, so treat them as things to watch for rather than reasons to install today.

A roster tool for players who already know the game

For an existing Batman Miniature Game player, the case for installing is straightforward. It removes the bookkeeping from crew building, keeps the cards readable, stores your lists across devices and lets you hand a roster to a friend with a QR code. It costs nothing, shows no ads and asks for no purchases. There are 50,000-plus installs, so you are unlikely to be the only person at your table using it.

The beta status is the thing to accept going in. A 3.0 average suggests the experience has not been flawless for everyone, and the developer's own warning about bugs is a fair signal that this is a work in progress. The October 2025 update kept devices compatible rather than adding anything new, which fits that picture.

If you are new to the game, this is not where you learn it. The app is built around assembling crews from a roster you are expected to understand. For the player who already knows all that and just wants the sums done for them, it is a practical thing to keep on your phone.

What's new in version 1.8.8

- Update compatibility for various devices