Third-party tools
From EVE University Wiki
Over the years, several tools and sites have been created by players to help develop their characters and manage information. Below is a list of various applications and websites that can be very helpful to new and veteran players.
Please note that this list is a work in progress. Feel free to add any additional tools or sites!
Please note many of these Tools require a valid EVE API-key to function
Applications
Applications listed below are the most important EVE utilities that a wide variety of players will find useful. A complete set of the Windows software can be found here
For more specialized software head to these sites - although some of the software listed there is outdated.
Windows/Mac/Linux
| Name | Platform | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| PYFA | Cross Platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) |
Fitting | Like the well-known EFT (listed below), pyfa allows you to create, experiment with, and save ship fittings without being in game. Like EFT, Pyfa can import your character information to take your skills into account and show you what skills you need for a given fit. Open source and written in Python, the program runs under Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX in addition to any other platform where Python and wxWidgets are available. |
| EFT | Windows | Fitting | EFT allows users to create, experiment, and save different ship fittings without the hassle of being in game. The fittings will calculate and display various stats such as tanking abilities and damage to compare with other ships. Players can import their character information to take their skills into account with stat calculation. It will even show the skills a player lacks which is very useful for future planning. EFT is a must have for players both new and old! |
| EVEmon | Windows | Skill Planner | EVEMon was created to help players with the daunting task of skill planning. Players are able to load their character information using API keys to keep track of their current skill sheet and training times. You can then develop a plan for future training and it will help optimize the plan by suggesting skills or attribute remapping to reduce the time needed. As a bonus, you can view ship loadouts from BattleClinic.com and build a skill plan to get you into that fit based on your character's skills. This tool is extremely useful and can even save the ship loadouts from BattleClinic to import into EFT. |
| EveHQ | Windows | All-in-one | EveHQ is a fully open source application designed to be an all-in-one management tool for use with EVE Online. Players can download and even create their own plug-ins to help manage various information and aspects of the game. The core application itself displays basic pilot information, skill training, and statistics. On the site, they feature plug-ins already created to help develop your character, view item stats, and even plan routes on star maps. If you prefer to create your own, they have a development forum and page where you can download the source code. Although it is not as popular as EFT or EVEMon, it is definitely a great alternative for people who prefer an all-in-one package or wish to develop and customize their own programs. |
| EVE Mentat | Windows | Trade | EveMentat helps your trading activities by allowing you to monitor market orders, reads exported market logs, and automatically checks for concurrency (among other things). |
| Evernus | Cross Platform (Windows/Mac) |
Trade | Evernus is a multi platform trade and market tool. It tracks past and present orders, assets, offers a wide range of statistics and automates searching for items to trade and updating prices. Also supports in game browser integration and custom costs for industrialists. Completely open source. |
| Eve Refinery | Windows | Industry | EveRefinery displays market prices and refined prices for the items in your inventory. The tool thus allows you to quickly decide whether to sell or refine each piece of your loot. It can also be handy for analyzing the market since it displays item prices in one long list. |
| EVE ISK/hour | Windows | Industry | EVE Isk per Hour--an open source tool--uses EVE Central data to identify the most profitable items to manufacture. |
| GtkEveMon | Cross Platform (Mac/Linux/FreeBSD) |
Skill Planner | Replacement for EveMon. Open source, using Gtk toolkit, runs fine under both Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX (available via Macports) For FreeBSD, download using Subversion as explained on GtkEveMon's website Build using gmake, ie
$ cd gtkevemon/ && gmake && su -m root -c 'gmake install' |
| EVE Meep | Windows | Industry | Eve-MEEP provides a number of tools useful for industry players. |
| EVE-O | Windows | Other | EVE-O preview helps manage multiple clients on a single computer by showing previews of and allowing for fast switching between clients. |
| Vitality | Mac | Skill Planner | This is a fork of Mac Eve Tools (see below), updated for Retribution and the new API. |
EFT On Mac
EFT on Mac can be run effectively utilizing CrossOver.
- Download EFT
- Download CrossOver
- Run EFT.EXE with CrossOver
- From the Crossover Installer Select >Unsupported Applications> Other Applications
- Click Select an Installer and Choose Installer File.
- Select type of Bottle (WinXp Works Well) and give it a name.
- Click Proceed.
- After Installation is completed. The EFT.EXE link from above will now launch EFT.
Crossovers benefit is in its nearly full functionality with EFT. API,Fits,Settings etc... will all be saved and available when the program is closed and then relaunched. As of this writing (10/7/2010) the only known element that does not work is the ability to import and export XML files.
Mobile Phone Apps
| Name | Platform | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Neocom | iOS | Neocom for iPhone and iPad displays live EVE API-updated character information, including wallet transactions, skill queue, market orders, and more. Also included in Neocom is a fitting tool, allowing you to put together ship fits whenever the inspiration takes you Website |
| Fly Safe | iOS | FlySafe is an iPhone app with many functions found in several of the other apps list in this section. However, there are two features not commonly found in iPhone apps. One, it allows you to monitor ship and pod kills in various systems (systems displayed are customizable). Secondly, it allows you to see the corporate calender events with event times converted to local times. Website |
| Dusk | iOS | Dusk is a polished iPhone app that allows for easy character monitoring while away from a full EVE client. It offers skill queue monitoring, training plans, ISK balance, skill tree browsing, and offline perusal of mail and notifications. Skill plans can also be imported and exported to EVEMon. |
| EVE Droid | Android | EVE Droid is an Android application for character monitoring and ship fitting. It includes skill queue monitoring, offline mail reading, and character monitoring in addition to ship fitting (with the capacity to import and export ship fits for use in EFT or EVE Online itself) and item browsing. The program is currently in beta but is already quite functional and full featured, including ship fitting, which similar apps (e.g. Aura) do not have. Skill planning, market, and industry information are planned for future releases (as of 8/9/2014). |
| Aura | Android | Aura is an Android application to track and monitor your character(s) for EVE Online. Skill queue monitor, basic skill planner, order tracking, etc. Has home screen widgets and other features. Notification pop-ups that appear on your phone can be set to include when your skill queue is running low, your clone is out-of-date, you receive eve-mail or other in-game features. You can also track your wallet/income, and set it up to do all of this for multiple clones. It has a database of skills, ships and other information for out-of-game references as well. Website |
| EVE News | Android | EVE News is a simple application that connects you with all the best sources of news relating to EVE Online and the EVE Universe. |
| EVE Incursion Warrior | Android | If you incursion and you need to know when new incursions pop up and when the current ones get popped then this application will help you! |
| Evanova | Android | Character skill tracking, mail, assets, wallet transactions, orders, contract, industry. A little buggy but still useful. Try both this and Aura and see which you prefer. |
Websites
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EVE Offline | Server Status | Eve offline provides server status monitoring for EVE and DUST514 servers |
| EVE-Shopping | Shopping List | EVE-Shopping allows you to import fits and create a shopping list to make buying multiple fits, or multiple versions of the same fit, easier. |
| Dotlan EVE Maps | Maps | DOTLAN EveMaps uses vector based maps to display the different systems within each region in browser format. The maps are dynamic and are updated each day to reflect sovereignty and occupancy changes within each system. With the recent update to the in-game browser, DOTLAN EveMaps can be a great tool to use for fleet roaming and planning within game although it does run a little sluggish at the present time. Be sure to check out the 'Radar' feature, which syncs an out-of-game browser to your ship movement. |
| Static Mapper | Maps | Provides static wormhole information. |
| Ombeve 2D Maps | Maps | Ombey's 2d EVEMaps provides a downloadable PDF that displays all the different systems within each region for easier navigation & route planning. As a bonus, the different systems include notes that indicate the stations available and the number of asteroid belts within that system. |
| EVE-Scout | Maps | List/Map of wormholes leading to Thera. |
| Tripwire (Beta) | Maps | Tripwire keeps track of Wormhole-chains using the ingame browser. It imports data from eve-scout for Thera exits and api statistics about the selected system (npc kills, ship kills,...). You have the ability to Copy/Paste Cosmic signatures, share information with a selection of people/corporations. The Tool has an elaborated design and is free for now. The code is not open source yet but the author stated that this is only because beta and hence fast changing code. There are some suspicions (Eve Forum) about his motives because of that, since he could abuse the intel. |
| Live Intel Map (forum post) | Intel | A dynamic online map accessible by the Ivy members and presenting our live Intel knowledge about war targets. |
| EVEScout | Intel | Local analysing tool using the ingame browser. Gives information about killboard records and corporations of the players. The tool is from Kermange Atruin. No information about privacy! Easy to confuse with EVE-Scout. |
| aD Paste anything | Intel | Parsing d-scan and interpreting local data. Made by hfo df. No information about privacy (info website)! |
| EVE Who | Intel | Database for EVE-Characters. (Employment histories, member lists,...) |
| zKillboard | Killboard | Popular public killboard. |
| EN24 | News | Eve News24 is the biggest news website for EVE online. With a bad reputation regarding quality. |
| The Mittani dot com | News | A news site operated by the Goonswarm Federation. Longer and higher quality articles than EN24 but with the negative connotation that it might be a propaganda site for Goonswarm. |
| EVE Central | Market | EVE-Central tracks market information for items throughout the various regions in EVE. Players can even pull reports and sync applications with the site to pull any market data. Bear in mind that it relies solely on player submissions and may not always be accurate. |
| EVE Market Data | Market | Alternative to EVE-Central. Data gathered by players, compatible with EFT, ability to value hangar items. (Offline as of December 2015) |
| NEAT | Market | Market accounting information. Transaction history. Pulls data using your API key |
| Grimsar's EVE Wiki | Tools | Grismar's EVE Wiki is a very robust website that offers a variety of different tools that can be accessed using the in game browser. It features tools such as route planning, ore price tables, and build requirements. |
| Profitability of R&D Agents | Tools | Calculates Datacore prices and R&D agents, give overall profit based on skills |
| Gunfleet EVE Quick Lookup | Tools | Misc. tools including "Mining for ISK", "Mining for Minerals", and others. |
| Fuzzwork Enterprises | Tools | Useful industry website with a number of useful calculators, including a blueprint calculator and LP store database. |
| EVE-Cost | Tools | Industry website with a number of tools, including manufacturing, research, invention and reprocessing calculators. Note that the research/invention calculators have not been updated with Phoebe expansion changes, however. |
| PI Bear | Tools | Contains tools for Planetary Interaction. |
| POS Fitter | Tools | A POS Builder that allows you to calculate whether you can cram that last pulse laser battery in and just how much everything is going to cost you in fuel. |
| Dedaf's Industrial Tool | Tools | It's the most complete industrial spreadsheet so far, it can connect with your API key and import prices based on the desired region, has all kinds of items in EVE, with their respective needed amounts for manufacturing it, contains tabs on ore, mining, PI, manufacting all levels of tech. |
| Transneural Contact Injector | Tools | A CREST-based tool that enables bulk management of contacts and watchlists across EvE characters. |
| EVE Survival | Missions | Mission runners handbook, give advices on ship fittings and damage dealing types |
| Agent Rangefinder | Agents | Helps you find those elusive agents that you have been looking for. |
| Battleclinic | Fitting | EVE BattleClinic offers tons of great information for EVE players. It features news, guides, loadouts, message boards, and even browser tools that players can use to help with character development.
Many of the fits on Battleclinic, even some highly-rated ones, are very mediocre. Failure to agree with dominant personalities on the BattleClinic forums can result in immediate and low-brow flame wars. Scrapheap Challenge (for high skillpoint players), and Eve University's ship setup forum (for low skillpoint players) are often better sources for fittings. |
| Fleet Up | Fitting | Stores and shares ship fittings for corporate fleet doctrines |
| Failheap Challenge | Fitting | Failheap Challenge (also known as "FHC") is a forum with discussions ranging from PvE and PvP fits, to political discussions in their War & Politics forum that often more interesting to follow than similar threads on COAD.
The ship setup discussions are known to produce some excellent fits, although mostly aimed at high skillpoint pilots. |
| Chruker's EVE site | Reference | Chruker's site has useful information on many subjects. In particular, it includes a database full of all NPC ship attributes. |
| Cerlestes Ore and Ice Tables | Reference | Ore and Ice price tables updated in real time and with refining configurations |
| EVE Reference Sheet | Reference | A great all in one reference page with a lot of great information. Includes damage types, exploration site types, agent types, etc... |
| EVE Acronyms | Reference | EVE Acronyms is EVE Onlines biggest and best dictionary, with a huge collection of EVE related terms. It is driven by players and made for newbros and bittervets. |
