Android, PC or cloud: how bots for private Travian servers actually differ
Before spending money on automation, most people go and look at what else exists — and it is a crowded shelf. Here is the honest version of that comparison, including the part where you should not buy ours.
The three shapes, and what each really costs you
Almost every option falls into one of three categories, and the category matters more than the feature list. Desktop tools run on your own Windows machine: you own everything, and the price is a PC left switched on. Cloud tools run on someone else's machine: nothing of yours stays on, and the price is a subscription plus trusting a third party with your account. An Android app runs on a phone you already own: no PC, no cloud, and the data stays on the device.
| Tool | Where it runs | Published price | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| TravianBotSharp | Windows desktop | Free, open source | A PC that stays on |
| TBot2 | Windows desktop | Free tier, up to $40/mo | A PC that stays on |
| TCommander | Windows desktop | Paid | A PC that stays on |
| Travify | Chrome extension | €12.99/mo | A browser left open |
| AutoTravian | Cloud | From $5/mo | A subscription |
| Strategos Bot | Android phone | Free tier · €4.99–€9.99/mo · €119 once | Any Android 8+ phone |
Prices as published by each project, checked September 2026. They change; check before deciding.
When you should not buy this one
If you already keep a Windows PC running anyway — for downloads, a home server, whatever — then TravianBotSharp is free and open source, you can read its code, and it will very likely do what you need. We would rather say that here than have you find it afterwards and wonder what else we left out.
The same goes if what you want is somebody else running it for you with a dedicated IP: that is what the cloud tools sell, and we do not sell it.
When the phone wins
It wins when leaving a PC on is the thing you are trying to avoid. A desktop pulling 60–150 W around the clock is a real line on a real bill; an old phone on a charger draws a couple of watts and sits in a drawer. It wins again if you would rather not hand your account to a service you have no visibility into — on a phone, the session and the data stay on the device you are holding.
And it wins on the thing nobody advertises: a phone is already built to run one task quietly for days on battery. A desktop is not.
What we will not claim
- Not more features. Desktop tools have had years; some of them do more.
- Not cheaper. A cloud competitor starts at the same price, and one competitor is free.
- No uptime promise. Automating a site we do not control means it breaks when that site changes — we wrote a whole page about what happens then.
- Not a way around anyone's rules. Every private server sets its own: some permit automation, some forbid it, some build the same features in. Read your server's rules first — here is how, in two minutes — and if it forbids them, do not use this.
The short version
If a PC is already on, take the free one. If you want somebody else to host it, take a cloud one. If what you actually want is for none of that to be true — no PC, no subscription to someone else's server, just a phone you already have — that is the one thing on this page that only we do.
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