DriveThruRPG Library User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience28.1% of reviews
Neutral15.6% of reviews
Negative experience56.3% of reviews

~ Based on 64 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is DriveThruRPG Library Legit?

DriveThruRPG Library appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DriveThruRPG Library is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App wont launch

The app upon opening flashes the “One book shelf” logo and then crashes. I have deleted and reinstalled, restarted and tried again. Neither worked. It’s a shame I can’t even try the app.

Much improved!

The recent updates have solved the synching problem, after I deleted and reinstalled the app. It works well now.

Works, but bare bones

Can’t even keep its downloads going when not focused. Try adding a notification or a live activity or something. Defaults to 3 simultaneous downloads which I suspect is bad for speed when files are large. Frankly, amateurish.

This is app is great! A couple minor, minor issues, but no complaints.

I love this app, and it works very well. I'd say it works like it should and/or needs to.
It does have a few small to medium issues, but no app is perfect (most are not anywhere near that; good luck finding the few that are near-perfect).
For example, I occasionally have trouble downloading things, having to try again and again (several times, and rarely a lot) to get it to successfully download one, or a few, of my library purchases.
This is likely because of a poor connection or some other
non-app related reason, but it's hard to say for sure.
It continually shows an error in the downloading process, which can be quite frustrating.

Other than that, I no complaints or issues, and the Drivethru Library app serves my needs well (which are admittedly not that much in the way of needs).
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Doesn’t open

Doesn't open

Login doesn’t work

The app doesn’t work at all! Login not working…

My Library Change

Sucks

Great idea but just doesn’t seem fit for purpose

If they can get this working properly it’ll be really good. Sadly, trying to download stuff in bulk just results in endless errors and failed downloads

App won’t open

App won’t open on iPad Air 2

Exactly what I want

Great way to organize my small-but-growing DTRPG library.

Awesome but

Awesome and amazing I use this and all of the books that I’ve purchased way way more with this app. Please if you’re listening app developer please add landscape for iPhones. Thank you!!

Great app to keep my 2000 titles organized

Really enjoy being able to quickly see of my collection on my iPad and iPhone, sync to my account. It's really nice to be able to only sync what you need on each device. Phone just some titles but my iPad, and computer has most of the titles to view at anytime.

Very Useful

This app has been great for downloading all the PDF's I've collected over the years to my various devices, all at once and in a relatively fast way. Thanks to the DTRPG app I now have all my RPG PDF's on my PC, laptop, tablet, phone, and e-reader.

‘We also have an app” but it’s clunky at best

This is supposed to be a library/PDF Viewer. Keyword: supposed.

Despite it having all the information about systems and publisher, filtering only goes by title. There are no predefined collections except “Downloaded” and “Not Downloaded”. The search bar is tiny and has no “clear’ button. That all would be capable, but…

The built-in PDF Viewer is even worse. Pinch-Zooming behaves oddly, changing starting size at random. Quickly scrolling over the PDF for a visual search is basically impossible, since pages seem to be loaded when on-screen, and cache-cleared as soon as they leave the screen.

Guys, honestly, get a Nextcloud or Dropbox and put the files in there. You can organize everything much better, and have a smoother experience with the native iOS viewer.

For your own sanity, DO NOT USE THIS APP!
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Crashing

Ever since the latest update, the app crashes on start and doesn’t work at all.

3.6.4 startet nicht mehr

Die neueste Version 3.6.4 startet auf iOS 15.8.5 (älteres iPad) nicht mehr. Die Vorgängerversion hat noch problemlos funktioniert.

Awful

Struggle to download library on iOS, reported to devs and no response

Fair app, but not a true MacOS app.

DriveThruRPG compiled the app for MacOS Catalyst, but it’s not MacOS-specific.
For instance, you can’t specify the library destination on MacOS.
Also, the app lacks an iCloud storage option for MacOS/iPad.
Their solution is to download a MacOS-specific version from their website, instead of bundling it with the AppStore Bundle.
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Keep in’ Track, Choom!

Simple, concise & your downloadables are at hand when you’re on the go and need that one reference or character sheet for a Quick Look-me-up or print for the latest N00b who’s joining your campaign!

Could the PDF beta use some attention? Sure- but so far, it’s a decent start and I for one believe it can become quite useful in later iterations!
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Cannot open files

I’m trying to use this on my iPad (iOS 18.5). The good news is that I can sign in and download the PDFs I have bought. Bad news is I cannot for the life of me work out how I am expected to open the files up to read. Tapping on a title in the list just selects/unselects it. There seems to be no button or option that actually opens the PDF, whether in the in-app reader or in another reader on my iPad. Disappointed.
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