RPG Notebook User Reviews

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Extremely useful, but…

It could use some extra functionality in the journal for play-by-post games, like turning off name links for a note—I’d love to be able to keep whole sessions and refer back to them, without linking back to a character everywhere their name is mentioned. The ability to italicize text (+ other text editor functions?) would also be nice.

(My more minor request is that we be able to create trackers that reset to zero rather than full, for things like accumulation of wounds. But it’s pretty easy to just decrease them manually.)

Still, it’s a very useful app, and an excellent place to save characters in a system-neutral way. Most of these apps just do D&D, and the ones that don’t usually only do a specific other system. This one is very customizable, and I bought the full version immediately after seeing what it could do.
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Amazingly Useful

I got this to originally keep track of my campaign for solo RPG and it very quickly became my Wiki Page for everything creative. I even wrote a quarter of a novel in it just because of the ease of tags, hyperlinks and character sheets. I have since moved the draft out of it (just for formatting reasons, nothing wrong with the app.) but it is still working amazing to keep all my character and world info in. Great work on the app and I would recommend to anyone trying to keep track of multiple characters, backstories and locations.
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Useful Tracker

I used this for an old campaign and it was so useful I spent a long time trying to find it again as it was connected to an old device and Apple ID I no longer have access to. There’s ads now but there are also more features so the trade off is worth it in my opinion and the ads aren’t too frequent. I would love to purchase the ad free version and support the developers but the fact there is no account or way to connect the app between different devices is a bit of a deal breaker + that there’s no website or pc version as I’m stuck doing all the planning on my phone lol.
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Wow, amazing

Now, I’m not one to rate apps, but this app could use the input from users given its size. This app is great, I started using it like an hour ago and it actually is so great for what I’m working on with my story, this is awesome dude!

Confusing

When I first saw this I thought it could be really useful for making stuff and keeping it in somewhere other than my head. But once I got it I realized it was quite confusing, I would appreciate if there was a guide so I can better navigate it. And apparently you can make main quests, stat blocks, and all sorts of stuff, but I don’t know how.
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Confusing

When I first saw this I thought it could be really useful for making stuff and keeping it in somewhere other than my head. But once I got it I realized it was quite confusing, I would appreciate if there was a guide so I can better navigate it. And apparently you can make a main quest but I don’t know how.
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Good

Works pretty solid for organization, though don’t expect to necessarily run All your planning out of it.

Keeps loading at home page after update

Works well before update. Got stuck on the home page by something that keeps loading, making it unable to open up my campaigns. Hope this bug gets fixed soon

Response from developer

Hey, we’ll look into this problem and fix it in the next update. EDIT: The new update is live. If you’re still having issues, please contact us at contact@bigbearcat.eu

Still use it for all my campaigns

I like that the user interface is simple and quick to find and add things.

The one thing that is missing is an output to pdf or something like that.

Great simple Campaign app

So far I really like this app, simple to use, and I’m able to do a brief layout of the campaign, creating my own “folders” for different things.
Something I would like to see is some world building tools, something to kind of combine the campaigns together. I have a few different campaigns that I’ve added, but having something to build on my lore of my world it self would be nice. I have homebrew rules that are not campaign specific, right now I just have all my rules set as its own campaign section. Also the ability for my campaigns to almost be linked to each other, so if I want to reference a NPC I could search in one campaign and have it take me to that NPC from the other campaign.
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Info farming

There's no other reason you should have to sign up and pay for what's basically a notepad app. China has enough of your information already, you don't have to make it easier for them. Ya know what's better than paying for a subscription to a notebook app? Buying an ACTUAL NOTEBOOK. For like, $1.

Perfect

Love how organized it keeps my campaigns!! Perfect for any system and campaign type.

Wish maps opened in the center instead of the top right and I also wish it had a dedicated section for NPCs. But overall very good

Great app, missing some image functionality

I like that the user interface is simple and quick to find and add things.

Only one issue is that it does not support webp images.

Flexible but doesn’t sync

I really like this app as it’s pretty flexible for the different kinds of rpgs. However it doesn’t sync between my iPad and iPhone which is an issue for me.

Won’t load backup

I lost my phone about a week ago and got a new one. Redownloaded the app and went to restore a backup I had and I get the spinning wheel that says loading data and nothing happens. It just sits there like that for ages and never actually loads.

Amazing with a little room to improve

I am making a little mini rpg campaign with my sister and love this app for being able to compile my thoughts. There are a couple things I would like to see improved to help with flow:

1. I would love it if the font size for the descriptions had like a small, medium, large or something like that so I could see some of the text a bit easier.

2. I copy and paste some stuff from ChatGPT and it asks me if pasting from the app is ok every time: I would love if there was an “always allow” option so I don’t have to click it every time.

I hope I wasn’t being too crazy nit-picky, but I think changes such as these could really help the flow and functionality of this app. Other than those minor things, I love the general idea and especially the wide options for icons!
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Response from developer

Hey, the issue of the constant asking about permission to paste text should be resolved in the next update. As for the font size problem, we'll look at it and see if we can do something about it :)

Perfect TTRPG Note Keeping

I love this app. It’s amazing for my ttrpg games, and I have a hard time taking notes without it. The only thing that I think could make this app better, is the ability to invite or share your notes with other players with the app. I would never need another note keeping app. Despite this single flaw, I do love this app.
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Great app for dm’s and players - would be perfect with inventory management

This has been the most organized I’ve been as a player in a campaign. And I use the sci-fi one for our sci-fi campaign, I was pleasantly surprised to see that was included. I would love an option to add a counter to manage inventory item number for my character, that would make this app absolutely perfect, but it’s so good as is.
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Recent Updates Cause Total Crash

With the recent updates, the app no longer opens completely before crashing out.

Updated: Issue Resolved

Response from developer

Hey, an update (1.4.5) fixing this issue is out now.

Recent Updates Cause Total Crash

With the recent updates, the app no longer opens completely before crashing out.

Response from developer

Hey, an update (1.4.5) fixing this issue is out now.