Comparison

Forgestone vs RPGViewer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Forgestone

Easily design and share custom Hearthstone cards using intuitive gestures and built-in fonts. Import images directly from your camera roll and instantly share your creations on social media or with friends.

Highlights
  • Custom card design
  • Shareable creations
  • Intuitive gesture controls
  • Custom fonts and text rendering
  • Direct camera roll import
  • Social media sharing
Features
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Forgestone lets you design and share your own Hearthstone cards. The hard work is done for you, just bring your imagination and create. No need for heavy digital editors and sifting through layers or manipulating Bezier curves to produce perfect look and feel. Forgestone even features custom fonts and unique text rendering capabilities. The interface accepts direct imports off your camera roll and uses the native gestures you’re already familiar with. These gestures include pinch-to-zoom, pan-rotations, and drag-into-position. Working off your phone, the center of your life, means your creations can instantly interact with your other App Activities. Share to Twitter and Facebook, even send your work to your friends via WhatsApp. Get Forging today.

About

RPGViewer

Run RPG Maker MV/MZ and Flash projects with this runtime environment. It supports Ogg audio and includes a virtual keyboard for an optimized experience. Quickly test and verify your game projects.

Highlights
  • Runtime environment for RPG Maker MV/MZ
  • Flash project support
  • Ogg audio format compatibility
  • Virtual keyboard included
  • Quick project testing
Features
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RPGViewer is a player for your own RPG Maker and Flash projects, rebuilt from the ground up as a native iOS app. You bring the game. RPGViewer runs it. One app covers the engines you actually have projects in: • RPG Maker XP, VX and VX Ace — run natively through a port of the original RGSS engine, not an imitation of it. Full speed, no browser in the middle. • RPG Maker MV and MZ — full support, including OGG audio with no re-encoding. • Flash (SWF) — played through Ruffle, including Flash games that were never converted to HTML5. • HTML5 games — any self-contained page, opened from your library. Saves work the way you expect • Import existing save files. Drop in a .rpgsave or .rmmzsave from your desktop and it appears in the game's own browser save slots. • Read the game's browser saves directly. Saves the browser version made on the same origin show up here, with title, playtime, location, party and level all decoded. • Export back out. Take a save with you when you move to a new device. • Separate storage per game. Each title keeps its own saves, its own port and its own settings — nothing bleeds across games. Built for playing on a phone • On-screen gamepad with remappable keys. Bind any physical or on-screen control to whatever the game reads. • Real controller support. Connect a gamepad and it takes over, and the on-screen pad steps aside automatically. • One consistent menu. The same control, in the same corner, on every engine — only the rows change, because only the rows that do something are shown. • Fast-forward for native engine games. • Works in landscape and portrait, iPhone and iPad. RPG Maker MV and MZ only • Cheat panel built into the menu — tweak values, items and party members without leaving the game. Please note • RPGViewer is a player only. It contains no games of its own, and it cannot download them. Please make sure the projects you run are obtained through legitimate channels. • It is a generic runtime. It does not modify the source of RPG Maker or Flash projects, and it does not emulate them. • Flash playback is provided by Ruffle. Games that depend on server-side components, or that require a network service, will not run. Built for people making RPG Maker games: test your project on your phone before you ship it, and keep playing the games you already own.

Screenshots

Forgestone2 screens
RPGViewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Forgestone at Free against RPGViewer's $4.99. Forgestone also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). RPGViewer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Forgestone is free to download; RPGViewer costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Forgestone ships an update every 2 months, RPGViewer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Forgestone versus RPGViewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForgestoneRPGViewer
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews55.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB63 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFoolsincLudan Cui

Customer experience

Forgestone

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

RPGViewer

Written reviews125 reviews
Positive55.2%
Neutral32.0%
Negative12.8%

Bugs and requests

Forgestone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

RPGViewer

Reported bugs

56 issues
  • CG errors
  • Black screen on video playback
  • Button presses also register as touches
  • Black screen after changing positions
  • Movie folder glitches
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  • Save file import/export not working
  • Cannot import/export saves
  • SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token '<'
  • Games with foreign language filenames fail to run
  • Audio files not playing
  • Mouse issues (holding left button)
  • Virtual pad input lag/ghosting
  • Game crashes randomly
  • Cannot save game
  • Corrupted app requiring re-download
  • Infinite loading screens
  • Loss of progress on re-download
  • Sound disappears after switching apps
  • Virtual mouse not working for some games
  • Touch not working in certain sections
  • Game files disappear after update
  • Games not showing up after re-opening app
  • Error when adding games (folder already exists)
  • Material loss in H5 games
  • iPad cannot play in landscape, buttons incomplete
  • No sound in certain games on iPad
  • App thinks RPG Maker is HTML5
  • Cannot load OGG audio with OGG compatibility enabled
  • No sound for RPGMVO audio format
  • Cannot load save files
  • Stuck on save screen
  • Cannot click/interact in some games
  • Screen clipping on iPad
  • Games not loading (stuck on loading screen)
  • Cannot add games (stuck on loading screen)
  • Display bugs (games not showing up)
  • PNG images not opening
  • Black screen on launch
  • Cannot load image effects
  • Cannot import files (no www folder)
  • Cannot interact with elements
  • Game not running after removing folder
  • No sound after update
  • Audio issues after switching apps
  • Laggy performance
  • Games larger than 1GB don't run
  • Cannot play games requiring specific keyboard keys
  • Cannot save/load games
  • Project initialization displayed every time
  • Cannot load save data from cheat menu
  • Games not responding to clicks
  • Cannot use mouse function
  • Cannot click or use
  • Games not running, showing black screen
  • Cannot import games
  • No sound in games

Requested features

25 requests
  • Customizable button layout
  • Portrait mode button customization
  • Game folder organization
  • Rename games
  • Game exit button
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  • Script auto-translation
  • Dark mode
  • RPG Maker XP/VX Ace support
  • Wolf RPG Editor support
  • Keyboard support/virtual keyboard
  • Adjustable screen panning
  • Option to disable screen panning
  • Full-screen game registration
  • More control buttons
  • Editable control buttons
  • Custom gamepad inputs
  • Adjustable game performance
  • Edit game icons
  • ONS simulator support
  • Cheat menu integration
  • File management within app
  • Flash side-scroller support
  • More engine support
  • APK or Windows emulator option
  • Better resolution scaling

In-app purchases

None

Forgestone

No in-app purchases

None

RPGViewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forgestone free?
Forgestone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RPGViewer free?
RPGViewer costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forgestone or RPGViewer have ads?
Neither Forgestone nor RPGViewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Forgestone or RPGViewer?
Forgestone ships an update every 2 months, and RPGViewer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Forgestone was updated on October 24, 2026 and RPGViewer on October 25, 2026.

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