Fugitive Notepad vs The Fox in the Forest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fugitive Notepad
This app digitally recreates the dry-erase notepad used in a card game. It allows players to mark fugitive locations, known non-locations, and discovered hideouts with various icons. Users can choose between two visually distinct backgrounds.
- Digital dry-erase notepad
- Mark incomplete guesses
- Mark known non-locations
- Mark discovered hideouts
- Two background options
- Icon-based tracking
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Tim Fowers' Fugitive card game comes with a dry-erase "notepad" that the Marshal player uses to track her guesses about where the fugitive is hiding. This app relates that notepad, with icons for marking incomplete guesses, locations where she knows the fugitive is not at, and locations where she has found one of the fugitive's hideouts. it has two different backgrounds, one plain, and one with gorgeous art directly from one of the cards in the game.
The Fox in the Forest
A beautifully illustrated trick-taking card game for two players. Utilize special character abilities and strategically win tricks to score points, but beware of winning too many and becoming the fairy tale villain. Plan your moves carefully to achieve the highest score and win the game.
- Beautifully illustrated trick-taking gameplay
- Special abilities on odd-ranked cards
- Dynamic game length
- Fairy tale theme with characters
- Strategic card play for scoring
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The Fox in the Forest is a beautifully illustrated trick-taking card game for 2 players.Use special abilities and take tricks to win, but don't get greedy! Win too many tricks, and you might become the villain of your fairy tale... Once upon a time, a woodcutter and his daughter lived in a small village bordering the forest. She had traveled with him and had seen him speak with the forest animals... Fairy Tale Characters The Queen decreed that whoever defeated the monsters would be granted half the kingdom in reward. With the help of the woodcutter, swan, fox, monarch you will be able to collect treasures and gain the Witch's trust. Trick-Taking Card Game A trick-taking game for 2 players, each playing cards to win tricks against the other over multiple rounds. Players score points during a round depending on how many tricks they end of taking at the end of the round. Most points at the end wins. Special Characters All the odd ranked cards have special abilities printed on them. These cards change up the game play and might determine who the winner will be, or who leads the next trick. They are critical to you gaining treasures. Dynamic 2 player Card Game Variable length to the game by predetermining what score will end the game. Play 13 cards each round and plan your plays cunningly to score you the most points possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Fox in the Forest at 52% against Fugitive Notepad's 0%. The Fox in the Forest also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (79 vs 3). Fugitive Notepad's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Fugitive Notepad is free to download; The Fox in the Forest costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Fox in the Forest holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Fox in the Forest has 79 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Fugitive Notepad's written reviews are positive against 52% of The Fox in the Forest's.
Fugitive Notepad ships an update every 9 days, The Fox in the Forest monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fugitive Notepad | The Fox in the Forest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #98 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fowers Games Inc. | Dire Wolf Digital |
Customer experience
Fugitive Notepad
The Fox in the Forest
In-app purchases
Fugitive Notepad
No in-app purchases
The Fox in the Forest
No in-app purchases
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