Complete Reference for D&D 5 vs ArtGen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Complete Reference for D&D 5
This app serves as a comprehensive guide for playing tabletop role-playing games, offering quick access to spells, items, and monsters without needing internet. It includes tools for Dungeon Masters and a character sheet manager, with the option to add custom content and print cards.
- Offline access to spells, items, and monsters
- Searchable SRD 5 content
- Online Content Creator for custom content
- Printable spell, monster, and equipment cards
- DM tools: map, name, loot, encounter generators
- Character Sheet Manager with export and print
- Initiative tracker
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This app is your guide while playing your favorite pen and paper RPG, for both players and DM's. *NOTE: While this app is mainly meant to be used with pen and paper role playing game DnD 5th Edition, it can also be used with different versions. All your spells, items and monsters at hand without Internet or heavy books! Includes all material from the SRD 5, in a searchable handy way. You can add your own content and share content easily by using our Online Content Creator system, check out our forum to find out more details. New! You can also print cards such as spell cards, monster cards and equipment cards directly from the app. Print a complete list at once and customize the card color and icons to your liking. What is in the app: - Over 200 Spells - Over 800 Deities - All base classes - Many monsters completely linked with their spells and skills -1 feat (check our forum) - More than 200 items and even more! The DM section contains a Random dungeon map generator, fantasy name generators, loot and encounter generators, an initiative tracker and much more. If you unlock this section you also remove the adds. The new Character Sheet Manager can be used to manager all your characters. Share and export characters and print characters for a nice overview. Bookmark items, spells, monsters and more to quickly access your favourite items. Internet is not needed to use this application! The internet permission is only used to display some ads in the app. Disclaimer: Deity information is from DnDwiki (homebrew) and wikipedia. All the information provided by the application are bound by the terms of the Open game License v1.1 of Wizards of the Coast. A copy of this license can be downloaded here: http://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf We are not affiliated by any way to Wizards of the Coast.
ArtGen
This app helps artists, writers, and creatives overcome creative blocks by generating randomized character concepts. Customize word pools with themed packs and reroll or manually edit attributes. Save your generated characters and attach your artwork, with all data stored locally or privately via iCloud.
- Randomized character concept generation
- Customizable themed word packs
- Reroll or manually edit attributes
- Save generated characters
- Attach artwork to saved characters
- Local and private iCloud sync
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ArtGen is a character idea generator built for artists, writers, and creatives to help push past art/idea blocks. Choose from themed packs to customize your word pool. Tap generate to get a randomized character concept instantly. Reroll any attribute until it feels right, or manually make it your own. When you're done randomizing, save your character and attach your finished artwork. No AI, accounts. or data collection. Everything stays on your device or syncs privately through your personal iCloud. Your ideas belong to you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ArtGen at none against Complete Reference for D&D 5's shown. ArtGen also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). Complete Reference for D&D 5's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (11.2 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Complete Reference for D&D 5 sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and ArtGen sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Complete Reference for D&D 5 holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 273 and 216 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Complete Reference for D&D 5's written reviews are positive against 63% of ArtGen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Complete Reference for D&D 5 ships an update fortnightly, ArtGen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Complete Reference for D&D 5 | ArtGen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (273 ratings) — better | 3.2 (216 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.5% of reviews | 63.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 273 — better | 216 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | van Stein en Groentjes | LIONBYTE LLC |
Customer experience
Complete Reference for D&D 5
ArtGen
User reviews
Complete Reference for D&D 5
From 273 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful reference for D&D players
- 🚀 Convenient and easy to use
- 💡 Useful for DMs and new players
- 🚀 Great for quick lookup of information
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes when trying to access custom content
- 🐛 Deletes user-created content
- 🐛 Glitchy character sheet and DM tools
- 🐛 Missing important information (spells, classes, etc.)
ArtGen
From 216 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for character concepts
- 👍 Useful for writers/artists
- 👍 Good for organizing characters
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Good value for in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 App closes when scrolling
- 🐛 Cannot delete characters
- 🐛 Cannot edit pictures
- 🐛 Confusing format for some
Bugs and requests
Complete Reference for D&D 5
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to access custom content
- Deletes user-created content
- Issues with character sheet and DM tools
- Incomplete information compared to official sources
Requested features
4 requests- Add more official content (spells, classes, races, etc.)
- Improve search functionality and organization
- Allow backing up and restoring user-created content
- Provide better instructions and tutorials for features
ArtGen
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when opening edited character
- App closes when scrolling down character profile
- Cannot delete characters
- Cannot edit character pictures
- App crashes when editing characters
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- App closes when scrolling
- Purchased packs not showing up
- App closes when trying to restore purchases
- App keeps exiting when opening
- Application suddenly shuts down
- Bought packs and nothing happened
- Scrolling is glitched
- Profile glitched after removing writing
- Black screen on launch
Requested features
19 requests- Grid view selection
- More detail options
- Ability to delete characters
- Ability to re-roll existing character details
- More powers/attributes
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- Add own attributes
- Sort characters into folders
- Add cover images to characters
- Option to choose selections instead of random
- Ability to choose own choices/type in traits
- Subcatalog by specific works
- More realism in generation
- More attributes (hair, eye color, age, traits)
- Add own character characteristics to generator
- Option to insert image or character creation look
- Additional questions (favorite color, zodiac sign)
- Sections/dividers for organizing characters
- Restore purchases button
- See all characters at once (icon mode)
In-app purchases
Complete Reference for D&D 5
- Character Manager$3.99
- DM Tools$3.99
ArtGen
- Realistic PackFree
- Fantasy Pack$0.99
- Space Pack$0.99
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- Historical Pack$0.99
- Comic Book Pack$0.99
- Unlock All Packs$2.99
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