epicGM vs Rollplay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
epicGM
This app serves as a digital DM screen, battlemap, and compendium for tabletop role-playing games. It helps manage game notes, track combat encounters, and quickly look up game information. Users can also import and export campaign data.
- Digital DM notes with maps and images
- Combat tracker for health and initiative
- Quick compendium lookup
- Interactive battlemap with tokens
- XML and Dropbox support for data import/export
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epicGM is a digital dm screen, compendium and battlemap for your RPG needs. DM Notes Create DM notes, add maps and images and quick links to monsters. Notes also allow you to create Random Tables that add rolled encounters to combat. Combat Tracker Easily tracks PC and Monsters health and initiative. The combat tracker allows you to quickly view monsters stats and roll attack and damage dice. Compendium Offers a quick look up allowing you to search for anything from the compendium by name. Battlemap Run combat by loading images as a battle map. Add PC and Monster tokens and quickly assign AOE damage with Dice Nodes. XML and Dropbox Support Import and export compendiums or campaign notes via XML. Also supports FightClub PC xmls In-App Purchase The App is free to download but you are limited to 3 campaigns with 3 adventures each. In-App purchases unlock additional features and perks. *The app only comes with open 5e content and you will need to import or add additional content.
Rollplay
Create and manage custom tabletop RPG characters with automated attributes, items, and effects. Design your own game systems and share them with players, receiving automatic updates.
- Automated character attributes
- Custom races, classes, feats, and items
- 3D Dice Roller
- Web-based custom system creator
- Automatic player updates
- Icon editor
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Character Sheet is a tabletop RPG app built around homebrew — your own classes, your own rules, your own game, with the same automation you'd expect from official content. Whether you're playing D&D, Nimble, or a system you built yourself, Character Sheet keeps up. Equip a homebrewed item, and your bonuses apply automatically; remove it and they revert just as cleanly. Tweak how it works later, and every class or feat that grants it updates right along with it, no hunting down old references. Share it, and your players get the same update automatically, nothing broken and nothing to rebuild. Everything at the table: • Automated character attributes • Races, Classes, Feats, and Items with custom automated Effects • 3D Dice Roller for skill checks, weapons, and spells • Your full library in one place • Pretty icons with built-in icon editor • Homebrew all the things! Build your own game system - no coding required • Design a custom system with our web Creator Tools, from attributes to full character sheet layouts • Share it with your players, and updates reach them automatically, no reinstalling or lost content We're a small indie team and we genuinely want to hear from you. If you have feedback, ideas, or need help setting up your game, please reach out - we want to help! We read all user feedback, and a lot of what's in the app came from player suggestions. Creator tools: https://www.daydreamteam.com/ We don't want to sell you our app - we want to build yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rollplay at every 4 days against epicGM's every 2 months. Rollplay also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 37%). epicGM's advantage is ratings volume (101 vs 21) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. epicGM sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Rollplay sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for epicGM against 4.2 for Rollplay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 101 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of epicGM's written reviews are positive against 53% of Rollplay's.
epicGM ships an update every 2 months, Rollplay every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | epicGM | Rollplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (101 ratings) — better | 4.2 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 53.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 237 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Stanley Sison | Daydream Software |
Customer experience
epicGM
Rollplay
In-app purchases
epicGM
- Small Donation$0.99
- BGM Atmosphere$1.99
- BGM Combat$1.99
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- BGM Location$1.99
- Premium2 variants$2.99
- Map Tool Addon$2.99
- Medium Donation$2.99
- Large Donation$4.99
Rollplay
- Donation$0.99
- Chroma Classic Dice Skin$1.99
- Claim a free item$2.99
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- Fantasy Warrior Icons$2.99
- Fantasy Wizard Icons$2.99
- Fantasy Abilities Icons Pack$2.99
- Cosmic Dice skin$4.99
- Legacy Armor Icons$6.99
- Player Tier$12.99
- Legacy Fantasy Icons Bundle$22.99









