Comparison

epicGM vs Rollplay

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Automated character attributes
  • Custom races, classes, feats, and items
  • 3D Dice Roller
  • Web-based custom system creator
  • Automatic player updates
  • Icon editor
Features
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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.

Screenshots

epicGM4 screens
Rollplay4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
epicGM versus Rollplay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterepicGMRollplay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (101 ratings) — better4.2 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews36.8% of reviews53.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings101 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size237 MB225 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStanley SisonDaydream Software

Customer experience

epicGM

All ratings99 ratings
Positive79.8%
Neutral10.1%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive36.8%
Neutral21.1%
Negative42.1%

Rollplay

All ratings21 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative46.7%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

epicGM

One-time8
  • Small Donation$0.99
  • BGM Atmosphere$1.99
  • BGM Combat$1.99
Show 5 more
  • BGM Location$1.99
  • Premium2 variants$2.99
  • Map Tool Addon$2.99
  • Medium Donation$2.99
  • Large Donation$4.99
10 purchases

Rollplay

One-time10
  • Donation$0.99
  • Chroma Classic Dice Skin$1.99
  • Claim a free item$2.99
Show 7 more
  • 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

Questions

Is epicGM free?
epicGM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rollplay free?
Rollplay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, epicGM or Rollplay?
epicGM is rated higher. epicGM averages 4.3 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Rollplay averages 4.2 from 21 ratings.
Do epicGM or Rollplay have ads?
Neither epicGM nor Rollplay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, epicGM or Rollplay?
epicGM ships an update every 2 months, and Rollplay every 4 days. Most recently, epicGM was updated on October 24, 2026 and Rollplay on November 3, 2026.

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