LEGO® Powered Up vs Campaign Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LEGO® Powered Up
Control motorized LEGO sets like trains and the Batmobile via Bluetooth. Bring your custom LEGO creations to life by coding movements and sounds using drag-and-drop programming. Experience interactive play with lights, sensors, and motors.
- Bluetooth control for LEGO vehicles
- Customizable coding for models
- Drag-and-drop programming
- Add sounds and lights
- Control speed and direction
- Bring custom builds to life
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Combine this app with the LEGO DC Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile (76112), the LEGO City Cargo Train (60198), or the LEGO City Passenger Train (60197) (each sold separately) to operate the motorized engines via Bluetooth controls, or use your imagination and build entirely new creations using LEGO Powered Up components and bring them to life by coding them. Make your models move and respond to real-world events. The LEGO Powered Up app puts you in the driver’s seat of the awesome 4-wheel-drive Batmobile to speed through the streets of GOTHAM CITY™. Drive forwards, backwards, left and right… or pull 360-degree turns! You can even activate cool tricks and stunts as you become the Dark Knight and fight crime. You can customize and code your Batmobile tricks and choose your sounds and movements – pretty awesome! The LEGO Powered Up app also controls LEGO trains to haul goods or pick up passengers around LEGO City. You can control the speed, change directions, and bring even more life to your play with various sounds such as a whistle, passenger announcement, railroad crossing bell, and more! The Bluetooth remote control app and the remote control handset included in the LEGO City train sets aren’t compatible with older infrared remote-controlled LEGO train sets. Thanks to Powered Up components like hubs, motors, sensors, and lights you will be able to bring your customized creations to life. You can also bring your existing LEGO models to life. Is your device compatible? Please go to LEGO.com/devicecheck to check if your device is compatible. Ask your parents’ permission before going online. The LEGO Powered Up App Feature List - Access control panels for DC Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile, LEGO City Cargo Train or LEGO City Passenger Train. - Control speed and direction of LEGO vehicles with a variety of exciting interfaces. - Add playful sounds and take your play to the next level. - Use LEGO Powered Up hardware components in your customized models to bring them to life! - Code movements and sounds for your models to create real-life behaviors. - Simple, easy-to-understand programming language based on drag’n’drop coding. LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2019 The LEGO Group
Campaign Journal
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Campaign Journal is a companion app for Fifth Edition (5e) tabletop roleplaying games. If you play a 5th edition TTRPG and want to enhance your quest tracking and notes, this is built for you. Two halves of one book: a codex that holds your campaign together, and a bestiary of everything that tried to end it. @Mention anything in any note and that name keeps a page of its own. THE CODEX Quests and their objectives, session notes, NPCs, locations and loot. One place for everything the party has done, and everyone they have done it to. @Mention a quest while you write up the night, and the quest knows which session raised it. THE BESTIARY 331 monsters and creatures from the SRD. A creature only becomes known once you have met it. Discover its Armour Class, the damage it shrugged off, the trick that finally worked and the one nobody wants to repeat. @Mention it while you write, and that night shows on its entry. What you end up with is not a reference book. It is a record of what your party learned, and what it cost. Characters and campaigns are yours to keep. Bring them to a new table years later and they still remember what fire does to a troll! @MENTIONS: EVERY NAME KEEPS A PAGE Type @ and pick an NPC, quest, location, item or creature. That name keeps a page of its own from then on: the NPC's entry lists the night you met them and what they gave you, and tonight's notes still read as a sentence. Names stay live: rename someone and every mention of them follows. You write it once, and it is waiting for you when you go looking. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Every word in your journal is yours. Everything stays on your device and nowhere else. Works fully offline, at any table. FREE TO TRY Full access free for 28 days. After that a single one-off payment keeps it for good. No subscription, ever. Whatever you have written stays yours either way. Campaign Journal uses content from the System Reference Document 5.2.1, available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LEGO® Powered Up at none against Campaign Journal's 2. LEGO® Powered Up also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Campaign Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Campaign Journal sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. LEGO® Powered Up asks for nothing beyond the download.
LEGO® Powered Up ships an update every 2 months, Campaign Journal every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LEGO® Powered Up | Campaign Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (555 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 555 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.5 GB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEGO | Dungeon Works |
Bugs and requests
LEGO® Powered Up
Reported bugs
12 issues- Bluetooth connection drops
- Motors not controllable through app
- Timer blocks don't work
- Motor code blocks don't work
- Coding canvas is broken
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- Loses Bluetooth connection randomly
- Coding blocks not working properly
- App doesn't run in background
- Doesn't work on latest iOS
- Doesn't work with new hubs and motors
- Can only connect one hub at a time
- Train stops when app closes
Requested features
12 requests- Add more sound effects
- Add more music to the playlist
- Allow custom sounds
- Improve parameters
- Add more controls
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- Add more widgets
- Allow custom themes
- Add documentation
- Add support for LEGO Boost and Mindstorms
- Add loop option for sounds
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
Campaign Journal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LEGO® Powered Up
No in-app purchases
Campaign Journal
- 28-Day Free TrialFree
- Full Unlock$9.99
Questions
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