GloomsteR vs Game Master Helper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GloomsteR
Enhance your Gloomhaven board game sessions with this comprehensive assistant. Manage spoilers, track scenario progress, and access interactive maps and scenario details. Save notes, treasures, and ratings for a richer gaming experience.
- Flexible spoiler control
- Interactive scenario viewer
- Interactive map with progress tracking
- Scenario progress tracking
- Save notes, treasures, and ratings
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GloomsteR helps you to get the best experience while you playing Gloomhaven the board game. • Flexible level of spoilers - map tiles, text sections, list of monsters & tokens • Interactive scenario viewer with tokens info, treasure details • Interactive map with prosperity track, stickers, global achievements • Track progress of scenarios • Save notes, treasures, ratings
Game Master Helper
This app assists Game Masters by providing customizable reference materials and generating random elements like characters, loot, and encounters for tabletop role-playing games. It allows users to edit existing tables, create their own, and share them, working entirely offline with any TTRPG.
- Random character, loot, and encounter generation
- Customizable tables
- Offline functionality
- Table sharing and importing
- Support for various TTRPGs
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GMHelper helps Game Masters with reference material and generating random characters, loot, traps, encounters, names etc for TTRPGs and DnD games. All content is completely customizable. You can: - edit/update the existing example tables - create your own set of tables using the 'Create new' menu option in the main menu - share/download your table sets by using the share button on the main screen - import an existing table set use the 'Import file' menu option GMHelper works completely offline. All data is customizable, so can work with any TTRPG, including DnD 5e, ICRPG, ShadowDark etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Game Master Helper at none against GloomsteR's 1. GloomsteR's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (97% vs 67%). On price, update cadence, 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. GloomsteR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Game Master Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.
GloomsteR holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GloomsteR has 858 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of GloomsteR's written reviews are positive against 67% of Game Master Helper's.
GloomsteR ships an update every 3 weeks, Game Master Helper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GloomsteR | Game Master Helper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (858 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 858 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vadym Pavlov | MobileMarketResearch |
Customer experience
GloomsteR
Game Master Helper
Bugs and requests
GloomsteR
Reported bugs
3 issues- Scenario completion not updating properly
- Blurring issues with adaptive monsters feature
- Scenario labels not visible with empty room overlay
Requested features
8 requests- Party achievement tracking
- Ability to see contents of treasure chests
- Option to hide unrevealed map tiles completely
- Scenario completion status indicators
- Milestone notifications
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- Character sheet integration
- Jaws of the Lion and Forgotten Circles support
- Cross-device synchronization
Game Master Helper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GloomsteR
- Adaptive Monsters$4.99
Game Master Helper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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