Bix's Fine DM Tools vs Turn Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bix's Fine DM Tools
This app simplifies tabletop role-playing game combat by managing initiative, status effects, and NPC health. It aims to reduce bookkeeping for Dungeon Masters, allowing them to focus more on the game.
- Initiative tracking
- Status effect management
- NPC HP tracking
- Combat bookkeeping
- iOS device compatibility
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Keeping track of Initiative, status effects and NPC HP doesn't have to be painful! Bix the Undying proudly presents thoughtfully crafted DM App to make the cut and thrust of combat easy to keep abreast of. Taking the bookkeeping out of your head and onto your iOS Device. The sort of tools any goblin would be happy to keep in his bag of dubious holding.
Turn Tracker
This app simplifies combat initiative tracking for tabletop role-playing games. It allows for customizable dice rolls, turn order management, and easy creation of character and NPC tiles. Upgrade to unlock unlimited campaigns and participants.
- Customizable dice rolls (d20, d10, d6)
- Configurable initiative rules
- Draggable PC/NPC tiles
- Automatic dice rolling
- Supports multiple RPG systems
- Landscape and portrait orientation
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Turn Tracker (the successor to the popular app InitiativeBoard) is a slick and easy to use initiative tracking aid for combat in pen-and-paper role playing games like D&D (5e or any other edition), Pathfinder (1e or 2e), Starfinder, Shadowrun and many other systems. Initiative rules are configurable to your game's rules: choose dice (d20, d10, 1d6 to 5d6), ascending/descending order, range of values and more. Also choose from one of the built-in color schemes, or design your own. No more messy whiteboards, magnetic boards or pencil and paper! Quickly and easily create draggable tiles for PCs and NPCs, and arrange them in initiative order on the board, or let the app take over the dice-rolling for you. Determining initiative, changing the turn order and starting new encounters is all a matter of seconds. Turn Tracker fully supports landscape and portrait orientation as well as slide-over and multitasking - no more app switching just because you need to look something up in a PDF or on the web. The free version of Turn Tracker supports one campaign with up to 10 tiles on the board (5 PCs/NPCs each). Upgrading to Premium lifts these restrictions and you can run multiple campaigns in parallel, with unlimited PCs/NPCs per campaign.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Turn Tracker at 4.5 against Bix's Fine DM Tools's 3.7. Turn Tracker also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 67%). Bix's Fine DM Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Turn Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bix's Fine DM Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.
Turn Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Bix's Fine DM Tools's written reviews are positive against 83% of Turn Tracker's.
Bix's Fine DM Tools ships an update every 3 weeks, Turn Tracker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bix's Fine DM Tools | Turn Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johnlouis Swaine | Gereon Steffens |
Customer experience
Bix's Fine DM Tools
Turn Tracker
In-app purchases
Bix's Fine DM Tools
No in-app purchases
Turn Tracker
- Turn Tracker Premium$0.99
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