Calamus vs Rollplay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calamus
Create expansive battlemaps with hand-drawn tiles for tabletop RPGs. Design custom character tokens and host real-time games where players can move their own pieces. Engage in robust chat, sending messages as yourself or any in-game token.
- Create large battlemaps
- Dozens of hand-drawn tiles
- Custom PC, NPC, FOE tokens
- Host real-time games
- Player character movement
- Robust in-game chat
- Send messages as tokens
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The Calamus is a companion for tabletop roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder, that allows you to create huge battlemaps utilizing dozens of hand-drawn tiles, create custom PC, NPC, and FOE tokens, and host games in which players can add and move their own characters in real-time. It also features a robust chat, in which you can send messages as yourself or any token you have in play, publicly or privately. You can find our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here: http://trapstreetstudios.com/theCalamus/tos/
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 rating: Rollplay at 4.3 against Calamus's 3.3. Rollplay also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (53% vs 33%). Calamus's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 22) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Calamus sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Rollplay sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rollplay holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 83 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Calamus's written reviews are positive against 53% of Rollplay's.
Calamus ships an update monthly, Rollplay every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calamus | Rollplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (83 ratings) | 4.3 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.5% of reviews | 53.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | 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 | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TrapStreet Studios | Daydream Software |
Customer experience
Calamus
Rollplay
Bugs and requests
Calamus
Reported bugs
40 issues- No undo option
- Walls erase when removing objects
- Rune password login issues
- Water turns light blue when saving/cropping
- App repeatedly asks for password
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- Pop-ups are disruptive
- Download issues
- Support issues
- Map saving issues
- App crashes
- Broken text formatting
- Tabs do not work
- Program freezes while placing tiles
- Login issues after canceling subscription
- Pinch and pull zoom doesn't work
- Erase button in wrong menu
- Forced password system
- Locked out if away from app for too long
- Not designed for mobile user experience
- Maps don't save properly
- App never loads
- Never got to do much of anything
- Non-functional, never makes it past loading screen
- Monetization model kills it
- Forced subscription after idle period
- Limited variety of items
- Cannot download saved maps
- App asks for subscription after payment
- Free app with subscription service
- Too complicated login process
- Freezes when adding players
- Rune password is confusing
- Subscription is a big problem
- Keeps locking, requires frequent passcode entry
- Slowdown on larger maps
- Text is incredibly small
- Menu screen swipe function doesn't work
- Cannot figure out rune password
- Slow learning curve
- No simple tutorial
Requested features
18 requests- Add undo option
- Improve Apple Pencil support
- Add more assets like columns
- Add desert themed items
- Add steering wheel and crows nest
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- Add fungi for underdark maps
- Allow watching ads instead of subscription
- Fix water color issue when saving/cropping
- Improve login process
- Add more variety of items
- Allow downloading saved maps to device
- Implement a one-time purchase option
- Add more content
- Change rune password system to typed password or tap option
- Add more VTT features
- Provide a simple tutorial
- Allow maps to be exported as PDFs
- Allow maps to be printed
Rollplay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calamus
- Calamus Player Only$0.991 Month
- Full Version - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Calamus Monthly Subscription$3.491 Month
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- Full Version - Yearly$29.991 Year
- Calamus Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year
- All Epic Token Icons$0.99
- More Tokens Slots (6)$0.99
- Full Roommaker$1.99
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- All Epic Token Rings$2.99
- Player Enhanced Version$2.99
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









