Comparison

Gamebook Engine vs Lagrange Smallnet Browser

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

Head to head
About

Gamebook Engine

Features
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Gamebook Engine is an all-in-one app for creating and reading gamebooks, a type of interactive fiction where the player's choices influence the outcome of the story. With Gamebook Engine you can: • Create gamebooks - Write interactive choosable path adventure stories using a thoughtfully designed interface • Share gamebooks - Gamebooks export to a plain text ".gbook" file that you can send to your friends via email, text message, or carrier pigeon (if the story is very short) • Play gamebooks - Gamebook Engine can import and play ".gbook" files, which contain the data for interactive stories What makes Gamebook Engine special? • Attributes can make gamebooks dynamic: Attributes can be used to track changes in inventory, player stats, NPC relationships, and much more. This makes Gamebook Engine stories a little more dynamic than a classic paperback choosable path story. • Warning, nerd talk: Gamebooks export to plain-text JSON, not a proprietary file-type, so you can easily share them as privately or publicly as you want, and anyone can build a client for reading them -- but why bother when Gamebook Engine is a reader already! • Total Privacy: Gamebook Engine has no online services or accounts. Gamebook Engine runs entirely on your device and never sends any data about you or what you are writing to anyone. Your privacy is totally and absolutely guaranteed. Your writings only leave your device when you share them with someone.

About

Lagrange Smallnet Browser

Explore alternative internet protocols beyond the World Wide Web. This browser offers modern conveniences like inline images, multiple tabs, and customizable themes while supporting unique protocols like Gopher, Finger, and Spartan.

Highlights
  • Support for alternative internet protocols
  • Inline image and audio viewing
  • Multiple tabs and page zoom
  • Customizable themes and UI accent color
  • Identity management with TLS certificates
  • Smart URL suggestions
  • Split view browsing on iPadOS
Features
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Beyond the World Wide Web, there is a frontier of hobbyist network protocols that aim to restore a more human-centric ethos to the internet. This is called the "small internet", or smallnet. Lagrange supports many of these protocols and lets you explore smallnet sites while enjoying modern conveniences familiar from web browsers, like beautiful typography, inline image viewing, multiple tabs, visual themes, bookmarks, history, and page outlines. FEATURES * Beautiful typography with full Unicode support * Autogenerated page style and icon for each domain * Light and dark color themes * Customizable UI accent color * Page zoom (50%...200%) * Custom scaling factor for the UI * Support for the classic protocols, e.g., Gopher and Finger * Support for uploading and editing content using the Titan protocol * Support for hobbyist protocols: Gopher-over-TLS, Spartan, Nex, Misfin, and Guppy * Instant back/forward navigation using cached content * Open image and audio links inline on the same page * Subscribe to Gemfeeds and Atom feeds * Identity management — create and use TLS client certificates * Smart suggestions when typing an URL — search bookmarks, history, feeds, identities * Search engine integration * Use remote pages as a source of dynamic bookmarks * Configurable text snippets that can be pasted in input fields and used as custom search queries * Sheet (iOS) or sidebars (iPadOS) for managing bookmarks, identities and subscribed feeds, and viewing browsing history, open tabs, page outline, and site structure * Multiple tabs * Split view for browsing two pages at once (iPadOS) * Open links via keyboard shortcuts * Audio playback: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV * Read Gempub books and view ZIP archive contents * Support for proxy servers

Screenshots

Gamebook Engine4 screens
Lagrange Smallnet Browser3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lagrange Smallnet Browser at Free against Gamebook Engine's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Lagrange Smallnet Browser is free to download; Gamebook Engine costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Gamebook Engine versus Lagrange Smallnet Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGamebook EngineLagrange Smallnet Browser
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating—4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequency—Every 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB18 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBrad RootJaakko Keranen

In-app purchases

None

Gamebook Engine

No in-app purchases

None

Lagrange Smallnet Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gamebook Engine free?
Gamebook Engine costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lagrange Smallnet Browser free?
Lagrange Smallnet Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gamebook Engine or Lagrange Smallnet Browser have ads?
Neither Gamebook Engine nor Lagrange Smallnet Browser shows ads.

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