Turn Tracker vs Elderbrain Soundscapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Elderbrain Soundscapes
Enhance tabletop role-playing games with dynamic, location-specific background ambiences. Each soundscape features a unique blend of sounds that change randomly, creating an immersive atmosphere for players. New soundscapes are continuously released.
- Dynamic, location-specific soundscapes
- Infinitely unique ambient backgrounds
- Timed events for weather and time changes
- 5.1 surround sound
- Continuous updates with new soundscapes
- Compatible with any TTRPG setting
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Boost your table-top role-playing experience with wonderful background ambiences to make your gaming sessions more immersive. These ambiences make your players feel right where you want them to be. Each soundscape is composed of several dozen beautiful, location-specific sounds, which blend to create a unique, constantly changing atmospheric background. These sound play at random times, volume, length, distance, reverb, and velocity to create an infinitely unique ambience with no repetitions. Timed events control the flow of each soundscape to bring changes in weather, day/night time and such conditions to life and to make these ambiences even more colourful. All of our soundscapes are 5.1 surround sounds. We create soundscapes specifically for our adventure modules available at https://elderbrain.com but they can be used in any setting. New updates with more free soundscapes will be continuously released for our past and future adventure modules. Please support us by becoming one our highly esteemed patrons who help us to expand the selection of soundscapes and the creation of new features for the app. https://patreon.com/elderbraincom
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elderbrain Soundscapes at none against Turn Tracker's 1. Elderbrain Soundscapes also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Turn Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 71%). On price, rating, 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. Elderbrain Soundscapes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Turn Tracker against 4.5 for Elderbrain Soundscapes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Turn Tracker's written reviews are positive against 71% of Elderbrain Soundscapes's.
Turn Tracker ships an update every 3 months, Elderbrain Soundscapes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Turn Tracker | Elderbrain Soundscapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 278 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gereon Steffens | Elderbrain Inc. |
Customer experience
Turn Tracker
Elderbrain Soundscapes
In-app purchases
Turn Tracker
- Turn Tracker Premium$0.99
Elderbrain Soundscapes
No in-app purchases
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