Comparison

Turn Tracker vs d20 Party Checks

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

d20 Party Checks

This app streamlines tabletop roleplaying game management for Game Masters. It allows for quick, secret rolls for entire parties across various d20-based systems, enhancing immersion and narrative flow.

Highlights
  • Lightweight app design
  • Quick party and character setup
  • Attribute, save, and skill checks
  • Supports Pathfinder, D&D 5e/3.5
  • User-defined checks
  • Special check modes (take 10/20, advantage/disadvantage)
  • Shout-Ins (post-roll result changes)
  • iCloud synchronization
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# Features - Lightweight app design: Quick creation and setup of parties and characters. - Quick access to attribute checks, saves and skill checks for the entire party. - Supported game systems: Pathfinder, Pathfinder 2e, Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Dungeons & Dragons 3.5. - User-defined checks (in addition to the game system's fixed checks). - Special check modes (take 10/20, advantage and disadvantage) - Shout-Ins (changing the result of the check after rolling) - Own check history each for party and character checks - iCloud synchronization across multiple Apple iOS devices # Why d20 Party Checks d20 Party Checks is an app for game masters (GMs) of fantasy roleplaying games based on the d20 system, such as Pathfinder or Dungeons & Dragons. Its purpose is to allow the GM to make a secret roll for all player characters within a few seconds. Depending on the play style of the GM, perception checks, knowledge checks, appraise checks, can be made secretly, so as not to burden the players with unnecessary meta-knowledge or even spoiling the game. However, too often in these situations the narrative flow suffers - possibly also the immersion - or already the question "How high is your character's perception modifier?" gives too much away. Most game masters have a piece of paper in front of them on which they have written down all the important skill checks, attribute checks, and saving throws of the player characters and can quickly make the check. However, if it comes to a check for the entire party, quick rolls and comparisons are required for each player character of the group. This is where d20 Party Checks comes in: One click and the result is there - for the whole group!

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d20 Party Checks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Turn Tracker at Free against d20 Party Checks's $0.99. Turn Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). d20 Party Checks's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Turn Tracker is free to download; d20 Party Checks costs $0.99 up front. Turn Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. d20 Party Checks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

d20 Party Checks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Turn Tracker has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Turn Tracker ships an update every 3 months, d20 Party Checks every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Turn Tracker versus d20 Party Checks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTurn Trackerd20 Party Checks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 21 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGereon SteffensMarkus Richter

Customer experience

Turn Tracker

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

d20 Party Checks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Turn Tracker

One-time1
  • Turn Tracker Premium$0.99
None

d20 Party Checks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Turn Tracker free?
Turn Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is d20 Party Checks free?
d20 Party Checks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Turn Tracker or d20 Party Checks?
d20 Party Checks is rated higher. Turn Tracker averages 4.4 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while d20 Party Checks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Turn Tracker or d20 Party Checks have ads?
Neither Turn Tracker nor d20 Party Checks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Turn Tracker or d20 Party Checks?
Turn Tracker ships an update every 3 months, and d20 Party Checks every 21 months. Most recently, Turn Tracker was updated on October 12, 2026 and d20 Party Checks on October 7, 2026.

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