The Tome vs The Divine Comedy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Tome
This app provides a fast and convenient way to access spells, monsters, and items from the System Reference Document for Dungeons & Dragons. It's designed for quick lookups during gameplay on iPhone and iPad, with features like favorites, history, and dark mode.
- SRD spells, monsters, and items
- Fast search and browsing
- Favorites and history
- PDF export and printing
- Dark mode
- iCloud sync
- Apple Watch app
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The Tome is an app for iPhone and iPad to browse and find spells, monsters and items from the System Reference Document (SRD). A great quick reference app for your Dungeons & Dragons games. Features: - Spells, Monsters and Items from the SRD. - Runs on iPhone and iPad (including multitasking). - Very (very!) fast. - Favorites. - History - Save favorites to PDF or print it. - Dark mode. - iCloud sync. - Spotlight search. - XML Import (Lion's Den format). - Apple Watch App!
The Divine Comedy
Explore Dante Alighieri's epic poem with digital access to Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. View original Italian texts and popular translations, enhanced by Gustave Doré's detailed etchings.
- Complete Divine Comedy text
- Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
- Original Italian texts
- Mandelbaum translation
- Longfellow translation
- Gustave Doré etchings
- Zoomable artwork
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The complete Divine Comedy — Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso — in digital format. The app features the original Italian text alongside the celebrated translations by Mandelbaum and Longfellow, viewable by swiping horizontally through each canto. Artwork in the form of etchings by Gustave Doré has been added to every canto, and can be zoomed in to see the smallest details. FEATURES All 100 cantos of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso Original Italian text alongside the Mandelbaum and Longfellow translations Classic Gustave Doré etchings for every canto, zoomable down to the finest detail A clean, distraction-free reading experience designed for long-form reading Long cantos display in full — nothing is ever cut short Whether you're studying Dante for the first time or returning to this masterpiece of world literature, Divine Comedy gives you the text, the translations, and the artwork in one elegant app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Tome at 100% against The Divine Comedy's 0%. The Tome also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). The Divine Comedy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
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The Tome costs $3.99 and The Divine Comedy $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Divine Comedy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of The Tome's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Divine Comedy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Tome ships an update monthly, The Divine Comedy every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Tome | The Divine Comedy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 319 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Fizzy Potion | Bart Beekwilder |
Customer experience
The Tome
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In-app purchases
The Tome
No in-app purchases
The Divine Comedy
No in-app purchases
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