Comparison

Game Master's Toolkit 5e vs Protagonist

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

Head to head
About

Game Master's Toolkit 5e

This app generates random content for tabletop roleplaying games, including monsters, NPCs, quests, and magic items. It offers tools for combat preparation, puzzles, and a dice simulator. An optional premium upgrade unlocks advanced customization and export features.

Highlights
  • Generate random monsters, NPCs, and cities
  • Create quests, treasure, and villains
  • Design dungeons and traps
  • Generate magic items
  • Quick generator for names and rumors
  • Party cheat sheet and initiative tracker
  • Dice simulator and rule reference
Features
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Game Master’s Toolkit 5e allows GMs to generate random content for their tabletop roleplaying games! Designed for the world's most popular roleplaying game, but highly compatible with other fantasy TTRPG systems. Using this app, you can: – Browse over 2,000 monsters and filter by CR, terrain, creature type, and source book. – Create NPCs and cities to bring your world to life. – Generate random events, quests, treasure, and villains to add danger and adventure to your game. – Challenge your players with fully fleshed-out dungeons, and traps. – Generate random magic items, such as weapons, armor, potions, and scrolls. – Use the Quick Generator to create names, taverns, shops, rumors, and more! – Save all your favorite randomly generated content for later use. All with the click of a button! Game Master’s Toolkit 5e also includes a number of other tools to help you run your game. – Use the Party Cheat Sheet to track your players’ damage and other important stats. Add monsters to your initiative tracker for easy combat prep. – Incorporate puzzles and mini games to challenge and entertain your players. – Includes a simple dice simulator for easy rolling. – Browse through common 5e rules such as conditions and concentration. Upgrade to the premium version for even more control over the items you generate! With the full version, you can: – Sort saved items into different campaigns – Edit and add notes to your saved items. – Edit and add notes to items as you generate them. – Add, remove, edit, and rearrange city elements to make it truly your own. – Add your own homebrew puzzles and mini games for later reference. – Export items to Google Drive, Dropbox, email, notes, iMessage, Discord, social media, and any other apps you have on your phone. This app also includes a built–in library of over 100 sounds and songs for you to incorporate into your game. Browse different song categories including Combat, In a Dungeon, In the City, and more! The music plays in the background, allowing you to use other apps or lock your screen without interrupting the song. Create a list of your favorite songs for easy reference. All completely offline! No ads, no signups, no hassle. Simple and easy to use.

About

Protagonist

Manage your RPG characters with customizable sheets for various gaming systems. Assign portraits, back up your data, and choose between light and dark themes. Supports multiple popular tabletop RPGs.

Highlights
  • Customizable character sheets
  • Support for multiple RPG systems
  • Assign character portraits
  • Backup and restore save files
  • Light and dark themes
  • Import support for specific systems
Features
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Need a place to keep your characters for a variety of RPGs? We've got you covered! Protagonist lets you keep any number of character sheets for multiple gaming systems. You can assign character portraits, backup and restore your save files, and choose between light and dark themes. Most systems contain no content from their respective game. In those cases, the user must input all the values they want to keep track of, like is done with a traditional pen & paper character sheet. Systems: • Call of Cthulhu 7e (The Dhole's House import support) • Dungeons and Dragons 5e • Dungeon World (Character Builder & Content Support) • Gaslands 1e & 2e • HeroQuest • Legend of the Five Rings 1e • Necromunda 1e & 2e • Pathfinder 2e Protagonist makes no claims of any of the system publishers, on behalf of them, and is not endorsed by them. Use of the system name is solely for the purpose to inform that Protagonist is suitable for use with that product.

Screenshots

Game Master's Toolkit 5e4 screens
Protagonist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Game Master's Toolkit 5e at Free against Protagonist's $2.99. Game Master's Toolkit 5e also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (99% vs 67%). Protagonist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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

Game Master's Toolkit 5e is free to download; Protagonist costs $2.99 up front. Game Master's Toolkit 5e sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Protagonist asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Game Master's Toolkit 5e holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Game Master's Toolkit 5e has 206 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 99% of Game Master's Toolkit 5e's written reviews are positive against 67% of Protagonist's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Game Master's Toolkit 5e ships an update every 2 months, Protagonist fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Game Master's Toolkit 5e versus Protagonist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGame Master's Toolkit 5eProtagonist
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (206 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews98.5% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings206 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB24 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperMichael WuAhimsa Software LLC

Customer experience

Game Master's Toolkit 5e

All ratings205 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews134 reviews
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.7%

Protagonist

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Game Master's Toolkit 5e

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes when trying to save
  • Dice roller feature not working properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add initiative tracking
  • Allow editing of generated content
  • Implement cloud sync for saved data
  • Expand race and NPC options
  • Add more puzzle and mini-game options

Protagonist

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Game Master's Toolkit 5e

One-time1
  • Premium Version$0.99
None

Protagonist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Game Master's Toolkit 5e free?
Game Master's Toolkit 5e is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Protagonist free?
Protagonist costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Game Master's Toolkit 5e or Protagonist?
Game Master's Toolkit 5e is rated higher. Game Master's Toolkit 5e averages 4.8 out of 5 from 206 ratings, while Protagonist averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Game Master's Toolkit 5e or Protagonist have ads?
Neither Game Master's Toolkit 5e nor Protagonist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Game Master's Toolkit 5e or Protagonist?
Game Master's Toolkit 5e ships an update every 2 months, and Protagonist fortnightly. Most recently, Game Master's Toolkit 5e was updated on November 3, 2026 and Protagonist on November 3, 2026.

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