Comparison

Game Master's Toolkit 5e vs Destiny Core

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

Destiny Core

Features
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Destiny Core is an app to create and manage your characters for Fate Core. Fate is a generic role-playing game system based on the Fudge gaming system. It has no fixed setting, traits, or genre and is customizable. It is designed to offer minimal obstruction to role-playing by assuming players want to make fewer dice rolls.

Screenshots

Game Master's Toolkit 5e4 screens
Destiny Core4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Game Master's Toolkit 5e at none against Destiny Core's shown. Game Master's Toolkit 5e also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 23 months). Destiny Core's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Game Master's Toolkit 5e sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Destiny Core sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Game Master's Toolkit 5e ships an update every 2 months, Destiny Core every 23 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Game Master's Toolkit 5e versus Destiny Core: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGame Master's Toolkit 5eDestiny Core
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (206 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews98.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings206 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 23 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB76 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMichael WuCarlos Vlchez Domnguez

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

Destiny Core

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
1 purchases

Destiny Core

One-time1
  • Update to Premium Destiny Core$1.99

Questions

Is Game Master's Toolkit 5e free?
Game Master's Toolkit 5e is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Destiny Core free?
Destiny Core is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Game Master's Toolkit 5e or Destiny Core have ads?
Destiny Core shows ads; Game Master's Toolkit 5e does not.
Which is updated more often, Game Master's Toolkit 5e or Destiny Core?
Game Master's Toolkit 5e ships an update every 2 months, and Destiny Core every 23 months. Most recently, Game Master's Toolkit 5e was updated on October 25, 2026 and Destiny Core on October 14, 2026.

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