Game Master's Toolkit 5e vs GMToolkit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
GMToolkit
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This app generates randomized content for a Game Master (GM)/Dungeon Master (DM) to use during their game. It's designed to be easy to read and simple, making it perfect for using on-the-fly mid-game. As a GM/DM, your job is to fill in the gaps created by this app, or to use it for inspiration. For example, if you create a randomized City, it might give you descriptions like: - Theocracy - Egg Statues - Soot - Sacrifice - Rogue Knights So you might start describing the city as covered in soot with large stone egg statues. As your players start exploring the city, you can piece together in your head what's really going on: perhaps this is a dragon-worshipping city run by a cult. They have a yearly ritual where they hatch a dragon egg and sacrifice commoners to the newborn, however a group of defiant knights have started fighting back against this practice. This app is made of 75% human writing, then 25% AI writing based on that human writing (using Anthropic and self-improvement algorithms). If this app does well I'll come back and add an option to filter out the AI writing, but I made this app primarily for myself so I don't have a need for it personally. The writing is vetted and makes it less likely for content to run out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GMToolkit at none against Game Master's Toolkit 5e's 1. GMToolkit also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Game Master's Toolkit 5e's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Game Master's Toolkit 5e sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GMToolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Game Master's Toolkit 5e ships an update every 2 months, GMToolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Game Master's Toolkit 5e | GMToolkit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (201 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 98.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 201 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 240 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michael Wu | Dale LaPlante |
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
GMToolkit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Game Master's Toolkit 5e
- Premium Version$0.99
GMToolkit
No in-app purchases
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