Comparison

Stories Designer vs Lone Wolf Action Chart

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

Head to head
About

Stories Designer

Create interactive, non-linear stories with branching narratives and multiple endings. Utilize an AI writing assistant for enhanced creativity and manage your projects with features like writer's notes and cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Intuitive story creation
  • AI writing assistant
  • Interactive choices
  • Pre-written scenes
  • Writer's notes
  • Cloud sync
  • Text-based RPG creation
Features
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Stories Designer is a complete studio for interactive fiction. Write the prose, branch the paths, wire up the game mechanics, and then play the whole thing in an immersive reader — all in one app, all on your device. WRITE Chapters, pages, and a rich text editor with formatting, images, and Writer's Notes for the plan behind the plot. Page revisions let one page have several versions, so a reader who loops back finds something new. BRANCH Give any page as many choices as it needs. Point a choice at another page, a whole chapter, or a Side Quest that returns where it left off. Add several destinations and the story picks one at random, so no two playthroughs match. BUILD A GAME, NOT JUST A BOOK • Inventory: items, stats, quests, and pins the reader carries in a Backpack • Conditions: show, hide, or unlock choices based on what the reader has done • An expression language for real arithmetic and logic on stats • Shortcodes that drop live values straight into your prose • Conditional prose blocks — If / Else If / Else — so a paragraph rewrites itself SEE THE WHOLE STORY The visual Designer lays your story out as a node graph you can drag, auto-arrange, and edit in place, with full undo. The Inspector traces every path, and Debug Mode finds the dead ends, orphan pages, and broken links before a reader does. READ IT LIKE A GAME An immersive reader with bookmarks, the Backpack, per-story fonts and colors, images, background music, and video. Have the story read aloud, then answer out loud — say "go left" or "continue" and the story listens. Perfect for the car, a walk, or reading to someone. AN AI THAT ACTUALLY KNOWS YOUR STORY Bring your own API key from Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), OpenAI, or xAI (Grok), or use the built-in credits. The assistant reads your pages, drafts new ones, writes options and conditions, wires up inventory, and keeps continuity — it edits your story with you rather than handing back a wall of text. Set its persona and voice per story so a horror novella and a children's tale don't sound the same. Generate illustrations, music, and narration audio to match. Every request's token use and cost is tracked in plain view. OFFLINE FIRST, YOURS ALWAYS Everything is stored on your device and everything works with no signal at all. Optional cloud sync keeps your library matched across phone, tablet, and Mac. Back up, restore, and archive whenever you like. SHARE IT Export a complete story as a single file — mechanics, media, and all — or as plain text you can edit anywhere. Import what other authors send you and read it the way they built it. BUILT WITH CARE Material 3 design that picks up your system colors, light and dark themes, large touch targets, and a layout that opens up on tablets, foldables, and desktop. An optional subscription unlocks cloud sync, online storage, and a monthly allowance of AI credits. You can skip it entirely: bring your own AI key, or use no AI at all — every authoring and reading feature works offline and unpaid. Whether you're writing a gamebook, a training scenario, a bedtime adventure, or a sprawling RPG campaign, Stories Designer gives you the whole workshop.

About

Lone Wolf Action Chart

This digital companion app helps you track your character's progress through the Lone Wolf gamebook series. Manage multiple characters, their stats, disciplines, combat, and inventory without marking your books. Supports both Lone Wolf and New Order series.

Highlights
  • Multiple character management
  • Full discipline system
  • Combat simulator
  • Inventory management
  • Stat breakdowns
  • Random number generation
  • Cloud sync
Features
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Track your character's journey through the Lone Wolf gamebook series with this digital action chart. Supports all books - both Lone Wolf and New Order series. Note: This is a companion app for tracking stats. Books are sold/read separately. Features: • Create and manage multiple characters • Full discipline system for all eras (Kai, Magnakai, Grand Master, and New Order) • Combat simulator with automatic damage calculation and discipline toggles • Inventory management with capacity tracking • Stat breakdowns showing all bonuses • Random number generation, both automatic and through the traditional random number table • Dark and light mode support • Import characters from the Lone Wolf New Order app • Cloud sync using your Google or Apple account Perfect for: • New adventurers starting from scratch • Veterans replaying the series • Collectors exploring the New Order books No more pencil marks and eraser holes on your action chart pages!

Screenshots

Stories Designer4 screens
Lone Wolf Action Chart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lone Wolf Action Chart at every 8 days against Stories Designer's every 5 weeks. Lone Wolf Action Chart also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Stories Designer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Lone Wolf Action Chart sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stories Designer against 5.0 for Lone Wolf Action Chart. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stories Designer ships an update every 5 weeks, Lone Wolf Action Chart every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stories Designer versus Lone Wolf Action Chart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStories DesignerLone Wolf Action Chart
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB30 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperScott Conger DesignTomas Oplatek

Customer experience

Stories Designer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lone Wolf Action Chart

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Stories Designer

Subscriptions1
  • Original Cloud Sync & AI$1.991 Month
One-time4
  • Theme Rose$0.99
  • Theme Ocean$0.99
  • Theme Default$1.99
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  • Theme Yellow$1.99
3 purchases

Lone Wolf Action Chart

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
  • Hero's Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Stories Designer free?
Stories Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lone Wolf Action Chart free?
Lone Wolf Action Chart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stories Designer or Lone Wolf Action Chart?
Stories Designer and Lone Wolf Action Chart are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Stories Designer or Lone Wolf Action Chart have ads?
Neither Stories Designer nor Lone Wolf Action Chart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stories Designer or Lone Wolf Action Chart?
Stories Designer ships an update every 5 weeks, and Lone Wolf Action Chart every 8 days. Most recently, Stories Designer was updated on October 6, 2026 and Lone Wolf Action Chart on October 24, 2026.

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