Protagonist vs Deck Squares
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Deck Squares
Create and save starship deck plans for sci-fi RPGs with a classic monochrome grid style. Design each square with various components, labels, and shared edges for seamless multi-deck layouts. Export high-resolution images for printing or tabletop use.
- Monochrome grid-style deck plans
- Component-based square design
- Shared edges for adjacent squares
- Multi-deck ship layouts
- High-resolution image export
- Versatile for floor plans and puzzles
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Deck Squares lets you generate and store a collection of starship deck plans for any science fiction role-playing game. Deck plans have the Old School grid-based monochrome look and feel popular in the early years of SF RPGs, rather than a photo-realistic color-coded depiction that can limit usability. Plans are created one deck square at a time using a large collection of components for left and top edges and central features. Each square may have a grid boundary around the edges and a small text label as well. Large labels cover any central feature and may extend into adjacent squares. Since edges are shared between squares, adjacent squares are used to define right and bottom edges. Ship tonnage may be specified to determine an approximate total number of squares allowed. Multiple decks may be defined for a ship and the cursor location is useful for aligning hatches between decks. Decks may be exported as high-resolution images suitable for printing and for use with miniatures on the table top. Although intended for starship deck plans, the app can be used for building floor plans, puzzle designs, and other purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Protagonist at 67% against Deck Squares's 0%. Protagonist also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Deck Squares's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On in-app purchases 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
Deck Squares is free to download; Protagonist costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Protagonist holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Protagonist has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Protagonist's written reviews are positive against 0% of Deck Squares's.
| Parameter | Protagonist | Deck Squares |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ahimsa Software LLC | Art Gorski |
Customer experience
Protagonist
Deck Squares
In-app purchases
Protagonist
No in-app purchases
Deck Squares
No in-app purchases









