Comparison

Protagonist vs GMToolkit

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

Head to head
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.

About

GMToolkit

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Protagonist4 screens
GMToolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GMToolkit at Free against Protagonist's $2.99. Protagonist's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

GMToolkit is free to download; Protagonist costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Protagonist ships an update weekly, GMToolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Protagonist versus GMToolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProtagonistGMToolkit
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB17 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperAhimsa Software LLCDale LaPlante

In-app purchases

None

Protagonist

No in-app purchases

None

GMToolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Protagonist free?
Protagonist costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GMToolkit free?
GMToolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Protagonist or GMToolkit have ads?
Neither Protagonist nor GMToolkit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Protagonist or GMToolkit?
Protagonist ships an update weekly, and GMToolkit fortnightly. Most recently, Protagonist was updated on September 24, 2026 and GMToolkit on September 6, 2026.

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