Comparison

Dark Blades vs Voidbound

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

Head to head
About

Dark Blades

This tool helps you create and manage characters for the tabletop role-playing game Blades in the Dark. It provides access to all seven character types within the game's industrial fantasy setting.

Highlights
  • Character creation
  • Character management
  • All seven character types
  • Tabletop RPG tool
  • Blades in the Dark companion
Features
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Character Manager for Blades in the Dark. Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper, set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. The default setting of Blades in the Dark, Doskvol, is a roughly 19th century level of technology combined with urban fantasy. An industrial world under perpetual night, long after some great catastrophe has relegated the sun to storybooks, and resulted in the ghosts of the dead lingering in the world. Players take the role of members of a criminal organization such as thieves, smugglers, or merchants of some illicit goods, and grind their way up the criminal underworld by seizing money, territory and infamy. Tool to create and manage your Blades in the Dark characters. All seven character types are available to you. The use of the original book is necessary.

About

Voidbound

This app helps players of a trading card game manage game resources like life totals and mana. It also tracks match history, win rates, and player performance over time. Data is stored locally with backup options, and an upgrade unlocks unlimited history.

Highlights
  • Life total tracking
  • Mana and resource management
  • Dice rolling
  • Match history logging
  • Win rate analysis
  • Performance statistics
  • Local data storage with backups
Features
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Your matchside grimoire for Sorcery: Contested Realm. Voidbound keeps the board clean during the duel and keeps the record after it: life and mana, elemental thresholds, dice, every match you play, every deck you build, and the stats that show how you are really doing. THE BOARD • Life and mana for both players, each side facing its player • All four elemental thresholds: Air, Earth, Fire and Water • Quick taps add up over the button, so you see −5 or +3 at a glance • Death's Door shows when a player hits zero • Roll a D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 or D20, or flip a coin, big enough for both players to read • A turn clock for each player and a round timer that counts down like an event • Single-player mode when you only need your own side • Light haptics on every change, and your game is kept if iOS closes the app RECORD THE MATCH IN SECONDS When the game ends, tap Result. Pick win or loss, who took the first turn, both Avatars and your deck, then save. The board's thresholds and the match length are saved with it. DECKS BY THE RULES • Save decks with their Avatar, elements and full card list • A Spellbook of 60 and an Atlas of 30, with copy limits by rarity: Ordinary 4, Exceptional 3, Elite 2, Unique 1 • Paste a list from the official deckbuilder; typos are caught and fixed in a tap • Every deck keeps its own record and matchups THE CARD DATABASE Every card from the official Sorcery card list, right in the app. Search by name, filter by type and element, open a card to see its cost, rarity, thresholds and rules, and add it to a deck. Opened from a deck, a card gets − and + for one copy fewer or more. STATS THAT MEAN SOMETHING • Win rate over time, filtered by Avatar, deck and period • Form: current streak, best streak, last 10 and last 25 matches • How you do going first, how long your matches last and how long your turns take • Your record against every opponent Avatar • A full match history with opponents, places and decks, plus the cards you logged The journal puts Stats, Matches, Decks and Cards one tap from the board, opens where you left it, and stays fast even with a big archive. YOUR ARCHIVE IS SAFE Matches and decks stay on your device. Voidbound keeps one up-to-date backup, refreshed once a day while you play; you can back up and restore by hand, and it goes to iCloud Drive when it is available. FREE AND PREMIUM Everything above is free. The free plan counts your latest 10 matches in stats and history; older ones stay safe in the archive. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: it opens your whole archive and counts every match, forever. Sorcery: Contested Realm is a trademark of Erik's Curiosa Limited. Voidbound is an independent companion app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Erik's Curiosa.

Screenshots

Dark Blades4 screens
Voidbound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Voidbound at 5.0 against Dark Blades's 4.0. Voidbound also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 months). Dark Blades's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Dark Blades sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Voidbound sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Voidbound holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, Voidbound every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Dark Blades versus Voidbound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDark BladesVoidbound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlos Vlchez DomnguezMike Mailyan

Customer experience

Dark Blades

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Voidbound

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dark Blades

One-time1
  • Dark Blade Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Voidbound

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Dark Blades free?
Dark Blades is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Voidbound free?
Voidbound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dark Blades or Voidbound?
Voidbound is rated higher. Dark Blades averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Voidbound averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Dark Blades or Voidbound have ads?
Dark Blades shows ads; Voidbound does not.
Which is updated more often, Dark Blades or Voidbound?
Dark Blades ships an update every 10 months, and Voidbound every 5 days. Most recently, Dark Blades was updated on November 3, 2026 and Voidbound on October 31, 2026.

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