Comparison

Natural 20 vs Virtual Fortune Cookie

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

Head to head
About

Natural 20

This app simulates rolling various dice for tabletop games like D&D and war games. It offers features for single and multiple dice rolls, custom dice, roll history, and probability plots. It's a convenient alternative to physical dice for any game.

Highlights
  • Single and multiple dice rolls
  • Customizable dice with colors and sides
  • Dice filtering and rerolling
  • Range Die and Custom Die options
  • Roll history and statistics
  • Dice Calculator and specialized dice
Features
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Ideal for board games, war games and RPG's like Dungeons & Dragons. Natural 20 is a dice rolling app which handles single and multiple dice rolls, and much more. Its comfortable to use, saves time, and its easier than carrying a box of dice to each game! ***************** Feature Summary ***************** - Handles single and multiple dice rolls. - Default dice are D2, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and D100. - More dice can be added, with different colours and sides. - Multiple Dice can be easily filtered and rerolled. - Range Die gives you a random number in any range. - Custom Die lets you choose the faces of the dice. - Direction Die points you in a random direction. - My Dice allows you to store custom sets of dice. - Offers a Dice Calculator, Word Dice, Teachers Dice, and more! - Stores a history of all your rolls. - Custom probability distribution plots. - iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch support. - Voice Over support - Dark mode support - Cheaper than buying lots of dice! *************** Feature Descriptions *************** Natural 20 has fifteen screens of features, to help you manage your dice. Here's a brief description of them. ~ Quick Roll Simply pick your dice, and you have an instant result. Ideal for Dungeons & Dragons, Quick Roll offers the following eight dice; D2, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and D100. ~ Multiple Dice In multiple dice mode you can mix your dice together as you please. This mode has been designed with Warhammer in mind, and you can easily filter the dice at the touch of a button. The remaining dice can be rolled again to find out how many enemies you wound. Stats, such as average and the sum, are displayed for each roll saving you counting on screen. Buttons are provided to remove the highest or lowest rolls, as well as any range in between. ~ Calculator Great for large numbers of dice, or combinations with a modifier. ~ Roll History Natural 20 keeps track of all your rolls, so you can prove you actually rolled that 20! The dice stored in your history can be easily re-rolled and filtered. You can move the dice around the screen, and it will remember your order. ~ Custom Die Custom Die lets you choose the sides of the dice, by separating them with commas. Natural 20 will pick a single item, or order them randomly into a list. ~ Range Die Pick any range, and receive a random number. Your three most rolled ranges are available at the press of a button. ~ Teachers Die Handy for the classroom, this die will be helpful for Maths and English. You can use it to randomly pick letters, numbers and mathematical operators. When picking letters you can specify if they are upper or lowercase, and also pick between vowels and consonants. ~ Colour Die This will give you a random colour, just run your finger across the screen like a paintbrush. Some basic information is displayed, such as the colour’s hex number, HSB, and RGB values. ~ Direction Die This will point you in a totally random direction with each spin. Swipe the screen to spin it, however you can only influence which way it spins, not the outcome! ~ Success Die Repeatedly rolls D6’s, discarding when they fail to meet a certain value. The total successes are displayed. ~ Word Die Keep collections of words, to randomise at a touch. Ideal for selecting locations and enemies randomly. You can even randomise your words as a whole list. ~ My Dice My Dice allows you to save your own collections of dice, along with a description and optional modifier. These can be easily searched through, and rolled from a single tap. ~ Dice Builder Chose how many sides your dice have, and their colours! ~ Distribution Distribution allows you to create probability distribution plots for specified dice. These will show you the percentage chance of rolling a particular face value, and you can compare actual rolls against theoretical results. However, large numbers of dice can take a long time to calculate for theoretical plots.

About

Virtual Fortune Cookie

Discover daily fortunes and inspiring quotes with this digital fortune cookie. Swipe to reveal your message, and explore nearby Chinese restaurants with integrated maps. Share your fortunes and discoveries with friends.

Highlights
  • Unique fortunes and quotes
  • Lottery picks based on location
  • Nearby Chinese restaurant map
  • Share fortunes and maps
  • Automatic fortune updates
Features
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Virtual Fortune Cookie is a zero calorie alternative to a real fortune cookie. It is a fun light hearted app that serves up fortune cookie sayings and famous quotes on demand. Simply swipe the unopened cookie to reveal your fortune. Tap on an existing fortune to get a new cookie. Virtual Fortune Cookie has the following features: - Displays almost 2500 unique fortunes and quotes - Displays lottery picks along with each fortune based on users current location (if available/enabled on device) - Displays map of the nearest chinese restaurants from users current location (if available/enabled on device) - Allows user to share fortunes and restaurant maps with friends - Automatically downloads new fortunes as they become available (provided a connection to internet is available)

Screenshots

Natural 204 screens
Virtual Fortune Cookie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Natural 20 at 4.5 against Virtual Fortune Cookie's 3.0. Natural 20 also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (57 vs 5). Virtual Fortune Cookie's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, update cadence, ads and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Natural 20 costs $0.99 and Virtual Fortune Cookie $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Natural 20 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Natural 20 has 57 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Natural 20's written reviews are positive against 100% of Virtual Fortune Cookie's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Natural 20 versus Virtual Fortune Cookie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNatural 20Virtual Fortune Cookie
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating4.5 (57 ratings) — better3.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings57 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan LordBenz Software, LLC

Customer experience

Natural 20

All ratings57 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral7.0%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral5.6%
Negative13.0%

Virtual Fortune Cookie

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Natural 20

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • 🐛 Many dice don't work on Apple Watch
  • 🐛 Blank screen on Apple Watch dice
  • 🐛 Some dice don't work on Apple Watch
  • 🐛 D2, D4, D6 have no image/number on Apple Watch
  • 🐛 Not working with watchOS 4.2.2
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  • 🐛 Dice don't give impression of rolling

Requested features

16 requests
  • Option to choose die roll color
  • Configuration shared between devices
  • Shake to roll functionality
  • 3D dice models
  • Option to display die name under result
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  • More colors for dice
  • Option to change dots on D6 to numbers
  • Negative numbers on range die
  • More features in Success Die (sides, success value)
  • Calculator: Exploding Dice
  • Calculator: Rolling random amount of dice
  • Calculator: Support for * and / operators
  • Custom word die for locations/enemies
  • Option to re-roll selected dice
  • Option to show dice below a certain value
  • Easily accessible custom dice sets

Virtual Fortune Cookie

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Natural 20

No in-app purchases

None

Virtual Fortune Cookie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Natural 20 free?
Natural 20 costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Virtual Fortune Cookie free?
Virtual Fortune Cookie costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Natural 20 or Virtual Fortune Cookie?
Natural 20 is rated higher. Natural 20 averages 4.5 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while Virtual Fortune Cookie averages 3.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Natural 20 or Virtual Fortune Cookie have ads?
Neither Natural 20 nor Virtual Fortune Cookie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Natural 20 or Virtual Fortune Cookie?
Natural 20 ships an update every 2 months, and Virtual Fortune Cookie every 2 months. Most recently, Natural 20 was updated on November 1, 2026 and Virtual Fortune Cookie on November 1, 2026.

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