Comparison

Game Master Helper vs Torchlight Mapper

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

Head to head
About

Game Master Helper

This app assists Game Masters by providing customizable reference materials and generating random elements like characters, loot, and encounters for tabletop role-playing games. It allows users to edit existing tables, create their own, and share them, working entirely offline with any TTRPG.

Highlights
  • Random character, loot, and encounter generation
  • Customizable tables
  • Offline functionality
  • Table sharing and importing
  • Support for various TTRPGs
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GMHelper helps Game Masters with reference material and generating random characters, loot, traps, encounters, names etc for TTRPGs and DnD games. All content is completely customizable. You can: - edit/update the existing example tables - create your own set of tables using the 'Create new' menu option in the main menu - share/download your table sets by using the share button on the main screen - import an existing table set use the 'Import file' menu option GMHelper works completely offline. All data is customizable, so can work with any TTRPG, including DnD 5e, ICRPG, ShadowDark etc.

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Torchlight Mapper

Features
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Torchlight Mapper is a dungeon mapping app for tabletop roleplaying players. You are the one at the table drawing the map — this is the graph paper, redrawn for your iPhone and iPad. Sketch rooms as they are described. Paint passages cell by cell. Drop doors, stairs, and item markers where they belong. When the party doubles back through a corridor you already drew, everything is still there, to scale, on the grid. MAP AS YOU GO - Add square, rectangular, round, oval, and hexagonal rooms, then reshape any of them into an irregular outline by painting cells - Paint passages of any shape, with per-segment widths - Place doors, secret doors, and up or down stairways - Drop item markers with icons for treasure, statues, water, rubble, and more - Attach notes to any room or passage - Multiple levels per dungeon, with stairways linking them BUILT FOR A LIVE SESSION - Undo and redo everything, so a misheard description costs one tap - Lock rooms and corridors so a stray finger cannot drag your map - A torch timer, with an optional notification when it burns out - Measure distances in grid squares or feet MAKE IT YOURS - Five map styles: classic, classic blue, parchment, cross hatch, and ink sketch - Optional hand-drawn roughness, so straight walls look sketched - Light and dark themes, including a warm torchlight palette KEEP AND SHARE YOUR MAPS - Export any level to PDF or PNG - Print directly - Share a whole dungeon as a .torchlight file another mapper can open - Search every room, note, item, passage, stairway, and log entry - Keep an adventure log alongside the map PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Torchlight Mapper collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking, and no network connection. Your maps stay on your device unless you explicitly export or share them. Torchlight Mapper is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by any tabletop game publisher.

Screenshots

Game Master Helper4 screens
Torchlight Mapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Torchlight Mapper at every 3 days against Game Master Helper's every 2 weeks. Game Master Helper's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Game Master Helper ships an update every 2 weeks, Torchlight Mapper every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Game Master Helper versus Torchlight Mapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGame Master HelperTorchlight Mapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB6 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMobileMarketResearchJames Frink

In-app purchases

None

Game Master Helper

No in-app purchases

None

Torchlight Mapper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Game Master Helper free?
Game Master Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Torchlight Mapper free?
Torchlight Mapper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Game Master Helper or Torchlight Mapper have ads?
Neither Game Master Helper nor Torchlight Mapper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Game Master Helper or Torchlight Mapper?
Game Master Helper ships an update every 2 weeks, and Torchlight Mapper every 3 days. Most recently, Game Master Helper was updated on September 23, 2026 and Torchlight Mapper on October 2, 2026.

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