Grave Compendium vs OSCharacter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grave Compendium
This app serves as a digital reference for a tabletop skirmish wargame set in a frozen city. It provides access to spell, soldier, and bestiary lists, with future plans for game and base management features. It aims to support all current and future game supplements.
- Complete spell list
- Soldier list
- Bestiary
- Supports all supplements
- Ongoing supplement support
- Game management (planned)
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The Grave Compendium is an app (with some game features in development!) to assist in playing your favourite tabletop skirmish wargame in the Frozen City. The app currently allows users to view the complete spell list, soldier list, and bestiary, with planned support for game management, base management, and more! This app will support all supplements currently available, with ongoing support for new supplements as they release. Please view the in-app supplements list for more information on the state of supplement support. Please reach out if there are any issues.
OSCharacter
This app simplifies character creation and management for tabletop role-playing games. It offers an offline-first experience with optional iCloud sync, automatically recalculating stats as you make changes. Manage inventory, spells, and even retainer wages with ease.
- Guided character creation flow
- Live stat recalculation (HP, AC, etc.)
- Table-side adjustment tools
- Detailed inventory and encumbrance management
- Spellbook management with prep tracking
- Multi-character binder with search
- Exportable PDF character sheets
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OSCharacter is a focused character manager for old-school fantasy roleplaying games. Build characters, keep their live sheet ready at the table, and manage the details that usually slow play down. Create characters with guided generation, then track ability scores, combat stats, saving throws, inventory, coins, treasure, spells, retainers, languages, and notes in one place. OSCharacter keeps key derived values close at hand so your character is easy to reference during play. Features include: • Guided character creation • Live character sheets • Ability scores and saving throws • Combat stats, HP, armor, weapons, and ammunition • Inventory, coins, treasure, and encumbrance • Known and prepared spells • Retainers and loyalty tracking • Character notes • PDF character sheet export • Optional OSReferee export with Premium • Premium one-time upgrade for unlimited characters OSCharacter is built for fast table use: open the app, pick your character, and play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OSCharacter at 100% against Grave Compendium's 29%. Grave Compendium's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. OSCharacter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grave Compendium asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grave Compendium holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of Grave Compendium's written reviews are positive against 100% of OSCharacter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Grave Compendium ships an update daily, OSCharacter every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grave Compendium | OSCharacter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Devon Krisch | Blake DeRusha |
Customer experience
Grave Compendium
OSCharacter
In-app purchases
Grave Compendium
No in-app purchases
OSCharacter
- Premium$2.99
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