Comparison

DnD 5e Encounter Keep vs D20 Adventurers Folio

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

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About

DnD 5e Encounter Keep

This app helps Dungeon Masters manage Dungeons and Dragons 5e encounters in real-time. It allows for pre-planning battles, inviting players to see stats, and automating combat actions. Features include monster management, encounter generation, and built-in cheatsheets for easier gameplay.

Highlights
  • Real-time encounter management
  • Player and enemy stat tracking
  • Automated attack rolls
  • Built-in monster sheets
  • Custom monster creation
  • Encounter generation
Features
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Welcome to Encounter Keep, your real-time battle tracker for Dungeons and Dragons 5e. As a Dungeon Master, you can plan your encounters and invite your players to join, enabling you to see each other's stats. With the built-in cheatsheets, monster sheets, and automatic attack system, running encounters has never been easier. Leave the battle management to Encounter Keep, so you can focus on having fun. DESIGN YOUR BATTLES: - Prepare for your next session by creating encounters in advance. - Select a difficulty and add monsters from a vast list of enemies. - Create custom monsters for your epic boss battles. GENERATE ENCOUNTERS: - Automatically generate encounters for different player levels and difficulties. - Support different encounter types: boss fight, boss with minions, horde of monsters etc... - Specify environment and enemy type for a better monster match. INVITE YOUR PLAYERS: - You and your players can see each other's characters in real time. - Roll for initiative and control the encounter as you want. - Check your players' character sheets as they update their HP and other stats. MANAGE ENEMIES: - Streamline the encounter with automated enemy attack rolls. - Access built-in detailed info sheets for hundreds of monsters. - Quickly manage the enemies, tracking their hit points, armour class, and other stats during the fight. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

D20 Adventurers Folio

This app transforms tabletop roleplaying character sheets into beautifully illuminated manuscripts. It automatically handles all the complex calculations for you, allowing you to focus on the game. Access built-in spells, magic items, and dice rolling features, with options to export your creations.

Highlights
  • Illuminated character sheets
  • Automatic math calculations
  • Built-in spells and magic items
  • Customizable dice rolling
  • Quick hero generation
  • Printable PDF export
  • Offline functionality
Features
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NOW OPTIMIZED FOR iPhone Duo — both screens, every fold. Your hero's sheet fills the inner display, the table screen fits the cover, and your hit points stay in reach on either one. Your character sheet should be worth framing. D20 Adventurers Folio turns the paperwork of tabletop roleplaying into an illuminated manuscript — painted borders, carved panels, gold leaf, and a dragon standing guard over your hero's portrait. Then it quietly does all the math for you. A LIVING SHEET Keep it open at the table. Tap to spend hit points, mark experience, level up. Saving throws, attack numbers and ability adjustments recalculate as you play. No lookup tables. No eraser crumbs. TWO RULE SETS FREE, TWO MORE IF YOU WANT THEM 1st Edition (1977–1988) and the 2024 revision are both included. Each gets its own page architecture and its own correctly computed numbers — five saving throws or six, THAC0 or attack bonus. Your sheet speaks your table's dialect. 2nd Edition (1989–1999) and the 2014 ruleset are each a separate purchase, for tables still playing them. THE SPELLS AND THE MAGIC ITEMS, BUILT IN 1,461 spells across the four rule sets and 498 magic items for the two fifth-edition ones — 689 spells and 258 items in the rule sets that are free. Type a few letters on the Grimoire and the entry completes itself — range, duration, damage — and the dice on the page roll it. For the fifth-edition rule sets the full text is included. 1st and 2nd Edition carry each spell's name and printed numbers but not its description, because those are not licensed to anyone. Anything missing you can import, and anything at all you can simply type. DICE WORTH ROLLING Tap any save, skill or ability and the page blurs away: dice tumble from a leather cup onto felt and settle on a result decided by a fair roll, never by physics luck. Two sets come with the app — aged ivory and deep red resin — and the Premium Dice Pack adds ten more, from molten gold to charcoal veined with glowing ember. QUICK HERO No idea what to play? Lock in whatever you're sure about — maybe just "druid" — and the app rolls the rest, legally: ability scores by your table's preferred method, a permitted race, hit points, starting gold. A playable hero in one tap. WORTH PRINTING Export a print-perfect PDF: the painted sheet, the Adventurer's Ledger, and the Grimoire pages if your hero casts. Every class carries its own painted ledger: the thief's guild book, the paladin's temple codex, the magic-user's illuminated grimoire, the druid's grove tome. YOURS, FOREVER No subscription. No account. No server to crash mid-roll. Every hero lives on your device, and works in a basement with no signal. Free: one hero, two complete rule sets, the sheet that keeps its own math, two dice sets, and printing. Print a free hero and its name, class, race, alignment, edition and ability scores are set in ink. The Folio — one payment, no renewals: unlimited heroes, the painted class pages and ledgers, blank sheets for the whole party, and nothing set in ink. 5th Edition (2014) — one payment: adds the 2014 ruleset, its sheet, its spell tables and its magic items. 2nd Edition (1989–1999) — one payment: adds the 1989-99 ruleset, its sheet, its tables and its 453 spells. Premium Dice Pack — one payment: ten more collector dice sets. Dice Pack II — one payment: nine more collector dice sets. Second Ledger Set — one payment: a painted page two of their own for Barbarians, Rogues, Sorcerers, Warlocks and Wizards on fifth-edition sheets, for heroes in The Folio. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://praxis-hq.ai/legal/d20-folio-privacy.html Running the game? D20 Chair is the GM's screen for the same table: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6809542192

Screenshots

DnD 5e Encounter Keep4 screens
D20 Adventurers Folio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: D20 Adventurers Folio at 5.0 against DnD 5e Encounter Keep's 4.5. D20 Adventurers Folio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). DnD 5e Encounter Keep's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume 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. D20 Adventurers Folio sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. DnD 5e Encounter Keep asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

D20 Adventurers Folio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DnD 5e Encounter Keep ships an update every 2 months, D20 Adventurers Folio daily. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DnD 5e Encounter Keep versus D20 Adventurers Folio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDnD 5e Encounter KeepD20 Adventurers Folio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB193 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperFanni PutnoczkiAdam Fischer

Customer experience

DnD 5e Encounter Keep

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

D20 Adventurers Folio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DnD 5e Encounter Keep

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

D20 Adventurers Folio

One-time6
  • Second Ledger Set$3.99
  • Dice Pack II$4.99
  • Premium Dice Pack$4.99
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  • 5th Edition (2014)$4.99
  • 2nd Edition (1989-99)$4.99
  • The Folio$12.99

Questions

Is DnD 5e Encounter Keep free?
DnD 5e Encounter Keep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is D20 Adventurers Folio free?
D20 Adventurers Folio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DnD 5e Encounter Keep or D20 Adventurers Folio?
D20 Adventurers Folio is rated higher. DnD 5e Encounter Keep averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while D20 Adventurers Folio averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DnD 5e Encounter Keep or D20 Adventurers Folio have ads?
DnD 5e Encounter Keep shows ads; D20 Adventurers Folio does not.
Which is updated more often, DnD 5e Encounter Keep or D20 Adventurers Folio?
DnD 5e Encounter Keep ships an update every 2 months, and D20 Adventurers Folio daily. Most recently, DnD 5e Encounter Keep was updated on October 27, 2026 and D20 Adventurers Folio on October 29, 2026.

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