Audio Forge vs Pathrules 2e
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Forge
Enhance your tabletop RPG sessions with custom soundscapes. This app allows you to import your own audio, layer music and ambient sounds, and trigger sound effects instantly. It offers offline functionality and advanced integration with smart home devices for a fully immersive experience.
- Import custom audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG)
- Layer music and ambient soundscapes
- Trigger one-shot sound effects
- Offline playback functionality
- Freesound integration for effects
- MQTT/Home Assistant integration for smart home sync
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RPG soundboard and music player for D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu and more. Import your own files, layer music with ambience, trigger one-shots, and run everything offline. Now with MQTT / Home Assistant integration to sync with your room setup, lighting, and fog machine. Why GMs pick Audio Forge • Use your own audio files. Import MP3, WAV, OGG and build a library that’s truly yours. • Layered playback. Run one music track with multiple ambience beds, plus one-shot SFX. • Fast scene switching. Organize by campaign and jump between categories in a tap. • One-shot board. Instantly fire spells, stingers, crits and monster cues. • Works offline. Perfect for conventions, basements and dead-zone dungeons. • Freesound integration. Browse and download effects without leaving the app. • MQTT / Home Assistant integration. Remotely sync Audio Forge with your room setup, lighting, and fog machine. • Designed for iPhone and iPad. Landscape friendly, with a fullscreen option. Who it’s for Dungeon Masters, Keepers, Game Masters and bards who want total control over their table’s sound. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast, Paizo or Chaosium. Download Audio Forge and run better sessions tonight.
Pathrules 2e
This app provides a streamlined reference for Pathfinder 2nd Edition rules, simplifying complex cross-references. It allows players and Game Masters to easily search and filter for actions, spells, feats, and more. The app aims to make navigating the game's extensive trait system more accessible.
- Pathfinder 2e rules reference
- Simplified cross-references
- Search by name
- Filter options
- Actions, spells, feats, skills, attributes, traits, conditions, creature abilities
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Pathrules 2e The Pathfinder 2e rules reference app. Perfect for players and GMs alike. The Pathfinder 2e trait system is great, but it ends up with cross-references, which makes it a bit difficult to read. Pathrules 2e aims to solve this problem by easily showing the references. In addition, the app also allows you to search by name and apply filters, to make it easy to find what you are looking for. For now there are actions, spells, feats, skill, attributes, traits, conditions and creature abilities, but more are to come.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Audio Forge at none against Pathrules 2e's shown. Audio Forge also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 4). Pathrules 2e's advantage is iOS requirement (12 vs 16.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Audio Forge sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Pathrules 2e sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Audio Forge against 5.0 for Pathrules 2e. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Audio Forge has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Audio Forge ships an update every 2 weeks, Pathrules 2e fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Forge | Pathrules 2e |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 12 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Slashpaf | Vitor Abreu Martins |
Customer experience
Audio Forge
Pathrules 2e
In-app purchases
Audio Forge
- Premium$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$34.991 Year
- Spell Pack 4$2.99
- Spell Pack 5$2.99
- Weapons pack 1$2.99
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- Spell Pack 2$2.99
- Spell Pack 3$2.99
- Ad-Free version$3.99
- Thunder!$3.99
- Nature, Taverns & Bards$3.99
- Creepy Swamp$3.99
- Spell Effects, Heartbeat$3.99
- Weapons Pack 1$3.99
- Ranged Weapons Pack 1$3.99
- Weapons Pack 2$3.99
- Horror Music 1$3.99
- Horror Music 3$3.99
- Horror Music 2$3.99
Pathrules 2e
- Remove Ads Forever$2.99
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