Comparison

Story vs Protag

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

Head to head
About

Story

Create your own unique adventures with this interactive story game. Make choices that shape your narrative across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, and historical settings. Your stories are saved locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • Personalized storytelling experience
  • User-driven choice mechanics
  • Diverse story genres (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Romance, Historical)
  • Unique storylines generated per player
  • Secure local data storage
  • Interactive text-based gameplay
Features
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Story Games is an interactive story text game designed to provide users with a personalized storytelling experience. Through user-driven choices, The app generates unique storylines, allowing each player to enjoy a distinctive adventure. All story are securely stored on your device, ensuring your data privacy. Explore endless story possibilities and embark on your own adventure today! Chapter Content and Diversity Fantasy Adventure: Engage with various creatures in a mysterious magical world, choose your fate, solve ancient puzzles, and explore uncharted lands. Sci-Fi Exploration: Travel through a futuristic universe, pilot high-tech spaceships, seek out alien civilizations, and make crucial decisions that will impact humanity’s future. Mystery Detective: Step into the shoes of a detective, investigating intricate cases. Gather clues and interrogate suspects to uncover truths hidden in the shadows. Romantic Tales: Choose among multiple romantic paths, experiencing delightful encounters and emotional twists. Your choices will determine the development of your relationships with other characters. Historical Reenactment: Travel back to a significant moment in history, witness major events, and choose how you will influence the course of history, becoming a legendary figure.

About

Protag

Step into web novels as the main character and shape the narrative with your choices. Type or tap your actions to influence the story in real-time, leading to unique endings. Create your own stories or play community-generated adventures.

Highlights
  • Interactive story progression
  • User-driven narrative choices
  • Story creation with AI
  • Collectible endings
  • Customizable character stats
  • Scene illustrations
  • Story memory editing
Features
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Welcome to Protag: Playable Stories. Don't just read the web novel. Step inside it as the main character. Type what you do, or tap a suggested move, and the story answers in real time. Love hunter action, villainess drama, palace intrigue or a fresh isekai start? Pick a role and play. No two runs go the same way, because the story follows your choices. [APP FEATURES] ■ No Ads: Nothing interrupts your story. ■ You Are the Protagonist: Every move is yours, typed or tapped. ■ Stats That Matter: Trust, suspicion, level and more rise and fall with each choice. ■ Collect Endings: Reach one of several endings per story and add its card to your collection, from N to SSR. ■ Free to Play: Basic story turns are free. Switch to Superb at the top of any story for the richest writing. ■ Scene Pictures: Turn key moments into illustrations. ■ Story Memory: The narrator keeps track of what happened, and you can edit your notes and memory at any time. ■ Make Your Own: Describe a story in a sentence or two and the AI writes the cast, opening, stats, endings and cover. ■ Private or Public: Keep your stories to yourself or publish them for other players. [STORIES TO PLAY] ■ Action Fantasy: Seoul's lowest-ranked hunter with a quest window only you can see ■ Romance Fantasy: Wake up as the villainess thirty days before the ball that ends her ■ Court Intrigue: A palace maid with a nose for poison ■ Isekai: Reborn in a new world with one power ■ Academy: An imperial school of sword and sorcery ■ Dark Fantasy: A devil in your shadow that eats a memory each time it saves you ■ And new stories from the community [NO SCRIPT, JUST YOUR CHOICES] There is no fixed plot. Characters react to what you say and do, and the story twists with you. Push your luck, play it safe, or try something no one expects. Your choices decide which ending you reach. [CREATE IN SECONDS] No writing skills needed. Write a one-line idea and Protag builds a full story around it. Change anything you like, test-play it, then publish it or keep it private. Every published story is checked before other players can see it. [START FREE] Your first move is free, with no account. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep playing, and your story comes with you. Basic story turns are free. Superb turns, scene pictures and AI-written stories use credits. New accounts get free credits, and a daily check-in adds more. Your story. Your ending. Terms of Service: https://protag-rho.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://protag-rho.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

Story3 screens
Protag4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Story at 3 against Protag's 1. Story also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Story sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Protag sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Story against 5.0 for Protag. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Story versus Protag: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStoryProtag
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB50 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer炜腾 张Pluh Inc.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Story

One-time6
  • 99 points$1.19
  • 199 points$2.39
  • 299 points$3.69
Show 3 more
  • 399 points$4.69
  • 599 points$5.59
  • 799 points$7.59
5 purchases

Protag

One-time5
  • 2,000 Credits$2.29
  • 10,300 Credits$11.49
  • 21,000 Credits$22.49
Show 2 more
  • 53,500 Credits$56.99
  • 110,000 Credits$113.99

Questions

Is Story free?
Story is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Protag free?
Protag is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Story or Protag?
Story and Protag are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Story or Protag have ads?
Both Story and Protag show ads.

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