Prepare For Battle vs GMToolkit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prepare For Battle
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Prepare For Battle is a fast, intuitive combat tracker for tabletop roleplaying games. Whether you’re a veteran GM or just starting out, Prepare For Battle makes it easy to manage initiative, track turns, and stay in control of every encounter. Key Features: • Initiative Rolling: Add characters and quickly roll for initiative using a built-in d20 roller. • Turn Tracking: Automatically keep track of whose turn it is and what round you’re in. • Encounter History: Review past encounters and pick up where you left off. • Custom Characters: Create and reuse characters across different encounters. • Local Storage: Everything is saved on your device — no sign-up, no cloud, no distractions. Stay focused on the story, not the spreadsheets. With Prepare For Battle, the battle runs itself — and you stay in command.
GMToolkit
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This app generates randomized content for a Game Master (GM)/Dungeon Master (DM) to use during their game. It's designed to be easy to read and simple, making it perfect for using on-the-fly mid-game. As a GM/DM, your job is to fill in the gaps created by this app, or to use it for inspiration. For example, if you create a randomized City, it might give you descriptions like: - Theocracy - Egg Statues - Soot - Sacrifice - Rogue Knights So you might start describing the city as covered in soot with large stone egg statues. As your players start exploring the city, you can piece together in your head what's really going on: perhaps this is a dragon-worshipping city run by a cult. They have a yearly ritual where they hatch a dragon egg and sacrifice commoners to the newborn, however a group of defiant knights have started fighting back against this practice. This app is made of 75% human writing, then 25% AI writing based on that human writing (using Anthropic and self-improvement algorithms). If this app does well I'll come back and add an option to filter out the AI writing, but I made this app primarily for myself so I don't have a need for it personally. The writing is vetted and makes it less likely for content to run out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GMToolkit at fortnightly against Prepare For Battle's every 14 months. GMToolkit also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 27.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Prepare For Battle ships an update every 14 months, GMToolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prepare For Battle | GMToolkit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Calum MacLean | Dale LaPlante |
In-app purchases
Prepare For Battle
No in-app purchases
GMToolkit
No in-app purchases
Questions
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