Myriad Worlds vs 5e Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Myriad Worlds
This app helps writers, game masters, and worldbuilders generate creative content like characters, locations, and spells. It offers tools to overcome creative blocks and organize your ideas into comprehensive projects. Export your creations as PDFs and enjoy monthly content updates.
- Character generation
- Artifact creation
- Location generation (Premium)
- Spell and power generation (Premium)
- Project organization
- PDF export (Premium)
- Monthly content packs (Premium)
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Ignite your imagination with Myriad Worlds — a creative launchpad for writers, game masters, and worldbuilders. Generate rich characters, artifacts, locations, and spells in seconds, then turn sparks of inspiration into stories, campaigns, and worlds you’ll actually use. Stuck on a blank page? Myriad Worlds helps you break past creative blocks fast — with human-curated generators built for fiction, tabletop RPGs, and imaginative play. CREATE WITHOUT LIMITS • Characters — names, backstories, personalities, secrets, relationships, and more across traditional, fantasy, and sci-fi styles • Artifacts — magical items, relics, and curios with origins, abilities, drawbacks, and legends • Locations — towns, cities, regions, and settings packed with culture, history, landmarks, and intrigue (Premium) • Spells & Powers — rituals, effects, and sci-fi abilities with clear flavor and mechanical detail (Premium) BUILD YOUR WORLD • Explore curated Worlds like Aetheria and Galactica Valtoria for instant inspiration • Organize everything in Projects — your living World Bible for characters, places, notes, factions, timelines, and plot hooks (Premium) • Generate Session Prep prompts from your project so you’re ready before game night (Premium) • Export beautiful PDFs of characters, locations, and full World Bibles to share or print (Premium) STAY IN YOUR FLOW • Save and browse your library on-device • Optional iCloud backup and sync so your worlds travel with you (Premium) • Monthly content packs that shift generation toward themes like noir, pulp adventure, gothic horror, space western, mythic Japan, and post-apocalyptic (Premium) • No ads — just creative tools YOUR IDEAS, YOUR RIGHTS Every idea you generate is yours to build on. Content is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), so you can use it in personal or commercial projects — just credit Myriad Worlds. Create freely. Share boldly. Dream big. Welcome to the Myriad Worlds! Read our Privacy Policy here: https://www.shinanolabs.com/privacy-policy APPI Compliance: 日本のユーザーの皆様については、個人情報の保護に関する法律(個人情報保護法)を遵守いたします。詳しくは、当社のプライバシーポリシーをご覧ください。
5e Buddy
This app serves as a digital companion for tabletop role-playing games, offering interactive character sheets, dice rolling, and campaign management. It allows for the creation and tracking of multiple characters, including homebrewed content, and supports importing and exporting character data.
- Interactive character sheets
- Character building from scratch
- Homebrew content support
- Virtual dice rolling
- Multiple character organization
- Import/export character data
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Hold your adventure in the palm of your hand! 5e Buddy is the ultimate third party companion for 5th Edition champions, homebrew heroes, or average RPG gamers. 5e Buddy replaces a traditional character-sheet with an interactive application that can easily: *Track stats, spells, or equipment *Build characters from scratch *Record character backstory and party data *Roll dice virtually *Accommodate homebrewed species, stats, or equipment *Organize multiple characters for multiple campaigns *Import existing characters from PDF character-sheets *Export character-sheets or character data *And so much more! 5e Buddy is ideal for players of all levels, providing full class, species, and background information in the app. As your character evolves, so does the app! 5e Buddy is perfect for players at every table and allows you to connect with your characters from the palm of your hand. All players are able to use 5e Buddy free of charge. 5e Buddy will automatically allow each user full access to one character of their making. To unlock access to unlimited character creation, a user can pay a small fee. This small fee allows the 5e Buddy team to continue to update and improve the app for all players. 5e Buddy was created by the development team at Magical Duck Studios LLC. Magical Duck Studios is a small software development company dedicated to creating magical tools to improve your daily experiences. For more information about their story or to learn about updates coming to 5e Buddy, please visit their website at https://magicalduckstudiosllc.com. Disclaimer: This app was created by a third party provider and uses SRD for all of its content. Magical Duck Studios is not associated with Wizards of the Coast or any of their official content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 5e Buddy at 5.0 against Myriad Worlds's 1.0. 5e Buddy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Myriad Worlds's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Myriad Worlds sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and 5e Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
5e Buddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Myriad Worlds ships an update every 9 days, 5e Buddy every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Myriad Worlds | 5e Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Damien Anthony Lavizzo | Magical Duck Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Myriad Worlds
5e Buddy
In-app purchases
Myriad Worlds
- Myriad Worlds Monthly Premium14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Myriad Worlds Yearly Premium14 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$24.99
5e Buddy
- 5eBuddy Premium$7.99









