MudMonster vs Storyfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MudMonster
This app is a feature-rich client for text-based multiplayer RPGs, allowing you to connect to any MUD, automate gameplay with custom scripts and aliases, and view live game data. It offers customizable controls, character profiles, and session syncing across devices.
- Connect to any MUD
- Automate gameplay with reflexes, aliases, and timers
- Live game data overlay (GMCP)
- Customizable radial and directional controls
- Character profiles and avatars
- Cross-device sync and session logs
- MUD directory and community voting
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Every MUD. One Monster. MudMonster is a modern, full-featured client for Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) — the original text-based multiplayer RPGs — built for your pocket. Connect to any MUD, automate your play, and pick up right where you left off across devices. CONNECT TO ANY REALM - Save unlimited connections and jump into any MUD over a fast, native connection. - A true terminal with full ANSI color, light and dark color themes, adjustable fonts and text size, and speedwalk. AUTOMATE EVERYTHING — no coding required - Reflexes: run commands or scripts automatically when text matches (exact, contains, or regex). Built-in pattern helpers, a live tester, and ready-made recipes make it easy — with optional sandboxed scripting for power users. - Aliases: turn short commands into full ones (type "kw" for "kill wolf"). - Timers: fire actions on a schedule. - Variables: store and reuse values across your reflexes, aliases, and timers. LIVE GAME DATA (GMCP) See your world at a glance with an on-screen Game Overlay: - HP / MP / MV vitals bar and XP bar - Room map - Group members, active effects, and channel chat — reorder them however you like. PLAY WITH YOUR THUMBS Floating radial and directional controls send your most-used commands with a swipe. Dwell on a direction to reveal quick hold-actions, and drag the controls anywhere on screen. MANY CHARACTERS, ONE APP Give every character its own profile and avatar, scoped to each connection. MudMonster remembers who's who. SYNC & SESSION LOGS Sign in to sync your connections, settings, and characters across all your devices. Optionally log your sessions and read them back anytime. DISCOVER NEW WORLDS Browse a directory of active MUDs and find your next home. VOTE & REVIEW Champion your favorite worlds. Cast your vote and write player reviews to push the best MUDs up the rankings — helping the whole community find great places to play. Thoughtful extras: haptic feedback, trigger highlighting, keep-awake during sessions, and screen-reader support. MudMonster connects you to independently operated, third-party MUD servers, each run by its own community. Free to download. Start your adventure.
Storyfall
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Storyfall is an interactive fiction platform. Readers can play text adventures on Storyfall in singleplayer or with friends, on mobile or desktop. Progress is saved and synced to all your devices. We have stories across every genre, from science fiction and mystery to zombies and everything in between. Most stories are free, some are paid or have paid chapters - it's up to the writers. Storyfall is a marketplace. And we'll never have ads, so you can focus on your story. Download stories for free so you can play them offline. Want to create your own story? Storyfall comes with its own story editor. It's easy to jump into, but supports advanced gameplay mechanics so you can build complex RPGs with dice rolls, randomized chances, and complex branching narratives. Your story can be as simple or complex as you'd like. Storyfall's editor is completely free to use, and you own all the rights to your story. Export it any time, both as JSON and playable HTML and host it on your own website. Publishing on Storyfall takes less than a minute and is completely free. Have a story on Twine or Ink? Import it into Storyfall and publish it for free. Storyfall supports multiplayer (vote-based and coop) games, advanced accessibility and immersion features like narration and using your voice to make choices, translations into over a hundred languages, both a code-free visual editor, and a code editor for writers who like writing code. The story tree lets you quickly jump between scenes, and advanced debug tools let you adjust variables on the fly and run scripts while debugging your game. Want to collaborate with other writers? Storyfall supports real-time collaborative editing and comment threads and discussions. Stories can have background music, sound effects, images, narration, and custom themes. Ready to make money from your stories? Connect your Stripe account and set a price - on your story, individual chapters, or characters in your story. Readers can subscribe to you for free, or you can set paid subscription tiers so they can support your work. Want to email your readers? Storyfall has a fully-fledged newsletter & blog publishing feature so you can keep in touch with your fans. We also have platform-wide forums, and you can even create your own! For instance - if you want to get feedback from your fans on an early access story, create a forum for your game but only allow subscribers to access it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MudMonster at none against Storyfall's 10. Storyfall's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Storyfall sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. MudMonster asks for nothing beyond the download.
MudMonster ships an update every 3 weeks, Storyfall every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MudMonster | Storyfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CodeSquatch, LLC | Storyfall LLC |
In-app purchases
MudMonster
No in-app purchases
Storyfall
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- Content Unlock $79.99$79.99
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