Comparison

Hexvellum vs Claim Forge

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

Head to head
About

Hexvellum

Features
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Hexvellum is a cartographer's table for fantasy tabletop games. Draw your world by hand on a glowing sea chart and run the whole session from the same board. Sketch three kinds of maps on one canvas. Ink overland regions with coastlines, contours, roads and rivers, then lay a hex travel grid and measure a journey by pace and terrain. Build gridded battlemaps at real scale, drop tokens for monsters and party members, and clear the room with a soft reveal as the players advance. Draw dungeons room by room and keep them hidden until the party surveys them. Everything is drawn by your hand. Pick a pen, a straight-line wall, a room, a terrain fill or an eraser, choose your ink, and undo or redo as you go. Add points of interest for settlements, dungeons, shops and dangers, and link them to encounters, quests and characters. The reference table travels with your maps. Browse a full bestiary, spell list, items and a rules glossary, then add a creature straight onto the battlemap as a token. Keep character and NPC sheets with abilities, skills, spells and gear. Assemble an encounter and watch the difficulty against your party, then start initiative with the exact creatures already loaded. Track rounds, hit points and conditions, log quests and objectives, keep tagged session notes with a photo, and roll dice with advantage, disadvantage and history. Add a portrait to a character, NPC or note with the camera or your photo library. Export a full backup of your campaign whenever you like and bring it back on another device. Hexvellum keeps your table on one living, hand-drawn chart.

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Claim Forge

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A warranty is only worth what you can prove and what you can still claim. ClaimForge keeps both: a record of what you own and what its cover actually says, and a working process for the day something stops working. File a purchase with its store, price, category and warranty term. The warranty preset comes from your own table of defaults per category, and the expiry date is calculated in front of you as you fill the form. Add the serial number, the order code, and - just as important - a note about where the proof is kept, whether that is an email thread or a drawer. From there the app watches the clock. The vault shows how much cover is left on every item, flags the ones with no receipt saved, and marks anything close to expiry. The deadline board groups items by horizon or lays them out on a 24-month timeline, and keeps a separate, harsher counter for return windows that are measured in days rather than months. When something breaks, open a case against the item. Choose what you are asking for, describe the fault, and start an escalation programme with dated tasks: gather the proof, write the first message, follow up, ask for a reference number, escalate to the manufacturer, send a final notice. Every reply, phone call, chat and store visit goes into one correspondence trail, and closing the case records the outcome, the amount recovered and how many days it took. The built-in assistant helps with the writing. It drafts a claim letter in the tone, channel, language and length you pick, analyses warranty terms or a seller's reply that you paste in, pulls the fields out of an order confirmation so a new item can be filed in seconds, and answers questions about the process. What you can do: - Store purchases with warranty term, extended cover, return window, serial number and receipt status - Search by name, brand, store, serial or order number, and sort by expiry, price or warranty left - Filter instantly with four live summary tiles and eleven category chips - Track a proof checklist per item and keep dated service notes - Group deadlines by horizon or read them on a 24-month expiry timeline - Keep a hard day counter on open return windows - Open cases for repair, replacement, refund, return or dead-on-arrival goods - Run four escalation programmes with day-by-day tasks and progress - Log every message, call and visit in a single dated trail per case - Draft claim letters and analyse warranty terms with the optional assistant - Read a 12-card playbook on proof, writing, escalation and chargebacks - Earn ranks and badges as the vault and the case record grow - Get local reminders before cover ends and before a return window closes Everything you file is kept in the app's own storage on your device. There is no account and no tracking. The assistant is the only online feature: it asks for your agreement first, and a single switch in Settings decides whether item details are attached to a request. ClaimForge provides templates and general information, not legal advice. Consumer rules differ between countries and sellers. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hexvellum4 screens
Claim Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hexvellum and Claim Forge are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hexvellum versus Claim Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHexvellumClaim Forge
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size16 MB6 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperIKRAM UD DINBaxter Miles

In-app purchases

None

Hexvellum

No in-app purchases

None

Claim Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hexvellum free?
Hexvellum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Claim Forge free?
Claim Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hexvellum or Claim Forge have ads?
Neither Hexvellum nor Claim Forge shows ads.

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