5e Companion App

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5e Companion App is a single player role playing game. It received positive reviews from players.

Busy DM? An excited player? The 5e Companion App is here for you!

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Role Playing

Play Modes

Single-Player

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86%

Audience ScoreBased on 1,300 reviews

graphics3 positive mentions

monetization106 negative mentions

The app is incredibly useful for both players and DMs, providing a comprehensive database of races, classes, spells, and monsters.
The ability to create and customize homebrew content is a standout feature, allowing for a personalized gaming experience.
The user interface is clean and intuitive, making it easy to navigate and find the information needed quickly.

There are occasional bugs, such as issues with leveling up characters and the app crashing when trying to access certain features.
Some spells and features are missing or incorrectly labeled, which can lead to confusion during gameplay.
The app lacks a way to easily delete or organize characters, making it cumbersome to manage multiple characters.

monetization
125 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization model of the app primarily revolves around a one-time purchase to remove ads and optional cosmetic upgrades, which many users find reasonable given the app's utility. However, numerous complaints highlight issues with the ad removal feature, as users frequently experience ads reappearing despite having paid for the ad-free version, and some report being unable to level up characters due to ads not loading. Overall, while the app is appreciated for its content and functionality, the monetization system has led to frustration regarding the reliability of ad removal and the necessity of ads for certain features.
- “The only in-app purchase is ad-free and different color dice.”
- “Already bought the no ads version, best app I have ever paid for.”
- “It's totally worth paying for no ads, it's amazing.”
- “Only issue is I paid for the full, ad-free version, but it has not registered that in-app and continues to ask me to pay for ad-free or accept ads.”
- “Paid to remove ads, but they're still there.”
- “Even after purchasing the ad-free license, the app chronically reverts back to ads.”
stability
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The app's stability is generally inconsistent, with users reporting various bugs, particularly during character creation and editing, as well as issues with freezing and crashing. While some players have experienced minimal glitches, others have faced significant disruptions that hinder gameplay. Despite these challenges, the developer is responsive to feedback, and many users still find the app enjoyable overall.
- “Character creation is a little buggy; you can't rely on the app to accurately create your character.”
- “Great app for the most part, but recently it freezes and crashes a lot.”
- “Every time I click on my character sheet, it freezes my phone.”
gameplay
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay experience with the "5e companion app" is generally positive, praised for its comprehensive mechanics and utility in managing character details, though users note some confusion with health and leveling mechanics. While the app is lauded for its functionality, it suffers from bugs related to armor and HP, missing features like item search and atunement mechanics, and occasional organizational issues. Overall, it is considered a valuable tool for players and DMs, despite some areas needing improvement.
- “Once you learn where everything is in the app, it makes its name come true; best 'companion app' ever for your gameplay!”
- “Great app for taking care of the mechanics and to remind you of the details.”
- “I love the mechanics of the app.”
- “I took off one gameplay star for the armor and HP bugs, and things not automatically equipping.”
- “However, there are a few problems with things like searching for items to put in your inventory and the mechanics of attunement are completely missing.”
- “Not sure how to get beast companion or mechanical servant to work or to create in the app, and in some cases it feels like stability is given up for fluidity to make sure the character is correct.”
story
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users express a desire for enhanced storytelling features, such as more customizable content generators for NPCs, locations, and storylines, as well as dedicated sections for character backstories and notes. Frustrations arise from issues like lost backstory data and limitations in editing character details, which hinder the overall narrative experience. While the app offers useful tools for organizing encounters and characters, improvements in flexibility and user-friendly design are needed to better support storytelling.
- “It was almost a story of its own.”
- “Great for organizing my characters, plot points, encounters, and even keeping track of my players.”
- “I just spent two hours writing a backstory...and then it got deleted.”
- “Could really use a place to make notes/organize my story; switching to my note app is minor yet annoying.”
- “Edit: one more thing that closed my mind being, it would be brilliant to have separate fields in character creation for ideals, bonds, personality traits, flaws, and character backstory rather than lumping it all into one place.”
grinding
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users find the grinding aspect of the app to be tedious, particularly when it comes to manually managing NPCs, custom monsters, and equipment inventories. The process of transferring characters and inputting skills repeatedly is seen as cumbersome, detracting from the overall enjoyment of the app. While the app is praised for its functionality, the manual tasks required can become frustrating over time.
- “I love this app, it's brilliantly done, except for one rather glaring flaw: it's device-specific, and your characters can't be transferred or saved in any way except through a fairly tedious process.”
- “Every time you do, you have to input their skills again and their languages; it gets tedious after a while.”
- “It's also tedious to have to manually remove equipment from your inventory to put it as armor or weapons.”
graphics
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the app are generally praised for being aesthetically pleasing and visually appealing, with good controls and a clean design. However, users have noted some minor issues, such as crashes when uploading photos and occasional graphical glitches in dark mode. Additionally, the lack of customizable colors for character differentiation and an item tab are mentioned as areas for improvement.
- “This app is honestly great, the graphics look nice, the controls are quite good.”
- “Otherwise, it's aesthetically pleasing, easy to build a character, easy to add homebrew content, and you can add descriptions and notes.”
- “No 'premium' nonsense, the only paid content is some aesthetic themes and dice colors that you can easily go without, but if you do want to buy them, they're insanely cheap.”
- “My only issue other than the aesthetic of the app (no custom color so that you can tell the difference between characters a little quicker) is that when you try to upload a photo or take a photo, the app crashes and you are completely unable to.”
- “Lacks items outside of basic tools and sometimes has a little bit of a graphical issue if you use dark mode.”
optimization
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Overall, the optimization of the app is generally positive, with users noting that it runs smoothly and effectively organizes combat. However, there are some bugs and performance issues, particularly with custom monster creation and lingering ads that detract from the experience.
- “Helps with keeping fights run smoothly with simple initiative tracking (hoping for lair actions to be included, though)!”
- “This app is fantastic, it looks great, runs smoothly, it only has a few hiccups.”
- “Organizing combat is easy and it helps it run smoothly.”
- “However, there are some bugs and performance issues; also, the ads are still not fully removed.”
- “There are a few bugs and minor things that could be optimized. For example, when creating a custom monster, if you save and then try to edit certain stats such as saves.”
emotional
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game evokes a strong emotional response, featuring both heartwarming moments and heart-wrenching twists that resonate deeply with players.
- “It had heartwarming moments, and it had heart-wrenching moments.”
- “The emotional depth of the characters left a lasting impact on me.”
- “I felt a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the entire experience.”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users have reported a significant issue with the app's music feature, noting that a random rock n' roll music loop plays unexpectedly, even when the app is in the background, requiring users to stop the app to resolve the problem.
- “The big glaring problem is with whatever recent update; the app randomly starts playing a rock 'n' roll music loop, and the only way to fix it is to stop the app.”
- “The music even plays while the app is in the background.”