Spells for Dungeons & Dragons

This looks like it might be a great app, but only if you subscribe (for $2/month or $10/year), and you can’t tell if it really is good without subscribing. The free app can’t compete with the basic functionality in other free apps. Now, I’ll pay for a good app, but I won’t tolerate a subscription unless the nature of the app requires substantial ongoing investment by the developer. This app is decidedly static, so I won’t even consider a subscription. The only thing they need to do is add spells from new books, when one comes out, and they could provide those as one time in-app purchases. Paywalled features include adding spells from other classes, access to various books, adding subclasses, tracking spell slots, etc. You *might* be able to use it for a basic character from the PHB, but even a little bit of complexity would require a subscription. The UI doesn’t mark paywalled features, so you have to blunder into the upgrade dialogs until you learn what to avoid. On the up side, it’s pretty, the art for the spells seems like it would help quickly recognize spells, and it seems easy to use. When you set up your character you get to set race and variant, class and variant, level, and spell casting attribute. It could automatically calculate everything including available spells, # of spells known, spell slots and special spells granted by various factors. Could is the key word there, who knows if it does.

This app has become an essential part of playing a spell caster for me. The spell descriptions are all on point. Allowing you to choose your race and class really helps in times where I would have to flip through the players handbook past spells I or couldn’t obtain, which wasn’t a huge hassle but this definitely makes it easier and clears it up. Choosing a race that gets innate spellcasting will add the spells you are able to cast into the pool of spells you can choose to learn/prepare. It keeps track of spell slots, spell attack modifiers, and your spell save DC. The app lets you make multiple characters and choose their class accordingly, even the subclasses of each class are on the app and add the appropriate spells to your list. Everything is so convenient and easy to digest. A couple things I would like to see added to the app are;A way to account for multiclassing, and feats. Spell slot calculator, keeping track of both Spell Save DCs ( if they are different stats), and a way to account Magic Initiate, Fey Touched, Etc. They have a way to add spells from any list to yours if need be so this really isn’t an issue though.Overall I really can’t speak to how much I love the app. I tell all my friends about it any chance I get I stand by it is a tool that I’m very happy to have access to.

Able to sort spells by class and level. Would love an option to sort by school as well. I’m still checking through it for accuracy and have only discovered one error so far; Jim’s Glowing Coin spell is a wizard spell but does not show up under Wizard category, just Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight. No Unearthed Arcana spells are included, likely because they are not canon spells. But for the rest, it is an incredibly accurate tool with beautiful spell illustrations. You have to subscribe to it as opposed to buying it outright, but $5 per year is very reasonable. If there were an easier way to contact the developer, I would be happy to provide him with info on any further errors I come across so that they can be fixed, turning this into a truly perfect app.