A dice app worth paying for
Sun Nov 10 2019 321goI’ve put my physical dice away after getting this app. I think the quality of the graphics, haptics, and physics really sets this apart from the other free options on the App Store that I had tried. I never really liked the two-dimensional or text-based dice simulators because I think part of the excitement in landing a roll comes from watching the die spin and turn, sometimes just barely missing the number you wanted or feared. With physics-based dice, you still get that!
This app’s option to save dice sets (allowing you to automatically roll dice combinations with the appropriate modifiers already added) for common rolls has made combat in DnD 5E faster and easier for me. The app‘a feature set also makes it convenient to roll with advantage or disadvantage, which I’ve really come to appreciate.
All in all, I’ve got what I feel is as close a representation of physical dice as one can get. As far as I’m concerned, they difference is that these are as fair as random (or pseudo-random) can get, and for only $2!! That’s a lot better than you can see about the vast majority of mass-produced dice, which typically favor certain numbers over others because of the quality of production.
NICE
Tue Nov 08 2022 Thomas WitteThis is just a really nice app all around. You *roll dice*. It’s like real dice—nice expensive dice—actually rolling.
They behave realistically and are confidence-inspiringly for-real random: as far as I can tell, the numbers that come up do so because of actual, gut-satisfying, physics-based tumbling, not a random number generation algorithm you never fully buy into. They look beautiful and are very modifiable.
Only thing resembling a “complaint” I have is that this app is a battery hog and my iPad heats up when I use it. I do not care and wouldn’t have it any other way: beautiful, physics-based dice-rolling. If cool-running battery-sipping is top priority, find a non-physics-based app that isn’t beautiful and knock yourself out. They’re available and the good ones work fine, you just won’t like them as much.
I have suggestions/ideas, but they’re pluses and highly specific additions, not missing features worth dinging a superbly done app a half-star for.
My main suggestion is “more dice please!” I’m becoming a little bit of a DCC/MCC geek lately, so it’d be amazing to have 3, 5, 7, 14, 16, 24, 30-sided zocchi dice in the app. My expectations are managed here: I’m aware these shapes aren’t normal, simple platonics whose creation maybe isn’t a trivial matter, and developers have to consider ROI. Just an idea.
One stupid complaint.
Sun Nov 17 2019 MossNyteEDIT: I love you. Thank you.
I love this app. It’s a handy replacement for carrying around actual dice for those impromptu games of D&D. It has great visuals, and I can keep flicking the dice just because. I love the customization too. The only problem is, and here is my one stupid complaint, that there isn’t enough variety of colors (especially green). As a weirdo who collects mostly green dice, I was hoping for more in that color pallet. Same goes for purple too. There’s 4 different blues and 3 different reds, but the rest get stuck with only one. There are dice that have two tones of color but you can only choose one color for them and it looks off. Please consider updating that part of the app (and maybe for your calculator app too, lime green is not the greatest pick). Thank you for your efforts.
The best Dice roller - by the author of PCalc
Sun Apr 20 2025 nff22d7If you care about the dice you roll (and if you know what 3d6 vs. d20 is, you know you do), this is the program to roll them. The dice. They sound like dice. They look like dice. You can style them in a hundred different ways. You can shake your iDevice and the dice will fly into the air in little parabolic arcs before bouncing down and off the edges and surfaces and each other, in a spectacular display of physics. Come for the random numbers, enjoy the show!
Seriously - the ridiculously overdone care with which this app is made reminds one of a time when the majority of mac apps were made with such craftsmanship. Get it.
I give it a 4.998 but had to round up.
Thu Oct 10 2019 SabonThe real time physics don’t always roll the dice realistically but I’m guessing that the random number generator is much better.
The big down fall though is that the tray doesn’t come in forest, dungeon, cave, pub and other settings. This has unsettled me very much as I would expect those in a dice program for dragons and dungeons.
I also quite expected to see goblin hands or dragon claws grabbing onto the dice and rolling them when I flicked my fingers or clicked on the re-roll button which totally ruins the realism of this dragons and dungeons dice game.
I’m hoping people can tell but I’m having fun in my review. The physics of the rolling dice doesn’t seem all that realistic but it does have everything else and is done very well. But if they are looking for something to do (just in case they are bored or between D&D games, that dragons & dungeons to you and you and you, then that is something they could work on. God knows that I would be of no help with that. But everything else is great!
Phenomenal
Thu Dec 15 2022 Tethys-SeaDice by PCalc is literally the best designed, most versatile and one of the most truly magnificent Dice apps available. It’s perfect on iOS and iPadOS, but also recently discovered the joys of massive D20’s, etc. on screen via Apple TV!!! What?? When I wanted to make a custom die with the 24 Runic symbols of the Elder Futhark, James (Dev) explained how to accomplish that; it worked perfectly. Dice by PCalc keeps getting better with consistent updates and improvements throughout the year. Highly recommend.
for when real coins are hazardous
Thu Mar 18 2021 Time Squire-in-Training素晴らしいランダム性
When it’s too dangerous or impractical to flip a real coin, use this. Also great for playing craps, farkle, or farfadfausen to take one’s mind off things, even in zero g. If everything’s blinking red and there’s nothing you can do, then remember to open this app up. If nothing else, as a poetic gesture. And, at least the following moments will be somewhat playfully entertaining. If relevant, be sure to also get the macOS version of this app now, just in case.
Polyhedral what?!?
Wed Sep 16 2020 unamikeI have no use for this app whatsoever. Don’t know the difference between a dragon’s arse and dungeons vestibule. However it’s been some time since I paid for Pcalc on iOS or macOS so I bought it and tipped right away.
I’ll be looking for a reason to use this thing because it looks very cool. Hope I don’t end up loosing the mortgage payment on an ill conceived craps adventure.
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