AI RPG Apps (2026): Which Platforms Have a Real App, and What You Get on a Phone
Ten of the twenty-five launched AI RPG platforms in our directory ship an app you can install. The other fifteen are websites, and several of them are better built for a phone than the apps are.
Correction (2 September 2026). This page originally said the highest-scored platform in the directory, Voyage, was Android-only and could not be installed on an iPhone — and built a section around it. That was wrong. Voyage AI RPG Platform, published by Latitude Inc., has been on the App Store since 26 August 2026, five days before we published the claim. We checked Google Play and Latitude’s announcements and never read the App Store listing itself. Every line that carried the error has been rewritten rather than quietly deleted, and the section that made the most of it now says so.
That gap is the whole reason this page exists. “AI RPG app” is how most people search for this category, but shipping to a store is a distribution choice, not a quality signal — and in this field it correlates with almost nothing you would care about. The highest-scored platform we have tested ships an app on both stores, and its iPhone build is 4.7 MB — a shell around a website. The second-highest ships none at all. The most-installed app in the category is one of the lowest-scored things in the directory. Three of the ten iPhone apps are thin wrappers around the same website you could have bookmarked.
Everything below was verified on 25 August 2026 against the App Store and Google Play listings themselves, and against each platform’s own site. Tidefall entered the directory’s launched set on 28 August 2026, Voyage on 31 August, Tales RPG on 1 September, NOPOTIONS on 4 September, aiga_ on 8 September and Master of Dungeon on 18 September; each was checked the same way on the day it entered, and Voyage’s App Store listing — which we missed on that pass and wrongly recorded as not existing — was read on 2 September 2026. Where we quote a score, that is our own seven-axis rating, from first-hand play.
The Full Table
| Platform | Our score | iPhone | Android | Store category | Age rating (Apple / Play) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voyage | 4.4/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 12+ / Everyone |
| Craft | 4.3/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Friends & Fables | 3.9/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| NOPOTIONS | 3.8/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Master of Dungeon | 3.3/5 | Soft launch (Poland, Germany) | Yes | Games | 9+ / Everyone |
| Tidefall | 3.3/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Tabled | 3.1/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 17+ / Mature 17+ |
| Janitor AI | 3.0/5 | Yes | Yes | Books | 17+ / Mature 17+ |
| Old Greg’s Tavern | 3.0/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 17+ / Mature 17+ |
| WyrdTale | 3.0/5 | — | — | Runs inside Claude or ChatGPT | — |
| MacerAI | 2.9/5 | — | — | Website | — |
| aiga_ | 2.9/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Tales RPG | 2.8/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 17+ / Mature 17+ |
| Deep Realms | 2.7/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Hidden Door | 2.7/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Infinity DM | 2.7/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| AI Dungeon | 2.6/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 12+ / Teen |
| ArcQuill | 2.6/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| FableAI | 2.4/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 12+ / Everyone |
| AI Game Master | 2.3/5 | Yes | Yes | Games | 12+ / Everyone 10+ |
| AI Realm | 2.3/5 | — | — | Website | — |
| Character.AI | 2.1/5 | Yes | Yes | Entertainment | 17+ / Teen |
| Chub AI | 1.9/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Dunia | 1.7/5 | — | — | Installable web app | — |
| Perchance | 1.4/5 | — | — | Website | — |
Voyage entered the rated set on 31 August 2026, when its open beta removed the invite gate. It is the reason this page’s headline finding had to be rewritten twice: for three months the top of our board had no app on it at all, and the platform now sitting at the top of it ships on both stores — which we got wrong on the day it entered and corrected on 2 September.
Master of Dungeon entered on 18 September 2026, and it has no website to play in at all — it is an app and only an app. On Android it is on Google Play, past ten thousand downloads. On iPhone it was in soft launch in Poland and Germany when we checked, with the rest of the App Store taking pre-orders for 9 October 2026, so for most iPhone players it is not installable yet.
Three of the Ten iPhone Apps Are Websites in a Costume
Download size is the cheapest tell in the category, and it is public on both stores. Voyage and Tales RPG were added to this table on 2 September 2026 — Voyage because we had wrongly recorded it as having no App Store listing, Tales RPG because it entered the directory on 1 September. Their figures were read that day, and Master of Dungeon’s on 18 September from its Polish listing; the rest are from the 25 August sample.
| App | iOS download |
|---|---|
| AI Dungeon | 4.7 MB |
| Voyage | 4.7 MB |
| Old Greg’s Tavern | 8.7 MB |
| Tabled | 42.4 MB |
| Master of Dungeon | 70.7 MB |
| Tales RPG | 93.5 MB |
| Janitor AI | 103.5 MB |
| FableAI | 106.1 MB |
| Character.AI | 219.5 MB |
| AI Game Master | 253.1 MB |
A 4.7 MB binary cannot be holding much. AI Dungeon’s iOS app — on the store since 17 December 2019, which makes it the oldest listing in this field by more than three years — is a shell that renders the same service you get in a browser. Voyage’s iOS build is 4.7 MB as well: the same studio, the same construction, six years later, wrapping a service that also runs on the web at voyage.io. Old Greg’s Tavern, at 8.7 MB, looks like the same thing again. Neither is a criticism: for a game that is entirely text streamed from a server, a thin client is the honest engineering choice, and it means the app updates when the site does rather than when you next visit the store.
It does mean something practical, though. If a platform’s app is a wrapper, the app and the website are the same product, and the only thing installing buys you is an icon and a login that persists. That is worth having. It is not worth choosing a platform over.
The other end of the range is where the money went. AI Game Master ships 253 MB and FableAI 106 MB — both are packaging fonts, art, audio and interface rather than streaming everything, which is consistent with what those two are: the most produced-looking games in this directory. FableAI is the best-made mobile AI RPG we have played, with generated portraits, cinematic narration and soundtracks. It is also rated 2.4/5, because production values are not one of the seven things we score. What that layer is worth, and what it costs on every platform that sells it, is the subject of AI RPGs with images.
The Store Category Tells You What the Platform Thinks It Is
Eight of the ten iPhone apps file under Games. Two do not, and both are informative. (Voyage and Master of Dungeon file under Games on both stores, which is the unremarkable answer.)
Character.AI files under Entertainment, with Utilities second. That is a company describing a chat app, not a game — and it lines up exactly with why the platform scores Mechanical Depth — 1 with us. It never claimed to be running a game.
Janitor AI files under Books, with Entertainment second. Its App Store description opens by saying you “step inside stories instead of just reading them,” and pitches romantasy, fanfiction and enemies-to-lovers slow burns before it mentions anything a roleplayer would call a mechanic. Janitor’s entry in our directory scores NPC Fidelity — 5, one of only three anyone has earned on that axis, and Mechanical Depth — 2. The store category and the axis scores are describing the same product from two directions: this is a character platform, and the campaign is not the point.
If you are trying to work out what a platform actually is before you spend an evening on it, the category its own publisher chose is a surprisingly honest source.
The Six Apps With Enough Store Ratings to Matter All Sit Above 4 Stars. None Scores Above 3.0 With Us.
| App | Store rating | Ratings | Our score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Greg’s Tavern | 4.81 | 3,421 | 3.0/5 |
| AI Game Master | 4.67 | 5,531 | 2.3/5 |
| FableAI | 4.55 | 1,324 | 2.4/5 |
| AI Dungeon | 4.38 | 26,595 | 2.6/5 |
| Character.AI | 4.28 | 554,579 | 2.1/5 |
| Janitor AI | 4.00 | 1,466 | 3.0/5 |
Four apps are left out of that table because their App Store rating counts are too small to carry a conclusion: Tabled had two ratings when we sampled it, Voyage has ten and Tales RPG eleven, and Master of Dungeon, still in soft launch, had twelve in Poland and two in Germany, with no rating shown yet on Google Play. For the record, Voyage sits at 3.9 stars from those ten ratings — below every app in the table, and 1.4 points above all of them on our board.
Those six average 4.45 stars on the App Store and 2.6/5 with us. More usefully, the two orders barely overlap. The store’s second-favourite app, AI Game Master at 4.67, is our second-least favourite of the six — we re-tested it after a full rebuild and it still lands at 2.3/5, undone by its own token economy. The store’s least-favourite, Janitor AI at 4.00, is tied with Old Greg’s Tavern for the best of the six on our board.
This is not a claim that the stores are wrong. It is a claim that they are answering a different question. A store rating is overwhelmingly a first-session verdict: did it open, did it look good, did the first scene land. Our seven axes are weighted toward the things that break later — memory at turn fifty, whether the game lets you refuse a plot, whether a campaign is still worth playing in week three. Exactly two products in the category have scored above 4 on memory, agency or longevity — Voyage at 4.25 on memory, and NOPOTIONS at 5 on agency, which ships no app at all. That failure is invisible in the first twenty minutes, which is when most store ratings are written.
Use both. The stars tell you whether the app is pleasant. They do not tell you whether the game holds.
The Age Rating Is the One Thing the Store Knows That We Don’t
We deliberately don’t flag games as adult content — that call belongs to the player. The stores make it anyway, and since it governs what a device will install, it is worth reading.
Four of the ten iPhone apps carry the highest common rating: Janitor AI, Old Greg’s Tavern, Tabled and Tales RPG are all 17+ on Apple and Mature 17+ on Google Play. Six carry a lower one: Master of Dungeon is 9+ on Apple and Everyone on Play, AI Dungeon is 12+ on Apple and Teen on Play, AI Game Master 12+ and Everyone 10+, FableAI 12+ and Everyone, Voyage 12+ and Everyone, Character.AI 17+ on Apple but Teen on Play.
Read those last two rows again. The same FableAI build is 12+ on one store and Everyone on the other. The same Character.AI build is 17+ on one store and Teen on the other. These ratings come from a publisher filling in a questionnaire under two different rulebooks, not from anyone playing the game — and in a category where the content is generated live, the questionnaire is being asked about a product that does not exist until you type into it. Voyage is 12+ on Apple and rated Everyone on Play, for a game whose defining feature is permanent character death.
If a device-level restriction matters to you, the practical consequence is simply that the rating is a filter setting, not a description.
The Fifteen Without an App — and the Eleven You Can Install Anyway
Fifteen launched platforms ship no app on either store. Eleven of them are still installable, because they publish a web app manifest that declares a standalone or full-screen display: Friends & Fables, Hidden Door, Deep Realms, Infinity DM, Dunia, ArcQuill, Chub AI, Craft, Tidefall, NOPOTIONS and aiga_.
NOPOTIONS links no manifest from its marketing pages, so it looks like a plain website until you ask for the file directly: /manifest.webmanifest returns a complete one — standalone display, portrait lock, 192 and 512 pixel icons plus a maskable 512, and a start_url that opens straight into /campaign rather than the landing page. Installed, it skips the marketing site entirely and opens on the game — our NOPOTIONS beginner’s guide picks up from there. Add one of those to your home screen and it launches full-screen with its own icon, no address bar and no tab.
Two of them go further than a default. Infinity DM’s manifest locks orientation to portrait and sets its start URL straight to the app view rather than the marketing homepage — that is a phone-native product that skipped the stores, not a desktop site with a manifest bolted on. Dunia also declares the older Apple full-screen flag, which is the same intent written twice.
Tidefall goes further still on one axis and not at all on the other, which is worth knowing before you install it. Its manifest asks for fullscreen display, the most immersive setting available, where the other ten declare the ordinary standalone mode — and then it ships exactly one icon, at 32 pixels. So it opens with no chrome whatsoever and sits on your home screen as an upscaled favicon. It also identifies itself as Infinity Fiction, the studio, rather than as Tidefall, the game, so look for that name when you find it.
aiga_ is the plainest of the eleven and the most correctly built: standalone display, maskable icons at both 192 and 512 pixels, a declared theme colour. Nothing clever, everything a phone actually asks for — and, like NOPOTIONS, it links no manifest from its marketing pages, so you have to request /favicon/site.webmanifest directly to find out it is installable at all.
To install one:
- iPhone: open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android: open it in Chrome, tap the menu, then Install app (it may read Add to Home screen).
That is worth doing for Craft and Friends & Fables in particular — second and third on our board, neither of which has an app or, as far as we know, one coming. Craft at 4.3/5 is the better-prepared of the two: its manifest declares standalone display and ships maskable icons at 192 and 512 pixels, which is the difference between a shortcut and something that looks installed. Friends & Fables at 3.9/5 has the plainer manifest, and a home-screen install is still the closest thing available.
The remaining four — Perchance, MacerAI, AI Realm and WyrdTale — are plain websites with no manifest. Perchance and AI Realm are ordinary mobile browser play. MacerAI is a toolkit for human dungeon masters rather than a game, so a desk is its natural home anyway. WyrdTale is the odd one out entirely: it is an engine you connect to Claude or ChatGPT, so it runs wherever your AI client runs, and whether that includes your phone depends on whether that client supports connectors on mobile — check before you count on it.
We have one first-hand note on mobile browser play worth repeating: Janitor AI’s website, tested before the app existed, was functional rather than designed-for-mobile. That is the general shape of the fifteen. A manifest tells you a platform thought about your phone. It does not promise the interface was drawn for it.
The Best Platform in the Directory Ships on Both Stores
This section said the opposite until 2 September 2026, and the correction is the more useful fact. Voyage is Latitude’s structured successor to AI Dungeon, built mobile-first around short sessions, real dice and co-op permadeath. It is also, as of 31 August 2026, the highest-scored platform we have rated at 4.4/5 — and unlike the second and third on our board, you can install it from a store.
We published that it was Android-only and that an iPhone player had nothing to install. That was wrong. Voyage AI RPG Platform, published by Latitude Inc., has been on the App Store since 26 August 2026 — open-beta launch day, and five days before we wrote that it did not exist. It is free, rated 12+, needs iOS 15 or newer, and supports 127 device models. Its Google Play listing is live too: published by Latitude, past 5,000 installs, no longer gated behind an invite code — the open beta that was “probably, in weeks” in early August opened, which is what put a score on it.
How we got it wrong is worth writing down, because it is the failure this page is supposed to guard against. We read the Google Play listing, we read Latitude’s own announcements, and we never opened the App Store listing itself — and a store listing is a primary source where an announcement is not. The check that settles it is one request to Apple’s public lookup endpoint against the app’s bundle id, and it takes about five seconds.
Both Stores Are Full of Things That Are Not These Platforms
Search either store for the names in this category and you will get results. Most of them are not the platform you are looking for.
Perchance is the clearest case. It ships no app at all — it is a free browser toy, and its own site links to nothing. Search the App Store for it and you get “Perchance AI: Text to Video,” “Perchance AI Image Generator” and “Perchance AI Mobile,” each published under a different individual’s name. Google Play returns two more, one of which is a “guide” app. None of them is perchance.org.
Chub AI and Hidden Door have no official app either, and both queries return a full page of results regardless.
The check that works takes five seconds, and it is not the app name or the icon: look at the developer line. Here are the ten real ones.
| Platform | Publisher on the store |
|---|---|
| AI Dungeon | Latitude Inc. |
| AI Game Master | Digital Dynasty Entertainment |
| Character.AI | Character.AI |
| FableAI | VectoLab |
| Janitor AI | JanitorAI, INC |
| Master of Dungeon | Bitforge Sp. z o.o. |
| Old Greg’s Tavern | Old Greg’s Tavern |
| Tabled | Short Hill Labs LLC |
| Tales RPG | RAIVIS STUDENS |
| Voyage | Latitude Inc. |
Three of those are not guessable from the brand — FableAI is published by VectoLab, AI Game Master by Digital Dynasty Entertainment and Tales RPG by RAIVIS STUDENS — which is exactly why the reliable version of this check is to start from the platform’s own website and follow its own store link, rather than starting from a store search.
Subscribe on the Website, Not Inside the App
The one piece of money advice that generalises here: look at the website’s pricing before you buy anything through a store, because the store’s billing is sometimes a smaller menu.
AI Dungeon is the sharpest example in the directory. Its Shadow tiers, which run far above the advertised plans, are web-only and monthly-only — no annual discount, no in-app purchase, and an existing App Store or Play Store subscription has to be cancelled before you can take one. A player who subscribed the convenient way, inside the app, has to unwind that purchase to reach a plan the app never showed them.
The general version of the problem is in our guide to what an AI RPG actually costs: the number on the pricing page is rarely the number you pay, and how a platform meters play matters more than where it sits in the range. Of the ten, Tabled has the cleanest structure on a phone — one payment of $14.99, made by the host, unlocking the campaign for a table of up to six.
The AI RPG App You Already Have
There is one more answer to “is there an AI RPG app,” and it is already installed on most phones.
The ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini apps run every prompt-game in the games directory, our own Arcanum Originals included, because a prompt-game is just a conversation. Paste one in, or open it as a Custom GPT, a Project or a Gem, and you are playing on your phone with no new install and, for several of them, no payment at all. The best LLM RPG games list covers the ones we have reviewed, and the phone experience is whatever that chat app already is, which is generally better than the mobile web view of a small platform.
The catch is the one that applies to all prompt-based play: memory lives in the conversation, so a long campaign needs a summary to survive. The full list is in the best LLM RPG games.
What to Install Tonight
- The best AI RPG on a phone → Voyage (4.4/5), iOS and Android. The highest score we have awarded — hard combat, permadeath, private co-op for four or public parties of up to eight, and a free tier with a single-player demo and unlimited public play. New to it? Start with our Voyage guide.
- A rules-heavy solo RPG on your phone → Master of Dungeon (3.3/5), Android, and iPhone in Poland and Germany until its wider App Store launch on 9 October 2026. Tactical combat with dice and skills, gear and a hero who levels up — fifteen free actions a day, and it pushes its subscription hard.
- A real campaign with rules that hold, on an iPhone → Tabled (3.1/5), iOS and Android. Asynchronous, up to six players, dice audited on a server so the game master cannot fudge them.
- Characters, not a campaign → Janitor AI (3.0/5), iOS and Android, free tier. The largest card library in the category, and one of three NPC Fidelity — 5 scores in the directory.
- An AI dungeon master with attitude and no setup → Old Greg’s Tavern (3.0/5), iOS and Android. The best store rating in the field, and invited friends play free on the host’s credits.
- The best-looking one → FableAI (2.4/5), iOS and Android. Art, voice, soundtracks, gems, and a free daily allowance of roughly thirty actions.
- The best one that is not an app at all → Craft (4.3/5), second on our board. Its manifest is the best-prepared of the installable web apps here, and its free tier costs nothing to try.
- The same studio’s earlier platform, if you want Franz and a 5e-style ruleset → Friends & Fables (3.9/5). Add it to your home screen.
- You already pay for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini → open the games directory and install nothing.
How We Checked This
Store facts — listing existence, publisher name, download size, category, age rating, star rating and rating count, last update — were read on 25 August 2026 from the App Store and Google Play listings themselves, with Tidefall rechecked on 28 August, Voyage on 31 August, Tales RPG on 1 September and Master of Dungeon on 18 September, and cross-checked against each platform’s own website for a store link or app banner. Voyage’s App Store listing, which we had wrongly recorded as not existing, was read on 2 September 2026. Web app manifests were fetched directly from each site and read for display mode, start URL and orientation.
The scores are ours, from first-hand play under our published methodology, and they were not re-run for this page. We have not sat down and played all ten apps end to end on a phone, and where we make a claim about how something feels on mobile it comes from a review we have already published and is linked as such. Everything else here is a fact on a public listing, which is exactly why it is checkable — and why it will go stale. Store ratings move, apps get pulled, and a platform can ship an app the week after we publish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an AI dungeon master app for iPhone?
Yes — ten of the twenty-five launched platforms in our directory ship an iOS app: AI Dungeon, AI Game Master, Character.AI, FableAI, Janitor AI, Master of Dungeon, Old Greg’s Tavern, Tabled, Tales RPG and Voyage. All ten are free to download and charge inside the app. Master of Dungeon’s iPhone app was in soft launch in Poland and Germany only when we checked on 18 September 2026, with the rest of the App Store taking pre-orders for 9 October. The best-scoring one is Voyage at 4.4 out of 5, the highest score we have awarded anything: it is listed as Voyage AI RPG Platform, published by Latitude Inc., free, rated 12+, and it needs iOS 15 or newer. We reported until 2 September 2026 that Voyage had no App Store listing. That was wrong — it has had one since 26 August 2026, and the correction is on this page.
What is the best AI RPG app for Android?
The best-scoring one is Voyage, at 4.4 out of 5 — the highest score we have awarded to anything. It is free to start — a limited single-player demo plus unlimited play on public multiplayer servers — and it is on the App Store as well, so this is no longer a question where Android players are served better than iPhone ones. After that it depends what you want. For asynchronous play with a group and rules that hold, Tabled is rated 3.1 out of 5 and one $14.99 unlock covers a whole table of up to six. For character-driven chat rather than a campaign, Janitor AI has the largest card library and a free tier. For production values — generated art, voice narration, soundtracks — FableAI is the best-made mobile app in the category even though it scores lower with us. All three are on Google Play under their own developer names.
Is there a free AI RPG app?
All ten downloads are free, and four of them have a free tier you can genuinely play: Voyage, AI Dungeon, Character.AI and Janitor AI. Master of Dungeon gives fifteen actions a day free and seventy on its Pro subscription. Tabled gives you a complete first episode free and then charges once. FableAI runs on a daily gem allowance of roughly thirty actions that you can top up by watching ads. AI Game Master sells token packs and gives new players a complimentary balance. Free-to-download and free-to-play are different questions in this category, and the second one is the one that decides your bill.
Are AI roleplay apps safe to download?
The ten listed here are the platforms’ own apps — we confirmed each one against the developer name on the store listing and against a link or app-store banner on the platform’s own website. The risk is elsewhere: both stores are full of lookalikes. Searching for Perchance returns several AI apps published by individual developers, none of which is perchance.org, which ships no app at all. The check that works is the developer name, not the app name or the icon.
Can you play AI RPGs without downloading an app?
Yes, and for fifteen of the twenty-five platforms it is the only option. Eleven of those fifteen ship a web app manifest, which means your phone can install the site to your home screen and open it without browser chrome — Friends and Fables, Hidden Door, Deep Realms, Infinity DM, Dunia, ArcQuill, Chub AI, Craft, Tidefall, NOPOTIONS and aiga_ all do. Infinity DM’s manifest even locks to portrait orientation and opens straight into the app view, which is a phone-first design that simply skipped the stores. Master of Dungeon is the reverse case: it is an app only, with no website to play in at all.
Why do AI RPG apps have such high store ratings?
Because a store rating measures the first session and our score measures the fiftieth turn. Six of the ten apps here have enough App Store ratings to be meaningful, and every one of them sits above 4.0 stars, averaging 4.45. The same six average 2.6 out of 5 on our seven-axis method. The store’s second-favourite app is our second-least favourite. Neither number is wrong — they answer different questions, and the gap is largest on the failures that only show up after a few hours of play, like memory and longevity.
Should I subscribe inside the app or on the website?
Check the website first. On AI Dungeon the difference is material: its Shadow tiers are web-only and monthly-only, with no annual discount and no in-app purchase, and an existing App Store or Play Store subscription has to be cancelled before you can take one. Buying the convenient way inside the app can lock you out of a plan you cannot see from inside the app.
Arcanum has no affiliation with Apple, Google, or any platform listed here. Store data was read from public listings on 25 August 2026, with Tidefall on 28 August, Voyage on 31 August and 2 September, and Tales RPG on 1 September; scores are our own, from first-hand play.