Cartographer - RPG Map Maker

Alexander Winn

In-app purchases

About this app

Designed specifically by and for writers and RPG players, Cartographer is the perfect tool for creating custom maps of alien worlds, fantasy realms, and imaginary landscapes.

Simply pick what kind of landscape you're looking for and Cartographer takes care of the rest! Then customize your landscape by adjusting the sea level, turning peninsulas into islands and archipelagos into mountain ranges.

Plus, with a suite of custom styles, your map will look professionally crafted from the very moment of its creation.

Whether you're trying to visualize a world for your next story or looking for a way to add "dice roll"-stlye randomness to an RPG campaign, Cartographer will have you up and running in no time!

Ratings and reviews

As much as I love the idea of this app, I think it's poorly done. There's not many customisation options other than a few sliders that form a not so geographically accurate map. I find the easiest way to create a unique map layout is to take a photo of chipped paint or a rusted metal surface. Then, import it onto an editing/drawing app and outline it on that. You can even look up videos online to help you add realistic details to said maps such as world biomes and possible civilisations.

You can't do anything in this app, I paid $1.99 expecting to be able to go into more detail from their "basic" page and it's honestly useless. Can't add any detail, can't save a map, absolutely no detail in the menu. There's nothing else besides that first basic view you get. 0/10

This would he 5 stars but when you export your map (share it) the image is blank. You have to use sliders and memorize the random number seed if you want to load the same map and re share or export The app sometimes crashes when viewing your world in world view (which you cannot export or anything anyway)

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and performance improvements