Pocket Bard

Pocket Bard Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

Pocket Bard is a fully immersive audio experience for your tabletop RPG game session. With just a tap, change your entire soundscape to match the tone of your session: Seamlessly transition from exploration to combat music with a single button. From moment to moment, use the intensity slider to alter the arrangement of the music and sound effects to pair perfectly with your gameplay.

Ratings and reviews

The app seems great and very user friendly but $50 is too much for a music app that only has like 50 something songs, especially if its only for a one year subscription. If it was a one time payment I would maybe consider it but a lot of campaigns can go for over a year which means I'd be paying for it multiple times which just doesnt seem reasonable. I want to use this for a sci fi campaign but most of those songs are locked behind the pay wall. Might try the free songs out sometime though.

Overall, the utility of the app is overshadowed by odd updates that delete all my content. If I don't check a day before a game, I often find that the app updated and wiped all my downloads. What's worse, is that with every update it tells me I don't have a subscription, which is confusing and annoying, until I remember to hit a restore purchases button. I got this app to simplify music and sound effects for my tabletop games but I find half the time I'm back to my music library.

awesome app! at first I didn't understand why some of the music files were so large. once I realized the depth and variables you can add I was convinced. being able to adjust the intensity of exploration, combat or victory music adds so much to my D&D games. as you increase the "intensity" of a song it tends to add more prominent instruments such as violins or horns and really makes the moment feel larger or more serious without just turning your phone's volume up like I used to before. 10/10!

What’s new

- Added an easy way to share Pocket Bard from the Profile page
- Improved reliability for preferences, subscriptions, and account actions
- Improved push notification setup and settings
- Added guidance to help anonymous subscribers bring their Open Worlds to other devices