Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 05:16 pm
D&D Spellbook 5e – Roleplaying Game Review
D&D Spellbook 5e is a Roleplaying game from Jonathan Carifio, first launched in 18th August 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 52+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes D&D Spellbook 5e Stand Out
This app provides a lightweight, convenient, and ad-free way to manage your Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition spellbook and determine relevant spell properties while playing. Separate lists of favorite, known, and prepared spells can each be kept for multiple characters. No network connection is required.
Spells can be searched by name for quick access. You can also sort and filter the spells by a variety of options. Sorting is two-level, with the option to set each level to ascending/descending. Sortable fields include:
-Name
-School
-Level
-Range
-Duration
-Casting Time
Spells can be filtered by any combination of the following:
-Level
-Sourcebook
-School
-Casting Time
-Duration
-Range
-Concentration
-Ritual
All of the necessary information about spellcasting, both general and class-specific, can be accessed via the info button in the top right.
Other features include:
-Pull down to refresh current spell list, if necessary
-Long press on a star button to unselect all other options of the same type
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, D&D Spellbook 5e is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
The spellbook has been updated with the following new features:
- Content from Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
- The ability to add shortcuts to specific spells on the home screen
- Better support for non-phone screen sizes, such as iPad
Download & Availability
D&D Spellbook 5e is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get D&D Spellbook 5e on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Really handy and useful app, either for a quick reference or for building character spell lists. Only feature we feel it still lacks is a sort by damage type option, otherwise it seems to have everything you could want.
Does not update as often on apple as it does on android. Apple is on 3.9.0 and android is at 4.4.8 its some bulls*#t but he app is amazing just wish it was equally update.
Very useful and we would give this app 5 stars except for the Spell Slots bug. More than half the time we navigate to Spell Slots we get stuck on that screen and cant exit all options for settings, edit, reset, and go back disappear. We have to kill the app and relaunch to get back to any other screen. UPDATE: emailed the developer. :).
We love this concept, and its a super easy app to figure your way around. However the spells are not completely accurate to the 5E player handbook.
We use this all the time whenever we play DnD and is a life saver. Our only complaint is that we dont know how to change the name of the character once its made or if its even possible and Ive been trying to figure it out for ages.
We dont typically leave reviews for a lot of apps. However, this one is an exception. We primarily play only magic users. It has been extremely amazing and convenient to be able use this as a way to either quickly look up a spell or to create the lists for our characters. The fact that this app is free is wonderful. We feel it really goes to show that the developer really has a lot of love for the game. The app is updated frequently with having, as far as we know, pretty much everything. Including the most recent 2024 updates. One thing that we would love to see added in one day would be a way to print out our Spellbook for our characters with the descriptions, components, etc. Even if it was a reasonable fee to upgrade to be able to get that feature. We would be willing to pay it.
This is by far and away our favorite and most used companion app for D&D. Its free, has great sorting features, and contains every spell. Im not kidding it has every spell from every 5e book and the developer is updating it constantly anytime theres a new book, once again all for free. We have immense respect and infinite gratitude for that and after all these years Id sooner draw from the deck of many things then rate this app anything less than 5 stars.
Im new to playing as a cleric in 5e, and was nervous about how daunting itll be to pick from so many spells. This app is much easier than flipping through the book, and tbh idk how Id play our cleric without it.
Our group uses this for our game, and normally we would give 5 stars but for some reason, our iPhone version does not have all the same features as our friends Android version. For example, the Warlock class info is missing the spell casting table on ours, while it is present for our friends app. Unsure why there is a mismatch. Should the two versions be brought to parity, we will definitely change our rating to 5 stars.
For a free product this is great. The amount of resources available without having to pay is amazing. That being said please fix the search bar. Its a real hassle having to scroll through all the spells trying to find the one we need.
This app is great, lets you manage learned and prepares spells really well and filter spells by level and other parameters. Only potential improvement we can see is adding in a spell slot tracker, but thats plenty easy to manage on your own.
When we open the application, it tells us to enter the name of our character, and then after we type it in, there is no place for us get to the spell page.
We love this app. Honestly one of our favorite things and works really well. One thing we would like is if you could sort/search damage types but even without that its still amazing.
Ive been playing since 1979 and have had a variety of ways to keep track of spells, many hand-written. But at our advanced age, we can no longer write all that neatly and without hand pain. This app is what Ive been looking for. Tons of spells listed. We can filter by levels, class, and other things. We took a while to just explore and figure out how it works. It wasnt too hard. We use an iPad and if we turn it to portrait the image is large enough for us to see well with our difficult eye-sight. We agree with another reviewer that space to add notes would be useful. The only other comment we have is that it doesnt look like there is a way to save (or lock) our selections so we dont accidentally delete things.
Needs an update for iPhone! Havent had one in over 8 months. Our boyfriend has an android and has the option to use spell slots on his Spellbook app, where (as an iPhone user) dont even have that option or the most recent update. Very frustrating! Please update to match android.
Great app but we dont know where the spells are.
We have begun using this app as a major planning and playing tool for our 5e games, its almost perfect, definitely far better than we had hoped, however, there are a few things we would love to see improved to fully earn that 5th star: 1. Allow users to create custom spell entries, and even label where they come from if needed for 3rd party sources. 2. Allow for more tags on spells, only having known prepared and favorite simply is not enough, although it is a great start. 3. Label if a spell is gainable from subclasses, feats, races, magic items, or other non-base class lists. Such sources are hard to look up, but really can be helpful to know. 4. Allow notes to be made on a spell, often its nice to mark down DM rulings, notes on good uses, calculations, or extra features or clarifications. 5. A self setable (can choose how many slots it has) spell slot counter would be really useful. Possibly with a fill in table for what casting bonuses you have for a given class or what you get back on a given rest. 6. A way to designate an image, gif, or video for a spell. 7. An in-app way to post suggestions or glitch reports. 8. A way to add a grid (square and hex) for spacial illustration. We know, lot to ask saying these all at once, but they really are our only improvement ideas. And if it had these then it would be worth more than most paid apps out there.
So, we might not be little, but we believe in magic. It sounds childish. We want to know, how you got the information (we dont care how, just keep reading), and if these are real spells. Probably not. But someone we know did something and it happened. Maybe coincidence. But maybe not. By the way, dont make fun of us for this. (Also we dont know how to rate it so Im doing one star. Nothing personal. We just dont know how to use the book. So what we might be told, we would change our star rating) Thank you for reading! (If you did).
This app might seem to be a simple spell list, but it gives you enormous power through a clear and simple sorting and filtering mechanism. Want to see all second level wizard evocation spells? You can do that! The interface is intuitive. The design is fun. You can have separate lists for multiple characters. And its free with no ads. Im not sure Ive ever seen an app this good without popups, etc. Highly recommend for anyone playing 5e D&D who wants to track spells.
This app is almost perfect but all it needs is a way to separate the spells between levels. Right now it seems like the levels are all mixed in with each other and it sorts them by name. So if that could be added it would be absolutely perfect.
This app is a great reference for DMs and players, especially for those prepared casters! Couple of small spelling/grammar/auto-correct errors during when it was ported over from the books, but all in all an amazing app.
So, Ive downloaded about 8 different DnD Spellbook apps and this is the best Ive found. Most other apps charge up front, charge a subscription fee, or charge for expanded content. This one is completely free and includes all updated spell lists (including XGE and TCE) so you have easy access to all spells you can use. You can create your own spell lists for different characters based on spells you have prepared or spells you know. You can also filter your spells by level/class/range/etc. Super useful when you level up your Druid and wanna know quickly what spells you can now use.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.10.0
- Size: 5.99 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Jonathan Carifio]()
Last updated: 4th December 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying | Developer: Jonathan Carifio