Fight Club PFRPG/3.5 Edition 4+

Let me not muddy the waters by pointing out a good point, then countering it with a nitpick. Let’s keep it simple: pros and cons.

PROs:

The interface is beautiful. That may not seem like much, but in the face of successful (but frankly ugly) systems like Hero Lab and RPG Scribe, sometimes a look that seduces the pupils is a welcome break.

The Compendium has basic information of use to players and GMs, and is easily accessible. This is no small thing; in systems as deep and detailed as Pathfinder and 5e, having to delve into the books is inelegant.

Price point: this is a good value for the investment. Good support, good functionality, great design.

There are others, but let’s keep it short.

CONs:

I mentioned the complexity of the systems. Hero Lab will do the majority of the work figuring the modifiers and options... for a price. And an interface with all the style and charm of an IRS report form. Not so much with Fight Club. Be prepared to do a fair bit of typing (or cut-and-paste) for any character of a non-vanilla nature.

Be prepared to think for yourself. It is no difficult thing to input data incorrectly and have a marginally useless character sheet; to be fair, however, Fight Club has resources which, if followed, will prevent problems down the line. The only reason I list this as a con is that not everyone RTFM.

I highly recommend it.

EDIT: After the update I can now create and roll for companion creatures seamlessly from the character sheet. I appreciate the willingness of the devs to listen to feedback.

I LOVE this app. The design is beautiful in its simplicity and it makes dice rolls simple with a touch of your finger, no math after you've smoothed out all your stats. My favorite aspects of this app are the note-taking capability and adding snazzy photos of your characters. I add my characters manually and don't have much use for the compendium, so I can't comment on how much information it has or how updated it is. There is one small annoyance I have, and that is with adding companions. Most of my characters have familiars/summons/pets and I would like to be able to create, edit and roll them from the main character's sheet. I have a ton of pets I have to scroll through on the home page. Every time I want to roll a skill with a pet, I have to back out of my character's sheet to find the pet's sheet, and vice versa. I wish I could click on the pet after I've linked it with its owner to open up the proper sheet, like I can with Fight Club 5. Just a small tweak, but it would increase my rating to 5 stars. Thank you for making an ALMOST PERFECT app!

I started using this app to make it easier for me gaming. No need to keep a paper sheet dry or worry about it wearing out from too much erasing or getting dirty at session, that sort of thing. I can just grab my pad and go to game and if I forget my dice I have the ones on the app.
My only complaint is about the spell listings. The app does not have them organized by level or really in any manner that could be helpful to players (yes alphabetically but I have to go hunt down the hard copy of the game book in order to check which spells are available at which levels, ie. Is spell X a 4th or 5th level spell). It would make things a bit easier and user friendly if the spell listings were adjusted for ease of use.