About

Iterary

A free online toolkit for prototyping tabletop and board games. Design cards, roll dice, track players, and test your game ideas — all in the browser.

Created by

Leif Norcott

Blog Bluesky

Feedback & Issues

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue on GitHub.

Privacy

What Iterary collects and where it goes: read the privacy page.

Changelog

Beta builds (beta.iterary.com)

Nothing new on the beta right now — it is running the same version as the release below.

Releases

1.10.0 (Latest)

Sections: put a Deck, Dice, Table or Bag inside another container as a thin section with its own buttons; the parent's Roll All rolls every Dice section
Dice View: Detailed, Compact (tap a die to roll just it, hold or hover to see its faces) or Stack; compact dice sit at full height, just leaner
Counters redesigned: a big number with a full-width − | + bar under it, never cut off
New gallery game RPG Table, a ready-to-run party; RPG Dice and Basic RPG Character refreshed with compact, colored dice and the new counters
Crates inside a group show only the controls that group uses, and Notes, Lists and Logs can have a colored title bar
Inspector: every crate's settings in the same order (Content, Rules, Layout, Appearance, Sharing), each section folds; Items Scale reads as a multiplier
Embeds (early): Copy embed code (Inspector > Sharing) puts one playable crate inside another website

1.9.1

Trays: dragging a crate in or out of an open tray shows just one copy of it, and crates left in the tray stay where they are
Drag a tool straight from the insert bar onto the table or into an open tray, or pick a tool then click inside the tray
Trays only show Stash and Take out when there is something to stash or take out, and the "+ Add" button is gone (drag a group in from the table or the insert bar instead)

1.9.0

Import from Tabletop Simulator (trial): paste a TTS Workshop link and Iterary rebuilds its decks, tokens, tiles, boards, bags and hand zones, with custom dice keeping their face art
Card sheets: cut one image holding a grid of cards into your image library, then use any card for any picture or fill a deck with one card per cell
Peek at any card big and readable (hold Alt, or turn on peek-on-hover in the ⋮ menu)
Decks: collapse Hand, Deck or Discard to a pile, hide the action bar, and drop a card from anywhere onto a Discard or Deck pile
A livelier table: dice tumble, cards flip and deal into your hand, bag pulls pop in (all of it follows your reduced-motion setting)
Gallery games get their own pages with a real board screenshot and what is inside them, plus how-to guides at /guides
Sharing leads with the short link, and short links show the game in Bluesky, Discord and other link previews
Big games stay quick, card images are cached in your browser, a privacy page, Drafts in the ⋮ menu, and many fixes
Every page can be found in search again: a complete sitemap, each page with its own title and address, and real “page not found” pages

1.8.0

Pictures everywhere: pick a standard icon, an image link or a text badge for counters, die faces, cards and board pieces, from the inspector or by right-clicking any crate
Your own image library, kept in this browser: save image links once, reuse them in any game, update them everywhere at once, export and import it
Board pieces and trays can show a token picture instead of their full face
Safer saving: names with / or . work, saving over a different game asks first, and opening another game keeps the previous board in Drafts
Night mode polish: selected toggles and tabs are a soft raised brown, and picture tint starts from the color already shown
Ads off the table: one small ad at the end of the editing panel on desktop, never in play mode or on phones
Many fixes: big games save again, shared-link owners keep recent edits on reload, old games no longer grow on reload, and more

1.7.0

The rebuilt Iterary is now the main site — same saves, same share links; the previous version lives on at classic.iterary.com
Infinite canvas: place areas anywhere, pan and zoom, alignment guides as you drag, and resize from any edge or corner
One inspector panel for editing — docked on the right, full-screen on a phone
New areas: Board (a grid of cells), Tray (areas inside areas), Bag (pull at random), and private Tables for pass-and-play
Stack and Fan layouts on every container, with Top / Up / Down / Bottom to restack a pile
Card layout templates, two-sided cards, per-card click actions (zoom, flip, rotate, show text) and bulk deck copies
Per-face dice icons, and dice that keep their rolled faces and selection through share links and reloads
Undo and redo for everything, the Log line included
Short /g/ links that stay up to date as you edit, and ?mode=play links that open straight into play
Night mode, whole-table and per-area rotation, and per-area title and background colors
Phones: pinch to zoom, a toolbar that fits the screen, and opening a game frames the whole table
Gallery: MTG Sandbox added, MTG Puzzle #1 rebuilt with real art

1.6.1

Auto-sized text: card titles, descriptions, and dice results scale to fit their container
Small board pieces show content-first with header/toolbar hidden when too tiny
Chess and Civilization Board Game added to Gallery

1.6.0

New Board crate: grid-based area for placing pieces at specific cells
Drag pieces between Board and other crate groups with live cell preview
Pieces scale as a percentage of their cell to fit the grid
Board background image, column/row configuration, and persistent piece positions
Width-aware toolbar: buttons collapse into overflow menu on small cards
Card title prioritized over description when space is limited
Drag handle moved to far right of toolbar for easier access
Board resize performance: eliminated Polymer iron-resize cascade

1.5.5

CSV import with intelligent column mapping and preview
Import cards, dice, and counters from CSV files
Tabletop Simulator CSVDeck format compatibility
File picker and paste support for CSV data
Added footer to all pages

1.5.3

Redesigned Guide page with improved layout and descriptions
Number crate slider now fits within its container
Cards with images now have a text overlay button to read full descriptions

1.5.0

Added Gallery page for browsing community game prototypes
Examples moved into Gallery as built-in cards
Toolbar cleanup: save/load grouped under cloud menu
Improved Load dialog layout and centering
Wider Share dialog for long URLs

1.4.3

Redesigned About page
Added social links and Bluesky

Credits

App Icons

Crocodile by N.K. Narasimhan — the Noun Project
Whale Tail by Elijah Bruce — the Noun Project

UI Icons

Table by Elliot Lepers — the Noun Project
Poker Cards by Marek Polakovic — the Noun Project
Dice by Edward Boatman — the Noun Project