First launch on Android

The title screen on a phone, Begin your world, naming your adventurer, the two Story AI doors Android offers, the guided tour, the drawer, and the app's Settings screen.

Android app

The Android app opens on its title screen, never a sign-in form. You can create a world of your own on the phone, join a friend's, or both.

Begin your world

The title reads Begin your world: "No server needed. Your world lives on this device, and friends can join from anywhere once you invite them." Start playing creates it. The main menu's Join with a code opens the room code panel, with Scan a QR code for the camera. If you only ever join other people's tables, use that and skip the rest of this page.

Name your adventurer

The name friends see at the table: letters, digits, underscore and dash, up to 24 characters. The world is created in the app's private storage, you are its owner, and no password is asked for.

Who runs your games?

Android offers two doors:

A human Dungeon Master. No AI. You or a friend runs the table.
AI Dungeon Master via your OpenAI API key. Narration and pictures billed to your key, for every campaign on this phone. Paste the key; the model names are filled in.

A local model and an agent program need a computer, so those doors are desktop only. The Story AI button on the home screen reopens the screen. See Story AI on Android.

Enter your world

The title becomes This device, "Playing as" your name with the bundled server's version, and Enter your world opens the world. The main menu grows New campaign, Quick start, Characters, Workshop, Rulebook and Story AI; once you have played, the last table fills the screen behind Continue and your other tables sit below as save slots. Inside a world the game's pages own the screen, and the account menu's App home, App settings and App guide lead back to the app.

The world's home on a phone: a Continue card with Enter world, and tiles for New campaign, Solo adventure, Characters and Workshop — Home, the campaign creator and the character library on a phone.

The campaign creator's Premise step on a phone — Home, the campaign creator and the character library on a phone.

The guided tour

A spotlight walks the title screen once. Replay it from Settings, Help, Replay tour. The table and the workshop have their own tours the first time you see them.

The drawer and Settings

The menu at the top left lists every saved server with its campaigns; a hide-offline switch trims hosts that are not online. Settings holds Audio and dice, This app (the version, and a note that updates arrive through Google Play; until the listing is live, a sideloaded APK updates by installing the next one), This device (Story AI, your account in the world, Share online), Visiting hosts, Title screen, Help and links.

Battery and background

Playing alone or joining a friend's table costs no more than any chat app. Hosting a shared world keeps the phone's server awake behind a notification; see Host a world on your phone.