Solo dev project: A free, offline-first 5e/5.5e manager with no ads, no tracking, and unlimited local characters.

Hey folks. Long-time D&D player and recently even started DMing and worldbuilding a homebrew setting. I play both in live table campaigns and in Play by Post.

Common complaint in the tables I'm in (especially the pbp ones) is that current apps don't cover everything we want or need, especially customization and homebrew support. Eventually I decided to provide what my groups needed myself and I started making a multi-platform app. That project ate all of my free time! It's now called Truesight 5e, just hit Android/Windows open beta, and I figured it's polished enough to share.

Made a list with some of my favorite features:

Live GM dashboard (Master tier required) As the gm, I watch it happen live when my players burn slots, update their HP, use their Long Rest/Short rest resources etc.

External Bonuses Stats from features, magic items etc have stacking rules. Typed bonuses, untyped bonuses, "highest of" resolution, multi-target chips ("All Saves, All Attacks"), bonus dice (Bless = +1d4 baked into the attack roll, not an afterthought), damage affinities with Resistance - Immunity - Vulnerability resolution, and conditional Grants. If you've ever wanted Bardic Inspiration, Bless, and a Magic Weapon to all interact correctly without you doing the math, this is for you.

Both 5e and 5.5e, swap any time Long rest hit dice (half vs all), exhaustion rules, wizard prep caps, spell library filter (SRD 5.1 vs 5.2 vs both), the right rule fires for the edition you're on, and you can flip a character without rebuilding it.

Offline-first, cross-platform The free tier is genuinely free, offering unlimited local characters which can also be exported in json form. Your character lives on your device. One cloud slot is included for free so your characters stay in sync. Share codes let players join a GM's campaign without an account/link mess. No ads, no tracking pixels.

Creature tab for wildshape and pet support! Drop in any statblock (Dire wolf, Brown Bear, that homebrew dinosaur your DM made up), hit Transform, and the creature tab tracks the form's HP, AC, attacks, and skills. Stat sources are configurable per-ability -- STR/DEX/CON from the form, INT/WIS/CHA from the druid, prof bonus from char. Same feature works for polymorph, true poly, shapechange etc. Also doubles down for tracking pets/familiars and other creatures if need be by toggling Transformable form off.

Shared party storage and player-to-player trading (Adventurer tier required) Campaigns have a party storage tab that anyone can add a container in (bag of holding, Wagon, etc) that the whole party can deposit into and pull from, gold, items, healing potions for whoever needs one this session. Players can also trade items character-to-character with a confirm step on both sides, and the GM sees everything. Useful for live tables, kind of necessary for play-by-post, when the party loots a +1 longsword and someone claims it three days later, the bookkeeping stops being painful. Inventory also supports nesting, like dragging your items in/out of a bag of holding, configurable to make them count as weightless, freeing up the sheet's tracked character carry capacity. Containers get their own capacity limits of course. No more carry capacity math or hand-waving the whole mechanic for convenience!

No hardcoded restrictions. Add custom spells, weapons, feats, items, traits, and creature forms inline. Got an entire homebrew spell list from a third-party book or your DM's setting? Drop in a JSON file (one schema, documented) and the whole spell list imports at once -- no copy-pasting fifty entries one at a time, especially once a community builds around the app and people share their spell files (SRD Spells already included in the app).

Journal. Includes a per-character journal for session notes, NPC quirks, that lore the DM dropped etc.

Closed testing: Web platform, full Play by Post support with robust features and dice roll builder / macros.

Stuff that's not done yet: Rest of the platforms and probably a hundred small papercuts I haven't found because I only have a couple D&D groups testing it. Android and Windows betas are live now; iOS / macOS / Linux are planned. Web is in closed beta.

Site (with screenshots): https://truesight5e.pages.dev/

Android beta: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daemonkai.truesight_5e

Windows: https://daemonkai.itch.io/truesight-5e-character-manager

Happy to take emails about feature requests, bug reports etc. Thanks for reading!