Every rulebook you own, searchable from your phone at the table. Point Grimoire at a folder of PDFs and it becomes a library you can actually find things in, plus a map and token browser and a campaign tracker for the group.

What problem does it solve?

Game masters hoard PDFs. Rulebooks, supplements, adventures, third party modules, a decade of them, in folders nobody can search. Then somebody at the table asks what a githyanki's armour class is and you are scrolling a 300 page PDF on a laptop while five people wait.

Grimoire indexes the lot and answers that in about two seconds, on whatever device is nearest.

How does the library work?

Drop your collection into the library folder, organised by game system, and Grimoire sorts it automatically into Core, Supplements, Adventures, Handouts and Homebrew.

• Full text search across every PDF. Every page is indexed, so a search for "fireball" or "githyanki" jumps to the page in the right book rather than to a list of files.
• A reader built for a phone. Pages are rendered server side as images, so they load fast on mobile with pinch to zoom, swipe navigation and spread mode. Switch to the native PDF whenever you want it.
• Bookmarks and highlights, per user, on a page or a text selection.
• An OPDS feed, so any e-reader app such as Panels, Chunky, KOReader or Kybook can read your library directly.

Does it handle maps and tokens?

Yes, and this is the part people do not expect. Battlemaps are browsable by creator or collection, filterable by tag, with grid metadata and full resolution downloads. Character tokens and portraits are tagged and ready to drag straight into your virtual tabletop.

Which makes it a natural companion to Foundry VTT: Grimoire is where the assets live, Foundry is where you play.

Can the whole group use it?

Yes. Per user accounts with admin, GM and player roles.

• Shared campaigns. A GM runs a campaign, invites players, links the relevant books and maps to it, and keeps GM only notes separate from shared ones.
• Player notes stay private. Players keep their own session notes that the GM does not see.
• Session scheduling. Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or a custom pattern, with note stubs created automatically and per player availability, so the group stops negotiating dates in a chat thread.
• Per user content filtering, if some of what you own is not for everyone at the table.

What do I not have to deal with?

• Always on, at a fixed address, so the library is there when the session is.
• Nothing opened on your home network, and no machine left running.
• Backed up storage, which matters more than usual when the library took years to assemble.

Frequently asked questions

Do you supply the books? No. Grimoire is a reader and an index for PDFs you already own. Bring your own library.

How do I get my collection in? Upload through the file manager that comes with your instance, or mount your existing cloud storage and point it at that.

Does searching scanned books work? Only if the PDF has a text layer. A scan with no OCR is an image, and nothing can search it.

Can my players see everything I own? Only what you share. Roles and per user filtering decide who sees what.

Does it work offline at the table? The OPDS feed lets an e-reader app cache books locally, which is the usual answer for a venue with no signal.

What does it cost? Nine US dollars a month, billed monthly, cancel whenever.