Run combat from your Android phone, iPad, or iPhone. Push a player-safe canvas to a Raspberry Pi or any box hooked to an HDMI display. No internet, no subscriptions, no logins for the players. Built for D&D 5e and Pirate Borg.
DM app
Player display
Round 3 · Combat
Forge Pass · Crypt of Echoes
22
Vex
18
Goblin Sneak
15
Thorne
12
Cult Acolyte
9
Mira
DM · Encounter
Vex
Lvl 5 Sorcerer · 38/45 HP
Goblin Sneak ×2
CR 1/4 · 7 HP
Cult Acolyte
CR 1/4 · 9 HP
Mira
Lvl 5 Cleric · 42/42 HP
Your device in hand, a monitor on the table. Here is what connects them.
Pen, shapes, text, and tokens, synced instantly to the player display.
Initiative, conditions, HP buckets. Players see what you allow.
Campaign hub (journal, party, loot, NPC rolodex), 60+ reference panels for 5e (27 for Pirate Borg), and a generators tab. Each has its own destination.
Private messaging, Break Time with ready-check, and image sharing. Run your table without passing notes.
Ask rules questions mid-combat with your full initiative order, party, and monster context in view. Encounter generator, monster creator, scanner, and hooks generator are all live. Your conversation history is saved and picks up where you left off next session. Speak hands-free with the mic button. Android only.
Push monster reveals, dialogue cards, and warnings to the big screen.
D&D 5e and Pirate Borg, each with its own theme and content pipeline.
Author on any device. Push to any HDMI display. No internet required.
A real DM screen with initiative, scenes, encounters, AI assistant, and player alerts. Run the whole session from your phone or tablet.
A Raspberry Pi, a Mac, a PC, or a Linux box. Any of them turns a TV or monitor into a player-facing canvas with crisp text, conditions, and reveal art on demand.
All session data stays on your hardware. Combat, scenes, and alerts travel over your local network. No cloud, no login wall for players, nothing leaves the room.
Three steps to get a session running. The full hardware and download guide lives on Setup.
Download Farsight from the Play Store or App Store on your Android phone or tablet, iPad, or iPhone.
The Farsight Viewer auto-discovers the DM's device on your local network. Once connected, the canvas appears on the monitor automatically. Need a manual connection? Use the QR code shown in the GM app to connect directly.
Pick a campaign (D&D 5e or Pirate Borg), build your party, and drop into the canvas. Players watch the monitor; you control every reveal from your device.
$14.99
one-time
No subscription. Yours forever.
$25
/mo
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Websites
Other tools want a subscription
A typical VTT companion
Forever, until you cancel
$5/mo
One year of that
Renews every twelve months
$60
Five years of that
Cumulative cost at the same monthly rate
$300
Farsight, one time
Yours forever. No upsell tier. No login wall.
$14.99
Players never pay for anything
Free Player Mode in the app
Free display server download
.deb for Pi & Linux, .dmg for Mac, .exe for Windows. All free.
Want to tip? Pay what you want on itch.io.
Yes. $14.99 on the Play Store or App Store, once. You own this version forever and updates are free. Full GM features are live on Android today. iOS and iPadOS GM are in active development. Purchase now and features land automatically as they ship.
Free. Players never pay for anything. The Farsight app on Android and iOS has a free Player Mode, so players can follow along on their own phone without buying anything. The display server for Raspberry Pi, Mac, Windows, and Linux is also a free download. We do not host anything on your behalf, and your game data stays on your hardware.
No. Players never pay for anything. The Farsight app has a free Player Mode on Android and iOS, so players can connect from their own phone. The display server for Raspberry Pi, Mac, Windows, and Linux is a free download too. Only the DM needs a purchase.
The Farsight Viewer is the player display that sits behind the TV. It is a free download for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The full DM controller (combat, encounters, library, AI tools) runs on Android and iOS only. A Mac or PC plugged into a monitor works great as a player display host.
AI features use tokens. All tools are live on Android: chat assistant (5 tokens), encounter generator, monster creator, character scanner, monster scanner, and adventure hooks (8–10 tokens each). You get 25 free tokens on sign-in; packs start at $0.99 for 40 tokens. A $2.99/month DM Pro subscription gives 150 tokens per month. AI is entirely optional — the rest of the app works great without it.
The app keeps working. Farsight runs on your device and your own hardware. There is no licence server to phone home to and no cloud subscription to lapse. Your purchase is a permanent licence to the software you installed. The only things that would stop working are the optional AI tools, which rely on a third-party API. Everything else is self-contained.
$14.99, one time, on Android or iOS. Players connect free. The Pi server and desktop viewer are free.
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