Tabletop Codex
November 15, 2025
More About Tabletop Codex
Since 2004, The Esoteric Order of Gamers has curated the largest collection of game rules summaries and reference sheets worldwide. Complex rulebooks are condensed into clear, succinct summaries that retain every crucial detail. Finally, this expertise is available in a portable, searchable app designed for ease of use.
Unlike other tabletop game rulebook apps, Tabletop Codex utilizes bespoke summaries optimized specifically for this platform. Each game's rules are reorganized into logical and consistent formats, transforming chaotic manuals into digestible sections that enhance learning and gameplay clarity.
Key Features:
- 📚 Comprehensive Game Coverage: Over 200 popular board, card, and tabletop miniatures games at launch, with new games added all the time.
- 🔍 Organized and Searchable: Easily find games using the intuitive visual or text FIND section, then favourite your chosen games to move them to the LIBRARY tab.
- 📸 Visual References: Game rules include essential icons and images directly from the game. Tap icons to view full-screen images for enhanced clarity.
- 📑 Logical Layout: Rules are divided into clear sections and subsections, ensuring effortless navigation and quick reference during gameplay.
- 💡 Smart Search: Instantly locate specific rules with our innovative search mode, pinpointing exact sections where your search term appears.
- 📝 Game Insights: Each rulebook includes a box image, game basics, and a concise review by Esoteric Order of Gamers creator, Peter Gifford.
- 🎨 Customizable Interface: Switch between light and dark modes with a tap. On iPad, utilize fullscreen mode for an optimized viewing experience.
- 📱 Device Compatibility: Supports portrait mode on iPhone and both portrait and landscape modes on iPad, with added functionality for even easier navigation on the iPad.
- 🎁 Free Access to 5 Rulebooks! Start your gaming journey with 5 complimentary rulebooks included when you download the app. Each rulebook provides essential game summaries to enhance your gameplay experience right away.
- 🔓 Flexible payment methods: You can choose to buy individual game rulebooks separately, or subscribe to unlock the entire app and get full access to all existing and future rulebooks. Subscribe per month or opt for the special discounted yearly rate.
Download Tabletop Codex now and revolutionize the way you play tabletop games!
Latest Version
1.1.2
November 15, 2025
Universal Head
Tools
Android
2,790
Free
com.tabletopcodex.app
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User Reviews
Miguel Salas
11 months ago
Good app. EXCEPTIONAL rule summaries.
Steve Heistand
11 months ago
a great way to learn how to really play boardgames
Ryan G
11 months ago
The best rules references and player aids, hands down.
David Marland (Chairmanmeow87)
7 months ago
Really great reference source for rules for board games. I would highly recommend it.
Thaddeus Ryker
3 weeks ago
A great easy to use, condensed rules app
Tobyn Manthorpe
11 months ago
There's a lot of games on that list! Very nice to have someone boil down those big rulebooks into something more palatable.
A Jay
10 months ago
Indispensable for board gamers. If you're playing a new game or dusting off and older one, this makes referencing rules quick and easy.
Paul Shorten
10 months ago
The output from this creator has immeasurably improved my boardgaming sessions for almost two decades. This app is the next logical step, well worth it.
Andrew Clarke
11 months ago
Surprisingly useful app for looking up rules for board games. Fairly easy to use, and easy to find what you're looking for without having to flip through pages.
Uncle Bones
10 months ago
been a channel subscriber for years and used Peter's rules summaries successfully. Had the app on android since launch, typical initial bugs and foibles but Peter was all over it. Now very stable and being used successfully on a weekly basis, ideal for us more mature gamers😁
Zo Guardala
3 months ago
amazing!!!! Huge list of games and so handy to have at your finger tips whwn playimg. Condenses rules and makes it so much easier to find and understamd rules while playimg. A must have app!
Will Ross
10 months ago
Peter has done an amazing job, working with app designers to bring these codexes to our devices! Easy go access, with options for annual/monthly subs or just buy singular games. Awesome app, highly recommended. Cheers Peter, you're a legend.
Aaron Horner
11 months ago
The king of player aids goes Digital!!! Universal Head has saved me from ungodly amounts of head scratching over the years with his print out player aids for seemingly every game I have bought. I've bought a few games purely because his aids! How does he find the time? And the money?? Is he Jeff Bezos' Kiwi brother? With this new effort, new depths of accessibility, interactivity, organisation, and portability have been achieved. My one gripe is that there aren't more free codices.
Donald Kelly
11 months ago
Pretty straight forward to use, a helpful search function, and a few samples are included in the My Games section. Peter's work in general on preparing game aids is excellent so this may well be a useful tool for those who play many different games a year.
J M
11 months ago
Great app. Made games nights over Xmas really enjoyable, especially since a few of us were rules rusty so what a great way to get us started quicker. I can now see me checking this app first to see if there is a reference for a game before I buy that game. I love thematic games but i don't always have time to read 30+ pages of rules, per game, everytime before a games night. This app really is great reference material!
Oliver Bayley
11 months ago
EDIT: APP now works as advertised! Great work by the creator and issue swiftly resolved. Huge fan of the content creator, their work, and their guides but app doesn't work for me. At time of writing after installing the app the option to skip registration doesn't do anything. Can't register either (error code '500'). Will check in again in the future as I want to support the creator, but for now unusable in my S24 and tablet.
Karsten Keese
10 months ago
Recurring subscription fees set you back $50 USD every year, there is no option to buy. Any reasonable person will rather look up the rule they forgot in the manual that came with their game or download the PDF from the publisher or BGG, which is why this greedy milkingware has been uninstalled. As for tutorials or rules questions, buying 'Tabletop Simulator' on PC and the modules for your games (or their digital editions) is cheaper than renting ad infinitum, and Vassal Engine et al are free.
