Stella Game Center

Your game’s cards, boards, tokens and dice, from a spreadsheet

Draw the template once, write the data in a spreadsheet and Stella draws every component: previews, PDFs for printing, decks, tokens, tiles, boards and dice ready to load into Tabletop Simulator, and the rulebook with the real cards inside. Free software, for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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The Stella project window with the cards of a set

What it does

Layered templates

Text, images, shapes, icons and grids; every layer can take its value from a sheet column or a formula.

Data in Excel

Each card set is a sheet: one row per card. Edit in the app or in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets, and the cards follow.

Text with markup

Bold, colours, icons and variables inside the card text, with shared styles and translations in several languages.

Print and Tabletop Simulator

PDFs with crop marks and duplex, single images, and ready-made Tabletop Simulator objects: decks, tokens, tiles, boards and six-sided dice, loaded into the game as they are.

Rulebook with the cards

Markdown documents show the real cards, the card anatomy and the table setup, and export to PDF, Word and HTML.

Import from Tabletop Creator

Tabletop Creator projects open and convert, with templates, data and images.

A look

The template editor: layers, canvas and properties
The template editor: layers, canvas and properties
A rulebook with the real cards and the page preview
A rulebook with the real cards and the page preview
A board with the grid layer
A board with the grid layer

Download

The latest stable version is {version}. Stella is not signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate: macOS and Windows ask for confirmation the first time.

Mac

Apple silicon (M1 and later) Intel processor

Open the .dmg and drag Stella to Applications. On first launch: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Windows

Installer Portable version (no install)

If SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”: More info → Run anyway.

Linux

AppImage .deb package (Debian, Ubuntu)

Make the AppImage executable (chmod +x); it needs libfuse2.

All versions on GitHub Beta versions are enabled in the app, under ⚙ Updates.

Stella is free: if you find it useful, you can buy me a coffee with PayPal.

In the browser, nothing to install

The web version is the same app in Chrome, Edge or Opera, for computers where nothing can be installed. It works on the same projects on your computer, with a few features less.

What the desktop app adds

Tutorials

Short videos, no voice: the text appears next to what to look at.

The first videos are coming soon.

Guide and news