Stillcraft / Apps / Hoard
A camera for the moments worth keeping. Every photo is struck into pixel-art treasure, painted by the app from the photo itself: an everyday moment becomes a coin, something special a gem, a milestone a relic, a clip a mirror that plays in the glass. Three moments a day, and the forge cools overnight: you see your treasures in the morning. A dragon sleeps on the pile and grows with it. Free, no ads, no account.
Android 8.0+ · Free · Online only for the weather rune · English & Русский
A coin with the photo struck in relief, its back carrying the hall's sign, the runes of the day and the year. A gem with the moment caught in the facets, which catches the light as you tilt the phone. A relic: a crown, sword, key or lantern with the moment in a medallion. A mirror whose clip plays in the glass.
Tap for a photo, hold for a clip, or take one from the gallery with its own date. Choose what it becomes, its metal or stone, its hall, a name and a legend. Up to three a day, so you choose. The forge cools at seven in the morning, with one quiet notice.
Name the dragon and pick its colour. It sleeps on the pile and grows from a hatchling to an elder wyrm. Tap it and it rolls an old treasure out to you, an anniversary first. Mushrooms, stalactites, crystals, banners, a pool, bats and a crack to the sky appear as the hoard grows.
Eight halls, from Travels and Kin to Feasts and Wonders. Look at the treasures or the photos themselves, newest or oldest first. What the camera catches is saved to your gallery too.
Place, weather and time of day are struck into each treasure. Every three days the gnomes ask for something, "something silver", "a door you'd like to open", and pay in mithril, dragonglass, star-metal and rare stones. Seal a treasure in a chest until a date.
Your year by the dragon's calendar, Snowfast to Longnight, how close the dragon is to growing and what is still to appear in the cave. The whole year exports as a PDF book. Backup is one zip with every photo and clip.
| Treasure | For | How it's made |
|---|---|---|
| Coin | An everyday moment | The photo struck in relief in gold, silver, copper or rarer metals; the hall, the runes and the year on the back |
| Gem | Something special | The photo caught inside a cut stone, clear in the table and broken in the facets; the light moves as you tilt the phone |
| Relic | A milestone | A crown, chalice, sword, amulet, horn, key, ring or lantern with the moment in a medallion |
| Mirror | A clip | An oval wall mirror; the clip plays inside the glass |
On Xiaomi (MIUI / HyperOS), Huawei, Samsung and some other phones, allow Autostart for Hoard and remove battery limits so the morning notice arrives on time.
JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. The pixel art is drawn in Kotlin, nothing else to install.
git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/hoard.git cd hoard ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest # unit tests ./gradlew assembleDebug # app.hoard.dev, installs next to a release ./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo # app.hoard.demo with an autumn in Prague ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender # the art and the screens, as PNGs
Because a hoard is about choosing. Three is the default and can be changed, from one to no limit. The overnight forge keeps you in the moment instead of looking at your phone; turn it off in the lair if you can't wait.
In the app's own storage, and a full-size copy of what the camera catches goes to your gallery (Pictures/Hoard, Movies/Hoard), which you can switch off. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Only for the weather rune, asked from Open-Meteo, and only if runes are on. No account, no ads, no analytics.
Lair → Backup saves the whole hoard, with every photo and clip, into one zip. Restore it on the new phone.
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