About Tome

Tome turns everyday photos into collectible trading cards. Point your camera at anything: a coffee mug, a sunset, your cat. AI vision extracts a full card with stats, element types, rarity tiers, and flavor text. Then battle your friends, fuse duplicates, complete weekly challenges, and build a collection that tells the story of your world.

How It Works

I

Capture

Take a photo or upload an image. Tome verifies it's a real photograph of an identifiable subject.

II

Summon

AI vision analyzes your photo and generates a complete trading card: title, six stats, element, rarity, and flavor text. Watch the summoning circle while it works.

III

Customize

Override the element, rarity, theme, or title. Make the card yours. Choose from visual themes and 8 elemental types.

IV

Collect & Compete

Save cards to your collection. Export as PNG, share links with QR codes, challenge friends to card battles, and fuse duplicates into holographic cards.

What You Can Do

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Card Clash

Challenge anyone to a best-of-5 stat battle. Pick a card, share the link, and compare stats head-to-head with elemental advantage bonuses. First to 3 wins.

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Fusion

Photograph the same subject three times to create variants. Combine 3 variants into a holographic fused card with boosted stats and a unique shimmer effect.

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Daily Streaks

Generate at least one card per day to build your streak. 7 days guarantees your next card is Rare or better. 30 days guarantees Epic or better. Miss a day? You get one free freeze per week.

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Weekly Challenges

Rotating weekly themes like "Flame Seeker" or "Rare Hunter." Complete them for limited-edition border rewards that you can't get any other way.

Luck Meter

Every card you generate fills a luck meter. At 40 cards, your legendary odds increase. At 60, you're guaranteed one. No one goes forever without a legendary.

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Deep Lore

Cards older than 7 days unlock a hidden backstory and quote, generated by AI. The longer you hold a card, the more of its story reveals itself.

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Cosmetics & Ink

Dissolve unwanted cards into Ink currency. Spend it on cosmetic borders, sparkle effects, and sleeves from the shop. Purely visual, purely fun.

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First Discoveries

Be the first person to photograph a unique subject and earn a "First Discovery" badge. Your name goes on the card's discovery record permanently.

The Six Stats

Every card has six stats mapped to universal slots. The AI picks a creative label that fits the subject, but under the hood they're always comparable for battles.

💥 Power Spice, Torque
🛡️ Defense Shell, Armor
Speed Hustle, Reflex
🪄 Magic Mystique, Aura
🍀 Luck Fortune, Gamble
💖 Charm Vibe, Aesthetic

Card Clash: How Battles Work

Card Clash is a Top Trumps-style battle system. You pick a card and a stat, and whoever has the higher value wins the round. First to 3 wins takes the match.

Elements matter: if your card's element beats your opponent's, you get a +10 bonus to your stat value for that round.

Fire > Air Air > Earth Earth > Water Water > Fire Electric > Water Shadow > Light Light > Shadow

The Elemental Schools

Every card is assigned an elemental type based on its subject. In the lore of the Tome, each element belongs to an ancient school of cataloging.

🔥 Ember (Fire)

The School of Ember teaches that all things carry an inner heat. From the forge-glow of machinery to the slow burn of ambition, Ember scholars see warmth as the fundamental force of transformation.

💧 Tide (Water)

Tide archivists understand that all form is fluid. They catalog the mutable, the reflective, and the deep. What flows, what pools, what erodes: all belong to Tide.

🪨 Verdant (Earth)

The Verdant School venerates the enduring. Stone, wood, bone, and root: things that persist through ages. Verdant cards carry the weight of permanence.

💨 Aether (Air)

Aether scholars study the intangible: movement, scent, music, breath. Their cards capture what cannot be held, only witnessed.

Voltaic (Electric)

The Voltaic Order catalogs the spark of innovation. Circuits, signals, lightning, and nerve impulses. Anything that carries a charge belongs to Voltaic.

🌚 Umbral (Shadow)

Umbral keepers archive what hides. The unseen, the forgotten, the deliberately obscured. Their cards reveal what others overlook.

☀️ Radiant (Light)

The Radiant Academy celebrates the visible and luminous. Color, clarity, brilliance, and beauty. Radiant cards shine with undeniable presence.

🌀 Null (Void)

The Null Collective studies the uncategorizable. Paradox, abstraction, and entropy. Cards that defy all other schools find their home in Null.

Rarity Tiers

Rarity is determined by how unique or remarkable the AI considers your subject. Higher rarity means more ornate borders and celebration effects on reveal.

Common Everyday objects, plain border
Uncommon Interesting finds, silver border
Rare Notable subjects, gold shimmer border + sparkle burst
Epic Remarkable finds, animated gradient border + screen shake
Legendary Extraordinary, holographic rainbow border with confetti explosion

Share & Export

Every card gets its own permalink with rich preview embeds for Discord, iMessage, and social media. Export any card as a high-res PNG, share a direct link, or generate a QR code. Cards look exactly like they do on screen: stats, borders, foil effects, and all.

Tech

Tome uses OpenAI GPT-5.1 vision for card data extraction and GPT-4.1-mini for photo verification. Cards are rendered entirely in CSS with animated borders, holographic foils, 3D mouse-tracking tilt, and element-based color schemes. Photos are resized client-side before upload to save bandwidth. Duplicate detection uses perceptual image hashing (dHash) to identify when you've photographed the same subject again.

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