Stay connected to your character's story
Give it your character, motivations, campaign notes and party. Prompts are written for that character, not the whole group.
For tabletop RPG players and game masters
Record and transcribe your D&D sessions free, forever, on your own PC
LoreMonkey transcribes every session, labels who said what, and turns it into recaps, searchable campaign notes and prompts you can use mid-scene. Recording and transcription are free forever.
Supports Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). No Mac or Linux build yet.
- Transcripts
- Timestamped, with character names
- Recaps
- Written in your group's style
- Roles
- Player and GM modes
- Systems
- Set per campaign
A useful record first. Live help when the scene calls for it.
LoreMonkey keeps the record of the session and gives one person a place to look things up while the game carries on.
Every screenshot below is from the desktop app.
Know who said what, with no bot in your Discord call
Connect the Discord desktop app and tag each person with a character name once.
Playing in person? Record the room with a microphone instead. Character labels need Discord.
Search past session transcripts and campaign notes
Notes and past transcripts are indexed on your PC, and live prompts draw on them during play. Standard and Pro add Ask LoreMonkey for questions between games.
Answers cite the sessions they came from, and say so when the archive has nothing.
Get a live prompt without losing the scene
LoreMonkey watches for moments like a direct question, a returning character or a decision your notes care about, and gives you a prompt short enough to read mid-scene.
Cooldowns and limits keep it quiet the rest of the time. Both are adjustable, and the activity log shows every check.
A session recap before anyone logs off
When the game ends, LoreMonkey writes up what happened from the transcript and your notes, in the style of the notes your group already keeps.
GM campaigns get a recap for prep: threads that moved, hooks that came up, loose ends for next week. Recaps use your AI allowance, and the free trial is enough to see one.
Read a whole recap
Session recapPlayer mode, names changedThe party pushed into Emberreach proper, meeting in a rough tavern to plan their approach before splitting up to scout. Ilsa and Tobin spotted a woman named Maren eavesdropping on their table; Tobin tailed her when she left and watched her get waved into Orvane's main hall without trouble, confirming she reports there. Grukk explored the northern shanties and found altars to three old gods still being tended despite the squalor around them, and struck up a conversation with a dwarf named Dunstan Hollowell, who's watching over a nearby adamantium mine that shut down after some unexplained "gloom" event and is cagey about who really runs Emberreach. Pell worked a kebab vendor named Oskar for information and learned the basics of the town's power structure: Orvane nominally rules but is actually a shardmind, a pile of animate crystal shards that used to have a humanoid body; a mercenary band of orcs enforces order for him; and the real power behind the throne is a tiefling named Casimir, who keeps to himself and runs the drug trade. Ilsa checked the graveyard and fields, noting one unusually well-kept grave for an "Aldous Penhallow" and getting chased off by a prickly orc farmer tending potatoes and corn.
Every character, place and faction in one compendium
The names in your campaign notes become entries for the party, NPCs, places, factions, items and open threads. Each shows how often it has come up at the table, with the names in its description linked.
Add relationships, pin what matters tonight and edit in place. Changes go straight back to your notes. Browsing and editing are free; finding names your notes missed uses your AI allowance.
Import your campaign notes once
Bring in the character sheet, primer, NPC files or session notes you already keep. LoreMonkey turns them into campaign files you can edit, indexed on your PC.
Having the files written for you starts with Lite. On Free, write and edit them yourself and everything else works the same.
One app, two campaign modes
The campaign files and prompts follow the role you choose.
Hold plans, NPCs and player hooks nearby
Work from a primer, forward plan, player notes and NPC files. The app points out openings without taking over the scene.
Your table's audio stays on your PC
Transcription, indexing and speaker matching run on your computer. The files are yours to read, back up or delete.
AI features send relevant text through LoreMonkey's server to the model provider. The privacy page lists what is sent and kept.
Privacy detailsThe campaign chooses the system
Prompts, answers and recaps use the game set for the campaign. Pick a common system or type your own.
Dungeons & Dragons / Pathfinder / Call of Cthulhu / Cyberpunk RED / Vampire: The Masquerade / Delta Green / Blades in the Dark / Daggerheart
Prove it works before game night
- 01
Start a campaign
Choose Player or GM mode, the game system and your notes.
- 02
Choose the audio
Discord audio for online play, or a microphone for the room.
- 03
Run the setup check
Test capture, transcription and the AI connection before anyone is waiting.
Free because it runs on your GPU, not ours
Free forever, no limit
- An MP3 of each session, whenever you switch recording on
- Local transcription with timestamps
- Discord speaker and character labels, with no bot in the call
- Indexing your notes and past transcripts
- Browsing and editing every character, place and faction in one compendium
- Importing your back catalogue of recordings
Uses your AI allowance
- Live prompts during play
- Session recaps
- Campaign files written from your documents
- Ask LoreMonkey
- Characters and places found from your transcripts
The recording is free. The model calls are what you pay for.
Recording, transcription, speaker labels and indexing run on your own computer, so they are free and unlimited on every plan. A paid plan pays for the AI features: live prompts, recaps, campaign files, Ask LoreMonkey and finding names your notes missed.
Compare plans- FreeThe whole local app, free for good
$0 forever
- LiteFor an occasional group
$9.99 per month
- StandardFor a weekly group
$19.99 per month
- ProFor several weekly tables
$39.99 per month
Before you install
The practical details
Is this for players or game masters?
Both. Each campaign is set to Player or GM mode.
Does LoreMonkey write D&D session notes?
Yes. Every session leaves a timestamped transcript on your PC, free. A recap written in your group's own style uses your AI allowance, and from Lite up LoreMonkey also proposes updates to your campaign notes for you to accept one at a time.
Can it recap a D&D session played on Discord?
Yes. With Discord connected, the recap knows which character said what. Recap the evening that just ended or any earlier session; the free trial is enough to see one at a real game.
Can I transcribe old session recordings?
Yes, for free. Import MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG and other audio or video files and LoreMonkey transcribes them on your PC, filed under the date they were played.
Does it work for games outside D&D?
Yes. Set the game system per campaign, and prompts, recaps and answers follow it.
Does it work for in-person games?
Yes. Record and transcribe the room with a microphone. Character labels come from Discord, so a microphone transcript is not speaker-labelled.
What do I get without paying?
Unlimited recording, transcription and speaker labels for one campaign, plus a free trial of live prompts and recaps. Ask LoreMonkey starts with Standard.
Do my players need to install anything?
No. One person runs LoreMonkey. Let everyone know the session is being transcribed.
Does a bot join the voice channel?
No. LoreMonkey reads who is speaking from the Discord desktop app already running on your PC. Nobody new appears in the call.
Is this another cloud call recorder?
No. Audio stays on your PC, and it is built for tabletop campaigns: character-labelled transcripts, player and GM modes, and private lookup at the table.
Can I record and transcribe a session offline?
Yes, once the speech model has downloaded. Recording, transcription and search work offline. AI features need a connection.
Is there a Mac or Linux build?
Not yet. LoreMonkey runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). News about other platforms goes out in Discord.
What leaves my computer?
Audio, transcripts and search stay local. AI features send the relevant text through LoreMonkey's server to the model provider, and the activity log shows every call.
Available now for Windows
Bring LoreMonkey to your next game
Download for Windows and start with the free trial.