The website
Website overview
The website is the workshop. Generating decks, editing individual cards, buying and selling on the marketplace and topping up credits all happen here, on a screen big enough to actually see the artwork.
You do not need it to read cards — the app does that on its own — but anything you make here appears in the app under the same account, and any tokens you buy here are spendable there.
The navigation bar
The bar sits at the top of every page and stays there as you scroll. Its right-hand side changes depending on whether you are signed in.
Callout 1: 1Callout 2: 2Callout 3: 3Callout 4: 4- Tarot Sanctum (logo)
Returns to the home page from anywhere on the site.
- Home
The landing page: what the product is, a preview of the marketplace, and community statistics.
- Generate
Starts a new deck. This is the main reason the website exists.
- Draw
Draws a reading in the browser. Works offline once the page has been visited.
- Marketplace
Browses decks published by other people, and by us.
- My Library
Every deck you own, as a grid. Opens straight into the deck editor.
- About
What Tarot Sanctum is and who makes it.
- Your name / email
Opens your account page. Shown in place of the sign-in buttons once you are signed in.
- Sign out
Ends the session and returns you to the home page.
- Sign in / Create account
Shown instead of your name and Sign out when you are signed out.
Signing in
An account is optional for reading and required for anything that costs money or lives on our servers: generating decks, buying, selling, and syncing your balance.
Creating an account
- Display name
The name shown next to any deck you list on the marketplace.
LimitsRequired - Email
Your sign-in address. Must be a valid email.
LimitsRequired - Password
Masked as you type. Used for email sign-in.
LimitsRequired, at least 8 characters - Create account
Registers you and signs you straight in, landing on your account page. Shows an error inline if the address is already registered.
Signing in
- Email
The address you registered with.
LimitsRequired - Password
Your password.
LimitsRequired - Sign in
Signs you in and returns you to wherever you were heading — or to your account page if you came here directly. A wrong address or password shows “Invalid email or password.” without saying which.
- Continue with Apple
Signs in with your Apple ID, the same identity the iPhone app uses. Only appears when Apple sign-in is configured on the server.
What lives where
Only on the website
- • Generating a new deck from a style brief
- • The style guide editor — palette, typography, frame
- • Painting objects out of a card
- • Listing a deck for sale and taking payouts
- • Buying credits with a card, through Stripe
Only in the app
- • The Today card and the daily rhythm
- • All 44 spreads and the full reading flow
- • Spoken readings, reading styles and languages
- • The Journal
- • Subscriptions and token purchases through the App Store
A few things exist in both places with the same behaviour: drawing a reading, regenerating a card, animating a card, and generating a reading video. Where they differ, the page for that feature says so.
Working offline
The website installs a service worker on your first visit, so /draw keeps working with no connection: the deck, the shuffle and the reading are all produced in the browser, and readings you draw are stored locally until they can sync. Everything that costs tokens needs a connection, since the charge and the generation both happen on our servers.