Character creation / management pathfinder app?


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Background:
One of the thing that frustrates me in pathfinder is calculating all the modifiers to hit/damage/AC depending on my abilities, feats, spells, equipment etc. So I've started out making my own mobile web site, to do it automatically for me.

One of the main features for me was that it gets loaded only once, and then never uses internet connections and can basically run offline (until you exit from browser or or navigate to a new page).

Targalad the Magus Spelldancer:
http://tbabic.github.io/targalad-web/

It doesn't look quite good on mobiles/small screens and it looks even worse on large screens :D. Also after last session I've noticed some issues in user experience. So I'm currently in the process of redesigning it and it raised a few questions for me.

Questions:
1) Is there an app or web site that already has the same functionality?

2) If there isn't, would anybody be interested in using this kind of mobile website (or mobile app)?

3) Considering pathfinder is released under OGL and I intend to keep the app free and open source, this shouldn't be illegal?

My background if anybody is interested

Spoiler:

I'm a Java backend developer, that knows a bit about html, css and javascript. In fact this website for my character was something I started to do as a training to learn more about frontend development. Now I'm thinking of maybe doing it for public if there would be interest.


I would like a mobile version of this as my web browser eats battery like mad... I've seen a few apps already on the phone so I'm not sure there's any real problem with it.

From a looks perspective this page should at least look vaguely like an actual character sheet as that makes reading it more intuitive.

Something else I would like, instead of preset toggle boxes like your "cat, spell combat, haste" I would like customisable ones.
1: So I could open up an empty box, add in the info for example "Bless" (duration, bonus, type, level).
2: Lock it from changes
3: Activate/Deactivate it as a toggle box

Furthermore some sort of turn counter would be amazing is a "plus +1 round" button that counts how many rounds a combat takes. An additional feature would be to have spells automatically deactivate once their durations are out.

I applaud your work by the way, I'd been thinking about make some sort of physical counter to help with this but it's not easy :(


A native mobile app would probably be the best approach. I've been leading several mobile projects over the last couple of years and toying with the idea of a good tracker app. Could lend you a hand, and maybe dabble myself if you abandon the project once my new Mac arrives.

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