What a press does
Every scene is a button: Combat, Chase, Tavern, Travel, Dread, Festival, Court. Press the one that's happening.
Built for D&D, Pathfinder and any tabletop RPG
Run the soundtrack. Stay in the story.
Music, ambience and sound effects for your tabletop game, one press per scene.
Press the scene. Keep telling the story.
The fight starts. The music is still the tavern. You're looking down at a laptop, hunting for the right tab, and the table is waiting for you. Or you stopped bothering with music, because it was one more thing to run.
Bardio gives you one press instead. Tap Combat. The music turns, the rain you lit earlier keeps falling, and you're still mid-sentence. Your players feel the room change, and they never see you do it.
One purchase. Runs on your machine.
- No subscription. You pay once, and the copy you install is yours.
- Nothing phones home. No account, no server, no internet connection needed. The optional extra packs download when you ask for them; nothing else touches the network.
- Your library is files you keep, on your own hard drive.
- It keeps working if we vanished tomorrow.
Features
Bring your own music
Drop in a folder. Bardio listens to each track and sorts it into a scene.
Your phone is the remote
Pair it once, by scanning the code or typing six digits, and from then on you change the scene from your seat without reaching for the keyboard.
What's in the box
At the table
- Press the scene: Combat, Tavern, Dread, Travel and more. The music changes; ambience and effects sit beside it, each on its own button.
- Fix it in two taps: a track in the wrong scene is one tap on the tag beside its name and one on the right scene. It plays on.
- Presets: a scene, its ambience and its volumes in one press. Seven in the box; save your own from what's playing.
- Pause and Stop that mean it: Pause freezes everything; Stop ends it, sound effects included.
- Your phone is the remote: or a tablet, or a laptop, anything on the same Wi-Fi. Let the table help, if you want.
- Elgato Stream Deck: the plugin ships in the box. A scene, a preset, an effect, Pause and Stop, each on a key.
- Put the sound where you want it: the PC, or any paired phone and whatever it's connected to. One device plays; the rest stay controls.
Your library
- Ready out of the box: a Classic Fantasy library (81 tracks, 123 loops, 179 effects), sorted by scene, and seven presets.
- Bring your own music: drop in a folder; Bardio sorts it by ear.
- Make it yours: name your own scenes, order the board, one look per campaign.
- No AI music or sounds: every track in the box composed, played or recorded by a person, credited in the app.
The purchase
- One purchase: no subscription. The copy you install is yours.
- Runs entirely offline: no account, no server, no internet. Nothing phones home.
- In person or online: built for the table; online, share the Bardio window in your Discord call.
- Windows: Windows 10 or later.
No AI music or sounds: every track in the box composed, played or recorded by a person, credited in the app.
Every track in the box is credited inside the app too, with a link to where it came from.