Your ultimate D&D session transcription & recap tool
Transcribe your Dungeons and Dragons sessions in Discord or via audio upload, and get automatic post-session notes and summaries. Let The DM’s ARK do the remembering, you focus on the adventure.
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The DM’s ARK is the transcription and campaign archive tool built just for Dungeon Masters, by Dungeon Masters. We solve the chaos of forgotten details, scattered notes, and the dread of writing session recaps. Use our Discord integration or upload your session audio, we’ll deliver transcribed sessions and polished post-session notes tailored for your D&D campaign.
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Real time Transcription
The ARK’s Discord bot transcribes your session in real time, automatically distinguishing between party members and effectively taking notes for you as the game unfolds.
Automatic Post-Session Highlights & Summaries
Stop spending hours writing recaps. We produce structured, narrative session summaries and notes that capture key decisions, NPCs, and plot threads ready to share with players with a click.
Your Very Own Assistant
With the ARK’s Scribeᵇᵉᵗᵃ feature, you can effortlessly retrieve details from past sessions, game mechanics, and more. Just ask questions like “Who betrayed the party?” or “Which NPC gave the quest?” and get instant answers from your campaign history.
More features include
Upload & Transcribe Audio Files
Share Your Session Details with Your Players
Organized Transcript & Campaign Dashboard
“Campaign So Far…” Overviews
See Annotations of used spells, monsters, NPCs, and more
And More!
Our Mission
Empower Dungeon Masters to focus on what they love most: the art of worldbuilding, storytelling, and player immersion by removing the weight of administrative tasks. In an age where “AI” often sparks uncertainty, we choose to harness its potential for good. The DM’s ARK doesn’t replace creativity. It protects it.
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Real time transcriptions
DND 5E referencing
Google drive integration (coming 11/1)
Query info about sessions
First month free
Real time transcriptions
DND 5E referencing
Google drive integration (coming 11/1)
Query info about sessions
First month free
Real time transcriptions
DND 5E referencing
Google drive integration (coming 11/1)
Query info about sessions
First month free
Easy to use platform
Integrated with Discord
Direct Support
Annotations for spells, NPCs, and more
Easy to use platform
Integrated with Discord
Direct Support
Annotations for spells, NPCs, and more
Easy to use platform
Integrated with Discord
Direct Support
Annotations for spells, NPCs, and more
Pricing
Monthly Plans
Attune to the right plan for your journey.
*Each DM must have their own subscription to run a session with the Ark. Your players are free.
Squire
$6/month
- 1 Active Campaign
- Discord Transcriptions
- Post Session Summaries
- Post Session Highlights
- Access to Scribeᵇᵉᵗᵃ Chatbox
Archivist
$10/month
- 3 Active Campaigns
- Google Drive Integration (Coming 11/1)
- Document Uploads
- Session so Far Highlights
- Campaign so Far
- Everything in Squire
Loremaster
$15/month
- Unlimited Campaigns
- Early Access to Upcoming Features
- Everything in Lower Tiers
Why Choose The DM’s Ark
We built this tool to handle what generic transcription tools can’t; the nuance, the names, the lore of a D&D campaign.
- Transcription tuned for D&D names & dialogue. Common tools stumble on monster names, place names, or overlapping chatter. Our system is trained to interpret D&D speech patterns and proper nouns so your transcripts make sense.
- Session summaries built for DMs, not for generic text. Instead of generic summaries, ours focus on what matters for your next session: NPC actions, plot changes, player decisions, reminders of unresolved threads. The notes you need, when you need them.
- Battle tested over 5,000+ sessions. We’ve grown and improved across thousands of D&D campaigns. That volume means fewer errors and better session recaps. Your feedback means the world to us and helps us improve.
- Full control over your campaign data. Your transcripts, notes, and campaign archive are yours. We never share your world, or use your content to train external models.
Meet the Founders
Just three lifelong D&D nerds who wanted to build the kind of tool we always wished we had at our own virtual tables. The DM’s Ark is made by players, for players.
Noah, Tom, and Nick at Emerald Lake.
Let’s Talk About AI
We understand that AI is a sensitive and often polarizing topic, especially in creative communities like tabletop gaming, and we take those concerns seriously. AI is a powerful tool, and like any powerful tool, its use comes with responsibility. From day one, our focus has been on using AI in ways that enable creativity, not replace it. Here’s how we’ve built The ARK to support that:
What about the ethics of using AI?
- The ARK does not use or make AI‑generated images. All visuals you see on our website, app, and marketing are human made.
- While not perfect, the Scribe bot is tuned to avoid creative intervention. This is something we are continuing to improve.
We know there’s active, valid discourse across writing, art, programming, and tabletop communities. Our goal is not to automate storytelling, but to make it easier for you to focus on the creative parts of running a campaign. The DM’s ARK is meant to be a memory tool, not a story generator.
Will my data be used to train another LLM (Large Language Model)?
No. We use OpenAI’s API / Enterprise platform under terms where the data we send is not used to train or improve their models. Your campaign data stays securely in our database, protected by authentication. It’s not accessible to web crawlers, bots, or third-party AI systems. Your content remains yours.
Why OpenAI?
As a small team of three, we needed a reliable and affordable way to get The ARK off the ground. OpenAI lets us do that without compromising on performance or bankrupting us. Long-term, our goal is to shift toward hosting our own AI stack to give us even more control and transparency. But first, we need to prove the concept, stay financially sustainable, and listen closely to what our users actually need.
What exactly is sent to OpenAI?
When you invite the Ark Bot into a Discord voice channel, the raw audio stream is sent to OpenAI’s Whisper for transcription (speech to text). That transcription is used to generate session summaries and answer questions via Scribe. When you ask Scribe a question, we only send the relevant context: key excerpts, summaries, and titles, not your full campaign history.
Why are you charging for this?
Real-time transcription, storage, and retrieval tools aren’t free to run. Our tier system starts at $6/month and is designed to keep The ARK affordable while covering the basic costs of servers and APIs. During this beta period, The ARK is entirely free to use. All we ask in return is your honest feedback so we can build the best possible tool for DMs together.
Looking Ahead
At the end of the day, The ARK uses AI and we won’t pretend otherwise. But we’ve done everything in our power to use that technology transparently, ethically, and with respect for the communities we serve. We’re not a faceless tech company trying to disrupt creativity; we’re a few passionate nerds building something that we genuinely believe supports it. We believe AI can be used responsibly, and we’re committed to proving that by example.
We want to be the good guys in the AI space, not just by avoiding harm, but by actively building something that empowers rather than exploits. The ARK is a tool built for humans, by humans, and that’s exactly how it’s going to stay.
FAQs
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