A complete browser-based wargame design suite

Design the entire wargame in your browser.

Create maps, counters, grids, charts, silhouettes, and player aids with one connected suite of purpose-built tools. Work on PC, Mac, or compatible tablets. No complicated graphics software or installation required.

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The WargameApps Suite

Build more than a map. Build the game around it.

Move from concept to prototype to a complete, ready-to-sell game with focused browser tools that work together across PC, Mac, and compatible tablets.

Advanced Map Designer

Create complete hex-based wargame maps using terrain, routes, waterways, symbols, overlays, boxes, and turn tracks.

  • 48 terrain types
  • Unique procedurally generated buildings that snap to roads for precise placement
  • Advanced roads, rail lines, and water tools for realistic map design
  • Automatic bridge placement over rivers, creeks, and gullies
  • PNG/SVG/PDF professional publisher-ready export and local editable saves
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Counter Designer

Build custom unit counters with symbols, silhouettes, text, values, colors, layers, and export controls.

  • NATO-style military symbols and silhouette shapes
  • Add your own icons and symbols
  • Layer controls and item transforms
  • Counter and sheet export with predefined publisher templates
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Grid Designer

Generate precise PNG and SVG grids for use over existing artwork in Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools.

  • Hex and grid overlays
  • Transparent exports
  • Commercial production support
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More Free Design Tools and Player Aids

Start with Silhouette Designer for visual design work, with Dice Roller available as a lightweight player aid.

  • Silhouette Designer App for map coastlines, silhouette, and color conversion
  • Browser dice rolling
  • More apps planned
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Examples

From your idea to a playable game.

Follow your map as it moves from research, to tracing, to a finished export ready for print and play.

1. Research Your MapStart with source maps, historical archives or other sources.

2. Trace Your MapUpload your source map as an easy to trace layer to get correct scale and features.

3. Finish Your Map and Export to PNG/SVG/PDF to Print and Play!Add additional features, terrain, rivers, roads, names, whatever your game design needs. Then simply export it to get a professional quality print.

Made For Wargame Designers

Skip the blank-canvas grind.

Start with tools designed around maps, counters, grids, and scenarios.

Use the apps in a browser on PC, Mac, or compatible tablets.

Save projects and export files for further editing, printing, or publication.

Receive new features and content through cloud updates.

Who It Helps

Choose the workflow that matches your project.

Homebrew Gamers

Create maps and counters for personal games, avoid difficult graphics programs, and print at home.

Game Designers

Prototype concepts faster, revise scenarios without starting over, and export files for testing.

Publishers

Prepare assets for commercial projects with Designer Pro rights for published and sold material.

Workflow

Build the pieces your scenario needs.

01

Build the battlefield

Choose terrain, add roads, waterways, borders, symbols, labels, boxes, and scenario elements.

02

Create the forces

Design counters using military symbols, silhouettes, ratings, colors, and custom text.

03

Export and play

Save editable projects and export PNG or SVG files for prototypes, printing, or publication.

Designer Feedback

Built for designers. Proven at the table.

What wargame creators are saying about WargameApps and its design tools.

“Your passion for maps shows, and the end product is outstanding. I enjoy the app, and am making good use of it. Likewise the counter designer is right up my alley.”
Dave L.
“I’ve been using this app to build maps and it has come out great!”
Charles S.
“Clean and clear. What NATO symbols were meant to be. Can be reproduced on a scrap piece of paper”
John T.

Plans Start At $4.99/Month

Choose the tools that fit your project.

Whether you are creating a homebrew scenario, building a prototype, or preparing a commercial release, there is a WargameApps plan designed for the way you work.

View Plans and PricingTry included apps free for 14 days.

Free Tools

Useful even before you subscribe.

Create map coastlines, silhouettes, and color conversions, or roll dice directly in your browser.

Free Design App

Silhouette Designer

Convert images into coastlines, silhouettes, and limited-color SVG artwork for maps, counters, icons, and prototypes.

Open Silhouette Designer

Free Player Aid

Dice Roller

Roll common polyhedral dice in a focused browser tool with simple and complex rolling modes and a visual dice tray.

Open Dice Roller

Learn Wargame Design

Build with tools made by a wargame designer.

Get direct answers about map design, printable counters, browser compatibility, exports, and commercial-use rights. Then watch WargameApps demonstrations and tutorials on YouTube.

New UpdatesAugust 14, 2026

Advanced Map Designer Updates

Added a persistent user symbols upload library, overlay image fit and stretch controls for map edges, new overlay movement controls, new edit control points and snap points for routes and rivers, new terrain types, various UI/UX improvements, and bug fixes.

Website Updates

Updated all app pages and added new FAQ and Free Maps pages.

See plans and latest included apps