Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition - TI4 Companion App

last updated June 11th, 2025 — created June 11th, 2025

Our TI4 games have grown unwieldy, even on our massive 4'x8' table. We designed this app to manage the slew of planet and tech cards taking over our play areas. All players join on their own devices and manage their own cards. Player stats are tracked at the top for quick reference. The app supports all standard card actions: gain, lose, exhaust, refresh, and planet attachments. Techs can be left open for planning. It also highlights techs when you meet their prerequisites, to make research easier. You can see everyone's cards better than across a large table by tapping their name.

We didn't want to create a situation where players are constantly managing duplicate information on the table and in-app and we haven't had any issues with objectives, VPs, action or strategy cards in regular play so we left those out. We do think putting the unit upgrade cards on player sheets is still better for reference after having researched them in-app.

Keep: legendary planet ability cards
Keep: unit upgrade cards (including faction-specific upgrades)
Remove: tech cards (including faction-specific techs)
Remove: planet cards (including home systems)

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Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition

Galaxy Mats

Many players wanted a nice game mat to place on their hard-top table, so we made this galaxy mat and have updated it several times to fit requests.

Acrylic Tokens

We designed these laser cut acrylic tokens before we started 3D printing. They're pretty expensive, but awesome if you want that extra flare.

3D Printed Tokens

After trying to find a way to offer color-specific tokens that aren't as crazy expensive as laser cut acrylic, we decided to make our own.

3D Printed Insert

This insert is designed for optimal setup speed. It has a few setup trays to pull components from, and then all play trays go straight from box to table.

3D Printed Hyperlane Tiles

We printed these hyperlane tiles to make it easier to setup the Hyperlanes variant if you're playing with 3, 5, or 7 players.

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