v0.13.0 Layout Overhaul, Creator Mode and a Whole Lot More

v0.12.0 was a big one — meta insights, a lot of data work and a lot of the under-the-hood stuff that makes the app actually useful. v0.13.0 was supposed to be small bug fixes.

It did not stay small.

I got deep into it, got some genuinely great feedback from great people, and one thing led to another, so here's what shipped.

First, shoutouts are due. East — one of the best & biggest DigiTubers — gave me feedback that shaped a big chunk of this release. Shoutouts to the community for actually using the app, and to my boys for telling me what wasn't working. That feedback matters more than I can say.

The Layout Actually Makes Sense Now

When I originally built Sleeved, I built it the way I wanted to use it. Big search bar at the top, filters underneath, everything stacked. I wasn't thinking about how it felt to use — I just wanted to see filters and find cards.

The problem with that layout is you had to scroll constantly. You'd pick a filter, scroll down to find a card, then scroll back up to change something, then scroll back down again. That's not good UX. Good UX is what it is now.

The filters live in a sidebar that you can pull up whenever you want. If you've scrolled halfway down your search results and decide you need to change something, you just click it, open it, change it, and it updates right there. No scrolling back up.

Oh, and if you look on the site via tablet? Just know, I got you.

Compact View and Density Control

One of the best pieces of feedback I got was the request for a compact view mode — basically, strip out all the extra card information. No name, no set, just the card art. If you know the card pool, you don't need all that text. You can identify a card from a quick glance at the art.

So now there's a compact mode button, and alongside it a density slider that lets you control how many rows of cards you see at once. If you want to look at a lot of cards at the same time, you can. Honestly, this was something I personally wanted too — it just never made it to the top of my priority list until now. I'll definitely be using this myself.

And for anyone with a bigger monitor: this layout rewards screen real estate. The more space you have, the more information available to you and the cleaner it looks.

My Decks Page

This one had actually existed before, then got cut when I was reworking the UI (because I forgot to add it), and now it's back properly. Before this release, switching decks meant going to the home page, opening the deck pop-out, navigating to My Decks, and then loading the deck. It was cumbersome and it didn't make sense.

Now there's a dedicated My Decks page. It works like the community decks page but for your own stuff — all your decks laid out with cover art that you choose yourself. You pick any card from your deck to represent it. You can also quick-view any deck without loading it into the builder, which is useful when you have multiple versions of a similar deck and just need to peek at what's in it.

Creator View

Sleeved was made by a content creator, and part of what I've always wanted is for it to be useful for content creators specifically. So I built a creator view — a full-screen presentation mode that strips away all the navigation, sidebars, and everything else that's just noise when you're on camera.

It's a clean, single-focus look at your deck. Simple button in the deck builder, no frills attached. If you want a nice clean shot of your list for a video, a stream, or just a screenshot, this is what you use.

Pricing on Public Deck Pages

The public deck pages are significantly more useful now. There's a new pricing tab that shows per-card pricing pulled from TCGPlayer — both the low price and the market price — with direct links to buy. Full disclosure: we're affiliated with TCGPlayer.

What makes this actually useful is seeing the whole picture at once: what a single copy costs, what the full deck costs, and both price points side-by-side. That makes the "can I build this?" decision a lot faster.

Per-Format Competitive Stats for Digimon

This was a real gap. Before, the competitive data you'd see was aggregate — either mixing formats together or just showing current format numbers. That's not useful if your deck doesn't have current meta data, and it's especially not useful right now with BT25 just rolling out and having no data yet.

Now there's a format selector. You can go back to any format and see stats broken down per archetype, per card, and per deck. The data is there — this just surfaces it in a way that's actually usable.

Everything Else

A few things that'll probably go unnoticed but matter:

- Pricing shows up in more places across the app
- Drag-and-drop on zone management got better handling
- Default sort preferences are now saved per game to your account — so wherever you're using Sleeved, your preferences come with you

That last one sounds small but it adds up. You set it once, it sticks.

That's v0.13.0. Started as bug fixes, turned into a full layout rethink and a handful of features I'm genuinely glad are in the app now. If you've been using Sleeved and gave feedback that shaped any of this — thank you. It made a real difference.

Happy brewing!

– Varni