MiniTavern BlogSilly Tavern in English

Practical articles on local LLMs, World Info / Lorebook, and MiniTavern for iOS & Android; the seven-day series is maintained in Japanese on Silly Tavern 101.

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Many models

OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and more—cloud or local.

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Deep customization

Character cards, Lorebook, presets, and extensions for roleplay and writing.

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Privacy-friendly

Self-hosted chats and settings can stay on your machine with local backends.

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Play on mobile too

MiniTavern on iOS / Android—import cards and connect APIs.

What is Silly Tavern?

Silly Tavern is an open-source front-end for AI character chat—great for roleplay, long plots, and worldbuilding. Character cards and World Info (Lorebook) help you feed consistent persona and setting to the model.

This English hub highlights translated and original posts. The full seven-day introduction series is maintained on the Japanese site (Japanese body text). Use the language menu for English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Русский, etc.

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Course (Japanese)

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Seven-day course (Japanese · Silly Tavern 101)

The lesson pages below are written in Japanese—use a translator if needed.

What is Silly Tavern?

Concepts, history, and features (Japanese text)

Install on macOS

Environment to first launch (Japanese text)

Character cards

Find, make, import (Japanese text)

Connect AI models

Cloud APIs (Japanese text)

Local models · Ollama

Offline and wiring into ST (Japanese text)

Advanced customization

Prompts, parameters, UI (Japanese text)

Mobile & MiniTavern

Mobile options overview (Japanese text)

Featured articles & links

MiniTavern iOS version v1.5.3 (online version) release announcement

Streaming on iOS v1.5.3 may cause send failures. Turn it off in Settings. Android v1.5.3 is unaffected; iOS v1.5.4 is in review.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-08-21

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[Mid-August 2026 Update] MiniTavern v1.5.2 / v1.5.3: Thoughts, chat checkpoints, and in-chat card edits

iOS is on v1.5.3; Android is still on v1.5.2. Member Thoughts, chat checkpoints, and in-chat card edits.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-08-14

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Character Card Manager (for Silly Tavern) v2.0.0 — redesign and character card data fixes

v2.0.0 redesigns home and settings; plus v1.8.5 / v1.8.4 fixes for field preservation, lorebook settings, share URLs, and multi-select.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-08-03

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Silly Tavern character card free translation browser extension — Character Card Manager (v1.6.0)

Silly Tavern character card free translation browser extension: built-in Google Translate from v1.6.0 — no separate site or subscription; translate English card metadata.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-06-04

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MiniTavern v1.5.0 & v1.5.1: LLM config, member models, and chat UX

Store builds live on iOS and Android: OpenAI-format LLM, Kimi, OpenRouter, GPT-5.5 / Claude Fable 5, global model config, and chat UX fixes.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-08-03

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LM Studio guide: connect local models in Silly Tavern and MiniTavern

LM Studio local server, Silly Tavern Text Completion, and MiniTavern Other LLM setup examples and troubleshooting.

📝 MiniTavern Blog2026-06-05

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Silly Tavern official docs

Install, connections, and advanced topics.

📚 docs.sillytavern.app

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MiniTavern tutorial (site)

Official English walkthrough—cards and API basics.

📱 mini-tavern.com

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PRs with fixes or new guides welcome—this helps everyone learning Silly Tavern.

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