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Manage all of your Battle.net accounts in one place — and let the app start Heroes of the Storm for an account, log in, and read rank, heroes and currencies straight out of the running game.
Windows only. No account, no telemetry, no data about you anywhere but on your machine:
everything lives in C:\Users\YOUR_USER\.smurftown. The app makes exactly one request,
once an hour — it asks GitHub whether a newer version exists. What that is, and what it is
not.
One row per account and region. Rank, heroes, gold, shards, gems and loot chests in that row were not typed in — the app read them out of the running game. Everything below is about how.
Every screenshot on this page was taken against made-up demo accounts. No battletag and no address here belongs to anyone.
- Add and edit Battle.net accounts — one row per account, sorted and filterable
- Store login credentials and copy e-mail or password with a single click
- A password is optional. Leave it blank and every feature still works except the automated start — sign the account into Heroes of the Storm yourself, then read it back with the header chip described further down. The row's start menu is the only thing that disappears; it has nothing left to offer without a password to type into the game's login form.
- Archive accounts you stopped using instead of deleting them — there is no delete button, on purpose: one misclick in a list of look-alike rows should not be the last step
- Adding an account back under an e-mail that is archived restores it, rather than duplicating it. Its battletag, rank, heroes and every region it was ever ticked for come back; only what you actually type or read this time overwrites them.
- Filter by name, by game, or by hero
- Filter by rank and sort the list. For Heroes of the Storm, eight rank chips — Unranked through Grand Master — narrow the list to one or several ranks at once; Unranked covers both an account never read and one read with no rank set. Next to it, a sort control (last read, name, rank, gold, heroes read, with a click to reverse the direction) and a count of matching accounts are available for every game, not only Heroes of the Storm.
- An empty list explains itself. No accounts yet, and the window shows the two ways to fill it instead of a blank area: type one in by hand with its e-mail and password, or start Heroes of the Storm yourself and sign in — Battledeck reads it out of the game the moment you do.
An archived account does not disappear, it moves out of the way. The toggle in the toolbar shows that half of the list instead, and the same button in the row puts an account back.
- Mark which games an account plays: Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Diablo
- Pick the regions an account plays in. Progress in Heroes of the Storm is tied to the region, so an account that plays in both Europe and the Americas has two ranks, two hero collections and two gold counts. Each region you tick gets its own row, and the region filter switches between them.
The game filter is a view, not just a filter. Pick Overwatch and every row shows what is known about Overwatch — which today is nothing, and it says so rather than pretending otherwise.
The region filter switches between the rows of one account. Below are the same battletags as
further up, but their Americas side: different rank, different heroes, different gold.
HALFMOONBAY has Americas ticked and has never been read there, so it shows dashes instead of
zeroes — a zero would claim the account owns nothing, and that is not something we know.
Everything about one account sits in one dialog. The battletag is shown, not typed: it comes out of the game the first time the account is read.
- Start and log in. Pick an account from the row's start menu — the app launches the game, selects the region of that row and types the credentials for you. All three regions work; the game forgets the setting on every start and after every sign-out, so the app sets it each time.
The four entries are four jobs, not four ways of doing one. Play starts the game and stops there — if you sat down to play, you do not want the app clicking through menus for the next minute. The other three read the account afterwards and differ only in what happens after that.
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Read the account, automatically. Storm League rank and division, pending placement matches, account level, owned heroes, gold, shards, gems and unopened loot chests — all of it read off the game screen by the app and written straight into the record of the region you signed in to. Nothing to confirm, nothing to copy by hand; a toast afterwards names every value that changed.
That is what fills the tab below. You can still correct any of it yourself — but you rarely need to, and a field the app could not read is left alone rather than overwritten with a guess.
Everything on that tab belongs to one region; the switcher at the top says which. Play in two, and you maintain two.
- Or skip the start menu — read whoever is already signed in. The moment Heroes of the Storm is running, a chip appears in Battledeck's own header. Click it and the app reads that account the same way, without touching the game's own sign-in at all: it signs nobody out and closes nothing. Sign into a battletag Battledeck has never seen, and the chip creates the account on the spot instead of refusing it — no password stored, no e-mail typed, nothing asked.
- Open loot chests. Opens every unopened chest first, so the numbers that follow are the ones after opening, not before.
- Free hero rotation. The rotation repeats on a yearly calendar, and that calendar ships with the app — no maintenance, no external source, nothing to fetch.
- Filter by hero. Pick one or more and the list keeps every account that owns any of them — or can play them free this period. The ring around each portrait is the hero's role, and the small Nexus badge marks the ones that are free right now.
Two heroes picked, four rows left of eight:
- Leaver penalty counter per account, one click up, right click down — and read out of the game along with everything else.
Everything is read by looking at the game window and recognising text on it. No memory reading, no injection, no API keys, nothing that touches Blizzard's servers beyond a normal login.
Two things about your game client decide whether the app can read it: the language of its text and the size of its window. Both are listed here in full, because a wrong answer to either one is quiet — nothing crashes, nothing is logged, simply nothing gets read.
Heroes of the Storm offers five text languages under Options → Language and Region → Text Language (the second list; the first one only changes the voices and does not matter here). The app compares what it reads against the wording that language puts on screen:
| Text language in the game | Supported |
|---|---|
Deutsch |
✅ yes — the default, and the one everything was measured against |
English (US) |
✅ yes — checked word by word against a running client |
Français |
✅ yes — measured on a running client, including all 16 hero names that differ |
Español (ES) |
✅ yes — measured on a running client |
Español (AL) |
✅ yes — measured; ten hero names differ from the Spain version |
Tell the app which of the five you run — Settings → Client language. Hero names, rank tiers and screen labels are matched against the wording the client shows, so a mismatch means nothing gets read at all. Where nothing is recognised, nothing is written: the app leaves yesterday's numbers alone rather than replacing them with something wrong.
Two gaps outside German and English. The word the game shows while your placement matches are still open has not been measured in French or Spanish, and of the rank tiers only the one the test account happened to hold was verified — the rest are the usual ladder and could be off. If a rank or a pending placement is not picked up on those languages, that is why; everything else reads normally.
For the best results, install the Windows language pack that matches your client language. The text recognition uses whatever Windows has; without the matching pack it falls back to another language, which still works for Latin script but gets less reliable on accented words.
Changing it is done in the game, not here — and it needs a restart, plus a download the first time you pick a language that was never installed.
Settings save as you change them; there is no save button anywhere in this app. The same tab is where the app finds your Heroes of the Storm installation — it looks in the usual places by itself, and Scan all drives is there for when yours is somewhere unusual.
The app does not remember coordinates; it remembers anchors — an edge or a centre, plus a distance from it — and scales those distances by the window's height. The width only decides which edge an element clings to, so any width at a given height behaves identically.
| Resolution | Reading from the game |
|---|---|
| 3440 × 1440 | ✅ yes — the reference everything was measured at |
| 2560 × 1080 | ✅ yes — measured |
| 1920 × 1080 | ✅ yes — measured |
| any other height | untested — likely fine, but nobody has checked |
| any other width at 1440, 1080 | ✅ same as the row above it, the width does not enter the maths |
Windowed or borderless fullscreen both work; the app measures the client area, not the window frame. Remote Desktop does not — the session takes the resolution of the machine you sit at, not the one the game runs on, and every measurement comes out wrong.
Once an hour, for as long as it is open, Battledeck asks GitHub whether a newer release exists. The request is anonymous and carries nothing about you, your accounts or what you did with them — it is the same question anyone can put to a public repository. If there is something newer, the version chip in the top right corner says so; a click opens this:
Install downloads the release, checks it against the published SHA-256 checksum and puts it
in place; the app restarts itself. Where it may not replace its own file — an installation
under Program Files, a folder without write permission, a build straight out of the IDE — the
button opens the release page instead and says why. Which of the two applies to your
installation is written in Settings → About & updates.
The checksum proves less than it looks like. Hash and file come from the same release over the same connection, so it answers one question — is this the file the release says it is — and not the other one: who built it. Nothing here is signed, see below.
There is no switch to turn the check off, and that is deliberate. A setting nobody finds is not consent; the honest move is to state the request plainly, which is what this section does. If you want no outbound traffic at all, block the application in your firewall — the check fails silently and everything else keeps working.
Grab Battledeck_<version>_win-x64.zip from
Releases, unpack it anywhere and run
Battledeck.exe. There is nothing to install: the app keeps everything in
C:\Users\YOUR_USER\.smurftown and leaves the rest of your machine alone.
You need the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime. Get it from dot.net/download — Desktop Runtime, x64. Without it Windows says the app cannot start.
Windows will warn you. The download is not signed with a certificate Microsoft trusts, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info → Run anyway.
Each release also carries a checksums.txt. To check what you downloaded, in PowerShell:
Get-FileHash .\Battledeck_1.0.0_win-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256Requirements:
| Windows | 10 build 19041 (May 2020) or newer — the app uses the text recognition built into Windows |
| Runtime | .NET 8 Desktop Runtime, x64 — install it yourself, see above |
| Rights | plain user — no administrator rights |
- Run several accounts one after another, with pacing between logins and a stop on the first failed one
- Handle a two-factor prompt instead of running into the timeout
- Account details for Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Diablo — today those rows only show that the game is ticked
From Releases.
Once an hour it asks api.github.com whether a newer release exists — anonymously, with nothing
about you or your accounts in the request. Say yes to the offer and it downloads that release
from GitHub as well. That is the whole of the traffic this app produces on its own; see
Updates. Everything else happens on this machine, and the only other thing that
leaves it is the game's own login, typed into the game's own login screen.
In local files only, inside the .smurftown folder in your home directory
(C:\Users\YOUR_USER\.smurftown). Your account list lives in data.yaml.
Passwords are stored in plain text. That is what makes copying and typing them possible, and it is the deliberate trade this app makes — treat the folder like the password store it is.
No. Leave the password field blank when you add an account by hand, or skip the dialog entirely — start Heroes of the Storm yourself, sign in, and use the header chip's "Refresh": Battledeck creates the account from what it reads and never sees the password at all. What you lose without one is the automated start; reading rank, heroes and currencies back out of the game keeps working exactly the same.
Those are its regions. An account gets one row per region it plays in, because rank, heroes and
currencies differ between them — the same battletag can be Platinum in Europe and Bronze in the
Americas. The EU, AM or AS badge next to the battletag says which row is which, and the
region filter in the toolbar shows one region at a time.
You can't. Read the source and decide for yourself.
Because the executable is not signed with a code-signing certificate, and one that Microsoft
trusts costs money this project does not have. The warning is honest: Windows genuinely cannot
tell who built the file. If that bothers you, build it yourself from source — .\dev.cmd release produces the same ZIP the release does.
Because that is the only place the data exists. Blizzard offers no public interface for hero ownership, rank or currencies, so the app opens the relevant screens, takes a picture and reads the text on it — the same way you would, only faster and without the typing.
No, a plain user account is enough. Heroes of the Storm brings its own login screen when you start it directly, so the app never has to touch anything outside your home directory.