custom

Summary

The player's own pack. Free, and never leaves the phone.

Raw wireframe

• .context/designs/mobile/setup/custom.html

Why it is drawn this way

This pack is FREE, and that is the whole argument. imposter.app ships custom words free; Zinance puts AI-generated decks behind Premium. The complaint driving the one-star reviews in this category is "the categories are locked" — giving away the one pack the player writes themselves defuses that without touching the seven we authored. Pro stays what is genuinely expensive to make: 749 hand-written hints. It is one constant, CUSTOM_WORDS_ARE_FREE, so flipping it is one edit.

A hint is optional, and the empty state says what a good one looks like. The differentiator is that "Will Smith" gives "Slap", not "Actor". We cannot write hints for a player's inside jokes, but we can show the standard once and then get out of the way. Leave it blank and the imposter gets no hint for that word — which is honest, and exactly what every competitor does for all of theirs.

Three pairs minimum. Below that the pack cannot be selected and the CTA says why. A control that cannot be operated is a sentence, not a greyed-out button.

The footer counts words and hints separately, because here they differ. Same rule as the ten shipped packs: the UI reads the real count, so nothing anywhere advertises a number the app cannot back. See packs.

Add sits at the top and the newest word lands under it. Nobody opens this screen to admire it — they are mid-party with four people waiting, and the thing they most want to see is that what they just typed went in.

Every rejection is a sentence under the field. "Already in there" and "that hint is the word" are different mistakes, and the player can only fix the one they actually made. See add-word.

It never leaves the phone. No backend, no account, no sync — the same promise the rest of the app makes, and the reason this costs nothing to run.

Open question for review: one custom pack, or several named ones? One keeps the model flat and the packs grid at eleven tiles. Several is what a group with both "work in-jokes" and "family" would want. Drawn here as one.

Related

• add-word
• packs
• paywall

Sources

• .context/designs/mobile/setup/custom.html
• src/app/setup/custom.tsx
• src/lib/custom-words.ts — MIN_CUSTOM_WORDS, MAX_CUSTOM_WORDS
• src/data/categories.ts — CUSTOM_WORDS_ARE_FREE