📱 AppSheet Tutorial 💻: Build Your Own Tarot App From Scratch

Ever wanted a tarot deck in your pocket, without spending a cent? In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I show you step-by-step how to build your own tarot app using Google Sheets and AppSheet. Over the course of these lessons, you’ll learn how to set up your card data, connect it to AppSheet, and create a simple app with a shuffle button and reading log—all free, no coding knowledge required.

In lesson 2 we fill your tarot deck with real card data, fast. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I show you how to use AI to quickly populate your spreadsheet and then link it into your AppSheet tarot app. You’ll learn how to generate basic card data, fix up your unique IDs so your app doesn’t break, and tweak the look of your app so it’s starting to feel like a real digital tarot deck.

In this lesson, we bring your tarot app to life by adding card images. I’ll walk you through two easy methods—linking image URLs from the web and uploading your own Creative Commons images into Google Drive—plus a quick trick to batch name and link all your files. By the end, your digital tarot deck won’t just work, it’ll look like a real deck in your pocket.

In this lesson, we upgrade our tarot app by replacing image links with a high-quality Rider-Waite-Smith deck from the Internet Archive, fix missing court cards, and then build a brand-new Readings table. You’ll learn how to reference cards from your deck, set up a readings view, and start creating an action button that pulls random cards. This is the foundation for making your app actually give readings.

In this lesson, we polish up the look and feel of our tarot app. You’ll learn how to make your app visually engaging by theming colours, adjusting icons, and displaying images dynamically using virtual columns. We’ll also add a timestamp column to track when each reading is created, and discuss when to use virtual vs. real columns in your Google Sheet. By the end, your app will not only work—it will look and feel like a personalised, custom-built tool.

In this lesson, we refine the tarot app with related lists and smarter image handling. Learn how to create clickable links between readings and cards, future-proof for analytics like card frequency graphs, and polish your app’s look. We’ll also debug the “Pull Cards” button with an IF expression to fix the comma bug, and tweak layouts for a cleaner display. A practical guide to tightening your build, troubleshooting, and improving user experience.

In this lesson, we build a Home tab as your app’s dashboard. You’ll add a new table and view, set it as the default landing page, and design a clean layout with a “Quick Pull” button to instantly draw and view a random tarot card—without saving it. We’ll also cover customizing icons, cleaning up the display, and adding a background image. By the end, your app will open to a polished dashboard with a one-click tarot experience.

In this lesson, we redesign your tarot app with a bold black and red theme, add a flame logo, and set a custom launch image. We fix the Quick Pull detail view so main cards show full info while Quick Pull stays minimal. You’ll also see how to speed up image loading, hide edit/delete buttons with the CONTEXT() expression, and clone the Quick Pull button to use directly in detail views—so you can pull again and again without leaving the screen.”

In this lesson, we supercharge the tarot app by using AppSheet’s [_INPUT] function. You’ll build a “Pull Reading” button that asks how many cards you want and shuffles that many in one go. We’ll also refine icons and labels, make the feature accessible from both the Readings view and the Home screen, and even add a “Save Pull” option for Quick Pulls. By the end, your app can handle full readings with just a tap.

In this lesson, we improve user experience by making the main image show the last card pulled, so each new draw updates dynamically. We refine the Pull Reading button with smart conditions—instant on blank readings, confirmation when overwriting existing cards—and add clear warning messages. You’ll also learn how to make buttons prominent, rename them for clarity, place Quick Pull in multiple views, and adjust the layout so the cards list is front and centre.

For this session, I used the custom tarot app we’ve been building in the AppSheet course to provide a reading in the style of my tarot videos. The spread touches on: Pushing through challenges at the very end of a cycle. Feeling boxed in, needing to shift perspective and open to new options. A breakthrough of joy, warmth, and vitality — embodying a kinder way of being with yourself. This reading doubles as a glimpse of how the app works in practice in it's current state of development.