Offline Clash Royale decks
DeckBeacon's native client ships the ranked catalog offline. The website needs a connection to load; copy-deck still requires the Clash Royale app.
"Offline Clash Royale decks" on DeckBeacon means the native client carries a bundled ranked catalog. You can browse, filter, and open a copy link without waiting on our servers. The website you are reading now is the online half of the same product: it fetches the live snapshot when it can, and falls back to a committed catalog when the backend is down, but it is still a website.
The catalog is the same contract on both surfaces — CatalogV3, the same filters, the same validated link.clashroyale.com URLs. Changing filter behaviour in one client without the other is how the products drift, so they share the query cases.
What offline actually covers
- Browse and filter the last bundled snapshot, including elixir, cycle, Evolutions, and include/exclude cards
- Favorites stored on the device
- Copy links that are already on each deck — opening them still needs Clash Royale installed
Offline does not invent new battles. If you last synced yesterday, you are looking at yesterday's snapshot. The live site refreshes from the published catalog (revalidate window: 30 minutes on the web loader; the crawl itself is daily).
What it is not
It is not an offline Clash Royale client. You cannot play matches, collect chests, or unlock cards inside DeckBeacon. Import still hands off to Supercell's game.
It is not a seven-day history you keep on disk. The bundled file is one snapshot. Older decks that have rotated out of the top 200 may still resolve on the website via the known-decks archive, with an out-of-meta banner — that is a web permanence feature, not a local time machine.
It is not player lookup on a plane. There is no player search online either. Does DeckBeacon search players?
When the website is the right surface anyway
Share a deck URL. Read methodology and the glossary. Compare tools. Those pages are this origin. The app is for the subway test: open the list, copy, go.
Store listings are not linked here until the App Store ID exists; the Android package is com.gamex.deckbeacon. Is DeckBeacon free?