For iPad & iPhone
Group Games
This device is the table.
70 family games on one screen in the middle of the table: boards, arcade duels, cards, dice and learning games. For games with secret hands, everyone joins from their own phone with nothing to install. No internet, no accounts, no tracking.
Coming soon to the App Store
Cheat, mid-game: the shared table on the iPad, secret hands on the phones, and somebody is lying.
70
games, one purchase
10
players in the biggest games
0
internet, accounts or trackers
Nothing
to install on anyone’s phone
How it works
Scan the code, and you are in
The host sits flat in the middle of the table and shows the shared game: the board, the piles, the dice. For the 22 games playable with phones in hand, the lobby shows a QR code; scanning it opens the game in each player’s own browser. Their phone shows only what is private to them, and everyone looks at the host for the table.
- Nothing to install: it is a QR code and the phone’s own browser
- A phone that sleeps or drops picks up exactly where it was on reopening the page. If one dies mid-game, the host issues a transfer code and another device takes over the seat
- No internet needed: any Wi-Fi network works, even one with no connection to the outside world, and away from home a Personal Hotspot does the job
- The host keeps itself awake during a game, and phones get a stay-awake toggle
The games
70 games. Seven free to keep.
Board, arcade, card, dice and learning games, every one with full rules built in. Seven games are free to keep and one purchase opens the rest. See how each looks with an iPad or an iPhone as the table, and tap any game with phones for a look at the players’ screens.
All 70 games, as they look mid-game on the iPad host.
Pick your table
Best on an iPad, works on a phone
The best experience is an iPad flat on the table, with its big shared board and eleven-point touch screen. Everything also works with an iPhone as the host, with a few honest limitations:
- A phone tracks five simultaneous touches to an iPad’s eleven and has less elbow room, so five of the biggest games seat fewer players on a phone host. Every other game seats the same on both
- Go offers 9x9, 13x13 and the full 19x19 board on an iPad; a phone host plays 9x9, which is all a phone screen can hold
- The drawing games’ easel takes Apple Pencil and finger both, with real palm rejection. iPad only, by nature
- Phones joining as players have no such limits: any phone with a browser joins any phone game
Tournaments
Crown a champion. Hand out the wooden spoon.
A whole area of the app. Tournaments live alongside game history, survive app restarts mid-fixture, and pause between game nights. Six formats:
Event
A named stretch of time: a holiday, a weekend, a games night. Every game finished while it is counting goes on its leaderboard, whoever plays.
Championship
Pick players and games and the app builds the fixture list. Tap Play on a fixture and the lobby opens ready-seated.
League
Fixed players, chosen games, no fixtures: any qualifying game counts automatically whenever it is played. First to N wins can end it by itself.
Knockout cup
One game, a random draw, straight elimination. Rounds label themselves Final, Semi-finals, Quarter-finals.
Pick your weapon
Everyone nominates the game they fancy their chances at, then the whole group plays every nomination. Winning somebody else’s weapon is twice the bragging rights.
Lucky dip
Pick a pool of games and how many to play; the dip draws them at random. Nobody knows what is coming, but nothing outside the pool can come.
- Fixtures can be a single game, best of 3 or best of 5, and the game-over screen knows it is inside one: “game 1 of 3 played”, with a Next game button
- A fixture’s lobby options are remembered, so a chosen question pack is picked once, not five times
- Ending a tournament crowns the champion and hands the wooden spoon to last place
- Every ended tournament shares as a one-page A4 PDF: champion card, ranked standings with avatars, a bar chart in each player’s colour, and the wooden spoon footnote. AirDrop it, message it, or print it
Leaderboards & stats
Built for gloating
Everything ever played on the host goes into a local history: no account, no cloud, just the family record, ready to settle who really is best at Yatzy.
- Leaderboards by game and time range: all time, this year, last 30 days, today. A crown for first, a flame for anyone on a streak
- Record scores per game: a hall of fame where records are broken, not shared
- Tap any player for their lifetime page: win rate, longest streak, a trophy beside every record they hold, and a scores-over-time chart
- The game-over screen prints each player’s lifetime line: “3 wins in 11 games, best 284”
Rules included
The arguments end here
Every one of the 70 games ships full rules, each with a common questions section, readable offline on the host and on every phone.
Rules everywhere
A book icon in the lobby and on every table screen, plus a rules index in Settings. Search prunes the page to matching passages.
Ask about the rules
On devices with Apple Intelligence, ask a plain-English question and get an answer grounded strictly in that game’s rule text. Entirely on device.
Send a rule to a phone
Long-press any passage on the host and send it to one player, or to all of them.
“Fine, fine”
The player’s phone shows the rule full screen: “The host would like you to read this rule”, with a dismiss button labelled Fine, fine. Argument settled.
Family friendly
Grown-ups decide what comes out of the box
Sensible controls for a family device, none of them getting in the way of games night.
Grown-ups controls
Behind Face ID or the device passcode: lock any game away and it disappears from the picker, tournaments and the rules entirely.
Rude-word filter
On by default in Wordsboard, so words you would not want read out at the table are simply not accepted. Switch it off for a household with no children.
Your own question packs
About 2,300 quiz questions ship in the box, and you can import your own packs from a file, a spreadsheet, or another family via AirDrop.
Made for little ones
A curated flag in the picker marks 17 games that work for small children, from Pairs and Snap to Snakes and Ladders.
The details
Little things that make it feel like games night
Avatars and colours
Every player has an emoji avatar and a chip colour that follows them everywhere: seat chips, phone screens, stats charts, the tournament PDF.
Matches, not just games
Many games play as a set, with cumulative totals and a match winner crowned. Yatzy defaults to its traditional six games.
Full score pads
Every game of a match keeps its full score pad, so the arguments have evidence.
Ticker-tape moments
Big moments get a proper celebration. A real Yatzy rains ticker tape.
Three deck designs
Pick from three deck colours in Settings and the cards re-skin on the host and every phone.
Table players
Someone without a phone can be added in the lobby; their controls appear on the host screen on their turn. Table and phone players mix freely.
Private by architecture
No internet, no accounts, no tracking
Not a promise buried in a policy: a consequence of how the app is built.
Everything on one device
The app hosts its own local server; nothing is ever fetched from the internet. Games, history, tournaments: all of it lives on the host.
No accounts, no tracking
Nothing to sign up for, nothing watching how your family plays. There is no server of ours to send anything to.
Phones join locally
Player phones talk directly to the host over your own network or hotspot. Nothing to install, nothing leaves the room.
Even the AI is offline
Rules questions are answered by Apple Intelligence on the device itself, so it works in a field with no signal at all.
The details, in full: Group Games Privacy Policy
Pricing
Free to download. Seven games free to keep.
The free games are not a trial and they do not expire. They span cards, dice, board and arcade play, with and without phones in hand, from solo Yatzy to a full quiz night.
Free to keep
Free yours from the first download
- Quiz Quest Round the Q, one token a subject, then the middle.
- Snakes and Ladders Climb the ladders, dodge the snakes.
- Snap Two tops match. Slam first.
- Tennis Bat it back. Miss and they score.
- Crazy Eights Shed your cards; eights are wild.
- Pairs Find the matching pairs.
- Yatzy Roll for the best scorecard.
The All Games unlock
One-off purchase
- One purchase opens all 70 games
- No subscription, no adverts, nothing to sign up for
- Family Sharing included, so one purchase covers the household’s devices
- Until then, locked games sit in the picker as padlocked previews
One iPad in the middle of the table.
A whole games cupboard inside it.
Requires iOS 17 or later. Built by PDS Technology in the UK.
Coming soon to the App Store
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