Friends with Modems Classic games with the people you love.

Friends with Modems

Blackjack

Twenty-one with everyone you love. Points, never money.

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Solitaire

Solitaire, free. Share one table over FaceTime, or race the same deal.

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Mahjong

The calm tile game. Clear a board together, or race.

On the App Store View Mahjong

Hearts

Four at the table again, wherever each of you is.

In development View Hearts

Spades

Partner with the one who always knows what you're thinking.

In testing View Spades

Euchre

The after-dinner game, for kitchens miles apart.

Planned View Euchre

Poker

Poker night is back. Up to six friends, points never money.

In development View Poker

Mancala

Passed down for centuries, and still played together.

Planned View Mancala

Artillery

The tank duel you remember. Aim, mind the wind, fire.

In development View Artillery
Why we exist

Everyone you love, back at one table

Remember how it felt? A deck of cards, a kitchen table, and the people you love, laughing too loud and staying up too late. It was never really about the game. Then life scattered us: different towns, different time zones. So we took the games everyone already knows and put the whole table in your pocket. One tap, and your best friend three states away is sitting right across from you.

One tap, and they're in

Start a game from FaceTime or Messages. Your friend taps once, and they're at your table. No accounts. No codes. No setup.

Across the table, or across the country

Play live on a call. In many games, take turns over days, whenever life allows. An empty seat? A fair computer player takes it.

Only the people you know

No strangers. No chat rooms. No public lobbies. Your games travel through Apple, never through us. We never see them, and we like it that way.

Playing together is always free

Hosting is free. Joining is free. An invitation should never end at a paywall, and here it never will.

How we make them

Easy. Clean. Private. Beautiful. Fun.

Somewhere along the way, the games we love got buried under ads, timers, coins and pop-ups. We took all of it out, and put everything we have into the game itself, and the people you play it with.

Easy to use

Open the app and play. Large, clear type. One obvious next step on every screen. The same controls in every game, so the second one feels familiar. And a friend joins with one tap.

Clean look and feel

Calm. No pop-ups, badges or nag screens. No coins, timers or energy bars. Just the table, the game, and the people across from you.

Privacy

No ads, no subscriptions, no tracking, ever. No accounts and no servers of ours. Your games stay on your device, or in your own iCloud if you choose, and friends play travels through Apple, never through us.

Beautiful

Every table made by hand, for its game. Warm felt. Finished cards and pieces. Soft light. Made to look good for years, not to shout for your attention.

Fun to play

Honest shuffles and honest dice. Computer players who never peek. Levels from relaxed to a real challenge. And the best part: the laughs and the rivalry of playing people you know.

The apps

Twenty-one classics. Everyone you love.

Every app stands on its own, and every one is made for playing together. One design, one promise, and one standard of quality. That standard is high.

Blackjack

Twenty-one with up to five of the people you love, each against the same dealer. Points, never money.

Being publishedLearn more

Solitaire

Solitaire, free, and every deal can be won. Share one table on a call, race the same deal, or play Double Solitaire. In five languages.

On the App StoreLearn more

Mahjong

The quiet tile-matching game, with large, clear tiles. Clear a board together, or race.

On the App StoreLearn more

Hearts

Sunday Hearts with Mom, six hundred miles apart. Up to four of you, each with your own hand.

In developmentLearn more

Spades

The great partnership game. Team up with a friend, or play against them, up to four of you.

In testingLearn more

Cribbage

The classic for two, on a proper board. Live on a call, or a move at a time over days.

PlannedLearn more

Euchre

Fast, clever and made for company. Two teams of two, in four different kitchens.

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Poker

Poker night with up to six friends, near or far. Everyone starts with the same points, never money.

In developmentLearn more

Checkers

The board game everyone learned from someone. Play them again, live or a move a day.

PlannedLearn more

Chinese Checkers

Up to six around the star, hopping in long, clever chains. The whole family at once.

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Backgammon

The ancient race game for two old rivals. Honest dice that neither phone can choose.

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Reversi

One disc, and a whole row flips your way. A minute to learn, and a lifetime of rematches.

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Dominoes

The family game for generations. Up to four of you, head to head or as partners.

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Sudoku

Solve one puzzle together, or race on the same one. Hints that teach, and no lives.

In testingLearn more

Four in a Row

Four in a line. The game a seven-year-old can beat you at, and then ask for one more.

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Mancala

Sow, capture and fill your store. Passed down for centuries, and still played together.

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Yatzy

Five dice and a table full of friends, up to six of you. Honest dice, every roll.

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Tic-Tac-Toe

Made for playing together. A match on a long call, or a move a day with someone far away.

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Hangman

Pick a word for a friend, then guess theirs. Up to six of you, with family-safe words.

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Ludo

The loud, happy family race game for two to four. Honest dice, every roll.

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Artillery

The tank duel you remember, across ten of Earth's great places. You against the computer today, and a friend in the other tank next.

In developmentLearn more
Where we're going

One collection. Every device. The same promise.

Solitaire and Mahjong are on the App Store now, and Blackjack is on its way. The rest follow, one carefully finished app at a time, in the order people most want them. No shortcuts.

Now

Solitaire and Mahjong

On the App Store now, for iPhone and iPad.

Next

Blackjack, Sudoku and Spades

Blackjack is being published. Sudoku and Spades are in testing, the last step before release.

Then

Poker, Dominoes, Hearts and Artillery

In development now. Each its own app, each made for playing together. Artillery is our first classic video game: the tank duel, turn by turn.

Later

Board games and family games

Backgammon, Euchre, Checkers, Cribbage, Reversi and Chinese Checkers. Then Four in a Row, Mancala, Yatzy, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman and Ludo. And then, the whole collection on Android.

About the studio

Independent, on purpose

Friends with Modems answers to the people who play our games, and no one else. Advertisers don't pay us. We don't sell data. Our only income is people who love an app enough to buy Pro. That keeps it simple: make something excellent, and treat the people who play it well.

Our name goes back to the first time games brought friends together across a distance. Two modems, a phone line, and someone you knew on the other end. It felt like magic. We're doing it again, minus the dial tone.

Every app is built natively for its platform. Every rule and every shuffle is tested. Every release is checked at the largest text size, with VoiceOver, in light and in dark. The details matter.

Friends with Modems

Bring everyone back to the table.

Solitaire and Mahjong are on the App Store now, both for iPhone and iPad. Start with a deck of cards.

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