The people you love. One tap away.
The classics you grew up with, made to be played together again. Near or far.
Reconnecting people through the classic games they remember.
A deck of cards. A kitchen table. The people you love, up far too late.
It was never about the game.
Then life scattered us. So we asked one question.
What if the whole table fit in your pocket?
That is what we make. Every decision starts here.
What the film shows: Sunday cards with Mom. Summer days with friends. 600 miles apart, but in the same room. Designed for solo and multiplayer. The games you remember. Most come with ads, tracking, or subscriptions. Ours never will. Classic games with the people you love. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Friends with Modems. All reimagined to be played with your family and friends. Visit us on the App Store or at friendswithmodems.com.
One tap. They’re in.
No accounts. No codes. No setup. You start a game from FaceTime or Messages, and your friend taps once.
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Across the table, or across the country
Play live on a call. In many games, take turns over days. An empty seat? A fair computer player takes it.
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Only the people you know
No strangers. No chat rooms. No public lobbies. Just the people you invite.
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Through Apple, never through us
Your games travel through Apple. We never see them. We have no servers to see them with.
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Playing together is always free
Hosting is free. Joining is free. An invitation should never end at a paywall.
Five principles. Nothing else.
Somewhere along the way, the games we love got buried under ads, timers, coins and pop-ups. We took all of it out. What is left is the game, and the people you play it with.
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Easy to use
Open the app. Play.
Large, clear type. One obvious next step on every screen. The same controls in every game. A friend joins with one tap.
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Clean look and feel
We took everything out.
No pop-ups, badges or nag screens. No coins, timers or energy bars. Just the table, the game, and the people across from you.
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Privacy
What is yours stays yours.
No accounts, and no servers of ours. Your games stay on your device, or in your own iCloud. Play with friends travels through Apple.
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Beautiful
Made by hand. Made to last.
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.
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Fun to play
A fair game, with people you know.
Honest shuffles and honest dice. Computer players who never peek. Levels from relaxed to a real challenge. The laughs and rivalry of people you know.
No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Ever.
We answer to the people who play our games. No one else.
- Free to downloadEvery app. No trial clock.
- One optional Pro purchaseOnce. Never a subscription.
- Together is always freeHosting and joining, both.
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.
Being published
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.