Around You: Scan, Invite, Play

The Creative App Studio

Contains ads

About this game

Waiting for a train? Stuck at the gate? Around U finds the people sitting near
you and turns the wait into a game.

Around U is a Bluetooth multiplayer game hub. It connects two to four phones
directly over Bluetooth — no internet, no wifi, no signal, no account. If you
can see each other, you can play each other.

FIND PLAYERS AROUND YOU
Open the radar and watch it sweep. Anyone nearby running Around U shows up,
ready to invite. Tap, they accept, and you are playing. Other Bluetooth devices
in range show up too, and you can pair with them without leaving the app.

23 GAMES
Board: Ludo, Chess, Checkers, Dominoes
Strategy: Five in a Row, Reversi, Nine Men's Morris, Mancala, Ultimate Tic Tac
Toe, Quarto, Battleship
Quick: Tic Tac Toe, Connect Four, Dots & Boxes, Memory Match, Nim
Cards: Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Sevens
Luck: Snakes & Ladders, Pig, Dice Duel, Tambola

Every game carries a short Rules card you can open mid-match, so nobody has to
remember how Nine Men's Morris works.

NOBODY AROUND? PLAY THE COMPUTER
Every game has an offline opponent, and games that seat more than two let you
add one, two or three bots. Start a bot game while you wait — a real player can
still find you and join.

CHAT WHILE YOU PLAY
Table chat is built in, with quick canned messages if you would rather not
type. Every message is encrypted end to end between the two phones, with fresh
keys for each session that are thrown away when it ends. Both screens show a
matching six-digit code so you can see the connection is direct.

WHEN SOMEONE WALKS AWAY
Bluetooth range is short and people move. If a player drifts out of range the
app beeps, tells you who dropped, and a bot takes over their seat so the game
keeps going. If they come back, they take their seat again.

PLAY AGAIN INSTANTLY
Finishing a game does not disconnect you. Anyone you have played stays in your
Played before list, so the rematch is one tap.

NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING
Pick a name and one of twelve avatars. That is everything anyone sees. There is
no sign-up, no phone number, no email, no server. The app cannot read your
contacts, photos, messages, files, microphone or camera — it does not request
those permissions at all. Your moves and messages go over Bluetooth to the
person you are playing and stop there.

Around U is free and supported by ads. There are never ads during a game.

Made for platforms, gate lounges, bus stands, waiting rooms and long queues —
anywhere there are people and nothing to do.

Download Around U and play the person next to you.

What’s new

First release.

20+ games you can play over Bluetooth with whoever is sitting near you — Ludo,
Chess, Snakes & Ladders, Connect Four, Battleship, Tambola and more.

No internet, no account, no sign-up. A radar to find nearby players, a bot to
play against when nobody is around, and end-to-end encrypted chat while you
play.