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Ritmera

Ritmera: Party Music Quiz

Your music app, your friends, one phone: name that song!

Guess the song with friends around one phone, using your own music app.

Coming soon to Google Play Watch the trailer

Free on Android. Not on Google Play yet: check back soon.

Ritmera key art
Price
Free
Platform
Android
Players
1-12 players
Offline
Partly offline
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Age rating
Made for 13+

Trailer

The video loads from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only when you press play.

What is Ritmera?

Put the phone in the middle of the table and let the music start. Ritmera turns your own music app into a party game: a song plays, and the player whose turn it is races to name the artist, the title, or both.

Ritmera plays nothing by itself. It controls the music app you already use (for example Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music or TIDAL) and reads what is playing to check the answers. Free accounts work too: when your app plays an ad, Ritmera simply waits.

How to play

  1. Everyone sits around the phone. Each player or team gets a seat on the screen edge, turned to face them.
  2. Pick a playlist: hits of every decade, rock, party, Latin, Brazilian, movies and kids, or your own.
  3. A short excerpt plays from a random point of the song. Tap GUESS when you know it.
  4. Artist or title is 1 point. Going for both is all or nothing: 3 points, or none.
  5. Say it out loud or type it. First to the target wins, or play on until everyone has a place on the podium.

Ways to play

Ritmera screenshot: Up to 8 players around the phone

New game

The classic way: 1 to 8 players or teams take turns around one phone. The controls turn towards whoever's turn it is.

Fastest answer (several phones)

2 to 12 phones. One phone is the radio and plays the music, every phone is a buzzer. The first buzz freezes the others and you answer on your own phone. A wrong answer locks you out for that song.

Screens

Ritmera screenshot: One phone, the whole table plays
One phone, the whole table plays
Ritmera screenshot: Your own music app, your playlists
Your own music app, your playlists
Ritmera screenshot: Name that song before time runs out
Name that song before time runs out
Ritmera screenshot: Say it or type it: the keyboard turns to you
Say it or type it: the keyboard turns to you
Ritmera screenshot: Artist and title? Three points, all or nothing
Artist and title? Three points, all or nothing

Why you'll love it

Meet the cast

VinnyThe radio

Vinny

The spinning record who hosts the music party game. Vinny talks between excerpts, never over the music: whose turn it is, the charts after each round, the match point and the winner.

The radio

Vinny's little cherry radio, who calls out the players' names. Its needle sweeps and a bit of static plays, as if it is tuning in to you.

The music

Fourteen upbeat menu tunes in fourteen styles: rock, pop, blues, disco, funk, surf, ska, rockabilly, synthwave, house, Latin, samba, punk and soul. The songs you guess come from your own music app.

Updates

Version 1.1.0

In the next update
  • Now in German, French and Italian
  • You can also say your answers out loud in German, French and Italian
  • Fastest answer: every phone can now vote to skip a song nobody knows
  • The winner now stands on the highest step of the podium
  • Fastest answer: the reconnecting notice is one tidy line and leaves with the room
  • Settings and the Premium buttons always fit your screen, in any language

Questions and answers

Is Ritmera free?

Yes, it's free on Google Play. There are two optional one-time purchases: Remove ads (about 2.99 EUR) turns off the ads between games, and Premium (about 4.99 EUR) removes all ads and gives free help within a daily limit. No subscriptions.

Which music apps does it work with?

It controls the music app on your phone, for example Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music or TIDAL. Free accounts work too: when your app plays an ad, Ritmera waits. Ritmera never streams or stores music itself.

Why does it ask for notification access?

To see what your music app is playing and to press play, pause, skip and seek for you. Ritmera explains this before asking. The microphone is used only while you tap Speak to say an answer.

Does it work offline?

Ritmera needs no account or sign-up, but the songs come from your music app, so you need whatever that app needs to play them.

How many people can play?

1 to 8 players or teams around one phone. In Fastest answer, 2 to 12 phones play together and every phone is a buzzer.

Which languages does it speak?

English, Portuguese and Spanish, with German, French and Italian arriving in the next update. In those three, the radio reads Vinny's lines.

Which devices can I play on?

Android phones, through Google Play.

Who is it for?

Ritmera is made for players aged 13 and over, for parties and game nights with friends. The official age rating is shown on Google Play.

What data does it collect?

Spoken answers go to your phone's speech recognition service to become text, and Ritmera does not store or send them anywhere else. Song titles, artists and player names stay on your phone. For analytics it uses a random install ID and game events, error reports to fix bugs, and the advertising ID and approximate location (from your IP) for ads. You can ask us to delete your data.

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