Clatterbox.

Family sound-guessing game

Hear it. Guess it. Make some noise.

A card game you print at home. Scan a card, a mystery sound plays, and the table judges the guess: one phone, face down, and a deck from your own printer. Kids from about four play alongside grown-ups: the deck you print is tuned to your household's ages, and in phone play a hidden skill rating keeps adjusting as each player plays, so nobody ever picks a difficulty level.

Printed card: Dog. Dogs have around 18 muscles just to move their ears. Printed card: Electric guitar. Near silent unplugged, magnets under the strings turn motion into electricity. Printed card: Popcorn. A kernel pops because the water trapped inside turns to steam and bursts the shell open. Printed card: Owl. An owl can turn its head up to 270°, its eyes can't move. Printed card: Yodel. Yodelling began as a way for mountain herders to call to each other across whole valleys. The back of a printed card, the QR code a phone scans to hear its sound.

Real cards from the trial deck, printed on your own paper.

Setting up who plays: four household members added, each with their own buddy avatar Clatterbox home screen, ready to play with a four-person household picked A round in progress: an electric guitar sound with the fact that it's near silent unplugged, magnets under the strings turn motion into electricity Printing a starter deck of cards, one per sound, 8 to a sheet

Play two ways

The app never makes you choose. On the phone: it plays the sound, the guesser answers out loud, the table judges, next player. With cards: print the deck on your own printer, fold them once, and each card's QR code is what the phone scans. The answer is already on the card in your hand, so the phone stays out of the round entirely.

A hundred hand-picked sounds

Every clip in Clatterbox is a recording someone listened to and picked for how well it plays at a table. The free trial deck is 23 sounds and the rules card, playable and printable in full, no account and no time limit. The Full Box is one payment, £4.99, that unlocks the rest of the 100-sound library and everything added to it later. There is no subscription and nothing expires, and every card you've already printed keeps working exactly as it did before you bought it.

Built for a family evening

About fifteen turns, shared round the table, capped so nobody sits out and nobody's stuck playing past bedtime.

iPhone beta Android beta

In beta on both iPhone and Android right now, with the store releases to follow. See what testing looks like.