Free for iPhone Android coming soon

Settings that keep you busy

TapipaT looks like a settings screen. It is not. Rows arrive with a fuse burning under them, and you have to clear the top one before it runs out.

Flip a switch, tick a checkmark, swipe a row away, count a stepper up. The controls are the familiar ones. The timer is not. Three strikes and the run is over.

Portrait, English and German. iPhone on iOS 18.6 or later; the Android version wants Android 8.0 or later.

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A game in progress: a stack of cards on lilac paper that look exactly like iOS settings rows, the top one lit and carrying a violet timer bar, the rest dimmed below it.

The TapipaT title screen: three bobbing tiles reading T, P and an exclamation mark, the name beneath them, a personal best on the Standard level, and rows reading Start game and Settings. — Your best is kept for each level, separately.

Mathmania: a stack of white cards, each with a sum and three answer buttons, above a score and a six-row streak. — Mathmania: no switches, just mental arithmetic… against the clock.

The settings screen: a difficulty picker with four levels, a Game Center switch, four preference switches, and a section headed DO NOT TOUCH. — A settings screen that behaves itself. Mostly.

What TapipaT does

A simple challenge

Different controls demand your attention, a fuse works against you. Can you clear each before the time runs out? A penguin cheers your streaks.

Four difficulties

Find your flow: Leisurely gives you time to read the row. Standard is the game as it was written. Unreasonable costs a life if you blink. Mathmania drops the controls entirely and deals nothing but arithmetic.

Game Center leaderboards

On iPhone, a leaderboard for each level, shown in the app, with your friends' bests on the title screen. Switch Submit Scores off, and your bests stay on the phone.

Coming to Android

The same game, built for Android rather than wrapped: the same rules, the same look, the same two languages, Android 8.0 or later. Scores stay on the phone there, with no leaderboards and no sign-in.

Your data stays with you

TapipaT collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind.

Your settings and your high scores stay on your phone. On iPhone the one thing that can leave it is a score you choose to post to Game Center, and that goes only to Apple. Switching Submit Scores off stops even that. The Android version has no leaderboards at all, so nothing leaves that device.

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