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Games like Jackbox
Four things make a Jackbox night work, and only one of them is the jokes. One screen everybody watches. Phones as controllers, with nothing to install. Short rounds with a clock on them. A reveal where the whole table finds out at the same moment. Any game that gets those four right feels like Jackbox, whatever it is about.
Worth saying because the usual reason people go looking is not the price. It is that the TV is in use, or half the group is on a call, or there are four people rather than eight. So the ten below are grouped by what your room actually has.
Prices, ratings and player counts are US App Store figures read on 19 September 2026, and anything a listing does not state has been left out.
Everyone on their own phone
The Jackbox shape without the screen. One person hosts, everyone else plays on the device already in their hand, and nobody waits for a phone to reach them. This is the group to pick from when you have more than five people.
Rank 100 (our game)
- Free, with ads; optional subscription · 2–10 players · rated 4+
The closest thing here to a Jackbox round in structure: a prompt drops, a clock runs, everyone answers on their own phone, and the reveal is the funny part. The scoring is what changes. Each round is a real top-100 list and your score is the rank of the entry you name, so the answer everyone shouts first is worth almost nothing and whoever remembered #94 takes the round. One phone opens the game, the rest join with a code, nobody makes an account. Our own pricing, stated as plainly as everyone else’s here: free to play with an ad between some rounds, and an optional Premium subscription (monthly or annual, free trial) that removes them and unlocks every category pack.
Free · iPhone · 2–10 players · no account needed
Psych! Outwit Your Friends
- Free · rated 12+ · Warner Bros.
If the Jackbox game you actually miss is Fibbage, this is the direct swap. Everyone invents a fake answer, the fakes are shown next to the real one, and you score for spotting the truth and for every player who falls for yours. It is from the team behind Heads Up!, and it runs entirely on the phones in the room — no TV required.
Wavelength
- Free, no ads · 2–10+ players · rated 9+
One player sees a hidden target on a spectrum between two extremes and gives a single word; everyone else moves the dial. Cooperative rather than competitive, which makes it the one to reach for when the group is four people rather than ten. The developer describes it as free with no ads, playable in the same room or remotely, on most mobile devices.
Kahoot!
- Free · rated 4+ · Kahoot ASA
The nearest match to Jackbox’s trivia half, with one caveat: somebody has to write the quiz. One person hosts live, everyone else joins and submits answers in the app, and speed counts as well as accuracy. Build the questions around the people in the room and it stops being a classroom tool and starts being the best game at the party.
Among Us!
- Free · 4–15 players · rated 9+
Not a Jackbox clone at all, but it solves the same problem — a crowd, their own screens, and an argument to have. Four to fifteen players, cross-platform between phones, PC and console, so the friend on a laptop is in the same lobby. Rounds run longer than a Jackbox game, so it suits an evening rather than a filler.
One phone passed around
For a table, a car or a bar — anywhere the group is together but only one screen is coming out. These trade simultaneity for the thing Jackbox cannot do, which is work with no setup at all.
Heads Up!
- $1.99 · rated 12+ · Warner Bros.
Phone on the forehead, everyone else shouting clues, tilt down when you get it. Over 100 decks, plus your own. It is the fallback when there is no TV, patchy wifi and one working phone — which describes more parties than any list wants to admit.
Out of the Loop
- Free · 3–9 players · rated 4+
Everyone but one player knows the secret word, and the round is a conversation where the odd one out has to fake it. Its own listing is refreshingly exact: a single iOS device and a few friends, 3–9 players, five to ten minutes a round.
Triple Agent!
- Free · 5–7 players, 9 with the expansion · rated 4+
Hidden identities passed around on one phone: each hand-off gives you private information you then have to lie about. Ten minutes a game, 12 operations in the free base game, and a paid expansion that raises the cap to nine players and adds hidden roles.
Wolvesville Classic
- Free · rated 9+
Werewolf with the deck of cards replaced by a phone. Set the player count and the roles, pass the device, everyone taps to see who they are; more than 30 roles are included. You still bring the moderator and the shouting.
If you do have a TV: cheaper ways into Jackbox
Sometimes the answer is Jackbox, just not a $29.99 Party Pack for one evening. On the US App Store, The Jackbox Party Starter is $19.99 and bundles Quiplash 3, Trivia Murder Party 2 and Tee K.O. — three of the games most people are actually asking for. Single titles go cheaper still: Quiplash, Drawful 2 and Fibbage XL are $9.99 each.
Two facts worth having before you buy. The Party Packs on the App Store are iPad and Mac titles, not iPhone ones, so the host needs one of those or a console or PC copy. And players genuinely install nothing — Jackbox's own listing says players “join the game and play using phones, tablets or computers”, with Party Pack 9 supporting up to 10 players plus an audience.
Where Rank 100 fits
Jackbox games are funny because the answers are invented. Rank 100 is funny because they are not. Each round is a genuine top-100 ranking — the full catalogue is on this site, built from box-office grosses, stream totals, census counts and career stats — and your score is the rank of the entry you name. Say the obvious one and take a point. Drag up the answer at #94 and take 94.
It keeps the parts that make Jackbox work — a clock, everyone on their own phone, one reveal the whole table watches — and drops the part that needs a television. When there is no group at all, the Daily Climb is one puzzle a day for one person.
Questions, answered
What games are like Jackbox?
For the same shape — one screen, everyone answering on their own phone — Psych!, Kahoot! and Rank 100 come closest, and all three are free to download. For a room with no TV, Heads Up!, Out of the Loop and Triple Agent! run on a single phone passed around. Among Us! and Wavelength cover the crowd and the small group respectively.
Is there a free version of Jackbox?
No. On the US App Store the Party Packs are $24.99 to $29.99 and The Jackbox Party Starter is $19.99, with single titles such as Quiplash, Drawful 2 and Fibbage XL at $9.99 each. Alternatives that are free to download and play in the same shape include Rank 100, Psych!, Wavelength and Kahoot!, though several of those — ours included — carry ads or an optional subscription. Checked on the App Store on 19 September 2026.
Do you need a TV to play Jackbox?
You need a screen everyone can see — a TV, a laptop or a tablet. On the App Store the Party Packs are iPad and Mac titles rather than iPhone ones, and players join from their own phones, tablets or computers without installing anything. If nobody has a big screen, that is the moment to pick a game built for phones alone.
The Jackbox shape, without the TV.
Free · iPhone · 2–10 players · no account needed