Around You: Scan, Invite, Play

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.