Charades app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 5966 ratings )
Games Entertainment Card Family
Developer: Shiny Development
1.99 USD
Current version: 3.2, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 03 Dec 2008
App size: 47.07 Mb

Charades, the family favorite for the Holiday season is updated for the iPhone age! Instead of struggling to think of a film, book or song simply tap on the lever and the curtain is raised on a new Charades challenge.

Select the level of difficulty, choose whether you play against the clock then get miming! With over 1200 popular films, TV shows, songs, books and plays theres hours of entertainment for all the family.

Additional themed packs of Charades are available for In-App purchase covering favorite decades such as the 70s and 80s. Theres even a kids pack! Each pack contains hundreds more topics to act out.

Want to research any of the charades you perform? No Problem! The game gives you instant access to the wikipedia entry for every charade. Perfect for sorting out arguments over when it was made or who sang it first!

Pros and cons of Charades app for iPhone and iPad

Charades app good for

Its dead easy to lose hours playing this game with friends, I definitely recommend it.
This is great. Its really fun to pull this out at a party (you will need to play it with other people, its not single player). Lovely hand-drawn illustrations for the stage make it feel quite unlike any other application Ive bought. I dont think theres anything Id change. Well worth a purchase.
At a loose end when we got back from a night out with friends, we ended up playing Charades for hours! Lots of fun from a game I hadnt played in years. The hard setting is very hard indeed, although I managed to describe the play Othello, I wasnt easy I tell you!
I played this with my cousins and relatives for atleast 6 hours last night and we had the most fun ever! It is great for all ages, young and old! You dont need to kno what the movies or songs or plays or books are, you can act out the words or syllables. We mae up a few signs for article, short word, sounds like, name, how many letters, hiw many words, and how many syllables. It was so fun!!! Definitely a five star app! I would rate it more if I could! We laughed so hard and had more fun than ever!!!!!
So not bad. Couple things. First there needs to be a way to keep score. Second, the app started repeating things after about 10 rounds even though there are plenty of listings in there. Seems like that is a bug. We had a ton of fun with it. So 4 stars for me.
We just played with 8 experienced players, great fun. The random selections allow competitiveness, but takes away the tension of one team accusing the other team of selecting Charades that are too difficult or too obscure.

Some bad moments

Does not work, save the money, crashes right on the startup, what a waste of time I want my money back
very basic form of Charades...open the app and it just shuffles
I was excited to find a classic Charades app available, but having played it I am disappointed that the selection often repeats itself. Before purchasing this one, I downloaded a free app (different one) which had the functionality of playing teams. This app does not allow for this. Thats OK, but what was great in the free version was a timer. This app does not have a timer - that would be a useful upgrade. Also, simple rules would helpful for those who are unfamiliar with the game.
Attempting to write a review again. The app appears to work. Purchased the 70s and 80s add ons. Unfortunately cannot use the game since the sound does not work. Restarted the iPad and the app more than once. No joy. This app would be more useable if you were able to start/stop each session without changing the phrase.