Mimic party on mobile: Android and iPhone

How to play on your phone

Open MimicBox in Safari (iPhone) or Chrome (Android), create a room or enter a friend's code, allow the microphone when asked, and play. The interface is built for phones first: big buttons, one recording window, a waveform you can follow with your thumb.

Each player uses their own phone. At home, put one phone on speaker for the original sound, or use headphones in a call.

Tips for iPhone and Android

• iPhone: switch the silent mode off, otherwise the game sounds are muted. Safari and Chrome both work.
• Android: Chrome is the safest choice. If the microphone permission was refused once, reset it in the site settings.
• Use headphones when playing over a call, so your friends' voices do not leak into your recording.
• A stable connection helps: the room runs live and each take is sent to the other players in real time.

Is there an app?

Yes, on both: MimicBox is a free app on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android.

The app also has far more sounds than the website: over 1400 sounds in 20 packs, including anime packs and memes from many countries. The browser version is still the full game, it stays free, and it works the same on every device. Note that MimicBox is not related to the Steam game Mimic Party, which has no mobile version.

You do not need an APK

Searches for a Mimic Party APK come up a lot, and the files behind them are rarely what they claim to be. You do not need one: the official MimicBox Android app is on Google Play, and in the browser the game is a web page, so there is nothing to sideload. Open it in Chrome, Safari, Samsung Internet or Firefox, allow the microphone once, and you are playing.

If you want an icon on your home screen, install the free app from the App Store on iPhone or Google Play on Android. You can also stay in the browser: the Android browser menu has "Add to home screen", and on iPhone you can use Share then "Add to Home Screen". The web version updates itself because there is nothing installed to go out of date.

What it costs in data

Very little. Sounds are short clips of a few dozen kilobytes each and they are cached after the first play, so a five round game moves less data than opening one social feed. Your own recordings go to your room only, and they are deleted when the room closes.

Playing with everyone in the same room

Two ways. Either everyone joins the same private room from their own phone, which is the usual setup, or you use one phone and pass it around the table, which works when your friends have no data. Both are free and both are on the room page.