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Finto is a party game app for iOS and Android in which 2 to 7 players invent a believable wrong answer to the same question and then hunt for the real answer among all the fibs. Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions about how the game works, what it costs, the game modes and Party Mode.
Finto is a bluff quiz in app form: Finto the owl asks a question, every player invents a convincing wrong answer, called a fib, and then everyone has to find the real answer among the fibs. You score points for picking the right answer and for every player who falls for your fib. Finto is developed by Buttered Apps in Cologne, Germany, and is available for iOS and Android.
A round has three steps: 1. Every player gets the same question. 2. Everyone types in a believable wrong answer. 3. All the fibs appear shuffled in with the real answer, and everyone taps the one they think is true. Then comes the reveal and the scoring: three points for the right answer, two points for every player who falls for your fib, and three points off if you fall for a fib yourself.
You play Finto with 2 to 7 players. Everyone plays on their own phone, together in the same room or in different places using a game code.
There are three game modes: the Classic Game with no time pressure, the Quick Game with 45 seconds per fib, and the Quick Game with Strangers, where you take on other Finto players. On top of that, Focus Mode stops anyone from googling: leave the app mid-round and you’ll pick up minus points.
Finto has over 5,000 hand-written questions in more than 25 categories, among them “Who or What?”, “History & Religion”, “Crazy Facts”, “On & Under the Sea”, “Inventions” and “This and That”. The questions are picked so that almost nobody knows the answer for certain. That’s what makes a convincing fib possible.
All three are bluff quizzes. Finto runs entirely on the players’ phones, with no console, PC or TV, and it works across distance via a game code too. There’s also a Focus Mode against googling, avatars, streaks and Party Mode for streamers. Finto is written in German and translated into five more languages, English among them.
Both games run on the same idea: fooling the other players with made-up answers, a mechanic that plenty of party and board games use. Finto is a standalone app by Buttered Apps GbR in Cologne, Germany, in development since 2019: over 5,000 questions written in-house in more than 25 categories, three game modes, its own scoring, Focus Mode against googling, avatars, streaks, play across distance via a game code, and a Party Mode that streamers drop into their livestream as an OBS source.
Finto is free to download and free to play. If you want to unlock every category and every question, you can upgrade to the full version in the app.
Finto is available in the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android. You’ll find both links on the home page.
Finto is available in six languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.
Party Mode is the live view of your round for the big screen. You open party.letsplayfinto.com in a browser and enter the 5-character game code from the app. The question, the fibs and the reveal all play out there in real time. Streamers drop this view into OBS as a browser source and send it out on Twitch, YouTube and the rest. Their viewers follow along through the livestream and need neither the app nor a game code.
Yes. Up to 7 streamers play one round together, each through the app on their own device. Streamer Party Mode gives you a stream stage with a camera slot for everyone. You add it to OBS as a browser source and send it out on Twitch, YouTube and the rest. Everyone’s viewers are along for the ride on their own livestream. The details are in the streamer section.
Finto is developed by Buttered Apps GbR in Cologne, Germany, founded by Tim Wiersdörfer and Michael Rothkegel. The idea came out of an after-work conversation in 2019. The team answers press inquiries through the press section.
Finto is the mascot and the host of the app: a blue owl in round glasses and a bow tie who asks the questions and reacts to every round, from pointing out whose turn it is to cheering when you win.
Finto is free on iOS and Android.
