v1.0.0 — Scan, Play, No App Required
v1.0.0 — Scan, Play, No App Required
This is the first official release of Quizify, a multiplayer trivia party game that lives entirely inside Home Assistant. The TV becomes the host, every guest's phone becomes a buzzer, and nobody has to install a thing. They point a camera at a QR code and they're in.
One install for you, zero for everyone else. Here is what's in the box.
📱 Scan and you're playing
The TV shows a QR code, your guests point a camera at it, type a name, and they land in the lobby. There is no app store to visit, no account to create, and no login to remember, because the whole thing runs on your local network. The TV is the shared screen everyone watches together, while each phone stays a private buzzer in someone's hand.
Joining takes about ten seconds, and it works the same way for everyone at the table. Grandparents and kids get in by exactly the same path, which means the host spends the start of the night playing instead of doing tech support.
🧠 1,800 questions across 18 packs
Quizify ships with nine themes, each a clean hundred questions, in both German and English. Geography, Animals & Nature, Pop Culture, Sport, Music, Science, History, Food & Drink, and Technology give you eighteen hundred questions of the gloriously useless knowledge that makes a quiz night fun.
Every pack was curated and reviewed for accuracy, so the arguments at the table stay about who knew the answer rather than whether the answer was right. Pick a single theme for a focused round, or mix several when the room can't agree on one.
🎛️ Pick your game in one tap
Three presets get you going fast. A Quick round runs five questions, Classic runs ten, and Marathon stretches to twenty for the nights that want to go long. Each one bundles a sensible difficulty and timer so you can start the moment everyone is in.
When you want more control, the custom mode opens everything up. You choose the topics, the difficulty, how many rounds to play, and how long each question stays on screen, and the ready screen shows you exactly what is coming before you hit start.
🎴 Power-ups turn a quiz into a party
Five power-ups let players bend the rules in their favor at just the right moment. The Joker clears away wrong answers when someone is stuck, Double lets a confident player bet the round for twice the points, and the time boost buys five more seconds when the clock is closing in.
The other two are where friendships get tested. Steal lifts points straight off another player's total, and Freeze ices an opponent's timer for five seconds right when they need it most. Used well, a comfortable lead can evaporate in a single round.
🔥 A score that rewards how you play
Points are not just about knowing the most. Answering quickly earns a speed bonus, taking on harder packs adds a difficulty multiplier, and stringing correct answers together sets off streak fireworks at three, five, and seven in a row.
The result is a game that stays open longer than a plain right-or-wrong tally would. A player who knows a little less but plays the moment better can still take the night, which keeps everyone leaning in until the final question.
🏆 A finale worth waiting for
When the last question lands, the TV builds the podium while each phone tells its player a personal story: where they finished, their best streak, and the rounds they played. The reveal turns the end of the game into its own event instead of a number on a screen.
Then the superlatives hand out the night's awards for the fastest answer, the longest streak, and the sharpest aim, a highlights reel replays the moments that mattered, and the full leaderboard ranks everyone with medal-tinted standings so the whole room can see how it all shook out.
🎨 Soft Parlor design
Quizify is built to feel like a family board game rather than a television game show. Warm cream paper replaces harsh white, a gentle four-color palette carries the mood, and the typography is sized to read clearly from across the living room.
There is no neon and there are no confetti cannons here. The warmth does the work, so the game feels inviting to a table of grandparents and a table of teenagers alike.
🔧 Under the hood
Quizify installs as a native Home Assistant custom integration. You add it through HACS, restart, and it appears in your sidebar, ready to host. The entire game lives on your local network and nothing phones home.
A single install lights up three surfaces at once: the TV host screen, each player's phone, and the host's admin console. Every screen is light-primary and tuned to look right on living-room TVs all the way down to 720p.
🙏 Thank you
This first release is the sum of a lot of small nudges from everyone who installed the early builds, played a round with friends, and sent back the things that make a game feel finished: the wording that was off, the count that was wrong, the button that wanted to live somewhere else.
Pour a drink, cue up a pack, and let the room argue about the answers. That argument is the whole point.
18 packs · 1,800 questions · 2 languages · runs entirely on your local network