# Hitokoe — Cuc Gach — Six little games, five keys

> Six little games, five keys (iPhone/iPad app by Lam Tran.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hitokoe-cuc-gach/id6773432306 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lam Tran](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896672373)
- Category: Entertainment, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 41 MB
- Languages: American English, Vietnamese
- Released: 2026-07-20
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Hitokoe?

Remember the old brick phones? Hitokoe brings one back, hand-drawn, right inside your phone. In Vietnam they're called cuc gach. Five keys: four arrows and ひ. No tapping the screen: you press keys, like back then.

SIX LITTLE GAMES, HARD TO PUT DOWN
• Snake — every dish has its own count. Eat it on exactly its last step.
• Slide — slide the squares until the pixel picture is whole.
• Sides — push blocks in from all four sides. Full rows and columns clear.
• Dial — turn three rings of lamps to find the colour code. Open all three safes to win.
• Mines — take turns with the bot walking a cat to its cushion, across five fields; the last is a Saigon street. Step on the wrong flag and you lose.
• Pixel — stitch with ten threads, or find each number the phone calls to reveal a picture.
New to a game? Press ▲ on its first page: How to play lets you try it one key at a time, on the real board. Beat your best and the run is taped, to watch again in the Album.

TWO PHONES, SIDE BY SIDE
Connect with a friend using the tin can and challenge them: race the same puzzle in Snake, Slide, Sides or Dial, quicker time wins, or play Mines against each other.

PLAY FOR COINS, THEN BUY THE REST OF THE PHONE
Finish a game for 10 coins (once a day per game), beat your best for 20, and read what Hitokoe posts on the Board. Coins can't be bought. The Bank writes down every coin and keeps your savings, which grow a little each day you come back. Its Shop sells the Camera, the Pager, the Walkie-talkie and the tin can, plus charms and stickers to dress the phone.

ONLY THE PEOPLE YOU'VE MET
Add someone by showing your code for their Camera to scan. No names, no profiles: everyone is a five-digit number and a face, stitched by hand or by chance. Side by side, message each other with icons, sealed so only the two of you can read them.

ALSO ON THE PHONE
• Camera — photos, video and twin shots with a friend, with a cat if you like.
• Walkie-talkie — hold to record, let go to pause, save the tape.
• Album — everything you save, and every personal best.
• Board — what Hitokoe posts, the same for everyone.
• Music — every game has its own 8-bit tune.
• Sponsor — buy the maker a glass of soy milk or a bowl of bún bò, and wear a ひ on your face. Nothing else comes with it.
• English and Vietnamese.

WHAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE
No account, no analytics, no tracking. A small server of ours only carries what two phones send each other — the card you swap when you add someone, and letters — sealed so we can't read either. Back up to a file whenever you like.

Think you can beat the bot? Prove it.

ひとこえ, "one voice".

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A glass of soy milk | $0.99 | one-time |
| A bowl of bún bò | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is Hitokoe safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Hitokoe.

## Is Hitokoe legit?

Hitokoe — Cuc Gach has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hitokoe is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-11-06

• How to play, in every game: press ▲ on its first page and try it one key at a time, on the real board. It opens by itself the first time.
• Challenge a friend side by side: connect with the tin can, then play Mines against each other, or race Snake, Slide, Sides or Dial on their timed mode. Same puzzle, quicker time wins.
• Mines, remade: take turns with the bot walking a cat to its cushion, across five fields: the Garden, the Rooftops, the Riverbank, Halloween and, last, the Street.
• The Street is Saigon's: a plastic stool and an iced tea, a chilli, fortune sticks, a cyclo ride, a bánh mì cart, and a tune of its own. Win it once for the Vietnam sticker.
• Every game plays its own 8-bit tune. Turn it off in Settings › Music.
• Snake: each dish takes its own steps (an egg 6, phở 8, bánh mì 10, a phin of coffee 12). A new rule makes a new game, so Snake records start again from zero.
• Sides on the clock now needs only 10 lines, so its timed records start again too.
• Connecting asks for each permission in turn, and a new letter shows who sent it.
• Clearer words throughout, in English and Vietnamese.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-02

Hitokoe is now a small phone inside your phone.

• Six games you play one move at a time: Snake, Slide, Sides, Dial, Mines and Pixel.
• Charms that swing from your phone, stickers for its body, odd finds in Dial's safe and phở for Snake.
• Coins for playing, a Bank that keeps them, and a Shop that sells the Camera, the Pager, the Walkie-talkie and a tin can. If you had Hitokoe before, the Camera is already yours.
• Add someone with one scan of a code. Everyone goes by a number now.
• Side by side, connect with the tin can and page each other with letters made of little pictures, sealed end to end.
• Sponsor Hitokoe in Settings, and wear a ひ on your face.
• Vietnamese.

Your notebook comes with you: everyone you added is in Contacts, and the moments you kept are in the Album. Choose your avatar when you open it. Shaking phones, study sessions and text cards have made way for the tin can: to meet side by side, both of you press Connect.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-31

Meet 2.0 — connecting, rebuilt:

• Meet someone new through one QR door — they knock, you say hello back, both present
• Shake phones together to connect — no buttons
• Cards now send inside the app from the first minute
• Study sessions: hold the mic to whisper — a tiny walkie-talkie in your ear
• Meetings end only when both of you agree
• A new opening tour, redrawn comic pages, and steadier connections throughout

### 1.0 — 2026-07-20

No release notes.

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