Scribble Pass vs PartyRelay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scribble Pass
A hilarious pass-and-play drawing game where words transform as they travel. Draw a word, pass the device, and watch friends guess the drawing, leading to comical misunderstandings. Perfect for groups of 2-8, playable offline.
- Pass-and-play drawing
- Solo phone mode (1 device)
- Party mode (multiple devices)
- Offline play
- Customizable timers
- Share results
- No account required
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The hilarious pass-and-play drawing game where words transform as they travel! Draw a word, pass the phone, watch your friend guess what you drew, then they pass it to the next person who draws THAT guess. See if the word survives the full circle - spoiler: it usually doesn’t! HOW TO PLAY: SOLO PHONE MODE (2-8 players, one device): - Pass one phone around your group - Alternate between drawing and guessing - Perfect for smaller groups or when only one person has the app PARTY MODE (everyone has the app): - Everyone starts a game with the same number of players and rounds - Pass phones around the circle - Everyone gets their own unique game to share - More players = more hilarious results PERFECT FOR: - Family game nights - Friend hangouts - Road trips - Parties and gatherings - Waiting rooms - Ice breakers - Any group of 2-8 people NO WIFI REQUIRED - Play completely offline. Perfect for airplanes, camping, road trips, or anywhere! FREE FEATURES: - 2 rounds per game - Black pen drawing mode - Party mode (everyone uses own phone) - Customizable timers (10-150 seconds) - 50+ fun words to draw - Share results as one long image - Background music and sound effects - Works completely offline PREMIUM UNLOCK: - Unlimited rounds - Color drawing mode (4 colors) - Drawing playback animation - watch every stroke - Ad-free experience - One-time purchase, yours forever FEATURES: - Simple drawing tools - easy for everyone - One phone OR everyone uses their own - Customizable timers or no time limit - Fun background music (toggle on/off) - True pass-and-play - no accounts or setup - Celebration when the word survives - Share the full chain on social media - No data collection - totally private - No internet needed Whether you call it telephone pictionary, garbled, or broken telephone with drawings - Scribble Pass brings people together for laughs! PARTY MODE TIPS: - Everyone sets the same number of players and rounds - Start at the same time - Pass phones clockwise around the circle - When you get YOUR phone back, compare results - Everyone has their own game to share WHAT PLAYERS ARE SAYING: "The party mode is genius - we all played at once!" "Way better than everyone staring at their own screens" "We couldn't stop laughing at how wrong the drawings were" "Perfect for game night - no wifi needed!" Download now and start the fun! No account, no login, no setup - just open and play. Questions? Tap App Support in the App Store or visit our website.
PartyRelay
This app transforms gatherings into game nights with various word-guessing and acting games. Play offline with no account needed, passing a single phone around for competitive or cooperative fun. It includes features like a privacy guard and bilingual support.
- Offline play
- No account required
- Multiple game modes
- Charades, Draw & Guess, Lip Reading
- Team and individual scoring
- Privacy guard for phone
- Bilingual support (English/Chinese)
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PartyRelay turns any get-together into a game night — no extra equipment, no account, no ads, no internet required. Pass one phone around and race the clock: as two teams, as one group, or taking turns with everyone scoring for themselves. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Team Battle — split into two teams and spin the wheel to pick a game. Both teams play the exact same round, one after the other — whoever guesses more words wins the round and takes the point. Simple to explain in ten seconds, chaotic and hilarious in practice. Quick Mode — not enough people for two teams? No teams, no scores: one spin, one round, then a tally of how many you got. Take Turns — everyone plays for themselves. Add the players and the phone goes round the circle: each person spins for a game and gives the clues while everyone else guesses. There's no "got it" button — the other players' names sit around the word, and tapping whoever guessed gives a point to them and to the clue-giver. When everyone has had a turn, the leaderboard shows who's on top. FIVE GAMES ON THE WHEEL Say & Guess — describe the word out loud (without saying the word itself) while everyone shouts out guesses. Draw & Guess — sketch it on the in-app canvas, no letters or numbers allowed, and let the others guess from your doodle. Lip Reading — mouth the word with zero sound and see if anyone can read your lips. Charades — act it out with gestures alone. Hall of Fame (Team Battle) — both teams play at once with no timer: each team is secretly given a famous name, then you take turns asking yes/no questions until someone cracks the other team's name. OPEN BUZZ In Team Battle, land on this wheel sector and things get spicy: it picks one of the timed games above, but now the OTHER team can jump in and steal a point for anything your team misses. Nobody gets to zone out on their turn. BUILT FOR CLOSE, FUN MATCHES PartyRelay quietly keeps blowouts from ruining the night — a team that falls behind gets a friendly boost (more time, extra skips) so the game stays fun for everyone until the last round, without ever feeling unfair or obvious about it. THOUGHTFUL EXTRAS • A recap after every turn shows exactly which words came up (and in Take Turns, who guessed each one), so arguments about "wait, was that really the word?" settle themselves. • Pause any turn: restart it with fresh words if something went wrong, or end the game. • Optional privacy guard: hold the phone up to see the word, lay it flat to hide it automatically — perfect for passing hand to hand mid-round. • Fully bilingual: switch between English and Simplified Chinese instantly, with word lists written natively for each language (not machine-translated). • Thousands of hand-picked words per game — every entry is a real word, idiom, saying or title, so nobody gets stuck on something that isn't actually a thing. • Customize team names, player names and avatars, round count, turn length, haptics, and sound. NO CATCH PartyRelay is completely offline. No sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases, no data collection, no network access of any kind. Just open it and start playing. Perfect for family game night, parties, icebreakers, road trips, and any time a timer and a few friends sound more fun than a phone in everyone's own hands.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PartyRelay at none against Scribble Pass's 1. PartyRelay also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Scribble Pass's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Scribble Pass sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PartyRelay asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scribble Pass against 5.0 for PartyRelay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Scribble Pass ships an update every 4 weeks, PartyRelay weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Scribble Pass | PartyRelay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Nixon | Feiyu Chang |
Customer experience
Scribble Pass
PartyRelay
In-app purchases
Scribble Pass
- Scribble Pass Premium$1.99
PartyRelay
No in-app purchases









