Why this one is for the same room
A Secret Hitler app for 5 to 10 people around one table, each on their own phone. Not for playing over the internet — and that constraint is what the whole thing is built out of.
Why in person
Secret Hitler is an argument. It runs on people talking over each other, watching a face while a card goes down, and deciding whether a shrug meant anything. None of that survives a text box, and over a call it turns into taking turns.
So the premise here is the opposite of every other adaptation: you are already in the room, you already have the argument, and what you actually want is for the components to stop leaking. No flashed role card, no ballot glimpsed early, no miscounted vote, no arguing about who is term-limited.
Secrets never sit on a screen
This is the load-bearing requirement, and everything else follows from it. Your role, the policies you drew, an investigation result — each lives behind a press-and-hold veil. While it is hidden it is not blurred or covered, it is not in the page at all, and it disappears the instant you let go, switch tabs or lock the phone.
The server holds the same line from the other side. It works out what each player is allowed to see and sends only that, so the deck and the discard pile are never sent to anybody. A cast ballot is not even returned to the player who cast it — you are sitting next to the people it is a secret from, and a shoulder reads a held screen as easily as its owner does.
What it will not do
There is no chat and no voice. The talking happens out loud. If you want to play remotely, other adaptations are built for it and this one is not.
There is no game log. The board shows what a physical table would show right now. Arguing about what happened three rounds ago is the game, not a feature.
There are no turn timers. If somebody wanders off mid-vote the game waits and the board says who it is waiting on. You are in the same room — go poke them.
There are no accounts, no ads and no sign-up. One person taps New game and reads out four characters.
Licence and credit
Secret Hitler was created by Mike Boxleiter, Tommy Maranges and Mac Schubert, and is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. This is an unofficial, non-commercial digital adaptation of it, released under the same licence. It is not sold, it carries no advertising, and it is not affiliated with the authors.