Spirit Board

A cinematic talking-board experience.

  • Active Development
  • Mobile app
  • Entertainment
  • Works offline

An immersive entertainment Ouija-board experience: ask a question aloud or by typing, keep a finger on the planchette and watch the answer spell out.

A dark wooden spirit board with yes, no, the alphabet, numbers and goodbye, a round planchette in the centre, and controls for text, voice and silent answers
The board: drag the planchette; answers can be shown, spoken or silent.

Worth knowing

Spirit Board is an entertainment experience. It does not contact spirits, and its answers are generated by the app. Enjoy the theatre.

Screenshots

Captured from the release build running on an Android 14 emulator.

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  • The board: drag the planchette; answers can be shown, spoken or silent.
  • The main menu.
  • Comfort presets come first, including reduced motion and high contrast.
  • The app says plainly that it is entertainment, not evidence of anything.

What Spirit Board is

Spirit Board recreates the theatre of a classic talking board with modern production values. Ask a question — typed or spoken — rest a finger on the planchette, and the board answers letter by letter, blending your own drag with a subtle invisible pull that keeps the mystery alive. Candlelit visuals, a reactive soundscape and configurable board behaviour make it a superb centrepiece for sleepovers, Halloween nights and storytelling sessions. It is entertainment, and proudly says so: the only spirit in the room is the atmosphere.

What it does

  • Letter-by-letter planchette spelling that blends your drag with a subtle pull
  • Typed or spoken questions
  • Cinematic candlelit visuals and reactive sound
  • Turbo Mode for faster spelling
  • Configurable board behaviour, input and privacy settings

The planchette moves. Mostly because of you.

The magic of a talking board was always the ideomotor dance between believers. Spirit Board bottles that feeling — the hesitation, the drift, the letter that lands a little too perfectly — into a phone you can pass around the circle.

Getting Spirit Board

Spirit Board is still in development and is not distributed yet. It is roughly 55% of the way to a first public release.

At a glance

Status
Active Development
Runs on
Android
Offline use
Works offline
Package
com.spiritboard.app
Last updated

Privacy

Questions and answers happen on your device. Spirit Board has no accounts and its settings cover input, sound, visuals and privacy directly.

Full privacy information for Spirit Board →

Permissions

Microphone
Lets you ask the board a question aloud instead of typing.
Vibration
Haptic feedback as the planchette moves.
Internet
Declared in the current development build; its final purpose will be confirmed and documented before any release.

Support

Questions, bugs or ideas for Spirit Board?

Spirit Board support →

Technical details

Technical details

Built with

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Room
  • DataStore
  • Navigation
  • Coroutines

How it is put together

  • Planchette movement is a physics simulation over a fixed board layout, driven by typed or spoken prompts.

Development workflow

Built through Claude Code.

Accessibility in the app

  • Full experience available with sound off
  • Reduced-motion mode calms board effects
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