Mobile app · Android & iOS
Host a murder mystery party — one phone runs the whole night.
Your workflow
Choose one of nine mysteries — a snowbound alpine lodge, a 1920s New Year's Eve speakeasy, a family Christmas Eve, a Halloween ghost show and more — set the date and place, and add your guests. Partycide suggests a fair cast you can adjust in seconds.
The app builds the invitations and a character booklet for every guest, which you share as a PDF through any messaging app or print at home. Your guests need nothing but the booklet — no app, no account, no setup.
On the night your phone is the script and the stage manager: it reads the scenes aloud, times each round, plays the music, drops the clues on cue, takes the secret vote and walks everyone through the reveal. You host and still get to play.
What's inside
You don't need to read ahead, print a stack of booklets or keep track of who knows what. Partycide feeds you each line, times the rounds, plays the music and sound effects, hands out clues on cue, and runs the secret vote and the reveal — all from the host's phone, fully offline on the night.
Each guest gets a character booklet as a PDF on their own phone, with sealed sections they open round by round. Send it through any messaging app or print it at home. Everything a printable murder mystery party kit would give you — invitations, name tags, evidence cards, accusation sheets and props — is generated for you.
Pick a mystery and a date, add your guests, and the app casts them fairly and builds every page. Someone drops out at the door? Recast the role and Partycide tells you exactly which guests need fresh pages.
From a snowbound alpine lodge comedy to a 1920s New Year's Eve speakeasy, a family Christmas Eve, a Venetian masked ball and a Halloween ghost show on a Victorian pier — each shows its age rating, player count (6–16) and run time before you start. The first is free to host in full.
Partycide keeps the answer hidden from the host and never casts you as the murderer unless you choose, so you can run the night and still solve it. Every mystery has exactly one solution you can genuinely deduce, and every red herring is explained at the reveal.
Pay once for a mystery, or get All-Access for every mystery now and each new one — there's no subscription and no ads. Everything runs on the host's phone: no account, no tracking, and nothing about your party leaves your device.
Murder mystery parties are wonderful and a pain to run: you print a stack of booklets, keep track of who knows what, watch the clock, and try to play along without accidentally seeing the answer — and on Android a good one has been hard to find. Unlike a printable murder mystery kit you assemble yourself, Partycide runs the whole murder mystery party from the host's phone — casting, scripts, timers, music, the secret vote and the reveal — while guests play from a PDF booklet with no app to install. It plans the party and casts your guests fairly, hands each of them a character booklet as a PDF so nobody else needs the app, then runs the night for you — reading the scripts aloud, keeping the timers and background music, revealing clues at the right moment, taking secret votes and walking everyone through a reveal that ties every clue together, with each red herring explained. The host can play too, because the app keeps the solution hidden. Every story is written to be fair — one solution you can genuinely deduce from the clues your guests receive — and the murder is theatrical, never gory.
Anyone hosting friends at home — a birthday, Christmas or New Year, a dinner party, a hen or stag night, an office social — who wants a murder mystery everyone can play from one phone.
Partycide is free — get it on Google Play. Coming soon to the App Store.