TapXO: Tic Tac Toe & Chat

Four in a Row & Private Groups

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

New: Nearby finds the people around you over Bluetooth and opens a private, end-to-end encrypted chat — no internet needed. Play familiar strategy games, make them your own, and connect with other players in TapXO. PLAY YOUR WAY • Play Tic-Tac-Toe on classic 3×3 boards or expand the challenge up to 8×8. • Play four in a row with classic, wide, and tall board options. • Train against adjustable AI. • Share one device for local two-player matches. • Find online opponents, create private game rooms, and post live challenges. • Earn XP, track stats, and personalize your profile. CONNECT THROUGH COMMUNITIES The TapXO Community is a public, server-visible lobby for chat and game challenges. You can also create invitation-only private communities for a more private conversation. Experimental private communities include: • End-to-end encrypted messages, replies, private messages, images, documents, and voice notes • Delivery and read status • Player blocking and privacy-aware reporting • Member and owner controls • Encrypted local message history • Local message deletion, conversation clearing, and emergency panic wipe • User-configurable Nostr relays and discoverable chat commands • Multiple possible delivery paths: a live ciphertext gateway, Nostr relays, and nearby Bluetooth mesh when available PRIVATE COMMUNITY BETA Private communities are designed to operate without a central chat database. Their message content is encrypted on the sender’s device and decrypted by participating devices. The live TapXO gateway forwards ciphertext to connected peers without private-chat history. Delivery paths are best effort and depend on gateway or relay availability, nearby peers, device permissions, and operating-system background limits. This encrypted community system is experimental and has not completed an independent cryptographic audit. Cross-platform Bluetooth behavior still requires physical-device validation. It does not make a device anonymous, guarantee delivery, or protect messages after they are displayed on an unlocked or compromised device. The public lobby, online matchmaking, game coordination, leaderboards, advertising, moderation, and some service metadata still use server or database services. After a report warning and confirmation, selected evidence is disclosed to the community owner and separately submitted to TapXO moderation when available. Bluetooth access is optional. TapXO is not intended for emergency communication.

  • 4.5
    out of 5
    2 Ratings

• Nearby now lists the people around you over the Bluetooth mesh, and tapping someone opens a private end-to-end encrypted chat with no internet. • An open nearby lobby lets you greet everyone in range, behind the community rules gate, with report and block on every message. • Fixed a defect that stopped Bluetooth nearby from sending or relaying on iOS. • Fixed a fault that could stop the chat, relay and Nearby screens from updating on iPhone and iPad. • Room owners can moderate in the app: member list, remove a member, verify a contact, rename, share an encrypted invite, review reports, and delete a room for everyone. • Ranks show real player names from the live weekly leaderboard database—never generated demo rows. • Native message actions include reply, mention, private message, retry, local delete, report, and block. • Social privacy settings manage blocked devices and custom encrypted wss:// relays, plus a confirmed panic wipe. • Accepted game challenges route directly into the native game board. The open nearby lobby is public to everyone in Bluetooth range and is not a private conversation. Encrypted private communities remain beta pending independent review. Nearby Bluetooth requires supported physical devices, permission, and foreground use.

The developer, JOHN HASHIM, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Seller
  • JOHN HASHIM
Size
  • 17.1 MB
Category
  • Board
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+
  • This app has an age rating of 13+ with content restrictions.

    Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls.
  • In-App Controls
    Age Assurance
    Parental Controls

    Contains
    Advertising
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
    Social Media
Copyright
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