Campfire
A talk by the fire with the people close to you.
One screen, one fire, one phone for everyone around it. Hold your stones together and the fire lights; tap it and a spark brings a question; write one word for the day into the ash and cover the fire together. For a parent and a child, a couple, friends, the whole family — anyone who wants a quarter of an hour of real talk and to keep it. Free, no ads, no account, no internet permission.
English · Русский · Changelog
How an evening goes
- Light it together. Everyone who sits by the fire has a stone with their name and a drawn head. Two or more people hold their stones at the same time and the fire lights — it never starts for one pair of hands. A guest stone is always there for whoever drops in.
- Ask the fire. Tap the fire and a spark rises with a question. While the fire burns bright, the questions are light and funny (if you had a tail — what would it be like?). As the logs burn down, they come closer (what did you leave unsaid today?). And the embers ask about the quietest things (what is your quietest wish right now?). Each question costs a log, so the evening is as long as the talk.
- Hand over the branch. Tap someone's stone and the burning branch goes to them: now they answer.
- One word in the ash. When the logs are spent, write one word for the day into the ash.
- Cover it together. Two palms over the fire put it out. The evening goes into the box as a ticket.
If you go quiet, the fire settles by itself — a log every few minutes — and goes out on its own; the evening is still kept.
What else
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| 🔥 The ember for tomorrow | Covering the fire sets one sealed ember aside. It opens only the next day, and only when you light the fire together again — the first spark of that evening. |
| 🎟 The box | A ticket for every evening: the date, who sat by the fire, the word in the ash, the questions. Pick a person to see only your evenings with them and the line of words you wrote together. |
| 🌙 The fire remembers | About a year after an evening, the fire brings its word back. |
| 📼 The cassette | Lay it by the fire before lighting and the evening is recorded; the reels turn so everyone can see, and the flames sway with the voices. Never on by default, never remembered between evenings. |
| 🛏 Spending the night | Low embers as a night-light that fade out on their own. |
96 questions in English and Russian, drawn without repeats until a stage is spent. The fire, the stones and the people on them are drawn in code.
Privacy
No account, no cloud, no analytics and no internet permission. The microphone is used only when you lay the cassette by the fire; recordings stay in the app's own folder.
Screenshots
Building
./gradlew assembleDebug # app.campfire.dev
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo # app.campfire.demo: a family and a box of evenings
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo -Pshots # app.campfire.shots: a still fire for tools/capture.sh
License
MIT
