Small ask
The sign-up asks for your email and, if you want, what you are and what phone you use. That's it.
Run a Heat Check on your bars.
Words drop.You deliver.
Rap over a beat, catch the words as they drop, and see how you stack up. Audio only.
Three steps. Sixty seconds.
Get a beat
We hand you the track. Everybody gets the same one, so the playing field is level.
Words drop
Target words land on the beat every few bars. You see the next one coming. Stay ahead of it.
Work them in
Rap them into real lines. Get scored on how you handled the challenge, not just whether you said the word.
One beat. One shot. Everybody.
Every day, everyone gets the same beat and the same words. One minute. One ranked attempt, no retries. The words hit in a different order for each person, so you can't copy anybody's homework.
It opens and closes at the same moment worldwide. Local time doesn't save you.
Warm up all you want. Practice runs are 30 seconds with random words, and they never touch the ranked board.
You can't just yell the words.
Hitting the words isn't enough to win. The game looks at whether you actually rapped. Rhythm, flow and how the words sit inside your bars all count. Yelling a word list into the mic gets you nowhere.
Audio only
No camera. Nobody sees you. It's your voice and the beat, so it's all about the bars.
Scored on the challenge
We're not ranking whether you're a good rapper. We're scoring how you handled this challenge, this beat, these words.
Coming later
Then they judge you. Blind.
Later on, the community listens to two anonymous entries on the same beat and picks the better one. No names. No scores on screen. Just the bars.
Get on the list.
Beta invites go out iPhone first. Drop your email and say if you want Android too.
Straight up.
13+
Under-18 entries never show up in public judging, public feeds or public leaderboards, and under-18 profiles are private by default.
No DMs
There's no private chat. Report and block tools come before anything goes public.
Your voice, your call
AI scoring only runs with your permission. Your recordings only help improve scoring if you opt in separately.
For producers
We hand-pick beatmakers.
Every beat in the game is vetted. If you make hard beats, tell us who you are.
Questions.
Do I need to be good?
No. Practice is unranked, and you're scored on the challenge, not on whether you're "a good rapper".
Can I just yell the words?
No. The words have to land inside real bars. Dropping a word with nothing around it won't count for much.
Do I have to show my face?
No. Heat Check is audio only. No camera, ever, in the game.
Headphones?
Recommended. The app hears you better, and so does the scoring.
How long is a run?
One minute for the Daily Cypher. Thirty seconds for practice.
Is it free?
Free to play.
iPhone or Android?
iPhone first. Android is planned. Tell us you want it when you sign up and you'll be first in line.
When?
Beta sign-ups are open now. No date yet.
Can I use my own beats?
No. Every beat is provided, so everybody runs the same track and the scores mean something.