The story
A foldable phone opened flat is a small table. Halves treats it as one. Lay an iPhone Duo between two people and each takes a half: the far side turns to face its player, and the puck, the pieces and the dice cross the fold. Stand the phone up like a laptop and the raised half shows one player a secret word, key or target. The flat half holds the drawing, grid or dial they both look at. Close it and the turn passes, with the secret cleared. Two ways to play, one way to pass, no second device.
Halves reads the hinge, so a game starts the moment the phone is in position. The eight flat games play on any iPhone or iPad running iOS 27, where the screen is the table. The three seated games are built around the fold: one half rises to hold a secret while the other stays shared, so they appear only on iPhone Duo.
The rules are the classics, in the public domain. The boards, sounds and glyphs are our own, in three looks (Slate, Paper and Felt) with a day and a night version each. There are no accounts, no ads, no chat and no network play. Nothing is collected.
The facts
Name
Halves: Games for Two
By Polimati LLC, an experimental studio.
Release
Version 1.0
Released 16 October 2026, ahead of iPhone Duo, which ships 23 October.
Devices
iPhone and iPad
iOS 27 or later. Made for iPhone Duo; the fold-reading features use iOS 27.1.
Model
Pay once
Free to download. The first game is free, Air Hockey stays free, and the full set has a seven-day free week. One purchase unlocks everything, shared with Family Sharing. No subscription.
Rating and privacy
4+ · Data Not Collected
No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Works offline.
Category
Games: Board, Family
Two players, one device, face to face.
The games
On every iPhone and iPad, played flat: Air Hockey, Reaction Duel, Dots & Boxes, Reversi, Backgammon, Checkers, Mancala and Pairs.
On iPhone Duo, played standing up: Draw & Guess, Word Spy and The Dial. One player sees the secret on the raised half; the other sees only the shared flat half.
Images and video
The kit holds the app icon, the header art, the full App Store screenshot sets for iPhone Duo, iPhone and iPad, the three App Store previews and three short clips for social. The art is ours; the tabletop scenes contain no device imagery. A few of them are below.
