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Make a quiz and trivia game app for iPhone
A quiz game needs good questions, a ticking clock and someone to beat. Describe your topics and Borel builds a native iPhone trivia game in SwiftUI: categories, a timer per question, a buzz for right and wrong answers, question packs written by AI on any subject, and a scoreboard your friends join with a code.
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“A trivia game: pick a category, answer 10 multiple-choice questions with 15 seconds each, and score more for fast answers and streaks. Right answers buzz once, wrong ones twice. Let me create a new question pack on any topic with AI. Friends join a group with a code and see a weekly scoreboard.”
Screens
What a quiz game app needs
The screens Borel builds from the prompt above. Ask for more, fewer or different ones.
Categories
Topics as colourful tiles, with your high score on each.
Question
The question, four answers and a ring that runs down for 15 seconds.
Results
Your score, the streak bonus and the answers you missed.
Scoreboard
This week's best scores in your group of friends.
Data
What it keeps
Borel writes these as Swift models. On the phone they work with no connection; in Borel's cloud they follow a signed-in person.
| What | Holds | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Question | Text, four answers, the right one, category | On the phone, with SwiftData |
| Game | Category, score, date | On the phone, and in Borel's cloud for the scoreboard |
| Group | Name and invite code | In Borel's cloud, shared by its members |
Native iPhone features
What it can use on your iPhone
Written in Swift with Apple's own frameworks, so they work the way iPhone owners expect.
Make it yours
What to ask for next
Once the first version runs, ask for changes in the chat, in words like these.
- “Add a pass-the-phone mode for two to four players.”
- “Add true-or-false questions as well as multiple choice.”
- “Show a daily quiz that's the same for everyone in my group.”
How to make it
From a prompt to your iPhone and the App Store
- 1
Describe it
Paste the prompt on this page into Borel, or write your own in plain words. Borel plans the screens with you before it builds.
- 2
Try it in your browser
Borel writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI, builds it with Xcode on its own Mac and opens it in a live iPhone simulator in your browser, free.
- 3
Put it on your iPhone
With Pro, Borel Companion for Windows or Mac installs it on your own iPhone with your Apple ID: a cable the first time, then Wi-Fi.
- 4
Publish it when it's ready
Pro publishes to the App Store from the same project. Apple's Developer Program, $99 a year, is the one thing you pay Apple.
Play a full round on your iPhone. The haptics are half the fun and only the real phone has them. Check the answer buttons don't sit under your thumb's resting spot, so you don't tap one by accident, and that the timer ring is easy to see.
A quiz on a niche, such as football history or a TV series, can find its players on the App Store. Extra question packs can be sold through In-app purchases, set up from Payments in Borel's chat.
Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month, and the simulator in your browser costs nothing. Pro, from $20 a month, adds installs on your own iPhone through Borel Companion and publishing to the App Store.
Before you start
Good to know
- It doesn't use Game Center; the scoreboard lives in Borel's cloud.
- Players don't answer the same question live against each other; they compare scores afterwards.
- AI-written questions can be wrong, so read a pack before you publish it.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Describe the topics, rules and scoring, and Borel writes the game in Swift and runs it in your browser.
Yes. Borel can add a button that asks Borel's AI for a pack on any topic, which you review and keep. No API key is needed.
Yes. With a group in Borel's cloud, friends join with a code and see each other's scores, once the game is on the App Store for them.
Yes, with Pro and the App Store. Borel sets up Apple's In-App Purchase, with a ready-made paywall and Restore Purchases.
Make your quiz game app
Start from the prompt on this page, change it to fit your idea, and Borel builds it while you watch.