It's designed to be easy for you to start chatting to someone you'd never suggest a FaceTime with—as though you were making the rounds at a house party (get it?)
" a.k.a. those people you know and engage with regularly but aren't part of your social circle, but that improve your well-being more than you realize. Which is all a long way of saying that you should video chat from isolation, and this app is well-designed for that.The interface is a lot like Snapchat: bold, Comic Sans-esque writing and no single"home page." Instead, the home page is your face staring back at you.
Last year, it added Heads Up—you know, the family-friendly game that you've probably played both at Thanksgiving and with your friends after a few drinks. Unlike games like Fortnite, Heads Up doesn't require much in terms of data, and it's a good fit for Houseparty, because it doesn't overload the app so it freezes or lags. You can also play equally low-data, party-friendly games like trivia and Quick Draw!, a drawing game.
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