Mobile Game Day

What Mobile Game Day does

Mobile Game Day is a privately held for-profit company founded in 2011 and based in Ann Arbor, United States, that operates a mobile gaming application accessible via its website at mobilegameday.com. The product is a single unified mobile game app that combines several live competitive game formats — predictions, trivia, squares, puzzles, and rapid-fire challenges — within a shared platform. The application supports two primary use cases: social party hosting (via HostParty, JoinParty, and HostDashboard features) and solo play (via the SoloPlay mode), with supporting infrastructure including GameLobby for matchmaking, GamePlay for active sessions, GameHistory for tracking past performance, SocialFeed for community interaction, Profile for account management, and Auth for user authentication.

The platform is built around ten interconnected features that together form a complete gaming session lifecycle: authentication, lobby matchmaking, active gameplay, performance history, party hosting and joining, host management dashboards, social feed, user profiles, and solo play. The technical architecture appears to be a web-based mobile app delivered through a unified front end, with no disclosed backend services, APIs, SDKs, or third-party integrations beyond the website itself. There is no evidence of patents, proprietary algorithms, AI/ML capabilities, or differentiated technology infrastructure in the available data.

The business model is not disclosed in the input data: no pricing details, revenue model, monetization mechanics, or go-to-market strategy is documented. The company has no publicly disclosed revenue, headcount, management team, customers, or partnerships. The only capital event on record is a 2013 funding round with $0 raised and unknown investors, suggesting the company has operated primarily as a bootstrapped entity. No geographic markets, distribution channels, marketing channels, awards, certifications, or regulatory actions are documented.

Name

Mobile Game Day

Website

https://mobilegameday.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Mobile Game Day is a privately held consumer mobile gaming app founded in 2011 and based in Ann Arbor, US, offering live competitive games (predictions, trivia, squares, puzzles, rapid-fire challenges) for both party hosts and solo players.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Gaming

NAICS

Amusement Arcades (713120), Amusement Parks and Arcades (7131)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Mobile Game Publishing & App Game Stores (BPAMAKAB)

Keywords

• Mobile gaming app
• Party games
• Trivia app
• Social gaming
• Live games

Headquarters

HQ city

Ann Arbor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Mobile Game Day is a mobile game app that blends live games with fast, competitive play, including predictions, trivia, squares, puzzles, and rapid-fire challenges. The app is designed for both party hosting and solo play, enabling group entertainment and individual gaming within a single unified platform.

Product overview

Mobile Game Day is a single unified mobile game application that offers live competitive games including predictions, trivia, squares, puzzles, and rapid-fire challenges. The platform supports both solo play (SoloPlay mode) and multiplayer party hosting (HostParty, JoinParty, HostDashboard). Additional features include GameLobby for matchmaking, GamePlay for active sessions, GameHistory for tracking past performance, SocialFeed for community interaction, and Profile for user account management. The Auth system handles user authentication across all features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mobile Game Day A mobile game application that blends live games with fast, competitive play, including predictions, trivia, squares, puzzles, and rapid-fire challenges. Designed for both party hosting and solo play, allowing social groups and individual users to access multiple game formats within a single app.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Zynga: Zynga is a major publisher of mobile social/casual games (Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, Trivia Crack's parent at points). It operates broadly in mobile social gaming rather than specializing in MGD's party-hosting niche, but it competes for the same consumer time and ad spend.
• Roblox: Roblox is a large mobile-and-PC gaming platform that hosts user-created games, including social party experiences. It is a broader incumbent competing for casual/social mobile gaming attention and event-based play rather than a direct party-game competitor.

Direct peers

• Psych! (Outfit7): Psych! is a mobile bluffing/trivia party game by Outfit7 where players make up fake answers to trick friends. Its social, casual, mobile party-game format competes directly with Mobile Game Day's trivia/predictions offerings.
• Jackbox Games: Jackbox makes party game packs (Quiplash, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party) played live in groups using phones as controllers. The use case—social, live, phone-driven party games with multiple formats—closely mirrors Mobile Game Day's HostParty/JoinParty + multi-game catalog.
• QuizUp: QuizUp is a mobile, social trivia app where users compete head-to-head across many topic categories. It overlaps with Mobile Game Day's competitive trivia mechanics, mobile-first delivery and social/community engagement model.
• Kahoot!: Kahoot! is a live, mobile-first trivia and quiz platform used for both classroom/corporate settings and casual play. It directly overlaps with Mobile Game Day's trivia, predictions and rapid-fire party game formats and similar host/join party mechanics.
• Trivia Crack: Trivia Crack (by Etermax) is a mobile trivia game with social/head-to-head play and a wheel-of-fortune game-show format. It competes directly with Mobile Game Day on mobile trivia and competitive quiz gameplay for solo and group settings.
• InnerSloth (Among Us): InnerSloth publishes Among Us, a mobile/social party game played live in groups using phones. The party-game, mobile-first, group-lobby play loop is highly comparable to Mobile Game Day's HostParty/JoinParty flow.
• Bunch: Bunch is a mobile app that lets groups of friends launch and play party games together inside video chats. It targets the same 'party hosting on mobile' use case as Mobile Game Day with a multiplayer, app-based game lobby.
• HQ Trivia (Intermedia Labs): HQ Trivia pioneered live, scheduled mobile trivia game shows with cash prizes and a host-driven format. It directly parallels Mobile Game Day's live, host-led, mobile trivia/predictions experience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/MobileGameDay
• Facebookfacebook.com/156311121146565

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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