The duck race app that races offline

Classroom Wi-Fi drops right when the class is waiting. The sports day is on a field with no signal. The prize draw is on a train. Random Duck Race Lite is the duck race as an app you install once, and it races without the internet: your names, the 3D river in the stadium and a fair winner, online or not.

It is free, with no account and nothing to download from an app store. It installs straight from the browser on a computer, an Android phone, an iPhone or an iPad, and takes about 8 MB.

What the Lite app has

• The duck race, up to 1,000 names, with Chances, saved lists, Save and Share and the winner’s screen.
• Duck Theme: Yellow, Colorful, Mix and My picks.
• Faces and Photos: race the faces of a class photo, or any photo as a runner. The photos stay on your device.
• All 16 languages, and the stadium scenery.

Rooms where phones join, signing in, the other sceneries and skins, and the team generator need the internet or the full game: they are in the web version, one tap away from the app’s menu.

Install it on a computer (Chrome or Edge)

1. Open randomduckrace.com/app/, or on the website open the menu ☰ and choose Lite app (offline).
2. Press the Lite button at the top: while your browser offers it, it says Install. In its panel, press Install the app. (You can also use the install icon at the right end of the address bar.)
3. Confirm with Install. The app opens in a window of its own, and its icon goes on your desktop, Start menu or Dock, like any other app.

Install it on an Android phone or tablet

1. Open randomduckrace.com/app/ in Chrome.
2. Tap Install when Chrome offers it, or open Chrome’s menu ⋮ and tap Install app (on some phones: Add to Home screen).
3. The duck icon appears on your home screen. Tap it to race, full screen.

Install it on an iPhone or iPad

1. Open randomduckrace.com/app/ in Safari.
2. Tap Share (the square with an arrow), then Add to Home Screen.
3. Tap Add. The app opens from your home screen, without Safari’s bars.

Racing offline

Open the app once while you are online: it keeps every file a race needs, and its panel says Ready to race offline. From then on it opens and races anywhere. With no internet, the Lite button says Offline, and everything in the app still works.

Updates

The app updates itself when it is online. When a new version is ready, the Lite button turns amber and says Update: press it, then Update now. While offline, the newest features may not be there yet: they arrive the next time you are connected.

Other browsers

A browser without an install button (Firefox on a computer, for one) can still race offline: open randomduckrace.com/app/ once, bookmark it, and it opens from the bookmark even without the internet.