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Your music. Your cards. Your game night.

Create QR music cards. Play together anywhere.

Bopster turns your favorite songs into a music guessing game. Build a playlist in the Studio, design printable QR cards, or play fully digitally with Bopster Live.

Love music timeline games like HITSTER? Make your own cards with the songs you love.

Prefer the classic wizard? Use it here.

  • Free to use
  • Physical or digital play
  • Made for game nights

Import music from

  • Spotify
  • YouTube Music
  • Deezer
  • Apple Music
  • TIDAL

What is Bopster?

From playlist to party in seven clear steps

Start with the music you already love. Bopster helps you prepare, customize and play a complete QR music game without making the setup complicated.

0Start with the game

Guess the song, artist and release year

Bopster is a QR music guessing game for physical cards and digital playlists. Play a song without showing its details, let everyone make a guess, then reveal the answer and award points.

Phone scanning a Bopster QR music card on a table during a game night
  1. Listen

    Scan a card or load a digital playlist and play the hidden song.

  2. Guess

    Choose the release year and optionally name the title or artist.

  3. Score

    Reveal the answer, award points and continue until one player wins.

  • Scan physical QR music cards and place them on a real timeline.
  • Load a playlist in Bopster Live and play without printed cards.
  • Use Live Together so every player can submit guesses on a smartphone.
  • The player with the most points wins.

Make your own HITSTER-style cards

Already play HITSTER? With Bopster you choose the songs: build a playlist, print your own QR cards and play them by the same timeline rules, scanning them with Bopster Live. Read the official HITSTER rules.

Bopster cards can’t be scanned in the official HITSTER app. HITSTER is a trademark of its respective owner. Bopster is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by HITSTER or Koninklijke Jumbo B.V.

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1Build the soundtrack

Create your Bopster playlist

Import a playlist from your preferred streaming service, ask Bopstarr to curate one, add songs manually or paste a complete list with Bulk Import.

Import from your music service

Spotify, YouTube and YouTube Music, Deezer, Apple Music and TIDAL are supported. Some services require you to sign in.

SpotifyYouTube MusicDeezerApple MusicTIDAL

Let Bopstarr be your AI DJ

Describe your theme, decade, genre or occasion and let Bopstarr help create a playlist.

Check release years with Yearify

Release years are central to the game. Yearify checks your songs against Bopster’s database so you can review questionable or remastered dates before playing.

Clean up the playlist

Use six additional tools, including bulk editing, smart cleanup and duplicate removal, to prepare a reliable deck.

Bopstarr AI DJ Bopster Yearify

2Make it yours

Design printable Bopster cards

Choose from more than 60 card designs or upload your own artwork. Adjust fonts, sizes, colors, QR placement and other details before generating your printable cards.

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  • Start quickly with 60+ ready-made card designs.
  • Upload a custom front and back for a personal theme.
  • Customize typography, color, sizing and card details.
  • Generate cards that are ready for physical game night.
Printed Bopster cards next to a laptop running the Card Designer

Print at home, cut, play.

3Press play

Start the game with Bopster Live

Scan a QR card or load a playlist. Bopster hides the song details while the music plays. When everyone has guessed, press Reveal to show the title, artist and release year.

Friends playing Bopster Live Together with phones, QR cards and Bopster Big Screen on a TV
Bopster Live Together
  • Live Together

    Players join on their own phones. The host controls playback and reveal, while every player submits a year and optional song or artist guess. The closest year earns a point.

  • Free Fill mode

    The closest year guess gets the first chance to name the song or artist. A wrong answer can be stolen by another player.

  • Multiple Choice mode

    Show three possible answers. The closest year guess can earn an extra point by choosing the correct title or artist.

  • Bopster Big Screen

    Connect a TV or Chromecast for a shared view of the current card, session QR code, join code and multiple-choice options.

  • Flexible playback

    Core playback can convert supported song links to a matching YouTube version at no cost. Spotify preview playback is available on the host device but not in Big Screen mode. TIDAL HiFi playback requires a TIDAL subscription and can work with Big Screen.

Beyond the game

Everything around game night

4Keep everything together

Save, organize and share with an account

Create a free account to save your own playlists, collect favorite community playlists in your Library and return to a game later.

  • Save and edit your playlists.
  • Keep favorite playlists in your Library.
  • Share a playlist with friends using a URL.

5Help keep Bopster free

Support Bopster and unlock donator perks

Bopster is free and is funded by advertisements and voluntary donations. A one-time donation from €3 helps cover development and running costs. There is no subscription.

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  • Enjoy Bopster without advertisements.
  • Add extra card information, such as an album name or custom message.
  • Use the Bopstarr-powered AI Card Designer, including 10 generated designs.
  • Show your own uploaded card artwork when it is scanned in Bopster Live.
  • Let Bopstarr create more believable distractors for Live Together Multiple Choice mode.
  • And more donator features as Bopster continues to grow.

You can also help by sharing Bopster with friends or promoting it on social media.

Ready-made inspiration

Explore community playlists

Preview recent public playlists, use one as inspiration or load it directly into your own Bopster game.

View the full Library
Featured

House of Years 🪩

by OfficialBopster

200 songs Pop Yearified
Mostly ’90s’70s–’20s
2
Featured

Vocaloid Galore

by OfficialBopster

196 songs Other Yearified
Mostly ’10s’70s–’20s
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Featured

Always Just One Hit

by OfficialBopster

500 songs Pop Yearified
Mostly ’80s’60s–’20s
2
Featured

Summer Century

by OfficialBopster

524 songs Pop Yearified
Mostly ’80s’60s–’20s
1
Featured

Meme to Mainstage

by OfficialBopster

716 songs Pop Yearified
Mostly ’10s’50s–’20s
6

Frequently asked questions

Bopster answers before your first game

What is Bopster?

Bopster is a browser-based QR music card creator and music guessing game. You can prepare playlists, print custom cards and play with Bopster Live.

Do I need physical cards?

No. You can scan printed Bopster cards, but you can also load a playlist directly in Bopster Live and play fully digitally.

Which music services can I use?

Bopster supports playlists and song links from Spotify, YouTube and YouTube Music, Deezer, Apple Music and TIDAL. Login requirements and playback options vary by service.

Can everyone guess on their own phone?

Yes. Live Together creates a session that players join on their smartphones to submit year, song and artist guesses.

Is Bopster free?

Yes. Core Bopster features are free. Advertisements and voluntary one-time donations help pay for development and hosting, and donators receive additional perks.

Is Bopster an official HITSTER product?

No. Bopster is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by HITSTER or its rights holders. You may choose to use Bopster Live while following official HITSTER rules.

Can I make my own HITSTER-style cards?

Yes. Bopster turns any playlist into your own printable QR music cards for timeline games like HITSTER, and you play them with Bopster Live. Bopster is independent and not affiliated with HITSTER, and Bopster cards can’t be scanned in the official HITSTER app.

Ready to start your next Bopster game?

Create a playlist, check the years, design your cards and launch Bopster Live when everyone is ready to play.

A peek at the songs

Guess first, then tap a year to reveal it.