Garba Beat

1. Get a Garba ID

Go to Friends & account, pick an @name and tap Create. No email or phone number is needed. You get a recovery code: screenshot it, because it’s the only way back into your account on another phone.

2. Add your friends

• Search their @name or friend code on the Friends screen, or
• tap Share invite link and send it on WhatsApp, or
• show My QR code and let them Scan a friend.

They accept the request, and you’re friends. Only friends can dance in your room.

3. Open a room

On Home, tap Play with friends. You’re the host, and you get a 6-letter room code.

4. Bring everyone in (up to 6 dancers)

• Tap Invite next to a friend: an invite card appears on their Home screen within about 10 seconds, and they tap Join.
• Or tap Share room link, or read out the code: they type it into Friends & account → Room code → Join.

5. Pick the song and start

The host chooses the song and difficulty; everyone else sees it update. When your friends show as here, tap Start. Everyone gets a countdown and the song starts on every phone at the same moment.

During the song

• Each phone plays its own music and judges its own taps, so a slow connection never spoils your timing.
• Your friends dance in your circle with their names above them.
• In dandiya songs you’re paired as jodis. With three or more dancers you can tap Pick as jodi in the lobby to choose who you dance with (picking each other always works). Anyone who doesn’t pick is paired in the order you joined. When you and your jodi both land the same strike you score a Jodi bonus.
• When everyone hits a big beat together, you all get a Sangat bonus.
• Tap 😊 to send a quick reaction over your dancer.
• There’s no pause online: Leave takes you out of the song, and your friends carry on.

After the song

Results show everyone’s score and the group score, which goes on the group leaderboard. Tap Back to the room for the next song.

Tips and fixes

• In the same room? Every phone plays the music, so use headphones or turn all but one phone right down.
• No invite card? Check you’re both signed in and friends, then go back to Home.
• “Only the host’s friends can join”: the host needs to add you first.
• Hits feel early or late? Run Settings → Audio sync → Calibrate on that phone.
• If the host leaves, the room closes. Anyone can open a new one.

Hinch songs are garba claps with lots of long notes for the hip sway. Left-handed? Switch on Left-handed dandiya in Settings to swap the halves.

Duet (on the song list) is two players on one phone, each tapping their own half. Practice 75% slows a song down; practice runs don’t earn credits or stars.

• Timing: Perfect (within 45 ms) 300 points, Great (90 ms) 200, Good (140 ms) 100.
• Combo: every 10 hits in a row adds ×1 to your points, up to ×4. A miss resets it.
• Utsav meter: hits fill it, misses drain it. When it’s full the dhol solo starts: double points for 8 seconds.
• Stars come from accuracy, not score: ★ 70%, ★★ 85%, ★★★ 95%. Stars unlock more songs.
• Credits come from your score and stars, with bonuses for new stars, tonight’s featured song, the daily challenge and dancing with friends.

• Use the Music filter to choose Recorded songs (real tracks, downloaded the first time you play them) or Synth songs (played live by the game).
• Tap the ♫ button on a song to hear a preview.
• Navratri nights (11–19 Oct): each night has a colour and a featured song. Clear it to earn that colour for your outfits; the featured song pays double credits on its night.
• The daily challenge is a new song and twist every day, for 1.5× credits and a bonus once a day.
• Sheri Garba is endless: the dhol keeps speeding up until the Utsav meter runs out.
• Make your own chart for any synth song in the Chart editor (experimental).

• Every song and difficulty has a board. Switch between Solo and Group, Friends and Global, This week (resets on Monday) and All time.
• Solo boards use your best single-player score. Songs danced with friends count on the group board instead, because they include jodi and sangat bonuses.
• The global boards show your @name only. To hide, untick it in Friends & account → Account; friends still see you.

• Make up to 6 dancers in the Wardrobe. Spend credits on hairstyles, outfits, jewellery, sticks and colours, or try Surprise me.
• Each dancer has a signature move they show off on combos.
• Your other dancers, and your friends’ dancers, join your circle and partner you in the raas.

• Your progress saves on this phone. With a Garba ID it also saves online, so you can carry it to a new phone with your recovery code (Friends & account → Already have one?).
• Lost your code? It can’t be reset, because we don’t store your email. Find it while you’re still signed in: Account → Show my recovery code.
• Use ⋯ next to any player to report or block them. Blocked players can’t find you, add you or join your rooms.
• There’s no chat: reactions are preset. What we store.