About
A conversation card app in English and Filipino, made by one person for the tables we already sit at.
Kumustahan is a bilingual conversation card app: 1,200 questions in English and Filipino across 7 decks, with a short reflection on the back of every card.
Fact sheet
Pick a deck, choose how deep tonight goes (Keep it light, Open up or Go deeper), and pass the phone. 420 cards across all 7 decks are free for good, along with Question of the Day, favorites, notes and saved sessions. It works offline, with no account and no ads, on iPhone and Android. Premium adds 780 more cards, Collections, 8 Themes, 11 card skins, the Card Maker and iPhone widgets, weekly, monthly or yearly, or once for life.
We ask “Kumusta ka?” every day, and we almost always hear “Ayos lang.” It’s rarely the whole story.
Kumustahan started with one wish: to really talk with the people we love. Not small talk, not another update. So the questions went on cards, one question at a time, with everyone at the table listening. The name is the Filipino word for catching up, kumustahan: people asking each other how they really are.
Kumustahan is a conversation card app for iPhone and Android with 1,200 cards across 7 decks: Getting to know, Just for fun, Reflect, Lifegroup & Faith, Couples, Barkada and Icebreakers. Every card has a question on the front and a short reflection on the back, in English and Filipino. The Tagalog is written for talking, not machine-translated.
In setup you pick your decks, how many cards and how deep the night goes: Keep it light, Open up or Go deeper. Then you pass the phone. Salo, a small card-stock dealer, shuffles and deals. Its name comes from kasalo, the one who shares your table and listens.
420 cards across all 7 decks are free for good, with Question of the Day, favorites, notes and saved sessions. Premium adds 780 more cards, Collections, 8 Themes, 11 card skins, the Card Maker and iPhone widgets. It comes weekly, monthly or yearly, or you pay once for life.
The cards are stored on your phone, so Kumustahan works with no signal. There’s no account to make and no ads, not one.
Your notes, favorites and handmade cards stay on your phone, unless you turn on Cloud backup, which copies them to your own iCloud Drive or Google backup. Salo never records, reads your notes or repeats what it hears. The app sends limited usage and crash reports so bugs get fixed, but it doesn’t send the text of your notes, the names of who’s playing or your answers. The details are in the privacy policy.
Kumustahan is designed and built by JM Degojas, an independent developer. There’s no studio and no ad budget behind it: one person, writing and building for the tables they sit at, and reading every message that comes in.
Writing about Kumustahan? Email hello@kumustahan.app for screenshots, the app icon or a chat. A few notes: Kumustahan is one word with a capital K, the app’s languages are English and Filipino (Tagalog), and Salo is an “it”.
A bug, an idea, or just kumusta: hello@kumustahan.app. Find us on Instagram at kumustahan.app, and in the Kumustahan community group on Facebook.
FAQ
Kumustahan is designed and built by JM Degojas, an independent developer. It’s a one-person app, not a studio.
It comes from kumusta, “how are you?” in Filipino. Kumustahan is the catching-up itself: people asking each other how they really are.
No. Notes, favorites and handmade cards stay on your phone (or your own iCloud or Google backup, if you turn that on), and there’s no account. The app sends limited usage and crash reports, not the text of your notes.
On the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android. It’s free to download, with 420 cards free for good.
Email hello@kumustahan.app. Every message is read, and for a bug it helps to include your phone model and what you tapped.
Free on iPhone and Android. 420 cards free, no account, works offline.
