Fly a paper kite from your rooftop, on one thumb
Hold to dart, let go to turn. Cross strings in the pench, shout Kai po che! when the rival's string parts, and wrap the falling kite.
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About Kite String
Kite String is a 2D kite-flying game for Android phones by Sonicon Software, set on the rooftops of Uttarayan. You fly a paper patang on one thumb, cross strings with rival kites in the pench, and climb rooftop by rooftop across three cities. It works offline, with no account, no ads and no purchases.
How to fly
Hold anywhere on the sky and your kite darts the way its nose points. Let go and it slows and turns. Hold too long and the string strains, then snaps. Climb through five places, from over the parapet to the top of the sky, collect chikki, and let go as a gust crests for a boost and a gold ribbon.
The pench and Kai po che
When your string crosses a rival's, the pench begins. Knots travel down their string: hold on a filled knot, let go on an open one. Clean beats saw through their string; misses fray yours. When theirs parts, the rooftops cheer Kai po che! and the kite drifts down. Steer under it to wrap it, and it joins your kites.
Where to fly
Rooftop map
Three cities, starting with the pols of Ahmedabad, then Jaipur and Surat. Every rooftop has its own course to learn and three stars to earn: reach sunset, then meet its two goals.
Mohalla champion
The twelfth rooftop of each city is a two-phase pench against the neighbourhood's champion.
Daily sky
One course for each date, the same for everyone and free to fly. Your Daily flights fill this month's sky.
Endless climb
A new course every run: see how high you can climb before the string runs out. Opens at level 4.
Uttarayan days
On 14 and 15 January, by your phone's date, every mode flies in a night sky with tukkal lanterns, chikki rewards are doubled, and the Uttarayan Tukkal kite is yours once a year.
Kites in a Kodi
Kites come tied in a Kodi, wrapped in newspaper the way kite sellers bundle them. Your parapet holds four, and one opens at a time: a Plain Kodi takes 3 hours, a Shahi Kodi 24. Its kites come out one by one, with cards and chikki to upgrade your kites, manja and firki.
Each kite flies its own way: Chil darts fast, Ghensiyo is steady, Chaand-tara is strong in a pench and Pari turns quickly. Fabrics such as bandhani and leheriya change only how a kite looks.
Every flight counts
Every run you finish pays chikki and XP, even one that ends in a snap or a cut. Three daily missions, with one free swap, and a weekly milestone add more. The rooftop streak has one calm day each week, so a single missed day never resets it. There are no notifications: a home-screen widget shows today's sky.
Your Daily flights fill a month sky, and you can share a month's sky as a picture through Android's share sheet.
Play it your way
Light and dark themes; the dark theme is an Uttarayan night. Sound and haptics each have their own switch, and reduce motion removes shake and sway while words carry every event. TalkBack has its own hold mode, and Switch Access, a keyboard or a D-pad can fly too. The first minute is a short lesson flown in the sky, skippable after your first hold and replayable from Settings.
Privacy in one paragraph
Kite String has no account and shows no ads. It holds Android's internet permission because Google's ads and billing code is built in, but in this version that code is switched off, and the app's own code makes no network requests. Your game stays in the app's private storage and never goes to cloud backup. On Android 12 and later, setting up a new phone from your old one can carry it across. Read the privacy policy.
Screens from the app
Today's sky is up.