Use this Bingo Card Generator to play along with Apple's September iPhone event. Drinking is entirely optional.
Apple is well known for the format of its special events. From the WWDC keynote to the usual September iPhone events, viewers are familiar with the usual tropes, such as Tim Cook's "Good morning" at the start, and the earlier famous "One more thing" at the end of some videos.
While it would be easy for people to turn it into something like a drinking game, there are other ways to play with the events.
The Bingo Card Generator for iPhone and iPad is an app specifically made for Apple events. Developed by Tahren Ponnusamy, the app creates a bingo card n based on events and rumors associated with an Apple event.
As the event continues, you can mark off squares in a bid to complete a line. You could play it solo, but it's also made to be played in groups, with each person having a fully randomized card to play with.
Once you get a line, the app celebrates with digital confetti.
The app is preloaded with rumors compiled before the event takes place, and the spaces are selected randomly. However, you can also create your own pools of squares for a custom bingo card game with friends and colleagues.
The app can run completely offline, requires iOS 26.5 or later, and weighs in at only 3 megabytes.
In a Reddit post, the developer explains that it is completely free to make it as fun and as accessible as possible. Mercifully, there's no in-app ads either.
AI development assistance
According to the developer, the app came from one attempt eight years prior, where they made Apple keynote bingo cards in Numbers. While it worked fine, they acknowledged that Numbers wasn't meant to handle that many real-time randomized index lookups.
Over the last four years, Ponnusamy spent evenings learning to use Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode. However, they also used AI-generated code to produce it.
It's explained that they designed the architecture but used AI to generate boiler plate code, to abstract functions, and to deal with UI formatting modifiers.
While admitting the use of AI, they don't consider the app to be vibe coded, referring to telling an AI to make something and then blindly accepting the result. This is something that is entirely possible within Xcode, as AppleInsider found in February by coding a Pomodoro timer within minutes and with minimal effort.
In this case, the developer claims to have designed the app, and reviewed and understood all of the generated code. That said, they say they won't pretend that everything was hand-coded.