Circa: Daily History Trivia

Circa works like Wordle for history: one question a day, built on a real On This Day event with a blank in it, such as a battle, an election or an invention. You type the answer letter by letter and the cards flip gold when you are right. Each question has three credits; wrong guesses and hints cost one each. Get it right and your streak goes on, get it wrong and it starts again. After the day's first question comes the rest of a set of five; the full set earns bonus XP, and a perfect 5/5 with no credits lost earns the laurel wreath.

After playing, the Daily Chronicle lays out the day's history as a newspaper, with Wikimedia photos and Deep Reads, longer stories behind the events. Questions span ten categories, from politics, wars and economics to sports, pop culture, inventions and the arts.

There is also a Weekly League leaderboard, best-of-seven head-to-head battles against friends with a 30-second timer and gems to wager, and cosmetics such as profile banners and card styles across 16 prestige levels. Circa is free with no ads. It is made by Jacob Brumm, came out on iOS in March 2026, and version 1.5 (September 2026) added new daily questions, birthdays and the Deep Reads. Outside the daily, an Arena lets you play by genre, from history and politics to film, video games and mythology.