BitLife online: can you play it in a browser, and what else to try

A lot of people search for “BitLife online” because they want to play it on a laptop, or on a computer where they cannot install apps. It is a fair thing to want. Here is what we found when we looked, and what you can play in a browser instead.

Is there an official BitLife browser version?

BitLife is made by Candywriter, LLC. The official game is listed on the App Store and on Google Play, where it is free to download, with adverts and optional in-app purchases. The App Store rates it 18+.

When we checked, at the time of writing (October 2026), we could not find an official browser version from Candywriter. The pages that offer “BitLife online” in a browser that we came across were run by third parties, not by the developer.

That matters for a couple of reasons:

• It may not be the real game. A copy or a clone may play differently, be out of date, or simply be something else using the name.
• You do not know who runs it. A parental-control company’s guide to BitLife makes the point plainly: unofficial browser versions are not the developer’s, often break copyright, and are not properly monitored.
• Your progress is not yours. Anything you build on an unofficial copy can disappear when the site does.

So our honest advice: if you want BitLife itself, get it from the official store on your phone or tablet. If what you want is a life-sim feeling in a browser, play something that is made for the browser.

What BitLife players can play in a browser

These are our picks, all of which run in a web browser from their own official sites.

AJ Cities

This is our game, so we are biased, but it is the one on this list that is closest to living a single life somewhere. AJ Cities runs in your browser on a phone or a computer, free, with nothing to download, and it is 18+.

You play AJ, deported from London and starting again with nothing in a rooming house on June 12 Street, on the edge of Ajegunle, Lagos. It has the parts of a BitLife life that people enjoy, slowed down so you can walk through them: earning money (₦1,000 a break as a ball boy at the street football), betting that story money on the match, keeping your health up with food and medicine, and a debt of ₦2,500,000 to the gate police, paid little by little. The difference is that the people around you have names, routines and opinions, and they remember you. How to play takes two minutes to read.

Torn

Torn is a text-based online RPG set in Torn City, a dark crime world. You make a character, take jobs, invest, travel and join factions with other real players. Its own site says it is completely free, with no advertising. If you like BitLife’s crime side, this is the browser game built around it.

A Dark Room

A Dark Room was made by Michael Townsend under the name Doublespeak Games and first released for web browsers in 2013. It starts as almost nothing, a cold room and a fire, and grows into something much bigger. It is free in a browser; the mobile versions are paid. It is not a life sim exactly, but it has the same “one more tap” pull.

Kingdom of Loathing

Kingdom of Loathing, from Asymmetric Publications, has run in browsers since 2003. It is a free, turn-based multiplayer RPG with stick-figure art and a lot of jokes. Its currency is meat. If BitLife makes you laugh at the absurd things that happen in a life, this might too.

Choice of Games

Choice of Games publishes interactive novels, written in its own ChoiceScript language, on the web, Steam and its own apps. The company says it has published more than 150 and makes its older back catalogue free to read. You make choices, and the story keeps track of who you have become.

Playing AJ Cities on a laptop or a phone

1. Open ajcities.com in any modern browser.
2. Choose Play AJ’s story. There is no sign-in for the story.
3. Walk to Chuks at his coal pot and talk to him. On a keyboard you walk with W, A, S and D and talk with E; on a phone you move with your left thumb and tap the Action button. The controls page has the rest.
4. Follow the map pin down to the bush, earn your first ₦1,000, and start paying off the gate.

The story starts from the beginning each time in this chapter, so you can come back to it on another device without worrying about a save file.

The short answer

BitLife is an app. Play it on your phone from the official store. For a browser, pick a game that was built to live there: a text world like Torn, a story like the Choice of Games catalogue, or a city you can walk around like AJ Cities.

More ideas: games like BitLife, but with a real story, and life simulator games you can play online free.

Can you play BitLife in a browser?

At the time of writing we found no official browser version from its developer, Candywriter. The official game is a free app on the App Store and Google Play.

Are BitLife websites safe?

Sites offering BitLife in a browser that we found were run by third parties, not the developer. We suggest the official app, or a game made for the browser.

What is a free browser game like BitLife?

Torn is a free text-based crime life with other players. AJ Cities is a free 3D story game about starting a life again in Lagos, for adults.