# Canasta Gold — user reviews > 253 indexed App Store user reviews of Canasta Gold by Intent Software GmbH & Co. KG, rated 3.20/5 from 103 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/canasta-gold/id341540567/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/canasta-gold/id341540567.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of Canasta Gold? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fast gameplay - 👍 Enjoyable game - 🚀 Smooth performance **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes when picking up large piles - 👎 Incompetent partner AI - 👎 Inaccurate scoring - 👎 Inability to prevent partner from going out - 👎 Lack of difficulty options **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes when picking up large discard piles - Inconsistent behavior when picking up the discard pile - Incorrect point calculations at the end of hands **Most requested features** - Option to play with real people - Ability to save and resume games - More detailed scoring breakdown - Landscape mode support - Customizable rules and settings ## Newest reviews (18 of 253) ### 4/5 — Seems like all the reviews are ages old *2025-06-11* I would think there would be some newer reviews. If what’s here are 12 and 13 years old, I’m sure improvements have been made. I play this game against the computer. I would like to see a better partner. Since you cannot make a wild card canasta, you have no choice but to make dirty canasta’s, which results in fewer points. Being able to pick up the discard pile if you have the cards on the table is not conducive to competitive play. I can add more, but the bottom line is that I play every day and enjoy the game. ### 3/5 — Dosen’t Let you finish game *2025-03-22* When you pick up a lot of cards it will not let you play them out into books. Game will just stick and go no further, also sometimes person playing against does not put card out. ### 3/5 — Canasta improvements needed *2024-06-22* My partner has the meld but throws jokers away which is wrong. Keep improving it. ### 4/5 — Good game, graphics need an update *2024-01-19* I have really enjoyed this game. Just upgraded to an iPhone 15 on iOS 17 and the game is now slightly blurry. This is the first time that has happened. ### 2/5 — I watch my partner give away points! *2023-03-15* I hate it when the last 5-7 cards that my partner discards are laying down waiting for canasta to be completed, and she gives them all away. She could’ve gone out with some of those trailing cards. ### 3/5 — Love to play, BUT… *2022-08-26, version 2.3.3* Partner every two or three games seems to be playing against me and for the other side. Just when we seem to be ready to make a canasta, he discards the needed card. At the end of almost every hand, he holds on to so many cards (most of which he discards are down in front of me. It’s easy to tell that this game is programmed for me to lose about every third or fourth game. That’s no fun. ### 4/5 — Like playing this game but … *2022-03-26, version 2.3.3* Since the iOS 15 update this app has stopped showing how the score is worked out. It’s nice to see how you got whatever your score is ### 3/5 — Same error for years *2021-11-07* This is a fun version of Canasta to play. HOWEVER, reviewers have been noting in the reviews for years that it is irritating for the partners to slough off wild cards uselessly when ending the hand, when the wild cards should have been used to finish another canasta. ### 3/5 — Frustrated *2021-08-31, version 2.3.3* I get frustrated when the computer puts an extra wild card on a closed canasta, especially when another canasta could have been made. Also when a canasta is made you shouldn’t be able to pick up the pack with a matching card. The discard pile should still be locked needing a pair to pick up even if you have gone down for the initial time. I keep playing because I love canasta but eventually have to take a break it doesn’t follow the rules. ### 3/5 — Canasta *2020-09-01, version 2.3.3* I just finished a game in which I had thrown away a king. The opponent (computer) picked up the pile after a few more turns and used all the cards to go out. The king was nowhere to be seen. I now have no faith in this program. Can you fix it so the opponent actually plays cards it has rather than cheating? ### 2/5 — Canasta *2020-06-18, version 2.3.3* Every once in awhile the player to my right picks up the stock pill & then they do not discard. Very frustrating. Please fix. This has still not been fixed and it is very frustrating. This is the third time I have sent this & still not fixed. Bah humbug Last time if you can’t fix the problem, please just day so. ### 3/5 — Needs some work *2019-07-28* I love canasta, I play a lot! This app is ok…it needs some tweaking tho. Some of the problems that is so annoying are...the opponent picks up the deck and doesn’t discard, what a glitch! Also, my partner is intent on dirtying up a canasta. We will have five or even six cards down and before I can add my two to make it a natural he adds wild cards, frustrating! Oh, and lastly, he is constantly giving the deck away when I know he could have discarded a safe card, because he pick up the deck earlier and had safe cards in his hand. Also, I may freeze the deck because I need it frozen so I’ll have safe discards, he picks the discard pile up his next turn and keeps the wild card and discards a black three. Now, it becomes my turn and I’m stuck again. Those are the cons to this app, but I still play it, just wish they’d update with some fixes. ### 2/5 — Please fix the bugs *2019-03-05, version 2.3.3* The problem the had been going on for YEARS of the opponent not discarding after picking up the discard pile still has not been fixed. ### 3/5 — Canasta *2018-12-13* Almost every game there is a fault in program; 4 hands; player before me picks up stake... BUT DOES NOT DISCARD, BUT SHOWS MY TURN TO DRAW, without a discard to pick from. Unable to attach photo! ### 4/5 — Canasta *2018-12-12* The programmer needs to look at the partner discarding a card that could make their partner a Canasta and playing cards in their hands when partner has only 1 to 2 cards left and is going out!!! ### 3/5 — Has a bug with new IPAD OS update. *2018-10-13, version 2.3.3* Freezes mid game. Even restart on IPAD will not clear it. ### 2/5 — Needs work *2018-10-02* Several times the other player as made wrong moves but does not correct them as I have to / opened at 50 didn’t throw a card away I had to go on with no choice of card but the deck ### 3/5 — It's fun until... *2018-05-03* Your AI partner puts a wild card on an existing canasta instead of making another one. The partner is a D.A. But I still play the game weekly. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Won every game *2023-02-16, version 2.3.3* Fun at first boring now as I win every game ### 1/5 — Canasta *2022-08-26* I haven't ever played this game like my partner has!!!!!! She doesn't know how to play the game!!! Keeps her cards as long as she can! Then the other two players go out! Like I said this game is hopeless because the writer is always right!!! ### 1/5 — Format *2021-02-26* I hate the new layout. Now it goes vertically, whereas before it went horizontally and you had more room for your melds. Now, if you have a lot of melds, you have to go back and forth all the time to see what you have laid out. It’s not fun this was. However, I do not have any of the other issues that people on here are having. ### 1/5 — Bimela *2020-07-11* You people obviously don’t read your ratings. For 7 yrs. people have been complaining about how stupid this game is and you haven’t done anything about it. ### 1/5 — Disgusting scam app *2019-06-28* I just purchased this app. There are no instructions available in the app to figure out how to move the cards around. I can’t meld, I can’t access any online partners, I can’t do anything. Apparently there is no way to get my money back. I have gone to their website, to their Facebook page- they clearly have no interest in helping purchasers troubleshoot. ### 1/5 — Canasta *2019-05-13, version 2.3.3* I have been playing this for years and have yet to lose a game. I guess it gives me a positive but a false positive. I just hope one day it surprises me! ### 1/5 — Slow *2019-02-18* You can not change it to draw 2 cards instead of 1. It makes such a difference. I can not go out with out a canasta, but I can put cards down because I need to save one to keep putting out. ### 1/5 — Partner is a dud. *2019-01-05, version 2.3.3* So many glitches, i always must discard but other players do not always discard. Partner never improves, throws away jokers when going out. More frustrating than fun. ### 1/5 — Annoying *2017-08-30* It's extremely irritating how terrible your partner is in 2vs2. Absolutely worthless partner and screws up the game every hand. No way to change settings for the AI either.... I used to love this app but the animations changed too much and the AI intelligence hasn't... ### 1/5 — Get Ahead - Deals Badly *2017-08-12* Unreal - 99% of the time when playing teams and we are ahead then we are dealt bad hands until we lose. If by chance we get a good hand my partner gives pile or takes pike with ONE card in the pile. Good grief with partners like this who need opponents right. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice game *2025-08-26, version 2.3.3* Solid 5 for playability , one of the best Canasta games I’ve played on the iPhone ### 5/5 — Lots of fun *2024-02-24, version 2.3.3* Great way to relax ### 5/5 — Great Game *2021-07-29* I play this everyday at lunch! I grew up playing Canasta. This game is fun ### 5/5 — Really good but *2016-03-11, version 2.3.1* Two niggles. The App unerringly gets the better hand. Can you add a feature where you can swap your playing partner as the one supplied is a complete dangerous half wit who raises my blood pressure with their ineptitude. ### 5/5 — Canasta *2014-11-20, version 2.3* Have given up with this game because of constant cheating by Bernadette when picking up the pile! ### 5/5 — Canasta *2014-07-21, version 2.3* This is a very good game to learn the basics of the game canasta hope you enjoy ### 5/5 — Fast, slick, accurate with no fuss *2014-05-20, version 2.3* Best looking Canasta app in my opinion - although some sound effects or fun music would add to this already great app version ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2014-04-26, version 2.3* Really enjoyable game. My husband and I play this when we go away on hols with friends, it's lovely to have the opportunity to play it anytime! Rules are slightly different to ours but I'm sure we are the ones who have been playing it wrong! ### 5/5 — Canastatic Game *2014-02-15, version 2.2* Absolutely no problem with this game, those who are reporting issues should maybe check the settings in their iProduct. This game runs smoothly and is very challenging. ### 5/5 — Like it *2013-11-26, version 2.2* Opponents are easy but good for practice --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*