# Canasta Junction — user reviews > 182 indexed App Store user reviews of Canasta Junction by Canasta Junction, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 7,003 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/canasta-junction/id934955176/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/canasta-junction/id934955176.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,570 · 4★ 740 · 3★ 281 · 2★ 106 · 1★ 306 ## What do users think of Canasta Junction? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fast gameplay - 👍 Enjoyable game experience - 🤝 Ability to play with friends **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent freezing and crashes - 🤖 Poor AI partner performance - 📱 Small card and text size - 🕰️ Overly fast gameplay speed - 🙈 Lack of transparency (hidden opponent hands) - 💰 Expensive subscription **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to complete canastas with jokers - Incorrect scoring and meld recognition - Inconsistent card distribution and special hand generation **Most requested features** - Allow users to see opponent and partner hands at the end of the game - Improve AI partner's decision-making - Add customization options for gameplay speed and card/text size - Provide more affordable pricing options ## Newest reviews (18 of 182) ### 3/5 — review *2026-07-21, version 5.1.1* too many people leave in the middle also some computer glitches on your side need improvement if kicked out or froze. cannot reconnect like the previous version ### 4/5 — Nice app *2026-07-14, version 5.1.1* This is a great app to learn canasta but they have the worst support team I have ever encountered. It took me almost three months to do a password reset so I could use the app on my iPad in addition to my phone .each response to my emails was automated— and never addressed the issue. Very frustrating! ### 3/5 — Needs improvement *2026-07-04, version 5.1.1* I really enjoy this game, but it is so ridiculous that I will get four fives and sixes from the deck repeatedly. Also, robot number two, my so-called partner, is a complete idiot. It’s like playing with the beginner. He doesn’t know how to discard. ### 2/5 — Frustrated *2026-07-01, version 5.1.1* The bot sees your hand so the game is totally rigged! ### 2/5 — Awful update! *2026-06-11, version 5.1.1* Horrible colors, horrible robot icons (childish), difficult to see scores on the pop-up screen. I wish I could revert to previous version. I will not be renewing this subscription. ### 2/5 — The Recent Update was a Downgrade *2026-06-03, version 5.1.1* Been playing this game for a while and really don’t like the recent update. It went from looking like an adult game to a kiddie game with all the colors and oversized layout. Not sure if there were any hidden improvements but the view of the game is distracting, hard to read, and seems totally unnecessary. ### 3/5 — IF Only… *2026-04-17, version 4.17.1* I’ve played Canasta for probably 50 years, which is to say, I understand the game. They changed some rules ( like role of black threes and a few others)…got it ! What I find unacceptable is there are too many errors of the score calculations on basic scoring …like # of canastas. This is a no brainer and very frustrating! ### 3/5 — Warning to users and Canasta Junction *2026-02-19, version 4.17.1* Just get a phishing attempt after I finished a game and tried to start. It said hit continue and a fake Apple purchase showed up for me to approve or cancel with a fake number to call. ### 3/5 — Freezing constantly *2026-01-26, version 4.17* App is acting funny: freezing, sending constant errors, etc. Please advise ### 3/5 — Things to know if you want to enjoy the game! *2026-01-01, version 4.16.2* The ads keep getting longer and longer but it isn’t a big deal if you just close the game and then reopen it. The game does not keep a long term count of wins & losses. No problem unless you have no internet (think airplane and you won’t be able to open the game at all)…but I just pull out my book and read for 5 minutes, then go back to the game. Great game but things to be aware of that the programmers do to make the game harder: * Your bot partner will typically not hold on to 7’s but will have 2 Aces. And, it is programmed to ALWAYS drop a 7 after it melds. If you pick up the pack near the end, do not plan on your partner to have ANY 7’s. BUT, Bot 1 & 3 have been programmed to keep two 7’s! *You and your bot partner will be dealt opposite cards so pay attention to what your partner drops. * Your partner (BOT 2) is programmed to regularly holds 4, 5 and/or 6’s when you need 155 or 180 to meld, so it will quite often not have enough points to do a meld…you will have to. *Typically, you will draw a 7 or an Ace on the last draw or two. Big problem if you pick up the pile near the end and try to dump all of your 7’s & Aces, so be aware! All that said, I love this game and play it A LOT. Since I stopped watching the ads, the game has been much more enjoyable! STOP WATCHING THEIR ADS🤩 ### 3/5 — Some improvements but MANY long running issues! *2025-12-24* The ads keep getting longer and longer but it isn’t a big deal if you just keep starting the games over after you see the results. No problem unless you are on an airplane (with no internet)…but I just pull out my book and read for 5 minutes, then go back to the game. Anything to make their ads ineffective—don’t drive yourselves crazy, just don’t watch them! The biggest problem that you cannot avoid is your ignorant partner! Programmers/Owners wrote back to me a year ago saying they were going to fix the following issues: * my bot partner typically drops all its 7’s—and saves Aces. How hard could it be to teach Bot 2 to STOP THAT?? It ALWAYS drops one 7 after it melds, ALWAYS. You cannot ever depend on your partner having even one 7 but it almost always has 2 Aces. * my bot partner regularly holds 4, 5 and/or 6’s when we have to make a count of 155 or 180 *I regularly draw a 7 AND/or an Ace on the last draw, sometimes a 7 and an ace on the last 2 draws. Big problem if you pick up the pile, so be aware! I think the programmers must not be very good for these issues should be easy to fix! HIRE SOME NEW PROGRAMMERS!🤩 All that said, I love this game and play it A LOT. Since I stopped watching the ads, it has been much more enjoyable! STOP WATCHING THEIR ADS🤩 **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We are actively working on improving the gaming experience regarding the robot performance, among others, to enhance the management of 7s and Aces in order to not mis-signal his partner and a better discard priority when needing 155 and 180 to open. Stay tuned! ### 3/5 — Very disappointed-so sad we’re made to update ,the old one is better than this! *2025-12-13, version 4.16.2* So many times when u look at your partners hand they could have laid down with perfect hands,doing nothing ! Too many errors, I,m not perfect but you should be better at this! ### 3/5 — Some improvements but MANY long running issues! *2025-12-10* The ads keep getting longer and longer but it isn’t a big deal if you just keep starting the games over after you see the results. No problem unless you are on an airplane (with no internet)…but I just pull out my book and read for 5 minutes, then go back to the game. Anything to make their ads ineffective—don’t drive yourselves crazy, just don’t watch them! The biggest problem that you cannot avoid is your ignorant partner! Programmers/Owners wrote back to me a year ago saying they were going to fix the following issues: * my bot partner typically drops all its 7’s; it ALWAYS drops one 7 after it melds, ALWAYS. You cannot ever depend on your partner having even one 7 but it almost always has 2 Aces. * my bot partner regularly holds 4, 5 and/or 6’s when we have to make a count of 155 or 180 *I regularly draw a 7 on the last draw, sometimes a 7 and an ace on the last 2 draws. Big problem if you pick up the pile, so be aware! I think the programmers must not be very good for these issues should be easy to fix! HIRE SOME NEW PROGRAMMERS!🤩 All that said, I love this game and play it A LOT. Since I stopped watching the ads, it has been much more enjoyable! STOP WATCHING THEIR ADS🤩 **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We are actively working on improving the gaming experience regarding the robot performance, among others, to enhance the management of 7s and Aces in order to not mis-signal his partner and a better discard priority when needing 155 and 180 to open. Stay tuned! ### 2/5 — Ads in Canasta Junction are horrible *2025-11-16, version 4.16.2* I love the game, but the ads go on forever, and forever, and forever. This has made it a very miserable experience. Plus the are very hard to close out beyond the time it should be. ### 2/5 — And stop with the LONG, LONG ads! I haven’t timed them yet, but they must be 2 full minutes. *2025-11-15* Been playing the game for more than a year and love the game but I need to find a new game because of Robot 2’s ignorance!!And how you stack the deck to bot 1 & 3! More evidence of you stacking the deck is that you give my partner & I opposite cards…. Why can’t you just let the cards play randomly?????? Since the update, some issues are better BUT MY BOT partner is still dumping most of its 7s and IT ALWAYS DUMPS a 7 after it melds—when I have not signaled by laying down a 7. AND, speaking of 7’s, almost EVERY GAME, YOU drop me a 7 or A in the last round—sometimes you drop a 7 in each of my last 2 hands (at the very end)! UNFAIR. Another evidence of helping bot 1 & 3…🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯. I think the programmers must not be very good for these issues should be easy to fix! **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We are actively working on improving the gaming experience regarding the robot performance, among others, to enhance the management of 7s and Aces in order to not mis-signal his partner and a better discard priority when needing 155 and 180 to open. Stay tuned! ### 4/5 — Closing canastas *2025-10-13, version 4.16* I have upgraded my canasta Junction. It will not let me close a canasta with the joker when there are six of the same cards please fix this bug. ### 3/5 — Robots ignorance *2025-10-13, version 4.16* I’ve been playing this for several years and liked it because of no ads. Now there’s ads! Yuck. Also the Robot players are stupidly not putting cards down when they could have made a canasta. Now a newer issue is the game won’t let me finish a canasta when there’s only 2-3 more cards. It says you can’t finish a canasta on your first meld!! What! It’s starting to get annoying . This has happened several times. Please correct these issues Also when I take a card from deck it doesn’t give me rest of cards. Annoying! Please fix these issues ### 2/5 — Buggy and the solitaire robots cheat. *2025-08-27, version 4.16* Seriously, many times the starting meld required was 180 points and they only melded 160 and it was accepted. When they have an unfinished Aces hand, they’re never penalized. It’s ridiculous. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible new graphics *2026-06-21, version 5.1.1* It seems like the app went backwards in time. Seems like something I would’ve played in the 1990s. Hard to follow. Cards don’t look real. I am not enjoying this change at all. ### 1/5 — Obnoxious ads *2026-06-08, version 5.1.1* The new version is almost unusable because of the full-screen ads that you can’t get rid of. Time to find a different canasta app. ### 1/5 — New *2026-06-06, version 5.1.1* This new version is impossible to play. Non stop ads. ### 1/5 — Minus 5 on Solitaire Games *2026-04-06, version 4.17.1* My Robot partners are super dumb, they’re less than beginner so no matter the effort you put into the game, they will mess it up big time without a doubt: next robot to them will always get the pack, you close and they have 3x7 and/Or 3xAces… If this is a way to get you pay for the membership, no thank you… ### 1/5 — Solitaire mode stinks *2026-02-20, version 4.17.1* Again, your solitaire mode is biased towards the robot. Constant 7’s hands even though I have not discarded any 7’s. Opponents have all the 7s. Constant wild card canastas for the robot hand. Why bother to play if the robot constantly wins with these hands that they are dealt. ### 1/5 — Heather *2026-01-10, version 4.16.2* Would pay to eliminate ads from this app. Hate it now. ### 1/5 — Ads and WiFi *2025-11-25, version 4.16.2* Ads are driving me crazy! And I used to be able to play without WiFi Why did you change that? ### 1/5 — Starting to hate this game *2025-11-17, version 4.16.2* I have been enjoying this game since the pandemic. Now I’m starting to hate it and I not only find these ads frustrating they are very stressful when you can’t get back to the game without shutting down the iPad or phone and powering back up. 3 times I have complained about that problem with the vita mahjogn ad and just now when I played there it was and I had to shut down and power up again. I don’t mind paying that yearly fee Instead and I can even tolerate the ad that have the close box if I had to but if I constantly have to shut down and power up again I will be looking to delete this app and join a different app. Can’t handle being this annoyed ### 1/5 — Asinine *2025-11-16, version 4.16.2* I get it. You need to monetize. But….. putting ads THAT NEVER HAVE AN ENDPOINT? The result is, no ability to play. So sad. I’ve enjoyed this app ### 1/5 — Glitchy *2025-10-30, version 4.16* The odds of getting through an entire game without someone getting frozen, or some other mishap is only about 75% at best. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ads *2026-06-06, version 5.1.1* There’s an ad every time I play that I can’t easily eliminate. ### 5/5 — Robots ignorance *2025-10-02* I’ve been playing this for several years and liked it because of no ads. Now there’s ads! Yuck. Also the Robot players are stupidly not putting cards down when they could have made a canasta. Now a newer issue is the game won’t let me finish a canasta when there’s only 2-3 more cards. It says you can’t finish a canasta on your first meld!! What! It’s starting to get annoying . This has happened several times. Please correct these issues ### 5/5 — Latest version 14.5 *2025-05-14, version 4.15* Loaded with bugs. Player can’t discard, differing views from the players on opponents hands, player can’t undo, voice goes away. Really no QC! ### 5/5 — Great Improvements *2025-03-30, version 4.13* Bugs are gone ### 5/5 — Très bon jeu de Modern Canasta *2025-01-14, version 4.11* Parfait pour apprendre en tant que débutant grâce aux robots, et top pour se connecter avec ses amis grâce à live play ### 5/5 — App not loading *2024-10-06, version 4.10* Please release update! ### 5/5 — Canasta *2024-08-26, version 4.9.2* How come the computer can pick up an ace and take the pile and put down 7 aces but I cannot pick up an ace ### 5/5 — WHY *2024-07-25, version 4.9.2* Why, for the past two nights has the game networked? It says not connected to Internet. And it’s just snapped me that it says that. Two of my friends alsoI’m getting the same pop-up box. What’s going on? ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-07-05, version 4.9.2* This is a great app. ### 5/5 — Error try again later *2024-07-03, version 4.9.2* Amazing support!! Thank you👍🏻👍🏻 --- *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 2026-08-31.*