# Pinochle Classic — user reviews > 245 indexed App Store user reviews of Pinochle Classic by Games By Post LLC, rated 4.20/5 from 2,992 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pinochle-classic/id1449858929/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pinochle-classic/id1449858929.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,646 · 4★ 790 · 3★ 253 · 2★ 129 · 1★ 174 ## What do users think of Pinochle Classic? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay - 👍 Intuitive interface - 💡 Helpful analytics and hints - 🎮 Enjoyable for both beginners and experts - 📚 Useful for learning and improving Pinochle skills **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 💸 Excessive ads that are difficult to dismiss - 🤖 Partner AI makes illogical plays - 🧠 Unbalanced card distribution favoring opponents - 🕹️ Lack of customization options for gameplay **Commonly reported bugs** - Cards remain on table after a hand, interfering with next round - Game freezes and requires reinstallation to continue - Incorrect scoring and bid handling in certain situations - Partner AI fails to pass optimal cards for meld and strategy **Most requested features** - Option to pay for ad-free version - Ability to play with human partners online - More accurate implementation of Pinochle rules and strategies - Allow 'throwing in' the hand when bid is unattainable - Declare winner automatically when outcome is clear ## Newest reviews (14 of 245) ### 3/5 — Crashes *2026-06-03, version 1.6* I like the game, but it keeps crashing on me. And then have to delete it and reinstall it. There are times when the power on the left leads two cards come out at once, and then it messes the rest of hand up in the game crashes. ### 3/5 — Review *2026-06-01, version 1.6* Love the game hate, hate, hate the interruptions in between!!!!!!!!! ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-05-21, version 1.6* Ads suck constant & annoying ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-03-30, version 1.6* Ads in between every hand make it difficult to play. I have to close the app and reopen it every time. Am I doing something wrong? ### 4/5 — So so *2026-03-17, version 1.6* Partner makes bad passes when trump called. Miss families a lot ### 4/5 — Love the game *2026-03-13, version 1.6* I enjoy playing pinochle on this app. I play on my iPad, but I can’t complete a game because it just goes right back to my homepage on my iPad instead of letting me finish the game it’s a big hassle! ### 4/5 — Love it, BUT *2026-03-12, version 1.6* Love this version but the ads are most annoying. Otherwise I’d give it 5 stars. ### 4/5 — Jeff—I’d pay for an ad-free version. Read the 2 reviews below to fix some priority issues. *2026-03-08* Below written on Jan 9 by Chuc232 and are my exact two complaints. Today I called spades trump, holding two Jack of diamonds. Partner had both queen of spades but only passed one and a random diamond. Frustrating. The other complaint he notices is partner holding card for 2 Pt marriages and passing back aces, holding losers and passing back trick takers. Work on that and you’ll get 5 stars! I would also pay for a this app to get rid of ads. From Chuc232: Pretty decent compared to several others, but needs some logic adjustments. Game often holds half a pinochle when I name Spades or Diamonds, but won’t pass the other half in opposite suite. Ie: I call spades, computer holds Jack of Diamonds but passes me Jack Hearts instead. I’ve done undo and tried to entice by calling Diamonds but then it won’t pass Queen Spades. When computer win bid and I pass several Aces, it will pass back two aces to keep a 2 pt marriage instead of keeping Aces as trick winners. ### 4/5 — Never played pinochle before? *2026-03-05, version 1.6* This is a great game to play if you’ve never played pinochle before. I feel like it does need an update though. The analytics button is very helpful for newbies like me and everything is very detailed and self explanatory. I know quite a few people who play this game and love it. On the whole, this is a satisfying game and is easy to use. ### 4/5 — Learning to play *2026-02-01, version 1.6* I used this app to learn to play pinochle with friends. I like that it can be adjusted for the minimum bid and that the hints really help to understand the strategy. The ads are annoying because they are long and tend to be a lot of slot game ads for which I could not possibly care less. For the app itself though, I do enjoy it and it’s been helpful. ### 3/5 — Time consuming *2026-01-16, version 1.6* Way too many adds ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-01-09, version 1.6* Fun to play ### 3/5 — Slower to play *2026-01-01* Ads are now between every hand not just startup and resume making playing a game much longer. Yuck ### 4/5 — No audio ! ! ! ! *2025-12-27, version 1.6* The app is fun to play, but it’s driving me nuts that there’s no sound to it. The only sound is when the ads play. :( And there’s no option in the settings to turn it on. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Meld *2026-08-02, version 1.6* Also, you can’t pass Mel in this game doesn’t stop you from passing me that you’ve been also a no-no learn the rules of the game ### 1/5 — DOES NOT ALWAYS COUNT ALL POINTS *2026-07-19, version 1.6* Used to really like this app but I will no longer play as it failed to count my partner’s pinochle. Also, I feel the points assigned seem to always skew very high. ### 1/5 — too bad , could of been great *2026-06-28, version 1.6* can't turn off all hints, can't change names and pics if people, worst of all can't turn off ads. ### 1/5 — Intrusive Ads Ruin Experience *2026-03-01, version 1.6* Every round is followed by a 30 second or longer ad that cannot be skipped or deactivated through a purchase. Completely ruins the experience of playing the game and would recommend finding a different app for pinochle. Shame as the Cribbage app by the same developer is great. ### 1/5 — Annoying ads…worst I’ve seen yet *2026-01-24, version 1.6* The ads and how they pop up and won’t stop hindering the game is SO annoying. Loved the layout and the gameplay but the way you sold out to the ad companies is why I’m deleting this app. Absolutely sickening. 👎🏻 ### 1/5 — Older version of the app was much better *2026-01-07, version 1.6* Bad bidding system, no option to revert to old app. Gameplay is garbage compared to previous versions. ### 1/5 — Porno ad ran while playing! *2025-12-22, version 1.6* Deleting this app after this review. The long ads were arduous enough, but yesterday I had a nasty porn ad for “talking to real people” with a girl doing nasty stuff just as an ad! Bye bye! ### 1/5 — Do not download *2025-12-11, version 1.6* Too many long ads, and computer gets several hands in a row to win games! Not fair to players! ### 1/5 — PORNOGRAPHIC ADS *2025-12-09, version 1.6* I’ve played this game a lot over the last couple of years and the ads are annoying but thankfully most are not too long but last night as I had trouble sleeping, I began playing around 2-3am and one of the ads for a dating app featured a young woman on a bed masturbating. As a mother and grandmother I do not want to see young people exploited and I shouldn’t have to be exposed to images like that. You are enriching yourselves by allowing advertising using soft core pornography - on a pinochle app! Shame on you! I am deleting. ### 1/5 — Change *2025-09-18, version 1.6* Made the game worse and if you play it, you’ll see what I mean. Now you block some of the cards with your menu key. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pinochle Classic *2026-06-28, version 1.6* I really enjoy this app because most of the other games i play don’t play fair at all. I played one app and after playing about 100 hands, i won 9 games only and the others would get fantastic hands and I only had maybe 5 great hands. You want to play but it’s frustrating and with this app it’s realistic and sometimes you win and sometimes you dot. ### 5/5 — My favorite card game! *2026-05-12, version 1.6* A good time when I play this game! Having grown up in Michigan, playing card games was something we always did! At 76 not many card players around! ### 5/5 — Daily fun! *2026-04-19, version 1.6* This game is very additive. I play it every night before bed to wind down. It’s very similar to the card game and I love that you can adapt the game to fit your style (I prefer double deck). ### 5/5 — Levels *2026-04-02, version 1.6* I love that I can choose the level of play. ### 5/5 — Changed for the worst *2026-02-27, version 1.6* Used to love this app but the changes made to it seem random and at times, playout in no way resembles actual playout if playing with people in the real world. ### 5/5 — Comments *2026-02-23, version 1.6* Great pinochle game. 2 observations: 1) the bot will play an ace for a point rather than saving for a winner 2) the bot will hold 10’s as the winning bid and pass J’s & 9’s losing point opportunities Other than that Bot plays like a real experienced player ### 5/5 — Great for Learning *2026-02-20, version 1.6* I needed to learn how to play and this was very helpful especially after watching a few YouTube videos. It definitely helped me play at a reasonable level quickly. The “Hint” feature is nice but eventually one will ignore its advice. ### 5/5 — Very real *2026-02-11, version 1.6* All levels are challenging like you are really playing with experts. ### 5/5 — El *2026-02-05, version 1.6* I love this game but I noticed that the way we have scored things in all of my 66 years, is that a double marriage is always worth 300 pts. And a double pinochle is worth 300 pts. And that’s what it says in the rules of scoring, but whenever I get them , they don’t score that way. ### 5/5 — Perfect Game (except for the advertisements) *2026-01-22, version 1.6* Perfect game for learning and playing pinochle, easy to use and fun to play! --- *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 2026-08-26.*