# Pinochle — user reviews > 159 indexed App Store user reviews of Pinochle by fishdog.net, rated 4.70/5 from 26,318 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pinochle/id351086172/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pinochle/id351086172.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 21,528 · 4★ 3,370 · 3★ 794 · 2★ 246 · 1★ 380 ## What do users think of Pinochle? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great pastime - 🚀 Helps improve playing skills - 👍 Enjoyable game - 👍 Configurable settings - 👍 Minimal ads **Cons** - 🐛 Unrealistic meld and opponent hands - 🐛 Poor partner AI and bidding - 🐛 Opponents often get advantageous cards - 🐛 Algorithms seem to favor opponents - 🐛 Partner makes questionable plays **Commonly reported bugs** - Partner passing poor cards instead of trumps - Partner overbidding or underbidding - Opponents getting unrealistic meld hands - Computer players making suboptimal plays **Most requested features** - Ability to set minimum bid value - Partner bidding and play options - More realistic card dealing - Online multiplayer mode ## Newest reviews (13 of 159) ### 3/5 — Game *2026-04-20, version 26.0.4* Love game, hate how partner passes cards. Keeps trump to save meld, doesn't pass correctly. Partner bids needing a lot, but passes with a full. Partner doesn’t smear when should ### 2/5 — Ridiculous *2026-04-15, version 26.0.4* The opposite auto team is constantly getting 30-40 in meld… runs, aces around, the works. It always deals me one card short of a blockbuster hand. Only had a run once, aces around only once. Off a run by one card dozens of times, same with aces around. Utterly ridiculous. I can lose fine, but not in ridiculously lopsided fashion in the way the app is creating the hands dealt. ### 2/5 — Ridiculous *2026-02-27, version 26.0.4* I like playing Pinochle and this is probably the best app for it. But it is a little ridiculous with some of the hands that the two computer players get it’s not uncommon for them to score over 50 points in a hand so the dealing is kind of ridiculous. ### 2/5 — Disgusting adds *2026-01-06, version 26.0.4* I am sick of seeing all the half naked people displayed along the top of the screen. ### 4/5 — Basic Game Rule! *2025-10-24, version 26.0.4* Would love to give this five stars, but the settings of the game are missing the most basic rule of pinochle - a team must get 20 pointers to score. The fact that this is not an option makes it impossible to come back from behind and teams get points when they should not. Also frustrated with the imbalanced deal by the AI - frequently, the AI opponent is stacked with meld. ### 2/5 — Ask me. Ok *2025-09-26, version 26.0.3* I can’t eliminate this from the game it used to work now. It asked me every time. ### 2/5 — Recent updates *2025-09-20, version 26.0.1* I don’t know what you decided to do, but there is something wrong when your partner has and 8 card straight and 50 meld and they pass at a bid of 60. You need to fix the partner bidding strategy. ### 2/5 — New Update is Terrible *2025-09-18, version 26.0.0* This new update rearranged things and now covers the cards. Not a smart update. The ads are also getting in the way of the game. ### 2/5 — Stacked deck *2025-08-31, version 9.2.2* Why does the computer always get the Meld?? This game is not fun when they always get the dominate hand will stop playing ### 2/5 — Bid points bug *2025-06-25, version 9.2.2* There’s a bug in the math. My partner recently had 180 points in meld, 4 kings, pinochle, KQ trump, KQ. The program only counted 90 points. ### 5/5 — Five stars *2025-06-04, version 9.2.2* 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ ### 5/5 — Super game *2025-04-14, version 9.2.2* I’ve been playing this game for almost 15 years and it’s been a great source of entertainment and fun. Thanks to the developers ### 4/5 — -ok- *2025-04-14, version 9.2.2* It could be better if you didn’t have to tap ok every time . ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — BEWARE ADS *2026-08-05, version 26.0.4* I downloaded this game and was immediately blocked from starting the game with an ad stating that my phone had an error in a loud voice. I immediately deleted it! ### 1/5 — Worth $0 *2026-06-08, version 26.0.4* If your a decent player not a good version ### 1/5 — Allows fake virus scam ads *2026-05-11, version 26.0.4* I used to love this app and played it all the time but then it started serving up fake virus scam ads so I have had to delete the app. I got the scam ads several times. ### 1/5 — Inappropriate ads *2025-12-28, version 26.0.4* Just trying to play the game when pornographic images appear. Completely inappropriate. ### 1/5 — Ad Banner Problems *2025-12-14, version 26.0.4* I’ve had this game for years. No problems at the beginning but ever since the ad banner has been added to the top it has gotten worse. The ads are in the way of the scoring and partner cards, and not always appropriate. There is no option to contact the game designer or remove the ads. It’s a bummer. Hoping it gets fixed soon. ### 1/5 — Bad update *2025-09-30, version 26.0.3* Another bad update! Cards are now mushed together! Change it back to the way it was! Some of us are older ### 1/5 — App *2025-09-17, version 26.0.0* Changed your app made it a lot worse ### 1/5 — Cheaters *2025-01-26, version 9.2.2* The computer knows both hands therefore it always gets the optimum meld. For example, it always gets 300 pinochle when it’s split. ### 1/5 — The worst *2024-11-24, version 9.1.1* Wow!!! ### 1/5 — Bad Partner *2024-08-08, version 8.9.0* If my partner keeps passing me flipping 9s (and not even of trump) and then having no meld I’m gonna flip my flipping LID. There’s literally no reason your partner should every pass you motherflipping NINES. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best Pinochle game *2026-08-08, version 26.0.4* Best pinochle game I have found! The deals are pretty random. The deals don’t seem to be repetitive like other pinochle games. At the end of each hand you can look at the original dealt hands to see how the opposing players got that double pinochle or 1500 meld. Deals seem pretty fair and even! ### 5/5 — Freezes *2026-07-08, version 26.0.4* Love game but frequent freezing is problematic ### 5/5 — Pinochle *2026-06-08, version 26.0.4* Great app ### 5/5 — Really Great Game, I Play All The Time *2026-03-04* I really do enjoy this version of Pinochle. Not many people know how to play it and I’m not often around my relatives who do. This is a great substitute. I like the customization (like a priority on sending for Pinochle when S/D are chosen, changing cards/faces, trump color, game modes, score mods), the animation, and the overall presentation. However, my computer partner drives me crazy with the bidding (sometimes they’ll pass with a good hand), and my opponents seem to get Double Pinochle quite frequently (this is rare in realtime gameplay). Other than that, I highly recommend this game! ### 5/5 — Signals *2026-02-26, version 26.0.4* When playing an ace on partners ace partner does not return the suit. This happens 20 percent of the time. I have complained about this several times ### 5/5 — Pinochle *2025-12-08, version 26.0.4* If you like pinochle then this is the game for you. ### 5/5 — Excellent game! *2025-10-06, version 26.0.3* By far the best pinochle game to play alone against three comparable opponents without the drama and attitudes of playing online. ### 5/5 — Review *2025-09-18, version 26.0.0* Bad .. I have played this game for years and recently they have placed an ad across top of game that makes it unplayable. I uninstalled it. ### 5/5 — Ad overload *2025-07-29, version 9.2.2* Crazy with ads ### 5/5 — Love this game *2025-06-09, version 9.2.2* Fun fun fun ... I play it all the time .. peaceful.. relaxing... calming!! Love this game!!! --- *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 2026-08-29.*