FreeCell Forever vs Simple Freecell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FreeCell Forever
Master FreeCell with this app's intelligent assistance. It offers move suggestions, dead-end warnings, and auto-play options to help you improve. Play winnable deals, track your progress with detailed statistics, and choose your preferred level of challenge.
- Move suggestions
- Dead-end warnings
- Highlight next home cards
- Auto-play home cards
- Show winning move sequence
- Track statistics
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Improve your skills and become a FreeCell expert! FreeCell Forever has a number of settings that can help you see the best move, warn you if you reach a dead end, highlight the next home cards, auto-play home cards, or show you a winning sequence of moves from your current situation. Or turn off all the help settings and play without distractions. All deals in FreeCell Forever are winnable, and you can choose to play all of the games in order, try some easy games, or challenge yourself to win some of the most difficult games known. Statistics are kept for moves count, time to win, hints used, and undo's used, so you can see yourself improving over time.
Simple Freecell
Experience a classic card game with a clean, ad-free interface. Enjoy customizable settings, helpful move hints, and unlimited undos for a seamless gameplay experience. Track your progress with detailed score and move history.
- 100% Free, no in-game ads
- Classic FreeCell rules
- Drag and drop or tap controls
- Customizable user settings
- Unlimited undo capability
- Show possible move hints
- Track score, time, and moves
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Play Simple FreeCell by NxgWare. Enjoy this variation of FreeCell without the worry of having ads in between games! What's inside: - 100% Free, no in game ads - Classic rules - Drag and Drop or tap to move cards - Customizable user settings - Auto play animations - Unlimited undo capability - Show possible move hints - Replay existing game - Track history of score, time and amount of moves - Portrait and landscape supported
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simple Freecell at none against FreeCell Forever's shown. Simple Freecell also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 19 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). FreeCell Forever's advantage is ratings volume (142 vs 12) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Freecell holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FreeCell Forever has 142 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of FreeCell Forever's written reviews are positive against 83% of Simple Freecell's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
FreeCell Forever ships an update every 19 months, Simple Freecell monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FreeCell Forever | Simple Freecell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (142 ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | NX Gentech, LLC |
Customer experience
FreeCell Forever
Simple Freecell
Bugs and requests
FreeCell Forever
Reported bugs
6 issues- Flashing ad at bottom of screen
- Dead end warnings are incorrect
- Game stuck at 1941
- App crashes frequently
- App opens other random apps
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- Animation before scores is annoying
Requested features
3 requests- Option to pay for ad-free experience
- Make text larger
- Hint button on either side instead of bottom
Simple Freecell
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FreeCell Forever
No in-app purchases
Simple Freecell
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is FreeCell Forever free?
Is Simple Freecell free?
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