Solitaire *** vs Solitaire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solitaire ***
Experience a tranquil card game with stunning HD nature visuals. Enjoy classic solitaire rules, customizable backgrounds, and daily challenges. Play anytime, anywhere, with or without an internet connection.
- HD nature graphics
- Classic solitaire rules (1 or 3 cards)
- Customizable backgrounds and card backs
- Smart hints and unlimited undo
- Daily challenges and rewards
- Offline play
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Solitaire *** is the most zen and relaxing solitaire game of all cards games. Play now to this great classic card game with amazing HD graphics and beautiful pictures of our earth. You will love to play in the relaxing atmosphere of this game, its fun gameplay, and the multiple options that to customize your solitaire game as you prefer. Solitaire *** respects all the original rules of the classic solitaire: - 1 card (most games are winnable) - 3 cards (difficult challenge). KEY FEATURES: - HD graphics with pictures of nature, earth, and zen cities - Draw 1 card (Easy) - Draw 3 cards (Hard) - 12 Kinds of App Backgrounds - 16 Kinds of Card Backdrop - Single click or drag and drop to move the cards - Use smart hints to show potentially useful moves - Timer, moves, and statistics - Use unlimited undo - Can you complete all achievements ? - Daily Challenges & Daily rewards - Multiplayers leaderboard - Play OFFLINE (anytime / anywhere). Start relaxing and play now to Solitaire ***
Solitaire
Enjoy a classic solitaire card game with unique, artist-designed decks. This ad-free experience offers high-quality graphics and an immersive 3D environment. Customize your gameplay with purchasable card decks.
- Classic Klondike solitaire gameplay
- Custom designed playing card decks
- Ad-free experience
- High-quality graphics
- 3D environment
- In-app purchases for new decks
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Play the classic solitaire game (Klondike variant, one card) with custom designed decks of poker size playing cards. The game is free to download, free to play, free from ads, and with high quality graphics. You start with 3 available decks. Two of them have been designed exclusively for high clarity on mobile and tablet. The 3rd one is a taste of what a custom designed deck of cards look like. You will navigate your collection and preview the cards of the other custom decks available as in-app purchase. All these decks are designed by Stockholm17 Playing Cards, Sweden. Any custom deck can be used to play the game. Make sure you read the in-game legibility properties of each deck before the purchase, some of them might be hard to read on devices with small screen. App size: approximately 80Mb as first download, reaching up to 150Mb in various stages during the usage of the app. Landscape mode only, you will be playing in a 3D environment and 4 simple tasks will guide you to quickly learn the interface and the game dynamics. Game Center is necessary to access the leaderboard. You need an internet connection to play the game. In the future more custom decks will be added and improvements will be made. Have fun and good luck!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Solitaire at none against Solitaire ***'s shown. Solitaire also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 15 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Solitaire *** sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Solitaire sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 76 respectively.
Solitaire *** ships an update every 15 months, Solitaire every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solitaire *** | Solitaire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (50 ratings) | 4.6 (76 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 | 76 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.6 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PLAYTOUCH | Stockholm17 AB |
Customer experience
Solitaire ***
Solitaire
Bugs and requests
Solitaire ***
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Solitaire
Reported bugs
4 issues- Cards disappear when dragged from foundation
- App drains battery even when plugged in
- Horrible, clunky movement
- Sideways view is problematic
Requested features
2 requests- Address battery drain and heating issues
- Ensure all games are possible to complete
In-app purchases
Solitaire ***
- Remove all ADS from the game$1.99
Solitaire
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Questions
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