Comparison

Spider Solitaire vs Thoughtful Solitaire

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Spider Solitaire

Experience the classic Spider Solitaire card game with smooth controls and clean visuals. Choose your difficulty and enjoy a relaxing brain workout with multiple suit modes and helpful features like unlimited undo and auto-complete. Play anywhere, anytime, even offline.

Highlights
  • Classic Spider Solitaire gameplay
  • 1, 2, and 4-suit modes
  • Smooth drag & drop controls
  • Unlimited undo and hints
  • Auto-complete feature
  • Offline mode
Features
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Build a full suit from King to Ace. Clear the run. Do it eight times and the board is yours. Spider Solitaire: Suit Master is the classic, dealt clean and playable anywhere. No connection, no timers you did not ask for, nothing between you and the next deal. CHOOSE HOW HARD YOU WANT IT - 1 suit: welcoming, forgiving, a good place to learn the rhythm - 2 suits: the balanced version most players settle into - 4 suits: the real test, where every column matters - Spiderette: a faster single-deck variant when you have five minutes HOW IT WORKS Stack cards in descending order. When you assemble a full King-to-Ace run in one suit, it clears. Out of moves? Deal a new row across the tableau and keep going. A NEW CHALLENGE EVERY DAY One fresh deal daily, the same for everyone. Keep the streak or skip a day. Nothing here punishes you for stopping. UNLIMITED UNDO AND SMART HINTS Try a line, back out, try another. You are not being graded. Stuck at midnight on a 4-suit board? Take the hint. PLAYS FULLY OFFLINE No Wi-Fi, no data, no interruptions. On a plane, on the train, in a waiting room, or anywhere the signal drops. BUILT TO BE COMFORTABLE - Large, high-contrast cards that are actually readable - Portrait and landscape, whichever suits you - Left-handed mode for genuine one-hand play - Drag and drop or tap to move, your choice - Auto-complete when the win is already decided - Auto-save, so a half-finished board waits exactly as you left it KEEP SCORE IF YOU WANT TO Games won, best times, longest winning streaks, detailed stats per difficulty. Or ignore all of it and just deal. Free to download and play. Deal your first board in about five seconds.

About

Thoughtful Solitaire

This card game transforms the classic Klondike Solitaire experience by revealing all cards face-up from the start. It offers a pure strategy puzzle with familiar rules, an undo function, and offline play.

Highlights
  • All cards face-up for perfect information
  • Standard Klondike rules
  • Undo function for strategy refinement
  • Offline play capability
  • Clean touch controls
  • Smooth animations
Features
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Nothing is hidden. That is the whole point. Deal a normal patience layout and half the tableau is face down. You play, you lose, and you never find out whether the deal could have been won at all. Thoughtful Solitaire takes that excuse away. All twenty-eight cards in the seven columns are face up from the first second, so the position in front of you is the position, complete. What changes when you can see everything Planning replaces guessing. You can spot the buried nine you will need in fifteen moves, which means you can decide now whether to spend a move protecting it. You also lose the comfort of blaming the shuffle: if the deal falls apart, the mistake sits somewhere in your own sequence of moves, and undo will carry you back to it. The rules underneath are the familiar ones. Columns descend in alternating colours, foundations climb from ace to king in one suit, only a king may take an empty column, and the stock hands you one card or three, your choice, recycled as often as you need. - Undo covering your last hundred moves - A hint available at any point - Games, wins, best times and current streak - Card backs, table colours, light and dark - No connection needed, 33 languages Reach us at sbecker.app@gmail.com

Screenshots

Spider Solitaire4 screens
Thoughtful Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thoughtful Solitaire at none against Spider Solitaire's 1. Thoughtful Solitaire also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Spider Solitaire's advantage is ratings volume (929 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spider Solitaire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thoughtful Solitaire asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Thoughtful Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spider Solitaire has 929 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spider Solitaire ships an update every 5 weeks, Thoughtful Solitaire every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Spider Solitaire versus Thoughtful Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpider SolitaireThoughtful Solitaire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (929 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings929 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size422 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOne Up Games StudioSebastien Becker

Customer experience

Spider Solitaire

All ratings866 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral4.3%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%

Thoughtful Solitaire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spider Solitaire

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

Thoughtful Solitaire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spider Solitaire free?
Spider Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thoughtful Solitaire free?
Thoughtful Solitaire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spider Solitaire or Thoughtful Solitaire?
Thoughtful Solitaire is rated higher. Spider Solitaire averages 4.7 out of 5 from 929 ratings, while Thoughtful Solitaire averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Spider Solitaire or Thoughtful Solitaire have ads?
Both Spider Solitaire and Thoughtful Solitaire show ads.
Which is updated more often, Spider Solitaire or Thoughtful Solitaire?
Spider Solitaire ships an update every 5 weeks, and Thoughtful Solitaire every 4 days. Most recently, Spider Solitaire was updated on October 30, 2026 and Thoughtful Solitaire on October 12, 2026.

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