Hearts HD! vs Master Hearts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hearts HD!
Experience the classic card game Hearts with stunning graphics and smooth animations. Compete against an intelligent AI with adjustable difficulty levels. Enjoy customizable game settings and automatic saving for uninterrupted play.
- Rich graphics and smooth animations
- Intelligent AI engine
- Three difficulty levels
- Play to 50, 100, or 150 points
- Configurable game speed
- Automatic save functionality
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The classic card game Hearts is now available on your iPad. With rich graphics and smooth animations, Hearts Free HD is the premier Hearts app on the app store - and best of all, it's free. Try to stick your opponents with as many hearts as possible, while simultaneously avoiding hearts yourself. Watch out for the Queen of Spades! Hearts Free HD features an outstanding artificial intelligence engine. Three different difficulty levels ensure that you can play against a computer opponent that matches your skill level. Hearts Free HD offers many exciting features, including: * Great graphics and awesome sound effects * Play to 50, 100, or 150 points * Option to count Jack of Diamonds as -10 points * Configurable game speed (slow, medium, or fast) * Automatic save when you get a phone call or exit the app If you've been waiting for a killer Hearts game for your iPad, this is it. Download Hearts Free HD today!
Master Hearts
Experience a classic card game with customizable rules and AI opponents. Enjoy various scoring options and strategic gameplay. Perfect for solo play on your mobile device.
- 9 AI opponents with distinct playing styles
- Classic Hearts rules
- Optional scoring variations (Jack of Diamonds, no tricks)
- Twanger and Magic Number options
- Kitty and Asterisk scoring
- Customizable game options
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Select 3 of the 9 players to play against. Players have different playing styles and talk, saying different things. Playing options include classic Hearts rules where the opening lead is the two of Clubs, hearts count as 1 point and the Queen of Spades is 13 points. Shooting the Moon adds 26 points to the other players. Optionally, the Jack of Diamonds is -10 points and taking no tricks is -3 points. The Twanger option resets any score at the end of each hand that is a multiple of 25 (including 0) to the average of the remaining high and low scores. The Magic Number, selected at random, counts as a Twanger hit and also carries a 10 point assessment, called an Asterisk, at the end of the game. Asterisks also are assessed for looking at the Kitty when you are not supposed to and for leading a Heart before Hearts have been broken. Only the player winning the first Heart may look at the Kitty. The Jack of Diamonds, no tricks, Twangers, Magic Number, Kitty, and Asterisks all are options that can be chosen by the user.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hearts HD! at Free against Master Hearts's $2.99. Hearts HD! also leads on ratings volume (9.7K vs 5). Master Hearts's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Hearts HD! is free to download; Master Hearts costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Master Hearts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hearts HD! has 9.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Hearts HD!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Master Hearts's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hearts HD! | Master Hearts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (9.7K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #171 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Optime Software LLC | Ken Fox |
Customer experience
Hearts HD!
Master Hearts
Bugs and requests
Hearts HD!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Scoring issues where points are incorrectly added or subtracted
- Game freezes or crashes, requiring reinstallation
- Graphical issues after recent updates (e.g., blurry cards)
Requested features
4 requests- Option to end the hand when all points are out
- Ability to view the last played trick
- Sound effects for key events (e.g., Queen of Spades played)
- Scoring improvements to avoid incorrect point totals
Master Hearts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hearts HD!
No in-app purchases
Master Hearts
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Hearts HD! free?
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