Just Solitaire vs Canasta.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just Solitaire
Experience a challenging solitaire game with customizable options. Enjoy a well-designed interface for moving cards, changing deck issuance, and selecting backgrounds and card designs.
- Forty Thieves solitaire gameplay
- Tap or drag card movement
- Customizable deck issuance
- Adjustable deck turnover count
- Background and card design selection
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"Perfection!! A well designed app for a fun and challenging game." "Great little game - has all the functionality of solitaire you normally would have to pay for - I love it." Play Forty Thieves solitaire, one of the most challenging solitaire games. Move cards around my tapping or dragging them. You can change the number of cards issued from the deck, and how many times you can turn the deck over. You can choose between different backgrounds and card designs.
Canasta.
Experience the strategic card game of the rummy family, featuring joker cards for unpredictable gameplay. Form melds, create canastas, and aim for 5000 points to win team rounds.
- Rummy family card game
- Joker cards for unpredictability
- Team play against computer
- Forming melds and canastas
- Scoring to 5000 points
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Canasta is the popular card game of the rummy family also known as Argentine Rummy. Use of joker cards makes the game unpredictable and very challenging. You play as a team with computer opponent against computer team. Pick up cards and fit them into groups (melds). Group of seven cards called canasta and allows team to finish the round. Points go for the melds, the first team scoring 5000 points wins.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Just Solitaire at none against Canasta.'s 12. Just Solitaire also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Canasta.'s advantage is ratings volume (25K vs 229) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Canasta. sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Just Solitaire asks for nothing beyond the download.
Canasta. holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canasta. has 25K ratings behind it against 229, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Just Solitaire's written reviews are positive against 71% of Canasta.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Just Solitaire ships an update every 3 months, Canasta. every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Solitaire | Canasta. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (229 ratings) | 4.7 (25K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 70.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 229 | 25K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CleverMedia, Inc. | Sergey Skosyrev |
Customer experience
Just Solitaire
Canasta.
User reviews
Just Solitaire
From 229 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😊 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay
- 🧠 Challenging and strategic card game
- 👍 User-friendly interface and card movement
- ⚙️ Customizable settings (card size, orientation, deck reuses)
- 🎮 Unlimited card reveals feature
Room to improve
- 📺 Intrusive and poorly-placed advertisements
- 🐛 Frequent app freezes and crashes
- 📱 Display issues on certain devices (iPad, iPhone X)
- 🎵 Unwanted or intrusive music/sound
- 🔄 Confusing menu layout and button placement
Canasta.
From 25K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Great game
- 🧠 Mentally stimulating
- 🕰️ Relaxing and enjoyable
- 💰 No ads or in-app purchases
- 🕹️ Smooth gameplay
Room to improve
- 🤖 Incompetent AI partner
- 🤔 Questionable game logic and rule implementation
- 🔢 Inconsistent scoring and card interactions
- 🧠 Lacks challenge at higher difficulty levels
- 🤑 Paywall for better opponents
Bugs and requests
Just Solitaire
Reported bugs
9 issues- App freezes and locks up requiring reinstall
- Green blank screen appears during gameplay
- Ads cover top of cards in horizontal mode
- Double-click ignores rightmost columns
- Cards not visible on certain device models
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- Ads cause game to pause and jump around
- Force close issues
- Ads interrupt music/audiobook playback
- Ads don't close with X button
Requested features
11 requests- Remove or improve ad placement and frequency
- Add card counter to help with strategy
- Allow moving multiple cards in vertical stacks
- Hide or disable timer option
- Move deck to right side for right-handed players
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- Accumulate and display points across multiple games
- Add middle card size option
- Show which cards have been turned over in deck
- Improve double-tap mechanic or replace with single-tap
- Better landscape mode optimization
- Fix ad close button functionality
Canasta.
Reported bugs
4 issues- Partner ignores player's instructions
- Opponents get unrealistic card draws
- Incorrect implementation of Canasta rules
- Game freezes or crashes unexpectedly
Requested features
5 requests- Online multiplayer mode
- Customizable difficulty levels
- Ability to choose partner skill level
- Clearer display of canasta information
- Option to play 2-player version
In-app purchases
Just Solitaire
No in-app purchases
Canasta.
- 1000 diamonds$0.99
- Cards from deck$1.99
- 2200 diamonds$1.99
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- Win Points$2.99
- 3400 diamonds$2.99
- 4700 diamonds$3.99
- Partner difficulty$4.99
- Opponents difficulty$4.99
- 6000 diamonds$4.99
- 8500 diamonds$6.99
- Advanced Features$9.99
- 12500 diamonds$9.99
Questions
Is Just Solitaire free?
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Which has better reviews, Just Solitaire or Canasta.?
Do Just Solitaire or Canasta. have ads?
Which is updated more often, Just Solitaire or Canasta.?
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