Comparison

BigPatience HD vs Solitaire

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

Head to head
About

BigPatience HD

Enjoy a vast collection of 60 solitaire card games with extensive customization options. Personalize your experience with various decks, backgrounds, and rule adjustments. Track your progress with detailed statistics and access helpful guides.

Highlights
  • 60 solitaire card games
  • Customizable rules
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • 12 beautiful decks
  • Zooming feature
  • Game statistics
Features
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Play 60 popular and unique solitaire card games! The game features include: * customizing solitaire rules; * unlimited undo and redo; * 12 beautiful decks; * large selection of backs and backgrounds; * zooming feature; * favorites and recent game lists; * game statistics; * the detailed help. Solitaire games included: Aces Up, Agnes, Aribert, Blind Alleys, Canfield, Klondike, Free Cell, Golf, Monte Carlo, Pyramid, Royal Marriage, Yukon and others.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Classic Klondike solitaire gameplay
  • Custom designed playing card decks
  • Ad-free experience
  • High-quality graphics
  • 3D environment
  • In-app purchases for new decks
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solitaire at Free against BigPatience HD's $4.99. Solitaire also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 35 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). BigPatience HD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment and ads 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

Solitaire is free to download; BigPatience HD costs $4.99 up front. Solitaire sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. BigPatience HD asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solitaire has 88 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of BigPatience HD's written reviews are positive against 95% of Solitaire's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BigPatience HD ships an update every 35 months, Solitaire every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
BigPatience HD versus Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBigPatience HDSolitaire
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (8 ratings)4.6 (88 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.3% of reviews95.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings888 — better
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB214 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLena PankratovaStockholm17 AB

Customer experience

BigPatience HD

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%

Solitaire

All ratings88 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%

Bugs and requests

BigPatience HD

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

None

BigPatience HD

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Solitaire

One-time10
  • Mr. Green the Frog$0.99
  • Black Requiem - Counterspell$1.99
  • Odd Fellow Cpt Spindel Webber$1.99
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  • N°17 Le Chat Rouge$1.99
  • HOTRS Cartomancer$1.99
  • Heretic Lux$1.99
  • Gemini Noctis$1.99
  • 17th Kingdom - Experimental$2.99
  • Odd Fellow Madame Laveau$2.99
  • 52+Joker Club Deck 2021$3.99

Questions

Is BigPatience HD free?
BigPatience HD costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solitaire free?
Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BigPatience HD or Solitaire?
Solitaire is rated higher. BigPatience HD averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Solitaire averages 4.6 from 88 ratings.
Do BigPatience HD or Solitaire have ads?
Neither BigPatience HD nor Solitaire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BigPatience HD or Solitaire?
BigPatience HD ships an update every 35 months, and Solitaire every 6 weeks. Most recently, BigPatience HD was updated on November 1, 2026 and Solitaire on November 3, 2026.

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