Comparison

Spades+ vs Table Talk Spades

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

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About

Spades+

Experience the #1 Spades card game on your mobile device. Play against smart AI opponents or challenge friends online. Track your progress with detailed statistics and unlock achievements in this fun and stable card game.

Highlights
  • Multiplayer and solo play
  • Extensive statistics tracking
  • Unlockable achievements
  • Challenging AI opponents
  • Automatic game saving
  • Beginner-friendly tutorial
Features
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#1 Spades card game! Multiplayer or Solo • Achievements • Stats • Smart AI • Millions of happy players • PLAY NOW! Spades+ is the #1 free Spades card game for iPhone and iPad! Spades+ has been in development for years by a dedicated team and has seen countless new features, improvements, and bug fixes. It's fast, stable, always improving, and, above all, fun! Features: * Play Spades online with your friends and everyone else! * Extensive Statistics * Achievements, some easy, some hard, can you get them all? * Challenging and competitive artificial-intelligence opponents * Realistic look and feel * Automatic game saving, just in case you get a call right before you achieve your blind nil bid * Simple tutorial to help beginners get in the game fast * Game options * Free! What players are saying ***** "Superb! Very well programmed. Excellent and challenging for every phase of the game!" ***** "Love this game! It's an awesome app!" ***** "Best card game interface for iPad. This is a great game that features pleasing high-def graphics that look especially good on the iPad screen. The deal and trick pickup animations enhance the game playing experience. Card games are simple, but they don't have to be dull and this one is fun without resorting to cheesy animated 'characters'..." ***** "Awesome. Love it! stimulating beautiful graphics, challenging. well done." ***** "Great!! I love this game!! I play it all the time! Highly recommend!" ***** "Downloaded this after I began to teach my kids to play spades for Family Night. Thought it couldn't hurt to brush up my skills! I find myself playing this for hours! Great app." ***** "LOVE THIS GAME! I play everyday!" ***** "Hooked. If you like spades, this is a great game. Plays like the real thing." ***** "My favorite game!" ***** "Addicting. Great fun!" Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://astarsoftware.com/privacy

About

Table Talk Spades

Play Spades with custom house rules and invite friends instantly via a shared link. The app handles scoring and offers bot players, making it easy to start a game anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Customizable house rules
  • Instant invite via link/QR code
  • No download or account needed for players
  • Automatic scorekeeping
  • AI bot players
  • Themed table backgrounds
  • Quick reactions and end-of-game awards
Features
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Spades the way your house actually plays it. Start a table, pick your rules, and send one link. Your players tap it, type a name, and sit down — no download and no account on their end. Four seats fill in about a minute. SET THE RULES ONCE Play to 250, 500, or 750. Jokers and deuces high. Board. Blind nil. Boston. Even reneging, if your table calls it out. Set it up the way your family has always played, and the game runs itself from there. ONE LINK OR A QR CODE Drop the link in the group chat, or hold up the QR code if everybody's in the same room. Seats fill as people arrive. If somebody's phone dies or the signal drops, they come right back to the same hand. THE GAME KEEPS SCORE Books, bags, nil, blind nil, set. The app tracks all of it, so nobody has to be the scorekeeper and nobody has to argue about what the score was three hands ago. TABLE TALK Quick reactions so you can talk your talk without leaving the hand. End-of-game awards for the things worth bragging about. And Run It Back, for when nobody's ready to stop. PICK YOUR TABLE Backyard, Family Reunion, Barbershop, or Rooftop — the table looks like the room you'd rather be in. SHORT A PLAYER Fill any empty seat with a bot that actually plays. Start the game with two people if that's who showed up. BUILT FOR THE GROUP CHAT THAT KEEPS SAYING "WE NEED TO PLAY SOON" Game night. Family reunions. Partners three states apart. Table Talk Spades is for real tables, real partners, and the rules your house has been playing for years. Free to play. No ads.

Screenshots

Spades+4 screens
Table Talk Spades4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Table Talk Spades at 100% against Spades+'s 35%. Table Talk Spades also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). Spades+'s advantage is ratings volume (182K vs 3) and chart position (#160 vs unranked). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spades+ sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Table Talk Spades asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Table Talk Spades holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spades+ has 182K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Spades+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Table Talk Spades's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Spades+ versus Table Talk Spades: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpades+Table Talk Spades
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (182K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings182K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#160 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperA Star Software LLCDesign Matrix Studio

Customer experience

Spades+

All ratings181,537 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews882 reviews
Positive35.4%
Neutral10.4%
Negative54.2%

Table Talk Spades

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Spades+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • AI partner sabotaging nil bids
  • Inconsistent point scoring
  • Inability to exit ads during gameplay
  • Freezing/crashing during ads

Requested features

5 requests
  • More game mode options
  • Ability to block/report players
  • Customizable game settings
  • Improved AI partner behavior
  • Reduced ads or ad-free option

Table Talk Spades

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Spades+

Subscriptions3
  • A-Star VIP Membership Weekly$2.997 Days
  • A-Star VIP Membership Monthly$9.991 Month
  • A-Star VIP Membership Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time6
  • 25 Tokens$0.99
  • Remove Ads (1 Day)$1.99
  • 100 Tokens$2.99
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  • Remove Ads (7 Days)$3.99
  • 500 Tokens$9.99
  • Remove Ads (30 Days)$9.99
None

Table Talk Spades

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spades+ free?
Spades+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Table Talk Spades free?
Table Talk Spades is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spades+ or Table Talk Spades?
Table Talk Spades is rated higher. Spades+ averages 4.8 out of 5 from 182K ratings, while Table Talk Spades averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Spades+ or Table Talk Spades have ads?
Spades+ shows ads; Table Talk Spades does not.

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