Trappola vs Master Whist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trappola
This app provides a virtual deck of playing cards for playing various card games on your iPhone. It supports multiplayer games with friends over the internet or Bluetooth, featuring voice chat and intuitive gesture controls for card manipulation.
- Virtual deck of playing cards
- Supports unlimited card games
- Multiplayer over internet and Bluetooth
- Voice chat for multiplayer
- Intuitive gesture controls
- Customizable card decks
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- Trappola is a Deck of Playing cards in your pocket. Anywhere with you, anytime you feel it, inside your beloved iPhone. You can play unlimited kinds of card games as if you really had a real deck with you. It supports multiplayer with your friends over the Internet hearing them speaking with voice chat, or over Bluetooth when you are all together. - It is a game of cards that contains all games of cards! - You can do everything as if you have a real deck on a table. You can flip cards, deal them to you, move them on the table, sort the cards in your hand, shuffle decks, throw cards away, give cards to others, create decks with cards, put cards in decks, all sorts of stuff. And all of that with just 3 gestures: double tap, long press, tap and long press. - You can choose your favorite deck among many choices, independent of what decks the other players use.
Master Whist
Experience classic card game fun with multiple Whist variations, including 4-player and 2-player modes. It's an excellent tool for learning the basics of Bridge.
- Classic 4 player Whist
- 2 player Whist mode
- 4 player Bid Whist
- Bridge fundamentals learning tool
- Intuitive gameplay
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Play Classic 4 player Whist, 2 player Whist, or 4 player Bid Whist. Great way to introduce new Bridge players to the fundamentals and mechanics of Bridge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Master Whist at 100% against Trappola's 31%. Master Whist also leads on rating (3.5 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Trappola's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On 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
Trappola is free to download; Master Whist costs $2.99 up front. Trappola sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Master Whist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Master Whist holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trappola has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Trappola's written reviews are positive against 100% of Master Whist's.
Trappola ships an update every 25 months, Master Whist every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trappola | Master Whist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.5 (13 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppDVision | Ken Fox |
Customer experience
Trappola
Master Whist
In-app purchases
Trappola
- Enable Shuffling$1.99
Master Whist
No in-app purchases
