Solitaire Star vs Classic PickUp Solitaire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solitaire Star
Experience the classic card game on your iPhone or iPad. This app brings the beloved Windows game to your mobile device, offering a familiar and enjoyable gameplay experience.
- Classic Solitaire gameplay
- Play on iPhone and iPad
- Familiar interface
- Popular Windows game adaptation
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Solitaire is one of the most popular Windows games in the world. Now you can play it on your iPhone or iPad.
Classic PickUp Solitaire
A card game where players remove all cards by picking them up in sequential order. You can start with any card, and subsequent cards must be one point higher, lower, or have the same value.
- Sequential card removal
- Start with any card
- Higher, lower, or same value card pickup
- Single-player gameplay
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Classic PickUp Solitaire is a fun solitaire game. The goal in this game is to remove all cards by picking up them in sequential order. You can start with any card – but once you start, each subsequent card you pick up has to be either one point higher, lower, or have the same value.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Solitaire Star at 4.9 against Classic PickUp Solitaire's 4.0. Solitaire Star also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Classic PickUp Solitaire's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 42 months). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Solitaire Star holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solitaire Star has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of Solitaire Star's written reviews are positive against 100% of Classic PickUp Solitaire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Solitaire Star ships an update every 42 months, Classic PickUp Solitaire every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solitaire Star | Classic PickUp Solitaire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 海鹰 冼 | Kevin White |
Customer experience
Solitaire Star
Classic PickUp Solitaire
In-app purchases
Solitaire Star
No in-app purchases
Classic PickUp Solitaire
No in-app purchases
Questions
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