Packz vs Big Black Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Packz
Simulate opening trading card mystery boxes with the chance to receive cards of real-world value. Keep desired cards, ship them home, or sell unwanted ones for instant cash withdrawals. Must be 18+ to participate.
- Open virtual trading card packs
- Receive cards with real-world value
- Ship physical cards to your address
- Sell unwanted cards for cash
- Instant cash withdrawals
- Gamified pack opening animation
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Open Packs. Get Cards. Ship or Cash Out Instantly. Packs can hold cards worth up to $25,000+. Keep the cards you want and ship them straight to your house... Sell back the ones you don't. Withdraw Real Money. Must be 18+ to use Packz. HOW TO USE PACKZ Choose your pack and the rarity. Rarer packs result in bigger potential pulls! Open packs with a fun, gamified animation that reveals your card. Ship out the cards that you love. Sell back the ones you don't. Cash out your funds! FAIR MARKET VALUE All cards have real-world value informed by sales on platforms like Ebay. These are physical collectibles. WITHDRAWALS Withdraw your funds at any time. T&Cs apply.
Big Black Cards
A party card game where phones act as controllers and a TV displays the game. An AI host with multiple voices guides the gameplay, featuring thousands of cards for up to 15 players. The first to reach a set score wins.
- AI host with five unhinged voices
- Thousands of questionable cards
- Up to 15 players
- Phones as controllers
- TV as the stage
- No accounts required
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The filthy party card game for your living room. Phones are the controllers, the TV is the stage, and an AI host with five unhinged voices runs the whole show. HOW IT WORKS • One black card sets up the joke. Everyone plays their best (worst) white card. • A rotating judge picks the winner. The room hears every answer read aloud. • First to the point cap is officially The Worst Person Here. THE SHOW • A live AI host reads the prompts, roasts the losers, and narrates the night — pick from five voices. • Thousands of cards, from questionable to unforgivable. • Up to 15 players in a room. Friends join in seconds with a room code or QR — no accounts, ever. • Best of the Night reel replays the winning cards at the finale. PLAY IT ANYWHERE • On the TV: the big-screen stage shows the cards, the scores, and the host. • On phones: hands stay private, judging is blind, chaos is public. For grown-ups. The deck is deliberately filthy — you were warned.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Big Black Cards at daily against Packz's fortnightly. Big Black Cards also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Packz's advantage is ratings volume (25K vs 1) and chart position (#2 vs unranked). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Big Black Cards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Packz has 25K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Packz ships an update fortnightly, Big Black Cards daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Packz | Big Black Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (25K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #2 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Packz | Adam Aragon |
Customer experience
Packz
Big Black Cards
In-app purchases
Packz
No in-app purchases
Big Black Cards
No in-app purchases
