Comparison

Solitaire Stackdown vs Gnome Solitaire

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

Head to head
About

Solitaire Stackdown

Experience a unique solitaire twist with strategic card placement across three piles. Manage risk and bonuses with special cards to achieve high scores. This fast-paced game is easy to learn but challenging to master.

Highlights
  • Unique solitaire-inspired gameplay
  • Strategic card placement
  • Risk and bonus management
  • Score multipliers and bonuses
  • Best score tracking
  • Offline play
Features
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Solitaire Stackdown is a fast-paced, skill-based twist on classic solitaire. Place cards strategically across three piles — Higher, Lower, and Color — while managing risk, bonuses, and special cards. Golden piles offer double points, jokers reset piles and boost your score, and mistakes carry real consequences. Easy to learn, hard to master — Stackdown rewards smart decisions and quick thinking. Features: • Unique solitaire-inspired gameplay • Score multipliers and golden bonuses • Best score tracking • Clean, minimal design • Offline play

About

Gnome Solitaire

Enjoy a classic Klondike Solitaire experience with no ads, purchases, or sign-ups. Play offline with sharp vector graphics that adapt to any screen size. Features intuitive tap-to-move or drag-and-drop gameplay and unlimited undos.

Highlights
  • No advertisements or in-app purchases
  • Vector art for sharp graphics
  • Offline play
  • Tap-to-move and drag-and-drop controls
  • Unlimited undo functionality
  • Optional gnome animations and music
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Klondike Solitaire, the way it should be: no advertisements, no purchases, no accounts, and nothing to sign up for. Deal a hand and play. Every card is drawn as vector art rather than a picture, so the deck stays sharp at any size — full screen on a Mac, or a phone held sideways on a train. HOW IT PLAYS • Deal three, with unlimited passes through the deck • Tap a card and it goes where it belongs — to its foundation if it fits there, otherwise to the best column • Drag a card, or a whole run, to place it yourself • Undo as far back as you like, right to the opening deal • Score carries from hand to hand, so a good run is worth something WHEN YOU WIN Every card face up and the deck done means the game can no longer be lost. A door opens at the foot of the table and four gnomes troop out, hold up a banner, and troop back in — with a tune to match. Both can be switched off if you would rather they did not. NO PURCHASE It's free and runs on Mac, iPad and iPhone. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked and the game never asks for the network. Your score and your game in progress are kept on your own device.

Screenshots

Solitaire Stackdown3 screens
Gnome Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gnome Solitaire at none against Solitaire Stackdown's shown. Gnome Solitaire also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Solitaire Stackdown against 5.0 for Gnome Solitaire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Solitaire Stackdown versus Gnome Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolitaire StackdownGnome Solitaire
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuf BakhurjiMARK GREENING

Customer experience

Solitaire Stackdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gnome Solitaire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Solitaire Stackdown

No in-app purchases

None

Gnome Solitaire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Solitaire Stackdown free?
Solitaire Stackdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gnome Solitaire free?
Gnome Solitaire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Solitaire Stackdown or Gnome Solitaire?
Solitaire Stackdown and Gnome Solitaire are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Solitaire Stackdown or Gnome Solitaire have ads?
Solitaire Stackdown shows ads; Gnome Solitaire does not.

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