Comparison

Pocket8 vs OK Solitaire

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

Head to head
About

Pocket8

This app brings the PICO-8 fantasy console experience to your mobile device, offering access to thousands of community-made games. Enjoy customizable touch controls or gamepad support, and never lose progress with an instant save system.

Highlights
  • Browse and play community-made PICO-8 games
  • Customizable touch controls and gamepad support
  • Instant save states for unlimited progress saving
  • Portrait and landscape orientation support
  • Locked 60FPS gameplay
Features
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Experience PICO-8 Anywhere: Pocket8 brings the magic of the PICO-8 fantasy console to your pocket. Whether you’re on a commute or relaxing at home, thousands of indie games are a single tap away. A Massive Library in Your Pocket: Discover thousands of community-made games with integrated BBS exploration. From challenging platformers to relaxing puzzles, there’s always something new to play. Download your favorites and build a personal collection that goes offline wherever you do. Controls That Feel Right: Gaming on a touch screen can be a struggle. Pocket8 features high-precision controls that feel as good as a real handheld. Choose between a classic D-pad or virtual joystick, or swap the face buttons positioning to match your playstyle. Wanna go touch-less? Connect a controller and play with a bluetooth gamepad or keyboard. Play Without Interruption: Instant save system lets you freeze time and jump back in to the exact pixel where you left off. Manage an infinite amount of save states per cartridge. Features: Browse & Play: Explore the Lexaloffle BBS to find and download new games instantly. Pro-Style Controls: Fluid movement and adaptive controls. Gamepad and Keyboard support included. Portrait & Landscape: Play comfortably in any orientation. Save Anywhere: Never lose your progress with instant state saves. Pure Performance: Locked 60FPS gameplay for the ultimate retro experience.

About

OK Solitaire

A classic Klondike solitaire game redesigned for one-handed play on mobile. Features intuitive card handling, multiple play modes, and an 'Insight' mode to analyze game states. Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience with optional themes and features via subscription.

Highlights
  • One-handed vertical play
  • Intuitive card selection and movement
  • Undo and auto-flip options
  • Standard, Daily Challenge, and Only Wins modes
  • Insight mode for game analysis
  • Offline play
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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Klondike solitaire, rebuilt – the game is the one you know, everything around it is new. BUILT FOR ONE HAND Solitaire was designed for a table, and most apps still deal it that way – seven columns crushed across the width of a phone. OK Solitaire runs vertically up the screen instead, so every pile sits in comfortable reach of your thumb. Set it up for the left hand or the right. Switch to the squished horizontal version if you really want. PICK UP A RUN, OR PART OF ONE Touch a card and you lift the whole run beneath it. Keep holding and you can dive into the stack, scrubbing down to take a shorter run instead – no pinpoint tapping at a half-covered corner. Double-tap anything that can go home, and it goes. IT KEEPS UP WITH YOU Undo runs all the way back to the deal. Auto-flip turns the cards you were only going to turn yourself. Once a hand is mathematically decided, a FINISH button appears and plays it out, so you never sit clicking through a foregone conclusion. Every action has its own haptic – the lift, the drop, the draw, the win. NOTHING IN THE WAY No ads. No account. No pop-ups between hands, no currencies, nothing nagging you. Three themes, including a true black for OLED, and a board that fills the screen. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Standard Play – Klondike as it comes. One-card or three-card draw, wins and losses alike. Daily Challenge – one deal a day, the same one for everyone, and always winnable. Finish it and your time goes on the leaderboard. Only Wins – every deal winnable before you see it, for when you want the game without the dead ends. INSIGHT Stuck, and not sure whether it is you or the deal? With INSIGHT mode, you'll know whether the deal was ever winnable, whether it still is, and – if you have played into a dead end – how far back to rewind to the last position that still had a win in it. Game Center leaderboards for best time, games won, and the daily. Plays entirely offline. SUBSCRIPTION The extras – the Colorful and Dark themes, and INSIGHT mode – are available as a yearly auto-renewing subscription or as a one-time purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.aeliox.com/apps/OKSolitaire/privacy-policy OK Solitaire is a complete rebuild of an app first released in 2014. Same game, reworked.

Screenshots

Pocket84 screens
OK Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket8 at none against OK Solitaire's 2. Pocket8 also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. OK Solitaire sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Pocket8 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket8 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Pocket8's written reviews are positive against 50% of OK Solitaire's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pocket8 versus OK Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket8OK Solitaire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better6
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJevon Lipseyaeliox

Customer experience

Pocket8

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

OK Solitaire

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pocket8

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

OK Solitaire

Subscriptions1
  • OK Solitaire Full$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock for life$29.99

Questions

Is Pocket8 free?
Pocket8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OK Solitaire free?
OK Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket8 or OK Solitaire?
Pocket8 is rated higher. Pocket8 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while OK Solitaire averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Pocket8 or OK Solitaire have ads?
Neither Pocket8 nor OK Solitaire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket8 or OK Solitaire?
Pocket8 ships an update daily, and OK Solitaire daily. Most recently, Pocket8 was updated on October 17, 2026 and OK Solitaire on October 20, 2026.

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