Solitaire Nook vs Solitaire (no ads)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solitaire Nook
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Klondike and FreeCell for iOS. Free to play. No ads. No accounts. No analytics. No cookies. The classic cascade fires when you win. Tap to draw, drag to move. Draw 1 or Draw 3. Full undo. Two card faces: the classic deck and a larger, friendlier one for tired eyes. The free game is the whole game. Klondike, FreeCell, the Daily, the win-cascade, full undo, Draw 1 and Draw 3, and a set of starter card backs and felts that stay free for good. No timers. No rotation. Nothing expires. Solitaire Nook Deluxe is $4.99. It opens every card back and felt in the gallery, the extra game modes, Vegas scoring, and the longer stats: win rate by draw type, time to clear, streak history, the runs you almost had. If you would rather take one piece at a time, any single card back or felt is $0.99. The free version stands on its own. Deluxe is for backing a solo developer. A Daily seed deals everyone the same hand at midnight, local time. The shuffle is frozen and verifiable, so it plays the same a year from now as on the day it was dealt. The Daily calendar keeps every hand you have played, win or miss, so you can go back and read the month. Leave a hand in progress and pick it up later, on the same card you left. A streak counts the days you showed up. Game Center leaderboards are opt-in and first-party. Daily and All-Time. Any score you submit goes to Apple, not to the developer. Leave them off and the game does not notice. The win-cascade is the one from the dial-up years. It runs on a frozen engine, smooth on ProMotion, steady everywhere else. No streaming. No syncing. Pixel art in a late-SNES register. The whole app works offline. Privacy is structural. No third-party SDKs. No tracking pixels. No advertising identifier. No request to follow you between apps. There is no backend, and no copy of your data reaches the developer. Your hand in progress, your Daily history, your collection, and your streak stay on your device. Nothing else leaves it. Not in the app: notifications at 9 PM on a Tuesday. Friends-of-friends. A subscription. A login wall. "Watch an ad to undo." Real-money tournaments. In the app: Klondike and FreeCell. The cascade. A Daily, with a calendar that remembers. A game that waits where you left it. Game Center leaderboards if you want them. A free version that is the whole game. Deluxe if you want to back a solo developer. Built by one developer in New Hampshire. Ships on iOS 18 and later.
Solitaire (no ads)
Enjoy classic card games with a clean, focused experience. Choose from Klondike, FreeCell, and Spider, with helpful tools like hints and coaching to improve your play. Play offline at your own pace without interruptions.
- Ad-free experience
- Offline play
- Klondike, FreeCell, and Spider games
- Hint and coaching modes
- Customizable game settings
- No account required
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Solitaire (No Ads) is a clean, classic card game made for focused play. No ads. No tracking. No account. No pop-ups asking you to come back tomorrow. Just cards, and it's free. THREE GAMES • Klondike — the solitaire you already know. Draw 1 or Draw 3. • FreeCell — every card face up from the start. Almost always winnable. • Spider — one, two or four suits, depending on how hard you want it. Each game keeps its own scoreboard, so your Klondike record stays yours. HELP WHEN YOU WANT IT, NEVER WHEN YOU DON'T • Hint highlights a good next move. • Wizard plays that move for you — slowly, so you can see where the card came from and where it went. • Coach Mode gently flags a less-than-best move and explains why. Leave it on while you learn the patterns, then turn it off. • Undo takes back as many moves as you like, and never costs you score, so you can explore a line instead of guessing. • Solve appears once the game is clearly won and finishes it for you. MADE TO SUIT YOU • Easy, Medium, Hard, or Random. • Put the stock on the left or the right, to match your dominant hand. • Hide the timer if you'd rather play relaxed. • Sound on or off. • Works offline — on a plane, on the subway, anywhere. Play at your own pace. Restart whenever you like. Nothing here is trying to get your attention. Features: - Classic solitaire gameplay - Free to play - No ads - No account required - Works offline - Simple, clean design - Coach mode, to help you sharpen your play
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solitaire (no ads) at none against Solitaire Nook's 10. Solitaire (no ads) also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Solitaire Nook sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Solitaire (no ads) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Solitaire Nook ships an update every 2 months, Solitaire (no ads) every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Solitaire Nook | Solitaire (no ads) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Hogan | Roland Fernandez |
In-app purchases
Solitaire Nook
- Sunset Card Back$0.99
- Aurora Wool Felt$0.99
- Acorn Card Back$0.99
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- Flower Card Back$0.99
- Cat Card Back$0.99
- Lantern Card Back$0.99
- Moth Card Back$0.99
- Toadstool Card Back$0.99
- Cottage Card Back$0.99
- Butterfly Card Back$0.99
Solitaire (no ads)
No in-app purchases
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