Comparison

Blackjack | 21 vs Running Count

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

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About

Blackjack | 21

Practice blackjack with a personalized coach and interactive lessons. Improve your strategy through skill-based progression, tournaments, and detailed stats without risking real money.

Highlights
  • Personalized blackjack coach
  • Interactive lessons for strategy
  • Skill-based progression system
  • Weekly seeded tournaments
  • Detailed lifetime statistics
  • Customizable table rules
  • Haptic and sound feedback
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Blackjack is easy to learn. Playing it well takes practice, and that is what this app is built for. It is more than a casino table on your phone. You get real blackjack, a coach that reacts to the exact rules you set, and a progression system that pays off good decisions instead of lucky ones. Play full hands with virtual chips, sharpen your game without risking real money, and get something back from every mistake. The coach checks your opening move against the table rules you picked. Hesitate on a hand and you can switch on hints that point you the right way while still leaving the call to you. Make an expensive mistake and the game can send you straight to a lesson built around that kind of hand. There are more than 30 interactive lessons covering hard totals, soft hands, pairs, surrender, insurance, and the harder calls. You are not memorizing a chart. You play the hand, see why a move works, and get comfortable with each situation at your own speed. Progress comes from skill, not spending. Correct plays, clean rounds, and finished lessons earn XP across 50 levels, and higher stakes open up as you play. Daily quests tuned to your habits, buy-in challenges, 26 achievements, daily rewards, and an open-ended prestige system give you a reason to keep coming back. Every week brings a seeded tournament where everyone is dealt the same cards, so skill decides who comes out ahead. Lifetime stats track your returns, streaks, strategy accuracy, blackjacks, doubles, splits, and more, so you can watch your game improve. Set up the table you want: one to eight decks, dealer stands or hits on soft 17, 3:2 or 6:5 payouts, surrender, double after split, insurance, even money, and splitting up to four hands. A dark midnight casino look, card play that feels good under your thumb, detailed sound, and haptics that answer every move. You can adjust the sound, haptics, coaching, and hints to fit how you like to play. The whole interface comes in 12 languages and switches instantly inside the game. Whether you are still learning when to double or going for a run of perfect decisions, this is blackjack that gives you a reason to think about every hand.

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Running Count

Features
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Learn to count cards one skill at a time, until it's automatic. Running Count teaches the Hi-Lo system from the first card to the true count, then drills you until you can keep the count at a full table without thinking. Every answer tells you why, and the hands you miss come back until you've got them. LEARN HI-LO • Five short, hands-on lessons • Drag cards into +1, 0, and −1 • Watch the running count move, card by card • Cancel high and low cards in pairs to count faster • Convert to the true count COUNT DRILLS • Card values: tag single cards as fast as you can • Deck countdown: count a full deck against the clock. One card is held back, so you have to give the real count at the end • Deal 1, 2, or 3 cards at a time, by tap or automatically • Table count: hands are dealt to 1, 3, or 5 players and played out. Keep the count across rounds TRUE COUNT • Read the discard tray to estimate the decks left • Divide and round down, with the math shown every time BASIC STRATEGY • Hit, stand, double, split, and surrender drills • A one-line reason with every answer • Practice hard hands, soft hands, or pairs on their own • Weak spots: drill only the hands you miss most • Full chart that follows your table rules. Tap any cell to see why • Common index plays for the true count YOUR TABLE, YOUR RULES • 1, 2, 6, or 8 decks • Dealer hits or stands on soft 17 • Late surrender on or off TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Best countdown time and a chart of your last 10 • Longest streak and strategy accuracy • Your weak spots at a glance BUILT RIGHT • Real shoes made of complete decks • Crisp card sounds and haptics, or turn them off • Dark design that's easy on the eyes • No ads. No account. Works offline. • iPhone and iPad Running Count is for practice and entertainment. There's no betting and no real money in the app, and training doesn't promise results anywhere else. Using a device at a casino table isn't allowed.

Screenshots

Blackjack | 214 screens
Running Count4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blackjack | 21 at Free against Running Count's $0.99. Running Count's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Blackjack | 21 is free to download; Running Count costs $0.99 up front. Blackjack | 21 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Running Count asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Blackjack | 21 versus Running Count: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlackjack | 21Running Count
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (77 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings77 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHigh Roller StudiosHiroaki Tajima

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Blackjack | 21

One-time4
  • Small chip pack$0.99
  • Medium chip pack$2.99
  • Large chip pack$4.99
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  • Mega chip pack$9.99
None

Running Count

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blackjack | 21 free?
Blackjack | 21 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Running Count free?
Running Count costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blackjack | 21 or Running Count have ads?
Blackjack | 21 shows ads; Running Count does not.

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