Draw a Card Deck vs Playing cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draw a Card Deck
This app simulates a deck of cards for various games and decision-making. It allows customization of card decks, shuffling options, and downloading free decks from different categories.
- Tap to flip cards
- Customizable card decks
- Shuffle after flip option
- Draw until deck empty option
- Download free decks
- Multiple deck categories
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Tap the screen to flip a card. Ideal if you need a deck of cards for games such as drinking games, or to solve an argument. Draw a Card offers you different card layouts and options. With Draw a Card you can define the cards containing in the deck, and you can set the deck to shuffle after a card being flipped, or to draw cards until the deck is empty. You can also download new decks completely free. There are many categories to chose from.
Playing cards
This application simulates drawing playing cards sequentially. Users can choose to include jokers and review past draws. It offers a straightforward way to generate random card sequences.
- Sequential card drawing
- Joker inclusion option
- Previous card history
- Simple interface
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A simple app for flipping through playing cards one by one. Choose whether or not to include the Joker. Go back anytime to check the previous card you flipped.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Playing cards at none against Draw a Card Deck's 1. Playing cards also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Draw a Card Deck's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (836 vs 53). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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. Draw a Card Deck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Playing cards asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Draw a Card Deck against 4.6 for Playing cards. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Draw a Card Deck has 836 ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Draw a Card Deck's written reviews are positive against 100% of Playing cards's.
Draw a Card Deck ships an update every 3 months, Playing cards every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draw a Card Deck | Playing cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (836 ratings) | 4.6 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 836 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joao Caetano | yuya kanbetsunawa |
Customer experience
Draw a Card Deck
Playing cards
Bugs and requests
Draw a Card Deck
Reported bugs
2 issues- Joker keeps getting added to 52-card deck
- Dark mode text is unreadable
Requested features
4 requests- Shuffle function
- Ability to customize decks
- Show number of cards remaining
- Full deck view
Playing cards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Draw a Card Deck
- Remove ads$0.99
Playing cards
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Draw a Card Deck free?
Is Playing cards free?
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Do Draw a Card Deck or Playing cards have ads?
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