jSpades 2 vs iSpades
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
jSpades 2
Experience a comprehensive card game with multiple modes including classic, urban, and challenge play. Learn the game with built-in tutorials and track your progress with a user login for cross-device stat tracking. This app offers the most complete version of the game available.
- Classic Spades mode
- Urban modes with jokers
- Kitty bidding
- Nil bidding
- Challenge modes
- Learning tutorials
- Cross-device stat tracking
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jSpades 2 takes the original and expands on it in every way! In addition to the urban modes with jokers, the kitty, etc, classic mode is now available with nil bidding and traditional bidding. Also new are challenge modes to test your skill and tutorials to help you learn to play. There's even a login so you can track your stats across devices. This is the most complete Spades game in the market!
iSpades
This card game allows you to play Spades against a CPU with customizable rules and deck options. Track your scores, earn achievements, and save your progress. Enjoy flexible gameplay with landscape and vertical orientations.
- Play against CPU
- Four-color deck option
- Customizable scoring variants
- Adjustable game settings
- Save and load game progress
- Achievements system
- Landscape and vertical orientation
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SPADES Main characteristics: - Play Spades against CPU - Four-color deck (each suit has a different color) - Scoring variants: With or without penalty, several penalty variations... - It includes help and play explanation - Settings: Cards size, deck type (four-color or classic), cards back color, sound, animations, speed, scoreboard, table and scores color, see names on the table cards,... - Scores: Matches, Hands, best and worst score,... - Achievements: They allow to achieve experiencie points - Save and load game - Landscape and vertical orientation Play: - The winner is the team that first reaches the set number of points (by default 500) - Each hand consists of dealing 13 cards. During a hand, each player bids for a number of tricks, then attempts to take exactly that many tricks during the hand Scoring Spades: - Points are awarded for winning at least the number of tricks bidded. Both the team bids and the team tricks are added. - By default, Each team scores 10 point for each trick bidded and an extra point for each additional trick. If a team not make the contract, they'll lost 10 points for each bid. 10 points are also lost if 10 extra tricks are acumulated (according to rules). - If a player bids 0 (nil) and he/she doesn't win any trick, he she'll win 100 points. If he/she wins any bid, he/she'll lost 100 points. The rules settings allow changing some of this rules: - Game points: 250, 300, 500 or 1000 points - Lose game points: -200, -500 - Penalty: No penalty, one point, 100 points, 110 points - Breaking spades: Allow or not to lead spades
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iSpades at 5.0 against jSpades 2's 3.5. iSpades also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). jSpades 2's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (43 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iSpades holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: jSpades 2 has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
jSpades 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, iSpades every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | jSpades 2 | iSpades |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (43 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jerod Motley | Manuel Lopez Lopez |
Customer experience
jSpades 2
iSpades
In-app purchases
jSpades 2
No in-app purchases
iSpades
No in-app purchases








