jSpades 2 vs Spades County Rules
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!
Spades County Rules
A card game variation focusing on bids and team play against AI opponents. The objective is to reach a target score by successfully making your bids, with no penalties for overbidding.
- Simplified Spades rules
- Team-based gameplay
- Play against AI
- No points over bids
- Quick game mode
- Minimum bid of 4
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Spades - County Rules is a variation on the Spades card game where there aren't any points over bids (bags), blinds, nil bids, and books are counted on an one to one basis. It is also a team game. Your Team against the Computer Team. The emphasis is on bids with County Rules, either you make the bid and get the points or you don't. The minimum bid is 4 and the maximum is 10. You don't get any extra points for making 10 but it will put you in a much better place because your opponent will be set. The first team to 25 wins. There is also a Quick game options where the first team to 10 wins.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spades County Rules at 67% against jSpades 2's 30%. Spades County Rules also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (3.7 vs 3.3). jSpades 2's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (48 vs 7). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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.
Spades County Rules holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: jSpades 2 has 48 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of jSpades 2's written reviews are positive against 67% of Spades County Rules's.
jSpades 2 ships an update every 3 weeks, Spades County Rules every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | jSpades 2 | Spades County Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (48 ratings) | 3.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.2% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jerod Motley | PARIS PINKNEY |
Customer experience
jSpades 2
Spades County Rules
In-app purchases
jSpades 2
No in-app purchases
Spades County Rules
No in-app purchases
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