Comparison

Epic Solitaire Collection vs Montana (Gaps) Solitaire

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

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About

Epic Solitaire Collection

This app offers a vast collection of solitaire games, from popular classics to unique variants. Enjoy challenging or relaxing gameplay with beautiful card designs and an intuitive interface. Easily find your favorite games or discover new ones with advanced navigation and search features.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of solitaire games
  • Classic and original variants
  • Beautiful card designs
  • Intuitive navigation and search
  • Detailed game rules and glossary
  • Scores and statistics tracking
Features
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Solitaire Collection combines hundreds of the best solitaire (patience) games from around the world in one app. Popular classics like Klondike, Yukon, Spider and FreeCell plus many other great traditional games and variants and many exclusive original solitaire games. Looking for a difficult game to challenge your mind or a calming game to soothe your brain? There is a game for you. Beautiful, highly detailed card faces take full advantage of Retina displays and the no-nonsense interface keeps the focus where it belongs, on the game play. Quickly find your favorite game or your new favorite with navigation features like: *16 category folders sorted by game style. *Most Popular category - quickly find the most played games from around the world. *Customizable Favorites list - easily add your favorite games for quick access. *New category - quickly see recent additions to the collection *Search for games by name. *An advanced search filter -iPad only helps you find games with the game mechanics that you love. *Screenshot, description, list of the game mechanics and difficulty for every game. Scores and statistics for each game and sortable global statistics. What games have you played the most? Won the most? Find new games with direct links to individual games in the global statistics lisy. Detailed rules for every game and a glossary of solitaire terms to help you quickly learn to play new games. Includes all these and more: 13 Up 40 Thieves Accordion -iPad only Aces & Kings Aces Up Acme Agnes -iPad only Alaska Algerian -iPad only Alhambra -iPad only Archway -iPad only Assembly Australian Babette -iPad only Baker's Dozen Baker's Game Bavarian -iPad only Beetle -iPad only Beleaguered Castle Bell Towers Binary Star Birdie Black Hole Black Widow Blend Blind Alleys Blondes -iPad only Breakwater Bristol British Brown Recluse Busy Aces Cairo Calculation Canfield Canister Cardiff Carpet Circle Ace Circus Clock -iPad only Colorado Concertina -iPad only Congress Constitution -iPad only Cornelius Corners Crazy Quilt -iPad only Crescent Criss Cross Cruel Curds & Whey -iPad only Czarina Demons & Thieves Demonthief Diavolo -iPad only Double Rail Double Sleepers Doublets Duchess Dutch Eastcliff Easthaven Eight Off Emperor Falling Star -iPad only Fan -iPad only Fanny Easy Fanny Hard Farmer's Wife Fascination -iPad only Father's Fifteen Puzzle Five Piles Flower Garden Flower Pots Fortune's Favor Four Seasons Four Stack Four Winds FreeCell Gap Genie German -iPad only Giza Gold Mine Gold Rush Golf Grandfather's Grandmother's Great River Hand -iPad only Haystack Hole in One Indefatigable -iPad only Indian Carpet -iPad only Intelligence -iPad only Interchange Interregnum -iPad only Kiev King Albert -iPad only Kingsdown -iPad only Klondike La Belle Lucie -iPad only Lady Betty Lady Cadogan -iPad only Lady of the Manor Lanes Last Chance Letter H Minaret Mini Miss Milligan Miss Muffet -iPad only Monaco Montana Monte Carlo Morehead -iPad only Mount Olympus -iPad only Mouse Mrs Mop -iPad only Mulligan Nanny Necropolis Needle Nestor Northwest Territory -iPad only Odd & Even -iPad only One234 Opus Orbits Order Time -iPad only Oros -iPad only Oscillate Osmosis Strategic Pas Seul Penguin Persian Rug -iPad only Pineapple Pitchfork Pumpkin Pyramid Queenie Raglan -iPad only Ranks Fan Reciprocate Rectangular Redheads -iPad only Riviera Romanian Rouge et Noir -iPad only Royal Family -iPad only Royal Marriage -iPad only Russian Satellites Saxon -iPad only Scorpion Seven Devils Shady Shamrocks Siberian Silver Mine Single Rail Sir Tommy Sleepers Somerset -iPad only Sorel Spanish Spider SpiderCell Spiderette Spidike Squadron Square Strategy Tarantula Terrace -iPad only The Wish Thieves of Egypt Thirty Six Thoughtful Thumb & Pouch Tournament -iPad only Towers Triangle Golf Triangle Trigon TriPeaks Tuffet -iPad only Ukrainian Undercover Aces -iPad only Vertical Vincent Westcliff Whitehead Whitehorse Will o' the Wisp Yukon Yukon Spider

About

Montana (Gaps) Solitaire

This solitaire game challenges you to arrange cards into four rows of ascending sequences, one suit per row. Utilize blank spaces to move cards strategically and reshuffle remaining cards when blocked. Aim for a high score by completing sequences and managing your shuffles.

Highlights
  • Arrange cards in ascending order
  • Four rows, one suit per row
  • Utilize blank spaces for card movement
  • Shuffle remaining cards option
  • Scoring system with bonuses and penalties
  • Undo and Redo functionality
Features
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Montana Solitaire is also known as Gaps or Spaces. Object: To order all of the cards in 4 rows of increasing order from 2 to K, one single suit per row. Layout: All 52 cards are dealt face up into 4 rows, 13 cards each, where the cards are not overlapped. After the dealing the Aces are removed to create 4 blank spaces. Play: Any card can be moved to a blank spot, if it is one rank higher than the card to the left of the blank and it is from the same suit.\nClick a blank to fill it, or click on the card you want to move to a space (if the card can be moved). A space in the first column can only be filled with a Two from any suit. A King blocks any spaces to the right of the King. You can continue arranging the cards until all moves are blocked by a King. If all spaces are blocked by a King, press Shuffle Remaining button. All cards, which are not in ascending value within the same suit (starting with a Two in the first column), will be gathered, shuffled with Aces, and redealt. Only three shuffles of the remaining cards are allowed in Montana Relax, and only one shuffle of the remaining cards are allowed in Montana Classic. Tips: We have few really good tips. Just avoid leaving gaps to the right of Kings, and be careful in choosing which deuce you play to an empty space in the first column. Try to think ahead! One reader suggested to us that’s it’s not good to finish a row too soon. If you finish a 2-through-King row by placing a King in the 12th column and then deal, you get a gap in the 13th column that is useless to you for the rest of the game. Another reader suggests that you should not place too many cards before the final redeal. If the game is mostly finished before the final redeal, you will have few choices after the redeal and a high chance of being stuck. By leaving more cards unplayed, you will get more freedom of choice for your last moves. When played as a puzzle game, with unlimited use of the Redo command, Montana is nearly always winnable. Chance of Winning: 1 in 20 games. Scoring: ∙ You get one point for each card that is in sequence. The highest possible score is 48 points. ∙ If you have any shuffle moves remaining, you get an extra 10 points for each one. ∙ If you use the undo button, you lose 2 points. So if you use it three times, you lose a total of 6 points. ∙ When you finish the game, we will calculate your score and rank your performance. Any feedback, please contact 7saiwen@gmail.com

Screenshots

Epic Solitaire Collection4 screens
Montana (Gaps) Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Montana (Gaps) Solitaire at 4.6 against Epic Solitaire Collection's 3.2. Montana (Gaps) Solitaire also leads on ratings volume (432 vs 19). Epic Solitaire Collection's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (50% vs 19%). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Montana (Gaps) Solitaire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Epic Solitaire Collection asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Montana (Gaps) Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Montana (Gaps) Solitaire has 432 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Epic Solitaire Collection's written reviews are positive against 19% of Montana (Gaps) Solitaire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Epic Solitaire Collection ships an update every 5 weeks, Montana (Gaps) Solitaire every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Epic Solitaire Collection versus Montana (Gaps) Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEpic Solitaire CollectionMontana (Gaps) Solitaire
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (19 ratings)4.6 (432 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better19.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19432 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size233 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMmpApps Corp.CHENGDU MIAOZHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Customer experience

Epic Solitaire Collection

All ratings19 ratings
Positive47.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative42.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Montana (Gaps) Solitaire

All ratings424 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive19.0%
Neutral23.8%
Negative57.1%

Bugs and requests

Epic Solitaire Collection

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Montana (Gaps) Solitaire

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Cards disappear
  • Duplicate cards
  • Cannot move cards
  • Game stays open draining battery
  • Lost gold medals/calendar wins after update
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  • Ads appear after paying for no ads
  • Restore purchases needed for no ads

Requested features

2 requests
  • Enlarge cards on screen
  • More than two shuffles

In-app purchases

None

Epic Solitaire Collection

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Montana (Gaps) Solitaire

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$5.99

Questions

Is Epic Solitaire Collection free?
Epic Solitaire Collection is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Montana (Gaps) Solitaire free?
Montana (Gaps) Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Epic Solitaire Collection or Montana (Gaps) Solitaire?
Montana (Gaps) Solitaire is rated higher. Epic Solitaire Collection averages 3.2 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Montana (Gaps) Solitaire averages 4.6 from 432 ratings.
Do Epic Solitaire Collection or Montana (Gaps) Solitaire have ads?
Both Epic Solitaire Collection and Montana (Gaps) Solitaire show ads.
Which is updated more often, Epic Solitaire Collection or Montana (Gaps) Solitaire?
Epic Solitaire Collection ships an update every 5 weeks, and Montana (Gaps) Solitaire every 4 months. Most recently, Epic Solitaire Collection was updated on November 6, 2026 and Montana (Gaps) Solitaire on November 7, 2026.

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