Spades vs Let Him Cook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spades
A digital adaptation of the classic trick-taking card game. Play solo or with partners, bidding on the number of tricks you can win. Customize game rules, opponent difficulty, and visual elements.
- 3 or 4 player solo modes
- 4 player partnership mode
- Customizable bid and lead rules
- Adjustable AI opponent aggression
- Table and card appearance customization
- In-app instructions
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Spades is a trick-taking card game that can be played with 3 players solo, 4 players solo, or 4 players with partners (2 teams of 2). A standard 52-card deck is dealt, then players bid the number of tricks they can take. The goal is to take as many tricks as were bid. When playing with partners, North/South is one team, West/East is the other, and teammates' bids and tricks are combined, so one player's underbid can compensate for his teammate's overbid. This app allows you to configure number of players and teams, the appearance of the table and cards, rules about nil bids and when spades can be lead. There are instructions included in the app, as well as a setting to make your robot opponents less aggressive or more aggressive.
Let Him Cook
Embark on a mission to save the world by collecting resources, crafting a life-saving serum in a lab, and deploying it on an open-world map to destroy a dangerous virus. Navigate falling items, some beneficial and others harmful, to achieve your goal.
- Resource collection
- Item crafting in laboratory
- Serum invention
- Open world map exploration
- Virus destruction
- In-game item drops
- Health management
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Can you save the world? Collect resources, buy items in the shop. Use laboratory to make other items. All collected resources stored in your bag. The main thing you can make in a laboratory is a Serum! Open world map and use serum there to destroy virus in every continent. Are you ready to accept such a challenge? Among us is dangerous virus, and only you can save us! In game mode different items will be falling at you! Some of them you need to collect to use in a shop or laboratory to become closer to serum invention! But others will infect your immunity and reduce your health. There are also items that can help you in game area, like "X2" which will multiply each collected item by two for some time. There are also invertor which will test your attention. But don't worry. It's not as hard as it may seems. With some intervals you will be getting a good help. Enjoy our game and save the world from infection. Good luck.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Let Him Cook at 100% against Spades's 45%. Let Him Cook also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Spades's advantage is ratings volume (2.5K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Let Him Cook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spades has 2.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Spades's written reviews are positive against 100% of Let Him Cook's.
Spades ships an update monthly, Let Him Cook every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spades | Let Him Cook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 261 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Oleksii Petrochenko |
Customer experience
Spades
Let Him Cook
Bugs and requests
Spades
Reported bugs
4 issues- Scoring discrepancies
- Cards blocked by ads
- Freezing on last card
- Sounds always on after update
Requested features
3 requests- Allow confirmation for bidding entry box
- Automatic play for last card in suit
- Implement bid 10 get 200 feature
Let Him Cook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spades
No in-app purchases
Let Him Cook
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Spades free?
Is Let Him Cook free?
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