Comparison

Solitaire Watch vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

Solitaire Watch

Enjoy classic Klondike solitaire on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Features quick sessions, readable cards, and smooth gameplay with daily challenges and customizable decks. Save and resume games instantly.

Highlights
  • Apple Watch and iPhone gameplay
  • Daily Challenge with solvable hands
  • Klondike in 1-card and 3-card modes
  • Optional Spiderette unlock
  • Hints, undo, auto-complete
  • Deck customization
  • Fast resume and save/restore
Features
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Solitaire Watch brings classic solitaire back to Apple Watch and iPhone with quick sessions, readable cards, and smooth modern play. Play Klondike in 1-card or 3-card mode, choose one-touch or two-touch controls, and jump back into saved games instantly. Every day features a verified solvable Daily Challenge, so every player tackles the same winnable hand. Features: - Apple Watch and iPhone gameplay - Daily Challenge built from verified solvable Klondike hands - Klondike in 1-card and 3-card modes - Spiderette as an optional unlock for players who want a tougher variant - Hints, undo, auto-complete, move tracking, and best-time history - Deck customization with collectible card packs - Fast resume and reliable save/restore Built for short watch sessions, full-screen iPhone play, and the satisfying feel of solitaire anywhere.

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

Solitaire Watch3 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ArcadeOS at 3.0 against Solitaire Watch's 2.0. Solitaire Watch's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ArcadeOS holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Solitaire Watch versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolitaire WatchArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAutonomousRetroApps LLC

Customer experience

Solitaire Watch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

ArcadeOS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Solitaire Watch

No in-app purchases

None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Solitaire Watch free?
Solitaire Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Solitaire Watch or ArcadeOS?
ArcadeOS is rated higher. Solitaire Watch averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ArcadeOS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Solitaire Watch or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither Solitaire Watch nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Solitaire Watch or ArcadeOS?
Solitaire Watch ships an update every 3 weeks, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Solitaire Watch was updated on November 6, 2026 and ArcadeOS on November 6, 2026.

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