Ultimate 500 Lite vs Rickety Kate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ultimate 500 Lite
Enjoy a popular card game with intelligent AI opponents or challenge friends locally. Customize game rules, use personal photos for card tables, and track your progress with a local leaderboard. This version offers core gameplay with helpful features for an enhanced experience.
- Play against AI opponents
- Local multiplayer (pass and play)
- Customizable game rules
- Use personal photos for game visuals
- Undo feature
- Intelligent bid/play suggestions
- Local leaderboard
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The free version of the ultimate 500 card game with following features: - - Play against intelligent AI opponents. - Play against friends on same device using pass and play - Take photo's or use images on your device to appear as your card table or the card's themselves! - Customise rules to allow different variations of your game as per the 500 wiki. - Undo feature after each move - Intelligent Suggest feature to recommend what to bid or even what card to play - Ability to control game pace between tricks and between games - Local leaderboard to keep track of all game statistics - Play in landscape or portrait on iPad with improved interface Any bugs, support questions or ideas for improvements please go to Facebook Community page http://www.facebook.com/ultimate500community
Rickety Kate
A trick-taking card game where the goal is to have the lowest score. Players win tricks but aim to avoid high-scoring cards like the Queen of Spades. Features customizable decks, player counts, and scoring rules.
- Trick-taking gameplay
- Low score objective
- Customizable deck size and suits
- Adjustable player count
- Optional special cards (Jokers, Trumps, Hooligan, Omnibus)
- Configurable scoring cards
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Rickety Kate is a trick taking card game. This means every player tosses in a card and the player with the highest card in the same suite as the first card wins the trick and the cards. But wait! the person with the lowest running score wins. So winning a trick is not necessarily good. The Queen of Spades (Rickety Kate) is worth 10 points against you and the other spades are worth 1 point against you. When you run out of cards you are dealt another hand. If you obtain all the spades in a hand it is called 'Shooting the Moon' and your score drops to zero. At the beginning of each hand the player pass their three worst cards to their neighbour. Aces and King are the worst cards. The game has many options and settings Depending on the options the deck of cards can be anywhere from 30 cards in 3 suites to 184 cards in 10 suites The following options are available 1. Number Of Suites in Deck (3 - 8) 2. Number Of Cards in Suite (10-20) 3. Number Of Players At Table (3 - 7) (The empty seats will be filled with robot players) 4. Number Of Human Players At Table (1 - 7) (Multiple players can play in pass the phone / pad mode) 5. Include Jokers in Deck (Yes-No) 6. Include Tarot Trumps in Deck (Yes-No) 7. Use Pass Three Worst Cards Rule (Yes-No) 8. Game Finishing Score (50 - 500) 9. Speed of Card Animations (Slow - Fast) 10. What are the Scoring Cards (Spades, Hearts or Jacks) 11. Include Hooligan ( Seven of Clubs ) Worth 7 points (Yes - No) 12. Include Omnibus ( Jack of Diamonds ) Worth Negative 10 points (Yes - No) 13. Follow 'Can not lead with Scoring Card Suite Until Someone Plays a Scoring Card' Rule (Yes-No) 14. Play Music (Yes-No) 15. Music Volume (Low - High) 16. Play Sound (Yes-No) 17. Music Volume (Low - High) Other names for this game are Black Lady, The Dirty, Dark Lady, Slippery Anne, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Black Queen, Black Maria, Hearts, Spades, Four Jacks and Hooligan Hearts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rickety Kate at 96% against Ultimate 500 Lite's 17%. Rickety Kate also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ultimate 500 Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rickety Kate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rickety Kate holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rickety Kate has 37 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Ultimate 500 Lite's written reviews are positive against 96% of Rickety Kate's.
Ultimate 500 Lite ships an update every 2 weeks, Rickety Kate every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ultimate 500 Lite | Rickety Kate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.2% of reviews | 95.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Deitch | Geoff Burns |
Customer experience
Ultimate 500 Lite
Rickety Kate
Bugs and requests
Ultimate 500 Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Rickety Kate
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashed on one user's device
- Intrusive ad on game screen
Requested features
6 requests- Update animations
- Add background music
- Add multiplayer online mode
- Improve graphics
- Add splash screen explaining gameplay
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- Refine animations
In-app purchases
Ultimate 500 Lite
- Remove Ads$0.99
Rickety Kate
No in-app purchases
Questions
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