FreeCell Solitaire ∙ Card Game

This is a great game, I play it a lot, but with one caveat: I leave my phone on AP (airplane) mode. There are just too many ads that seem to last forever - it seems well past a minute. And don’t think you can put your phone in AP mode after starting the app. That not only didn’t work, but it broke the game. It locked up and would not play until I turned off AP mode and let the ad play all over again. The only way to get around all these numerous intrusive ads is to make sure you’re in AP mode before you ever open the app, and possibly after you restart your phone. I don’t mind 30-second ads, but this is just too much. It needs to be one short ad after every game. I would accept that. Also, there’s one minor nuisance about the game itself, though. When you tap a card and there are two choices for it to go to, say tapping a r-ten when you have a column built with b-K, r-Q, and b-J, and a b-J on top of an unsorted pile - the game will invariably place the r-10 on the unsorted column, forcing me to move it to the correct column, which will me cost another move. I don’t play that way anymore (competitively), but it is still aggravating that the game’s algorithm ALWAYS picks the wrong place.

As the title states, I never write reviews. But I felt inclined to write one for this app. It has feature that I could possibly ask for. I understand not wanting to pay to remove ads. I totally get it. But the ads are very non-intrusive. You can, of course pay to not have ads. It’s very customizable. If there’s a weird feature that’s enabled by default you can disable it. I won’t get too into the weeds on details, but just felt I wanted to leave a review saying this is hands-down the best FreeCell app that I’ve tried.

Ads are short, can be exited quickly, and only play when starting a new game or restarting. Usually just one, sometimes two adds play. Recently, when I undo all my moves to restart, the cards stack so that bottom cards are covering some of those on top. The game still works, but you can’t see what you’re doing. It got annoying enough that I decided to try a different app. If they fix this I would be happy to come back to it. I like the infinite “undos,” timer, score, automatic finish, and customizable cards and backgrounds.