Pretty Good Solitaire is a premium card game collection for iPad, offering 800 solitaire variants to serious players.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Games
Sentiment
4.4
35 reviews
Nemesis
Solitaire by MobilityWare
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app for a deep, distraction-free solitaire experience that avoids the ad-heavy, low-stakes loops of mass-market competitors.
For Serious solitaire players who value a large, curated collection of games and cross-platform consistency.
Key features
Library of 800 distinct solitaire variants including Klondike, FreeCell, and original inventions.
Starting positions compatible with Mac and Windows versions of the software.
Pinch-to-zoom interface that adjusts card scale for portrait or landscape orientation.
How much does it cost?
Paid model anchored at $9.99, targeting serious solitaire players who prefer a one-time purchase over ad-supported or subscription alternatives.
Velocity
Dormant developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: zombie.
Who built it?
Goodsol Development
5 apps tracked · Games
Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
FreeCell Plus
Most Popular Solitaire
Goodsol FreeCell PlusUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads mixed. Users appreciate extensive variety of solitaire game variants provides high replay value for serious card enthusiasts and fluid interface and intuitive card manipulation mechanics make gameplay feel natural on tablet screens.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Extensive variety of solitaire game variants provides high replay value for serious card enthusiasts
- Fluid interface and intuitive card manipulation mechanics make gameplay feel natural on tablet screens
- Frequent application crashes and freezing behavior following the latest update disrupt the user experience
41 of 41 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Pretty Good Solitaire
How's the Games market?
Pretty Good Solitaire maintains a niche premium position in the Games category, relying on a $9.99 price point that contrasts with the ad-supported models of high-scale competitors.
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By MobilityWare
With over 1.8 million ratings and a massive, active user base, this app defines the standard for mobile solitaire, making it the primary market leader.
- Maintains a massive, highly-engaged user base that creates a significant network effect for daily challenges.
- Offers a highly polished, standardized UX that has become the industry benchmark for casual solitaire players.
- Leverages a mature live-ops engine to deliver consistent daily content updates that keep retention rates high.
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Key takeaways for Pretty Good Solitaire
Where is it heading?
The solitaire market is consolidating around high-frequency, ad-supported engagement loops, leaving premium-priced, static collections like Pretty Good Solitaire increasingly isolated. Unless the team addresses the current stability regressions and expands to iPhone, the app will continue to lose its competitive edge to rivals with modern live-ops and broader device accessibility.
- Post-update stability regressions (crashes/freezing) disrupt the user experience, which directly correlates with a decline in sentiment compared to earlier versions.
- The library expansion to 800 games provides high replay value, but technical regressions currently overshadow the content-depth advantage for long-term players.
The SWOT
- 800-game library functions as a B2B distribution moat for serious enthusiasts
- Cross-platform game-number parity sustains legacy desktop user migration
- Development of a dedicated iPhone version would unlock a larger mobile user segment
- Integration of daily challenge loops could improve long-term retention
Next best moves
Rebuild stability in the latest release because post-update crashes are the top complaint → stabilize user base
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's $9.99 price point is not a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Daily challenge loops (available in Solitaire by MobilityWare but missing here) +2
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined due to post-update stability regressions and a lack of mobile-first accessibility, despite the core game library remaining a strong differentiator.
Bottom line
Pretty Good Solitaire holds a strong niche for enthusiasts through its massive game library, but recent stability regressions threaten its premium brand, so the team must prioritize stability fixes to retain the core user base before pursuing mobile expansion.
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