Last updated on January 28th, 2026 at 08:30 pm
Canasta Card House – Card Game Review
Canasta Card House is a Card/Family game from Outland Labs, Inc., first launched in 8th October 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,341+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Canasta Card House Stand Out
Play the classic card game Canasta, 2 or 4 player, with entertaining computer characters, your friends, or auto-matched online opponents.
FEATURES:
- Easy to play. Just drag or flick cards to draw, meld, or discard.
- Customize the game rules for 2-player or 4-player games.
- Unlock computer characters with strong personalities, different play styles, and gorgeous homes.
- Furnish your house and choose background music to create the perfect environment to host your games.
- Dress up to receive your guests and visit other players' homes.
- Talk with friends while you play with built-in chat.
- Complete goals and challenges for rewards.
- Play ranked auto-match games with online and computer opponents.
- Visit your friends' homes.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Canasta Card House is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixes for iOS 26 devices.
- Fixed issue where red threes without meld didn’t apply negative points.
Download & Availability
Canasta Card House is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Canasta Card House on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive been playing canasta for over 30 years. This game has tremendously improved our skills. The leveled bots are given personality which makes the game engaging as you learn. Well done.
If you love playing cards, and if you like the game Canasta, you will love this game. It is very well thought out and makes for a pleasant afternoon or evening. There are always challenges and fun choices. We do recommend this app Canasta Card House. Ive been using the app for several months and totally enjoy it.
We enjoy playing this game but its very well loaded in their favor. Its difficult to win consistently.
This is a great game, we just wish they hadnt added ads. Its frustrating.
We really enjoy playing this card game. Im hooked. Ive been playing every day for a few weeks now and we love it.
Really fun but Id love to see the devs update the house decorating features. We love how you can customize games to be frozen or unfrozen, 3000 points or 5000 points, single card draw or double. We love the daily challenges and we try to complete them each day. We only play the computer a few times Ive had human opponents (not known to us) and it took too long or they quit mid-game. So we stick to the 6 computer players. We paid to turn off ads and to unlock the LA players. No regrets. We had fun furnishing our house. But Ive been amassing game money and have nothing left to spend it on. Ive purchased all of the furnishings that we like. There are three spaces where it looks like you can buy something but then there is nothing available. Id love different carpets and furniture. Id also love to be able to rearrange things wand place them where we want, not just in the fixed space. Hoping for updates, but Im losing hope.
Fun game. Moderately well laid out. However, the computer cheats. 1. It allows itself to pick up discard pile cards, but not its opponents in same scenario. 2. Gives itself different requirements for starting play. We needed 90 points to begin play, it allowed itself only 50 points. Come on developers :(.
This card game is a lot of fun. But beware when you are playing the computer, it has the upper hand and it wins 90 percent of the time . Very frustrating because we get 4 and fives constantly when drawing cards. It knows what cards you need and you will NOT get them. Again if you can deal with losing most of the time this card game is for you. We take it as a learning experience.
Im about to win our morning challenge with Mary Beth when our two remaining cards became enlarged and frozen. Any suggestions? Thanks :-).
Unfortunately this game doesnt display correctly on an iPad mini, the cards in play in the center are huge so players stacking area is so small that cards cant be read, way too tiny. Very disappointing because we like this game.
We are removing from our device and will look for another game to play. We dont care what adults do in their own home but we dont want someones agenda promoted to us. Absolutely disgusting.
We are thoroughly enjoying this game. We love to play canasta with our family when they visit but thats not very often. With this game, we can play whenever we want. Bonus is that the other players dont take forever to take their turn! We are also enjoying decorating our house and changing our outfits. The other players are fun and they chat, too. Also, we were having an issue with the ads freezing up and we emailed the company and they were extremely responsive. Im sure the computer can cheat but we just assume that they can see our hand and try to have fun.
We love the characters and we love to decorate the home and update our appearance and the music and we are really a good canasta player but somehow we feel that the cards are stacked to the house. We are able to win in other apps. So frustrated. We been playing for over 2 months and have not won one game; spent too much money decorating. We are going to use a a more enjoyable app. Adis.
Tonight, there was a scummy ad for a gambling game designed to sucker people into thinking they can make good money. Then to top it all off, theyre letting the Chinese advertise their subversive TikTok app. Im deleting this app.
Relaxing pace, makes us think and strategize.
Computer consistently has the advantage. Must be pushing to buy in app options.
We enjoy this game immensely, been playing for over two years. We were at the top of achievements, Diamond Master, almost level 14 when an Apple upgrade and Game Center wiped out everything. Im not able to find any way to get our game back.
Iit seems too often the game controls our tiny moves..graphs on card to put on discard pile when we are trying to go out. Irratiation.
We agree with metalkelly. The computer cheats. The computer will take the discard pile to place cards on mold all the time, but will not a live(us) do the same. We are only allowed to take from the discard when its highlighted. Not fare at all.
This game plays like rummy. Does not follow the rules of canasta.
We really think the platinum master level is rigged so only the computer wins. Every time we play this level we wind up with no wild cards and almost no cards of 3 or more.
Im new to Canasta and was hoping this app could help us learn the game. Every time we try to go out and discard, it doesnt let us. The card is coded in green but will not let us put in Discard pile. We get timed out and Mary Beth wins all the time. Not really happy with this app.
We want to play canasta not stupid decorating a house.
In middle of a game an ad comes up and you cant get out of it without losing the game.
Playing against the computer in this particular version of Canasta is absolutely horrendous. We have been playing Canasta for over a decade and have never seen rules like these. Freezing the deck does nothing for the computer player. She is continually able to draw cards even if the deck is frozen for all players. Furthermore, if youre doing well, the tables will turn and you receive consistently irrelevant cards – until she inevitably goes out with a hidden hand. Absolutely worthless version of this game and not at all enjoyable.
We are new to canasta and started liking this game until we figured out the rules. If you choose the frozen discard pile option the rules say that it freezes it for all players. Well, it only does for yourself. The dealer Mary Beth can still draw whenever she wants even with this option chosen. We thought it was a good feature at first since we were a newbie a few weeks ago but now we realize she/computer totally has the advantage on you this way. So dont use the freeze pile option. Set it to unfrozen or else youll lose almost every time. Also, you can tel the computer is cheating because shell have 3-4 of the 20 point cards of same suit in her meld and shell discard them after picking up the discard pile and playing a few other melds. Sad fully Ill be searching for another canasta game because this one doesnt seem to allow us to become a better player.
Game froze several times while playing an actual person. She emailed you and we cant figure out how. So please fix this problem. We love the game of canasta.
Funny how the player is not permitted to take cards off the table but with as little as two cards face up, the computer can snatch them up and suddenly half the deck is on the computers meld and Mary Beth wins again. After a few losses like this, the game reminds you of your progressive loss to add a little more insult to the injury. Ill keep looking for a better game with clearer instructions.
In the beginning its fun to play. Then, after you get to about level 5 1/2 the bot or ai kicks in & say you put 3 jacks down, and the pile gets frozen, then the bot will throw 4 to 5 jacks on the pile in a row. Then if you manage not to give the pile away, it automatically knows what cards you only have 1 of in your hand. So you usually end up giving the pile away, or say that you actually get the pile, you had better put all your cards down, because the bot will go out on the next turn. Not very realistic at all.
We just wanted to play Canasta but we dont want the interruptions to decorate the house.
What an awesome concept and Im totally addicted. Like the others have said it can be challenging and frustrating that the computer players have an advantage but it has challenged us to become a better player. Many of the other canasta games is boring in that you always win so we love the added aspect of it being harder. We also love being able to decorate your home and appearance but wish they would update more things to update your home and self. Overall we would recommend this game 100%.
Love the game, only problem that we have had is random freeze between hands with some adds. Latest one is for ultra mm.
Lots of fun, a bit frustrating if your a novice canasta player.
Computer is able to pick up Everything that is thrown down while Never throwing down anything in your hand. Not just occasionally but all the time. Would like to find a Canasta game that doesnt cheat.
It takes a little setup but Ive really enjoyed playing our friends and the decorating bonus is fun.
Almost exactly the rules we learned to play by. Very good and free.
Im not much for playing games on our tablet, but we wanted to practice Canasta because Im new to it. We really like playing this! Sometimes the cards move where we dont want them (for example we want a card to move onto a meld but it gets discarded). We dont quite understand the pricing for the home decorations or clothing, but its ok.
We like this game and to decorate our home. We would like to see our scores somewhere and the cards laid down better.
We have been playing for two months and purchased the unlock option. The other reviewers are correct. The computer wins in as few as six draws. The levels are very long and level nine barely advances at all. We wanted to keep playing but it is no longer fun playing infallible, self-dealing AI opponents.
We wanted to play this with our daughter but we cannot invite a friend unless we are at level 2. Otherwise we liked the games just disappointed we cant play with friends. Also just discovered we cant send this without picking a nickname and every name we pick is taken,.
This is a fun canasta game and works well when paired against a computer player. But the game freezes mid game when matched against another player. It also does not let you play a friend unless you are on the same WiFi. If Im close enough to a friend to play on the same WiFi, then we are just going to play with cards. If the freezes were fixed Id give a 5 star rating. As is, it is incredibly frustrating.
We loved this App until the ad Lending Tree popped up and then wouldnt allow us to go back to the game. This made us loose our place and chances to win. It also counted against our try and didnt allow us to achieve our rewards.
This is truly the most frustrating game. The computer appears to have cheats and you cant beat it no matter what you lay down. We have played several Canasta games and this is the worst. Cant win. We dont mind losing but every round and can never pick up the discard pile. Computer always gets it.
We keep losing all our data! We make it to about level 3 and then all of a sudden we try to plan the game and Im back at level 1. All the goals have restarted. Please fix this. We love this game but its getting very annoying.
Like this game, but on level 2 we cannot pick up discard pile even when we have meld and the computer is able to pick up pile without showing us 2 cards to take pile. After 3 unfair games Im done.
Smooth game play, easy to use, but needs an undo button. And more accessories, options for individualizing avatar. We need rugs.
We like this game . We have played a few of these apps this one by far has the best set up.
Ive enjoyed playing and had reached level 8 last night before going to bed. Having trouble sleeping and when we opened our app several hours later, all progress has disappeared including over 1500 points, our decorations, Brett and Annie! Where did they go? Is there a way to recover them.
The game is very enjoyable and fun to play. One of the best that we have tried so far.
One of the daily goals for which you SHOULD receive a reward says host a game with a friend for 300 coins. So we did, but we lost the game and the app didnt give us ANY coins for hosting. It did NOT say we had to also win the game we were hosting. This has happened to us twice. Please state rules clearly.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.0.8
- Size: 182.25 MB
- iOS: 12.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Outland Labs, Inc.
Last updated: 21st October 2025 | Genre: Card, Family | Developer: Outland Labs, Inc.