Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 11:58 am
Cards with Phones – Card Game Review
Cards with Phones is a Card game from Eugene LIN, first launched in 4th May 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 13+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cards with Phones Stand Out
Cards with Phones lets you play popular card games anytime you're together with friends, whether you're waiting in line, out at a restaurant, or taking a flight together (that's right… it even works on airplanes). Advanced peer-to-peer connectivity means Cards with Phones works as long as you and your friends' phones are within Bluetooth or WiFi range of each other.
NOTE: You can PLAY FOR FREE in black & white, with all features enabled. If you like it, upgrade to FULL COLOR with a one-time simple in-app purchase.
FEATURES
Play together with up to 8 friends each using either iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch (you can mix and match).
Play Spades, Hearts (also known as The Dirty, Black Lady, Dark Lady, Black Swear, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Rickety Kate, Queen of Spades, Black Queen, or Black Cat), Oh Hell (also known as 10-9-8, Afghanistan, Bugger Your Neighbour, Bumble, Burn Your Neighbor, Burn Your Baby, Contract Whist, Count Down, Crush, Cut-throat Bridge, Dentists's Comfort, Diminishing Bridge, Diminishing Sequence, Diminishing Whist, Disappearing Tens, Fingers In, Gary's Game, German Bridge, Get Fred, Goodluck, Go to Heck Bridge, Go to Hell Bridge, Habanero, Hell Yeah, Moon oh, Mormon Bridge, Nah Pearse, Niggle, Nomination Whist, Zonk, Oh Mierda, Number Deal, O'Shay, Oh Heck, Oh Petunia, Oh Pshaw, Oh Well, Old Hell, Orlando-Tallahassee, Osha, Oy Vey, Peanuts, Prediction Whist, Pyramid, Quasimodo, Reddis, Sausages, Scratch, Screw The Dealer, Screw Your Neighbor, Sod-it, Sticky Fingers, Ten and Back or Tennaback, Tens, Ten Down, The Blank You Say, Up Down, Up the River, Upsy Downsy, Up to 7 and back, Vanishing Whist, or Wiggly Diggle), Kachuful (also known as Judgement), German Whist (also known as Chinese Whist or Hamburger Whist), Crazy Eights, or War.
Add robot players to any game (up to total 8 players), whether you're playing on your own or with friends.
Choose three different difficulty smartness levels for robots, depending on how gutsy you're feeling.
Save time with automatic scorekeeping and support for multiple popular scoring methods.
Organize your hand yourself or let auto-sort keep your cards arranged for you.
No ads! You get 100% of the features for FREE… in grayscale. LOL
WHY IS IT IN BLACK AND WHITE?
So you and your friends can try Cards with Phones, fully-featured, as much as you want until you decide it's worth it. Fair, right? And if some of your friends want to stay cheapskates, you can still play with them!
CAN I PLAY ACROSS THE INTERNET WITH CREEPY STRANGERS?
Nope. Cards with Phones is for those moments when you're with friends and forgot to bring playing cards. I wanted to offer people another way of having fun together, in person.
CAN I PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER?
Yup! Just add robots to any game and you can test your skills against my advanced AI.
ARE YOU GOING TO ADD MORE GAMES?
Yes! I plan on adding more based on what people ask for in reviews, so please be nice and rate this app. Or post your suggestions in the CardsWithPhones subreddit.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cards with Phones is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Fixed scoring of "shooting the moon" in Hearts.
Fixed opening hand restrictions in Hearts.
Show current round scores during Hearts gameplay (instead of total scores).
General bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Cards with Phones is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cards with Phones 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:
Extremely well-done and easy to use. No ads and fully functional. Wish it were available for Android but we understand cross-platform is hard.
Our husband and we enjoy playing hearts with the bots but we have a question regarding scoring/rules and a few small critiques. Hearts rules do not allow a player to play a heart or the queen of spades on the first handbut this game allows it. And several times we have run the cards taking all the tricks, we are penalized with 26 points and two other players with 52. Possibly having a link to each games rules? Again, love the appbut would like to have a way to contact support. Thanks.
Can we get some sort of internet play so we can play directly with our self-isolating friends and family? No creepy internet people, we promise.
We paid for the game but it still keeps crashing when we play judgement with the robots. Please fix.
We have yet to play full game without crashing the App. Sorry we feel like our money was wasted on this app.
We downloaded and paid but there are only three games listed … Updated 6/13 Some of the one listed would be nice, but crazy eights, pitch, poker, pass the ace, Texas hold em, …. The kids wanted to play and we found this app but Hearts and Spades are a bit too complicated to explain to kids on the fly so any of the easy ones would be nice. Updated 6/18 Thank you for adding all the games and making some easy / kid-friendly ones.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0
- Size: 64.77 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Eugene LIN
Last updated: 17th September 2025 | Genre: Card | Developer: Eugene LIN