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Hearts ∙ – Entertainment Game Review
Hearts ∙ is a Entertainment/Card/Family game from Optime Software LLC, first launched in 2nd November 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 27,350+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hearts ∙ Stand Out
The classic card game Hearts is now available on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With rich graphics and smooth animations, Hearts Free is the premier Hearts app on the app store – and best of all, it's free.
Try to stick your opponents with as many hearts as possible, while simultaneously avoiding hearts yourself. Watch out for the Queen of Spades, she'll ruin your day.
Hearts Free features an outstanding artificial intelligence engine. Three different difficulty levels ensure that you can play against a computer opponent that matches your skill level.
Hearts Free offers many exciting features, including:
- Great graphics and awesome sound effects
- Play to 50, 100, or 150 points
- Option to count Jack of Diamonds as -10 points
- Configurable game speed (slow, medium, or fast)
- Automatic save when you get a phone call or exit the app
If you've been waiting for a killer Hearts game for your iPhone or iPod Touch, this is it. Download Hearts Free today!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hearts ∙ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
• Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Hearts ∙ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
We appreciate this no frills, enjoyable detraction from daily stress. We like the subdued and straightforward presentation. Please do not change or replace it.
We are addicted to this version of Hearts. No desire to upgrade or use another version. Great Cun.
We enjoy this, perhaps too much.
We love this Hearts game. Its fun and it fast moving.
We have been playing this game for many years. We love it as a distraction for when we need to pass some time.
Love the game. But so annoying to have to wait for the long, redundant ads to finish, though that does give us time to reheat our coffee.
Love this game! It keeps our brain working.
We love hearts playing all day. It keeps our mind sharp try to get new strategies all the time we are 74 years old our body is 74 but our mind thinks its 30.
We enjoy and relax with this hearts app. Please use start time as seed for random deck shuffle, st least once when app starts.
It is exhausting trying to win at this game.
The app has too many ads that are too long. And too difficult to get out of and back to the game.
Update – we used to play this frequently, however the ads have gotten intrusive. There are a few that take over 2 minutes to complete before you can get out of them. We find this unacceptable. Fun to play. We would like to see (on the game board) an indication of what level of play we are using. Also, the screen shows points as they are taken. This means we don't have to try to remember how many points (or if) a player has taken. We would like a few more options – we play that points can be played on the first trick and that the Queen breaks hearts. These would be minor improvements on an already good app.
Good app. The free version does have a known bug in it. The moment any one of the four players hits 26 points, it transfers a score of 26 to all other players. This means you can lose that game even if you just won the hand.
This game cheat with giving opponents points and they add more to the gamer. We dont think thats fair.
Screen is set up so that you mistakenly hit an ad which interrupts the game and takes at least a full minute to run. You cannot opt out which we find annoying as f and breaks up the flow of the game you are playing. It doesnt matter which game you downloadits the same problem.
Ive played this for years didnt have ads, now we have them! What gives.
You are seeing your opponents cards & cheating And when you pass card to a player they should not be able to pass it back to you as that also is cheating because they saw the card.
Too much four ground stuff covering the players cards.
The game appears to have become infected. Right in the middle of a hand it will suddenly take us to a website that claims Im going to win a free iPad Pro by filling out personal information. Obviously we dont do that, but it is happened for about a week now and is very annoying. Please fix the game so we can continue to play.
Enjoy, game cheats on occasions.
Really like the game. Liked older scoring style but like larger font. Wish game would auto select card when there's no option such as only card of that suit, last card, etc like it does with 2 of clubs on first trick. Also wish clock/time was visible at top of screen.
We really enjoy this game. It helps kill time. We can play it anywhere. Thanks for sharing your game.
We love HEARTS, this a great app.
Wheplay other computer hearts programs, Im winning 90% of the time. This version,,, maybe 20% win. Theres really no point in playing anything where you are not challenged to learn and do better. Im not embarrassed to lose to the computer. But to become a computer hero accomplishes nothing. Bring it on, and this program does.
Like the new cards Challenging and requires you to focus.
Lot of fun, to much advertising when you start game, sometimes we just quit game.
We enjoy playing this rendition of your Hearts app.
Ive been playing this particular Heart card game for a very long time with no problems whatsoever. As of November 9, 2023 a virus has affected the game. We tried to remove the game and resubmit it as a new download but the virus continues to disrupt the game every few seconds. We truly hope that you can rectify this situation by removing this virus from your card game. Please help.
Since the upgrade we cant lead a Diamond (it comes up and says invalid move.
Even after redownloading the app,, it keeps shutting down after only playing a couple hands.
Latest versions open with ads that cannot be exited. We hate to delete, but we have to find another free Hearts app.
We play this game silently. Since the latest update, there are now intrusive and unavoidable ads, playing at high volume that cant be avoided. The makers of this app should be punished.
Has some kind of bug that brings up an Amazon look alike. Very annoying.
We have not played this game much, we are speaking for our grandpa who has been playing this game for as long as Ive been alive. We still remember wondering why he keeps playing the same 3 people for the last several years now.
Would be better if stats were kept.
Not interested in the ads and attempt to entice to play children games. Will appreciate once again being able to play hearts without the interference.
Any way to get a ad free version. We rarely use due to obnoxious ads.
We enjoy this app and play regularly. Perhaps the developers could make it possible for us to choose names for our opponents. We're getting pretty tired of Ben, Ann, and Tom. Nothing personal! We're sure they're tired of us, too. :-).
Challenging and fun keep up the good work.
Great game, played alot in college played non stop during rehab a bad ankle.
Like the game. Dont like the ads.
Fun game, havent found a better app yet. Ann is stupid tho.
Too many dog chasing its tail adds. Round and round score returning to play.
It would be more fun if the dealing of cards was truly random rather than being scripted. A player can almost predict what type cards he/she will receive after first hand has been played.
We really like all these games but it is so annoying for all the ads and junk between games. You just lose interest in your game. That is why we usually only play a game for a short time and delete it.
We had forgot how much we enjoy playing Hearts.
The ad interruptions are excessive.
Upset with too many ads before you can begin the game.
The cards are too small suddenly. Are you sabotaging this game to favor your paid version? Part of our hand is suddenly hidden behind the black box that says Player. This happened overnight.
We paid for this game and we have all these ads and interuptionsthse.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.16
- Size: 77.66 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Optime Software LLC
Last updated: 16th February 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Card | Developer: Optime Software LLC