Pinochle Pro
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Pinochle Pro! Developed by the innovative team at Black Panther Software LLC, this Strategy game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 23rd October 2012, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 7th January 2022.
Are you a fan of Strategy, Card, games? Then Pinochle Pro is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Pinochle Pro
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How Much Does Pinochle Pro Cost?
Good news! You can download Pinochle Pro on your iOS device absolutely free!
Pinochle Pro Release Date
Eager to know when Pinochle Pro first graced the App Store? It was launched on 23rd October 2012.
When Was Pinochle Pro Last Updated?
The latest version of Pinochle Pro was updated on 7th January 2022, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Pinochle Pro?
To get started with Pinochle Pro, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Pinochle Pro
Tired of playing pinochle games with unintelligent players? Then this is your game. We have painstakingly tested and improved the artificial intelligence. Pinochle Pro is the best 4 handed single deck pinochle game available for the iPad iPhone and iPod Touch.
—– Finally, a great pinochle game!… "Oldsoul12"
—– I play this game every day! love it! "sabinlvr10"
- Partners bid when they have a good hand, pass when they dont.
- Partners know when to over bid you and when to not.
- Partners know when to break up their own meld and when not to.
- "Ive Got the Rest" is option allows tossing in the rest of the cards if you can take all the remaining tricks.
- Give it a try and if you find ANYTHING that you are not satisfied with, Please let us know through our support email. We very actively make improvements
Additional Features
- Features animated characters that talk and respond to the game! Play against Jed the cowboy or grumpy old Grandpa Bob. Watch your opponents get frustrated when you win!
- 5 animated characters
- Settings to match how you play the game including – passing 3 or 4 cards, allowing peek or no peek, and more
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Pinochle Pro updated on 7th January 2022:
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User Reviews on Pinochle Pro
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Pinochle Pro below:
We’ve played this game nearly 2700 times, so its safe to say we like it OK. However there is one major flaw in the bidding, and it has happened to us several times. We bid, our partner bids, it comes back to us and, though we like our hand, since our partner outbid us we assume he has a strong hand and thus pass, allowing him to carry us. Then, surprise, he passes on his next bid. Where we come from, even if he isnt a real person, we ought to be able to assume he is going to carry on the bid, at least for a bit. After all, we want to force the other side to work for it and if we dont win the bid, perhaps make them go set. This ought to be a relatively easy fix, and would improve the game. When our machine partner outbids us and we pass, he needs to bid at least 1-3 more times. You have to make a commitment to your partner when you outbid him, so that we increase the odds of winning the bid with the better of our two hands in control.
Hi, so your app is very accessible for the most part using the Voiceover screen reader. We’re totally blind, used to play pinochle with braille cards. There’s just one problem. We can’t tell what’s trump. It’s shown up a few times, but we’ve made bad passes when trying to pass cards to our partner. So maybe if there’s something that says what trump is, that would be very helpful. Other than that, we can play the game because we can count cards in our head. Update: another big problem. We’re very confused. If someone plays, on our left, a Queen of Spades, and our partner (north), plays the Ace of Spades, East plays, say, Jack of Spades, and we play a King of Spades, that should give our partner and we 2 pointers. Instead, they seem to be going to the West-East partnership. That’s not right! If North plays the Ace, then they get the trick. At least, that’s how we were told. It seems that in this version, whoever plays the trump card first wins the trick. Was we told incorrectly or something?
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for the recent updates, we just love this game!!!!!
We love playing this game as we relax in the evenings.
Played this game for several months and it was fun. Lately tho, it is very frustrating when the game freezes, especially when you have a good hand. Am rapidly losing interest. Update: happy to report that, within an hour of our review, the developer responded. Yay! A fix for the freezing is in the works! Love the game and play many many games. Thanks for the positive response! The fix would definitely change our review to FIVE STARS!
Love this game. Play it all the time to keep up on our pinochle skills. Thank you!
Not a fan of the graphics but finally an App where the partner knows how to play!! Our hand covers us seeing our play but that is minor to the frustration at other Apps where we don’t think the programmer has ever played the game. This one know how to play the game smartly. Thumbs up!
The graphics are just too silly, but we have tried all the other free pinochle games and this one plays the best. Bidding is the most realistic, play is decent and it knows when you will take all the rest of the tricks. Needs some work but is pretty good.
Played the game for a while then all of a sudden we cant see the cards being played cant count Trump and this just started we were able to see cards but now we cant and no way to contact anyone.
It is a waste of time to play 5 games only.
There is no way the actual game of pinochle is played like this one. Players will play an Ace of trump on their partners Ace of trump when they have other trump to play – just plane stupid!
We played the first 5 games then tried to buy the upgrade and it told us we had an error. A friend tried to buy it also and same thing. We contacted support and no answer. We like your game, but no way to get help or it to work!?
The loads and then shuts down. The only way we can load the app is to shut down our iPad and restart it. This is happening recently. Did not do this a few months ago.
Most apps like this will be ad supported and/or have a limit per day (e.g., 2 hands/day). Lifetime limit of 5 hands is pretty bad. Otherwise it’s a decent game.
The opponent gets killer hands 10 times to our one. We dont mind losing but the deck is stacked against us. By the way, we love the graphics! Sorry to not be playing any more.
Have been playing paid for game on iPad & iPhone for over a year when suddenly not able to open. Not worth the effort to stay with it.
Yeah no way we’re buying your crappy app! The "players" are morons, no double deck, and worse after 5 games it tells you to buy or F off!
Game is good. After 5 games you get the "option" to upgrade or play the same hand over and over and over and over…. Not a way to make us want to buy more. How do you know after you buy upgrade that there is not a game limit there also. Why does Apple allow this? Tell us up front limit game play. After we are through with review …. DELETE!
Wish you would correct problem with loading paid Pinochle Pro. We keep trying to pay for it but instead spins past opportunity. There are a lot of us that feel this way. You are loosing lots of money. Was free for a long time until we got new IPad and now can not play.
Love the game but when you go to swap out different players screen size will not allow you to chose "Done"
They only let you play a few games then the give you the ultimatum of either but the other version or play the same hand over and over again. Seems like a bad business.
Many times players will meld with cards we have in our hand. Frustrating.
Love the game and the characters but wish you would have an option to turn off "passing cards" or passing 0 cards on the existing option.
We have to say that the bidding is awful. Everyone always passes. We haven’t played a game yet with a bid over 28. Not very exciting. We do like that our partner isn’t an idiot but we hate boring games more.
5 game limit – loser! Stay away.
We are searching for a good pinochle app. We decided to try this one because of the reviews. Our first impression was not bad. However, that quickly changed to disappointment. We had won the bid. Our partner passes two 9’s that were not even trump! You NEVER pass 9’s that aren’t trump to your partner. We stopped the game and deleted the app. Our search continues.
5 game limit? Seriously??? Then it repeats the fifth game. Classy. Several occasions where a card was clearly trumped and yet the book went to another player. Hopefully this a last ditch effort for a game designer to meet a deadline after partying too hard the night before.
Over and over again our partner bids while having 2 or 3 meld and 4 cards of a suit to make trump, duh. Hand after hand, we get no aces or just one ace.
We bought this game about a week ago. Suddenly the game started quitting in the middle. Now it quits right after the bidding is finished . The players and the cards just disappear.
How can an opponent bid 36, make 35, and still win? This has happened so many times. And your partner bidding against you and when you pass your partner passes. Also has happened so many times. We’ve deleted the app twice before and Im done this time. We like the way this game plays, but we dont like AI that cheats!
We agree with the other reviewer who said the bad reviews must have been from previous builds that have since been fixed. We’ve been playing the game with few glitches and no crashes. Both partner and opponent play seems to make pinochle sense, with no one making blatantly stupid plays (like throwing a second ace to give your partner a counter early in the hand). Im curious about the Achievements, though: we’ve blown past 100 games, but somehow havent earned that badge yet. Im upgrading to the ad-free version just to support the developer.
This game is a lot of fun. The lower ratings seem to be for earlier issues that the developer has since corrected. We like that the game automatically calculates the meld for you. Also you can see and change the players. In this version, the winner of the bid exchanges 4 cards with their partner which makes the game more interesting. There are ads, but they are not too annoying and there is an option to remove ads for $4.99. We are really enjoying this game.
Does all the thinking for you. Not a teaching app.
Game says it’s free but once you play five games it makes you purchase pro or you get the same cards every hand….. DELETE!!!!!!
The best pinochle game we have played on the net!
Love this app. One issue is that your partner passes you the 9s in trump. We don’t want 9s. Gimme something good. Other than that, excellent app!!!
This game would be perfect if there was an option to deactivate the "pass cards option" :-(
Best pknuckle game out there, until you finish your fifth game and it quits working. The worst.
Learned to play pinochle on yahoo and this is nothing like it. Going to remove app. Bummer because id like play without waiting for a game.
Don’t download!! You only get 5 games and it is worthless unless you pay for the upgrade.
The players are bizarre and the voices are disturbing. Not sure why the developers made the opponents look like Beevis and Butthead – come on can you not get more creative??? After 3 games we deleted it.
We like straight pinochle. No passing. And what’s with all the scoring options?
The last update causes the program to lock up when changing partners. The passing pinochle properly works now. Thanks.
This game was okay until the last update. Now there is obnoxious banners across the bottom for advertising that is so distracting you can’t enjoy the game. Also the okay button hides behind the cards making it next to impossible to enjoy this stress-free. Also there’s just too many little bugs it’s just not worth it. We never understood why developers take an okay product and make it worse by trying to be greedy with advertising Flashing on the screen.
This is our fifth attempt at finding a good pinochle game. We try one and then give up as our partner doesn’t know how to bid or deal with trump or passing. Inevitably, desperate for a hand of pinochle, we try another and am again disappointed. We were a bit hesitant at this one as the graphics seemed a bit hokey but this is a GREAT game! Our partner bids when they have a good hand, bids over us if thinks they should , and knows how to pass and pass back! Passes, or passes back, pinochle as appropriate to the trump suit and which of us took the bid. We are so happy we found this game!!
We get the same cards over and over. We are tired of this game.
This game needs to be tweaked to simulate a real life game. Our partner consistently plays the wrong cards, practically giving the hand away to the opponents. We have seen brand new real life pinochle players play better than our partners play in this game. Stay away from this game until they fix it.
It only let’s you play 5 games and then you have to pay to play.
Try pinocle!! Game instead. This one allows only 5 games and all games involve passing cards. Bidding is strange, but then you figure out how other players will bid… It’s like cheating. Not a chance we would buy it… Deleted it.