iPlayingCards (Lite‪)‬ 4+

A card deck for any card game

Peter Kramer

Designed for iPad

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Screenshots

Description

iPlayingCards (Lite) Version 3.4
– A 'virtual' deck of cards for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. (NOTE: Use this App to play card games with other people - just like a 'real' deck; but it is NOT a 'game-playing' program.) Play cards on one or multiple devices (using Game Center, Local WiFi or Bluetooth - Bluetooth works on airplanes). Cards move with the touch of a finger. When playing with a shared device, use four hidden hands – a hand become visible only when the device is tilted on its side facing that direction. When playing with multiple devices, each device can display a different hand. Many features – shuffling, dealing, cutting, flipping, sorting, etc.. Eight classic decks for playing games such as Poker, Sixty-Six, Piquet, Belote, Jass, Durak, Scopa, Mus, Five Hundred, Pinochle, Bezique or Canasta. Fast set-up of 21 different games (including those and Black Jack, Bridge, Crazy Eights, Gin, Go Fish, Hearts, Oh Hell!, Rummy and War).

In this Lite Version, the deck can be automatically shuffled into only six predetermined random decks. An In-App Purchase upgrade, available for a small fee from the iTunes App Store, has unlimited random shuffling. (Manual rearranging of the cards in this Lite Version is possible for those unable to purchase the full version.)

Many features:

Connect multiple iPhones, iPads or iPod touches together using Game Center (anywhere on Earth) or Local WiFi or Bluetooth (within 30 feet).

Move cards and piles anywhere on the screen/table
- move a card with one-touch moves
- flip a card with a tap
- rotate a card with a two-tap move
- move a card lower in the deck with a reverse-tap
- move and spread piles with two-touch moves
- rotate and flip piles with a double tap

Four hidden hands
- each hand becomes visible when device is tilted onto a side
- only the person on that side can see that hand
- sort hands by suits/rank, right/left, SHDC/SHCD, ace high/low,
- show the number of cards in each hidden hand
- limit the hands that other connected devices can show

The deck
- adjust the size of the cards on the table from small to big
- adjust the size of the cards in each hand separately
- add 1 or 2 Jokers
- pick any photo from your Photo Album for the back of the cards
- 9 classic decks - 24, 32, 36, 40, 43, 48, 64 or 104 cards

Automatic dealing
- deal to 1, 2, 3 or 4 players or to an adjacent pile
- deal from 1 to 13 cards to 1-4 players, or 26 to 2 players
- deal face up or face down
- deal cascaded or stacked
- advance the dealer on each shuffle

Quick set-up of the deck, the deal and the hands for 21 different games

Animated random shuffling (see Lite Version limitation above)

Animated cut card feature

Drawing region on screens to write notes

Please contact us with any questions, comments or suggestions. ContactUs@iPlayingCardsApp.com


Screen shots shown below:

1)Crazy 8’s - tilted to face player West - West is playing a King and changing the suit to Diamonds. South holds 12 cards.
2)Bridge – South bid 5 Diamonds, West played the Ace of Spades, North is Dummy and South is now playing the 8 of Spades. South will make 5 Diamonds if the King of Hearts finesse is on.
3)Texas hold ‘em tilted to face player South – pair of Kings awaiting the river card.
4)Same Texas hold ‘em but on second, Bluetooth-connected device tilted to face player East – two pair awaiting the river card. Card backing from second device's Photo Album.
5)Klondike Solitaire – the deal function is set to three cards to an adjacent pile, face up, cascaded.

What’s New

Version 3.4

Fixed bug in Voice Chat feature and corresponding issue with connecting to other devices over WiFi and Game Center

Ratings and Reviews

Steve Bilclough ,

Neat idea decent app

This is a decent app considering size limitations of the iPod screen. Can be a bit fiddly to use for that reason. Would work well on an iPad because of the larger size. You need to set the dealing to work for your particular game. You 'slot' cards into a bar at the bottom of the screen for them to be invisible to others; otherwise the cards are on the table. A neat idea and it works! When iPod is flat your hand disappears from view.
Drawback of pass and play is that only one person at a time can see their hand. Bluetooth on the paid version would work better.

Webplodderrtownsend ,

Delightful!

I love this app because it allows me to play patience cards games without the need for real cards and space to accommodate them, which is not always convenient. It is that much closer to actually handling playing cards than the usual card simulations where the software does it all for you. The controls take a bit of getting used to but, with some practice, they don't really present a problem. Also, I would have thought that this app would be handy when you are trying to learn a new card game and need a deck of cards to follow the text from a book and the need to randomly move cards about (something you cannot normally do with dedicated card apps). Very useful also when you are on the move, perhaps in a train, and have your iPad with you and feel like playing a patience game to kill time (saves having to download another app). I cannot comment on online play since I have not used that facility yet, however, for my purposes at least, it is a very clever and useful bit of software. I highly recommend this app.

GeoffHreview ,

Great card App

I downloaded this App, to see if it would do what I was after.... to be able to turn over a card at a time off a deck of playing cards (without the need for the pack!!)

It looked as if it would allow this but I could not see how. So, I emailed the author for help.

He replied, very quickly, showing me how to configure it.... Hey Presto, it now does just what I am after and I am using it for a couple of different games with the kids, great!!

So, top marks for the App - and 6 out of 5 for the really great help & support.

App Privacy

The developer, Peter Kramer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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