Granny Hand — Sheepshead
Four handed card game
Free · In‑App Purchases
Four-handed Sheepshead with the 24-card deck, the way it’s played at the kitchen table. Smart opponents, a guided tutorial, deep stats, and table talk after every hand.
Granny Hand is four-handed Sheepshead with the 24-card deck: queens, jacks, aces, tens, kings, and nines. The black queens are partners. Call an ace when you need help, go it alone when you don’t. It’s the version played at family holidays for decades, built by someone who couldn’t find an app that played it this way.
PLAY
• Three computer opponents with eight distinct personas, from Rookie to Gambler to Team Player. Set each seat yourself, or let the table reshuffle the seating.
• Opponents that reason about partnerships: as the cards fall, each computer player tracks who is likely on which side and plays its seat accordingly.
• Called ace, play alone, call it off, doubles after a 60–60 tie, and an optional house rule that forces a call-off with five or six trump.
• A live score bar and a trick-by-trick history grid during the hand. Both can be switched off.
LEARN
• A guided tutorial in three lessons: reading your hand and picking, winning tricks and schmearing, the called ace and identifying teams.
• Table talk: after a hand, a player at the table points out your costliest plays, with the numbers to back it up. On devices with Apple Intelligence the remark is phrased by the on-device model; otherwise it uses built-in wording. Either way it only ever comments on what the hand actually shows.
REMEMBER
• Every hand is recorded: who picked, what was called, and every card in the order it was played. Star the decks worth keeping, and share any deal as a challenge link so someone else can play the same cards and compare results with yours.
• Player statistics with sparklines for stakes and final scores, win rates, and breakdowns by role, for you and, with the Player Stats purchase, for each computer player.
• Game Center leaderboards for total wins, total games, win rate, and win rate when playing alone, plus dozens of achievements for the hands worth bragging about, like being dealt a granny hand.
• Your history syncs through iCloud, so it follows you between devices. You can clear it any time.
MAKE IT YOURS
• Five table colors, four card backs, and an optional four-color deck.
• Sort your hand by power or by point value. Choose which side the table sits on in landscape.
• Designed for iPhone and iPad, with a layout for each.
Free for your first week, then five decks a day. A one-time Unlimited Play purchase removes the daily limit and unlocks deck replay; Player Stats unlocks statistics for the computer players. No ads. Your game data lives in your own iCloud account and Game Center, nowhere else.
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The biggest update since launch. Here’s what’s changed since 2026.5.22.
TABLE TALK
After each hand, a player at the table points out your costliest plays: the card you played, the card that would have done better, and what it cost in points and chips. The judgment comes from replaying your hand against every legal alternative, not from guesswork. On devices with Apple Intelligence the remark is phrased by the on-device model; otherwise built-in wording is used. Up to two remarks per hand, on by default, off in Settings.
LEARN TO PLAY
A guided tutorial in three lessons, offered on first launch and any time from Settings: reading your hand and picking, winning tricks and schmearing, the called ace and identifying teams.
MADE FOR IPAD
A real table on iPad: opponents seated on three sides with their hands turned toward the middle, the trick in the center, your hand along the bottom with room above it, and the history grid and score bar in a panel beside or below the table.
LANDSCAPE ON IPHONE
Turn the phone sideways and the table takes one side while your stats, history grid, and score bar take the other. Pick which side in Settings.
SETTINGS
A proper Settings screen, synced through iCloud: five table colors, four card backs, an optional four-color deck, hand sort order, show or hide the score bar, history grid, and game clock, haptics, and a “Highlight teams” toggle for players who’d rather track partnerships themselves. CPU names and personas moved here too, with an option to reshuffle the seating every few rotations.
HOUSE RULE
Optional forced call-off: a player dealt five or six trump must play alone.
CHALLENGES
Challenge links now carry the creator’s time. At the end of a challenge you see a side-by-side of team points, tricks, your points, and time against the original.
FAVORITES
Star a deck on the result card or in Game History to find it again, and filter the history to starred decks only. Stars sync through iCloud.
STATISTICS
New breakdowns by day of the week, time of day, hand duration, and singles versus doubles. Player Statistics now opens instantly, even with thousands of recorded hands.
FIXES
• Clearing game history could lock up the app. Fixed.
• The result card no longer overlaps your name and badges, and it fits the screen with table talk showing.
• Calling announcements stay on screen longer and carry the loaner badge, so “called off” is harder to miss.
• On narrower iPhones the opponents’ hands no longer push the layout past the screen edges.
• Silent loners, called-off hands, and 60–60 ties now pay out correctly and show the real result.
• Game history from two devices merges instead of one device’s hands being dropped.
• Your Game Center scores retry after a failed report instead of being lost.
• The dealer and seating now resume where you left off after relaunching.
The developer, Richard Koopmann, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Richard Koopmann
- Size
- 19.2 MB
- Category
- Card
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Play $5.00
- Player Stats $5.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 Richard Koopmann


