SOS: Need IOS suggestions.
Solitaire is my comfort game. In October 2024 my android phone suddenly stopped turning on, and my husband convinced me to try an apple phone.
I have tried 30+ apps each for both standard/klondike Solitaire, as well as spider solitaire over the past 1.5 years. I have yet to find a version for either that is truly comforting. They all have things that bother me enough that I usually find them more agitating than relaxing.
On my last phone I had a Klondike app that was simple, ad free, no gimmicks or weird animations, not too fast or slow, turn 3, had auto complete that kicked in at the right time, and I think it also had an option for “winnable” games which I like. The card faces weren’t obnoxiously large print, or too small. I think my record was 44 seconds and it just helped my brain calm down immediately and was really intuitive. It was the perfect game that I had discovered somewhere in my 10+ years with an android phone.
For spider solitaire it was not ad-free but after playing for a couple days I paid for the ad-free version for like 6.99 or something like that. It was worth it, and I loved it. I’m not adverse to paying for a game, if I have a chance to play it before committing to paying. It had changeable backgrounds and I had chosen a fluffy white kitten on a pink background, and I think it also has “effects” that could add cute sparkles. Sometimes the sparkles were too much going on, but I used them occasionally.
I have spent so much time trying to find similar games on my Apple phone, and even borrowed my dads old android phone to log in to my Google Play to see if it had a history of my downloads that I could redownload and use that phone just for solitaire. It was unsuccessful. I have been unable to turn on my old phone at all, or recover anything from it.
If this resonates with you and you have suggestions please let me know!