Hearts: No Ads
iOS app by Michael Holloway. Games · Michael Holloway
- Store rating
- 4.84 / 5
- Store rating count
- 73
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.1
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-08
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Store description excerpt
The grown-up Hearts app. Free to play, with one $0.99 unlock and fair AI. No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. Works offline - even on a plane. WHY THE NAME Open the App Store, search for Hearts, and watch the screenshots blur into the same pile of rainbow gradients, sparkle effects, and "REMOVE ADS - $9.99" upsell wheels. The name says it: this one isn't that. No ads, ever. The single $0.99 unlock removes the per-game coin cost forever; that is the entire monetization. WHAT MAKES THE AI FAIR • Four AI difficulty tiers - Easy, Normal, and Hard all play fair. They see exactly what you see: the played tricks, the current trick, their own hand. No peeking at hidden hands, no stacked deals, no rubber-banding. • "Cheater" mode is the fourth tier - and it is an opt-in, not the default. It literally looks at your hand and plays optimally against it. It is how plenty of other Hearts apps play all the time. Here, you decide. • Symmetric shoot-the-moon. If the AI would attempt it, you can too - and vice versa. The AI never silently blocks a moon shot it would try for itself. • Hint button anytime. Tap it to see which card the Hard AI would play in your position, with a one-line reason. Hints cost 10 coins each - meaningful but cheap. • Undo your last card on your own turn, before any opponent play changes hidden information. HOW THE COIN SYSTEM WORKS • Start with 500 coins. Each new game costs 50. • Wins pay back 100 coins. Shoot the moon for 200. • Get 50 free coins every day, automatically - no daily-bonus modal to dismiss. • One $0.99 unlock removes the per-game cost forever. Coins keep accumulating after you buy it; they just stop gating play. That is the entire monetization. No coin packs, no boosters, no "watch an ad to play another hand." A single optional unlock and the daily refresh. CORE GAMEPLAY • Standard Hearts and Omnibus (Jack of Diamonds = −10) rule variants. • Pass rotation: Left → Right → Across → Keep, plus a No-pass toggle. • Configurable game length: 50 (default), 100, or 150 points. • Autosave after every card - resume your game after a phone call, a force-quit, or a relaunch. No lost hands. PRESENTATION • Seventeen card backs, clean green felt. • Universal binary for iPhone and iPad. Portrait and landscape. Not a stretched phone UI. • Dark mode supported. • Random animal-emoji opponent avatars - different cast every match. • Haptic feedback on iPhone. WHAT THIS APP IS NOT • Not ad-supported. No ads, ever. • Not subscription-based. No recurring charges. • No coin packs, no boosters, no second-tier monetization. The Unlimited Play unlock is the only purchase. • No accounts, no sign-in, no Apple ID prompts, no iCloud prompts, no analytics opt-in modals. • No multiplayer, no servers. Just you versus three AI opponents. Free to download. Optional $0.99 unlock removes the 50-coin per-game cost. Family Sharing enabled - one purchase covers the household.
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