Games like Speed the Card Game

JD Software’s Speed is the app most people find when they search for the card game: 13,023 App Store ratings at 4.7 stars, and more than a million Google Play downloads with 16K reviews at 4.6, read on 26 October 2026. It is free, sells a $6.99 full version and coins on iPhone, and pairs you with the computer or a player online. Speed is a game for two people at one table, though, and the listing never says it can seat both of you on one phone. Three of the six apps below say they can.

What JD’s Speed costs past the free part

The App Store listing is Speed the Card Game Spit Slam, first released 12 September 2014 and last updated 16 December 2024. It is rated 4+, needs iOS 15.6 or later and weighs 97.5 MB. On Google Play the same game is called Speed JD, rated Everyone, updated 17 December 2024. Both describe the standard rules: a hand of five, a draw pile of 15, and cards played one up or one down on two middle piles, with jokers as an option.

Apple’s In-App Purchases row lists a Full Version at $6.99 and coin packs at $0.99, $1.99, $3.99 and $5.99. The listing does not say what the full version adds or what coins buy. Google Play shows the ads badge, and Apple’s privacy panel lists usage data as data that may be used to track you, with third-party advertising among the purposes. Apple’s own Contains row does not list advertising. Google Play’s data safety page says device IDs, crash logs, diagnostics and approximate location may be shared with other companies. The game is also in Google Play Pass, which removes the ads and the purchases for subscribers.

All of them side by side

Store facts only, read on 26 October 2026 and linked at the foot of this page. “Who you play” is what each listing says, not what we tested.

A price is not a fault, and charging once for an app with no ads is the plainest deal on this list. Apple’s purchase row shows up to ten items and does not claim to be complete. Google Play prints no prices on these listings.

The alternatives

Spit & Slam: Speed Card Game

Speed against a cat. 2-Person Studio puts you in the mouse’s seat for fifteen levels across five worlds, from a kitchen to a cheese factory. A new rule arrives as you climb. There is a wild joker, a card that freezes the cat’s piles for a few seconds, and a No Wrap level where a king no longer plays onto an ace. Quick Play has five speeds, Gentle to Ruthless, each with its own leaderboard ranked on time. It is single player and runs offline. Android only, 4.3 stars across 6.43K reviews, more than 100,000 downloads, rated Everyone, updated 31 August 2026. Google Play shows the ads badge and no purchase badge. Its data safety page reads “No data collected” and, above that, lists app interactions, diagnostics, device IDs and approximate location as data that may be shared for advertising and analytics.

Speed Duel: Speed Card Game

The closest to a deck of cards on the table. AxelStack’s game has three modes. One player races the computer at Easy, Medium or Fast. Two players can share the phone, with the screen split so each hand faces its owner, or pair two phones in the same room over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi with no internet. A stopwatch times each game and keeps your best win. The listing says it was built by a dad for his daughter and puts dad jokes between games. It costs $0.99 on Google Play, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no sign-up, and its data safety page says it collects and shares nothing. Rated Everyone, updated 23 June 2026. Google Play showed 1+ downloads and no rating on 26 October 2026, and we did not find it on the App Store.

SPEED - Heads Up Solitaire

Tapinator’s version, made with Robot Cake Games, is built for playing strangers in real time. It has matchmaking, ranks, tables in places like Las Vegas and Monaco, and chests that unlock cards, with the computer for when nobody is online. 4.6 stars across 2,111 App Store ratings, rated 13+, 296.4 MB, iOS 10 or later. It has not been updated since 21 August 2020, and its privacy panel reads “No Details Provided”, which Apple will require at the next update. Its purchase row is the longest here: chip packs from $1.99 to $49.99, gem packs from $1.99 to $19.99, and a starter pack at $2.99. One App Store review says you cannot play online without enough coins. We did not find a Google Play version.

Speed (aka. Spit) : Card Game

Kazunari Hiyoshi’s app does two things: Speed against the computer at eight levels, 0 to 7, and network play against another person. It is the smallest Speed app here at 19.4 MB, in English and Japanese, with Game Center. Free, 4+, iOS 12 or later, 4.2 stars across 169 ratings, first released 17 October 2014 and updated 16 September 2025. Apple’s Contains row lists advertising and there is no purchase row. The privacy panel lists location, identifiers and usage data as data that may be used to track you.

ERS: Egyptian Rat Screw

Speed’s cousin from the slap family, for anyone whose table plays Ratscrew instead. Hersh Nagpal’s app has two-player local play, computer opponents with their own styles, and rules you can switch on or add. Free, 4+, iOS 16 or later, 11.6 MB, 4.3 stars across 11 ratings, updated 19 June 2024. It sells one thing, Unlock All Slap Rules at $1.99, lists no advertising, and its privacy panel reads “Data Not Collected”. Replying to a review, the developer says online play is being looked into, ideally for up to four people.

Slap Pile (ours)

Last: Slap Pile is five card games for two to four people with the phone or tablet lying flat in the middle of the table. Speed is the two-player one, a hand of five at each end and the two piles between. The other four are Slapjack, Egyptian Ratscrew with switchable house rules, Snap and War, and each seat has its own slap pad facing the player, so the phone decides who slapped first. Any seat can be the computer, at Easy, Normal or Sharp. Free on Google Play only, rated Everyone, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, updated 13 October 2026. It has no purchases and no coins. It carries a banner on the home screen and a full-screen ad after every fourth finished game, never during play. Its data safety page lists device IDs, approximate location, app interactions and diagnostics as data that may be shared. Google Play showed 0+ downloads and no rating on 26 October 2026. If you have a real deck, the Slapjack and Speed rules print on one page.

What these games do better than ours

• JD’s Speed has players. More than a million Google Play downloads, eleven years on the App Store, and an online mode with real people in it. Ours has neither an online mode nor an audience yet.
• Speed Duel has no ads and collects nothing. One $0.99 payment, a data safety page that declares no data collected or shared, and a two-phone mode. Ours is free because it shows ads, and those ads use device IDs.
• Spit & Slam turns Speed into a campaign. Fifteen levels, new rules as you go and timed leaderboards give one player a reason to keep going. Ours is built for a table of people and has no story mode.
• ERS collects nothing and is on iPhone. Its panel reads “Data Not Collected”, and four of the six other apps above run on an iPhone. Ours is Android only.