21 classic games. One table. No ads.

19 card games, plus Mahjong and Dominoes. Real rules, real strategy, and opponents with names and faces. The games your family actually plays, all in one app.

  • Free
  • Rated 9+
  • No ads
  • iPhone, iPad and Mac
  • Built for iPhone Duo
Download Cards Royale: Classic Games on the App Store
The Avalinx lynx playing Bid Euchre with three friends at a red table

21 classic games, one app

21 classic games, one app: Gin Rummy, Hearts and Spades tables on velvet, over the logos of all 21 games in Cards Royale

The games

Every classic, dealt right.

Four families, 21 games. Pick one to see how it plays and how it looks on your screen.

Rummy and melding

Draw, meld your sets and runs, and race to empty your hand before the table catches up.

Tricks and trump

Bid, name trump, read your partner and win the tricks that count.

Family favorites

Quick to learn and hard to put down, the games that bring every generation to the table.

Tiles

Trade the cards for tiles with Hong Kong Old Style Mahjong for four and partnership Dominoes.

Watch how to play

Learn a game in minutes.

Each lesson plays a real hand in Cards Royale, every move explained on screen. More games are on the way on our YouTube channel.

Every lesson on YouTube

Why players stay

Made for the table.

Hearts on iPhone, two tricks into a hand

Play it your way, in every game

Every one of the 21 games plays three ways, so there is always a table open.

  • Solo: take on a cast of characterful players, each with a personality and a record against you
  • Nearby, no internet: connect devices directly and deal a hand on the plane or in the back seat
  • Online: private rooms for friends and family, or ranked matches, with the Royale membership
  • DotDot
  • BubbaBubba
  • WafflesWaffles
  • SunnySunny
  • ChipChip
  • BirdieBirdie
  • MoxieMoxie
  • GoldieGoldie
  • DocDoc
  • SharkShark
  • VegasVegas
  • RiddleRiddle

Opponents with names and faces

Forty-five characters sit down at these tables, from easygoing to razor sharp. Dot is a tiny silver-haired lady with her hair in a bun, and she is sharper than she looks.

Each one has a play style, a difficulty and a head-to-head record you can chip away at.

Pinochle on iPad, a trick in play

A lesson for every game

Never played Pinochle? Rusty at Bridge? Every game comes with a hands-on lesson at the real table and a picture book of the rules, so nobody sits out.

  • Learn by playing a guided hand
  • Rules you can check any time, in plain words
  • Real rules and real scoring, the way the game is meant to be played
The Avalinx lynx grinning over a hand of cards

Your face at the table

Answer a short set of questions, with no typing, and Cards Royale makes a portrait that belongs to you alone. It is the face every other player sees, at the table and on the podium.

Then spend the Royale Coins you earn at the table on eyewear, headwear, hair and outfits, and pick the card backs and felt you like best.

Cribbage on iPad in portrait

One record across every game

Your rating in each game, a cross-game prestige score, Top 100 and friends leaderboards, and Game Center achievements. Win at Euchre tonight and it all counts toward the same you.

Built for iPhone Duo

A table that folds with you.

Cards Royale is made for the iPhone Duo. Open it flat for a table as big as an iPad's, close it for a pocket table, or stand it half open and the table splits at the hinge: the cards in play on one screen, your hand and buttons on the other.

Hearts on an iPhone Duo standing half open: the opponents and the trick on the upper screen, your hand and buttons on the lower oneHalf open: the trick above, your hand below
Hearts on an unfolded iPhone DuoUnfolded: a table as big as an iPad's
Hearts on a folded iPhone DuoFolded: a table for your pocket
  • Half open like a laptop, the trick, the melds and the discard stand on the upper screen, and your hand, the draw pile and your buttons sit on the lower one
  • Turn it on its side and the cards in play take the left screen, your hand the right
  • The scores and the end of each hand stand on your screen, never across the fold
  • The leaderboard keeps the list on one screen and a player's card on the other, and hosting a game puts the players on one screen and the house rules on the other
Cards Royale on the iPhone Duo, unfolded to a full card table and folded to a pocket table

Half open, game after game

  • Spades on an iPhone Duo standing half openSpades
  • Euchre on an iPhone Duo standing half openEuchre
  • 500 Rummy on an iPhone Duo standing half open500 Rummy
  • Hearts on a half-open iPhone Duo turned on its side: the trick on the left screen, your hand on the rightTurned on its side

iPhone Duo, from the App Store

  • The Cards Royale lobby on an unfolded iPhone Duo: your portrait and rank beside tiles for 500 Rummy, Hearts, Euchre, Crazy Eights, Pinochle and SpadesThe lobby
  • 500 Rummy on an unfolded iPhone Duo, a wide table of melds500 Rummy
  • Hearts on an unfolded iPhone Duo, a trick of four hearts led by the kingHearts
  • Euchre on an unfolded iPhone Duo, spades played to the trickEuchre
  • Spades on an unfolded iPhone Duo, a full hand of thirteen cards below the trickSpades
  • Bid Euchre on an unfolded iPhone Duo, diamonds played to the trickBid Euchre
  • A Hearts win on an unfolded iPhone Duo: you on the top step of the podiumYou win!

iPhone, iPad and Mac

A proper table on every screen.

A landscape table on iPhone and Mac, portrait or landscape on iPad, and every fold of the iPhone Duo.

From the App Store

  • The Cards Royale game picker on iPad, with tiles for nine games and each one's rankPick a game, on iPad
  • The Cards Royale game picker on iPhonePick a game, on iPhone
  • A 500 Rummy table on iPhone with a full spread of melds500 Rummy, melds on the table
  • A Euchre table on iPhone asking whether to order up trump or go aloneEuchre: order it up?

Spades, on every screen

  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPhoneiPhone
  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, half openiPhone Duo, half open
  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, unfoldediPhone Duo, unfolded
  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, foldediPhone Duo, folded
  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPad, landscapeiPad, landscape
  • Spades in Cards Royale on iPad, portraitiPad, portrait
  • Spades in Cards Royale on MacMac

Cards Royale at a glance

Price
Free to play
Plays on
iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPhone Duo
Age rating
9+
On the App Store since
2026
Games
21
Ads
None
Play
Solo, nearby, online

Pull up a chair.

Cards Royale is free on the App Store, with no ads.

Download Cards Royale: Classic Games on the App Store