Solebon Solitaire App Reviews

I love Solebon... Im very pleased to see that the version for my Mac is the same as it is for my iPhone.

If you are looking for a good solitaire game for your Mac, this is it. There are 42 different versions of solitaire you can play. You can customize the color of the background and the back of the cards as well. New to a mac and looking for solitaire? You want this one.

If you have a second display attached to your computer, it will not open. I contacted the developer on day one, and they had a fix that they submitted, but the update is yet to be pushed out to users. If you have multiple displays, please get it, as its great (I just play it when my laptop isnt connected to a second display) and just be patient. If you dont use multiple displays, what are you even waiting for? It looks great, plays great, has many different games, and its so cheap!

The free Windows 7 solitaire game has a feature most Mac solitaire games are missing: the cards scale. Most Mac solitaire games have cards that dont scale on high-resolution displays. This makes them appear tiny. Also, all game developers should play the games without using a mouse (try it on a MacBook Pro). The click/drag motion gets old, fast, on a MacBook.

Ive been playing Solbon since I purchased my fist Palm Pilot over ten years ago. This is the best solitare out there for Palm and iPhone. For some reason the freecell game isnt working quite as well as it does on the iphone. It makes you manually move stacks into reserve piles rather than let you move several cards together if enough reserve piles exist. It is the best Mac solitare Ive found so far, and I trust Solbon to fix this small issue. Pleeeeease Solbon folks, bring this to the iPad. The scaled iPhone version isnt good enough.

Freecell is my favorite solitaire game. There are two versions of it in this app and BOTH are wrong. I should have bought a slice of pizza instead of this app. Even bad pizza would have been superior Peter Schug

The new version is working and its a good as the iphone version. Great app.

Great graphics and great gameplay. Lets face it, there are hundreds of solitaire games out there. For me, it has to have smooth gameplay (which this does) and it has to look good. You better snap this up before they start charging more.

I have solebon for my iPhone, so I was expecting a good, clean solitaire app and thats what I got! Completely worth the 99 cents - Id rather have a great app than a soda any day. The only problem: Im noticing that the current running score is only for the current game Im playing. If Im remembering correctly, on my iPhone app, the running score adds up all the games Ive played. Other than that, no problems at all! UPDATE: Cant move a stack in Freecell when I should be able to...

Have enjoyed this game on the iPhone for quite some time and just got the Mac version. Has all my favorites and lets me set the preferences the way I want. Dont know why anyone would have a problem with dragging cards on a trackpad. I use a magic trackpad and you just click down with your thumb and drag with your index finger. Its a lot faster than clicking the card and then clicking again at the destination. To move an "eligible" card to the pile just double tap with the index finger. Works great! I have to agree with one of the other reviewers, You really really need to come out with an iPad version. The iPhone version on the iPad doesnt cut it.

Ive played this on my iPhone and iPod Touch for a while and had been looking for a good Solitaire game for the Mac. Im glad I found a game that I am familiar with and has a good UX and UI. I just have 2 small quibbles: - the running scores do not aggregate (at least not in Klondike Deal 1, havent tried the others) - there doesnt seem to be any contact information anywhere on how to report bugs One suggestions would be an in-app upgrade to add the additional 202 games available in solavant (since there is no way to contact the devs other than here.... iPad version please! game center integration too!)

Pretty, fast, and cheap. What more could you want? And variety, to boot.

Ive been playing it a bit since I updated to the new, working, version. I am just now playing Free Cell and I notice that you cant move more then 1 card at a time. This is extremeley annoying. So much so, that I think I will not play Free Cell again. Free Cell can be a fun game to play in quick bursts, but without the ability to move card stacks, It will now take me much much longer to play...and just to be manipulating the cards. There is also the issue that you cant get a card to auto play. Really? If an Ace pops up, its a sure bet that I want to move it up. Why should I have to do this manually? Look... Im not being a complainer, and I am not really that lazy that I cant do it myself, but its a pretty simple functionality issue that much lesser quality solitaire games have built in. Soleban, please address these issues and I will raise my rating. On the plus side, this is a clean interface thats easy on the eyes.

Im running a mac intel desktop with a Cintiq 21UX and another generic monitor - so multiple displays. When I bought the app (at a super low price), it didnt work. I was disappointed, but knew that the app store was fresh out of the gate, so I waited for an update to come (Smallware quickly posted an explanation and game plan for fixing the multiple display issue). After a few days, I was curious as to a possible timeline for Apple releasing the update. I wrote to Smallware support. I have to tell ya, folks, they were prompt, informative and more helpful that I EVER could have expected. They kept me up to date, communicated quickly, and were more responsive than I have EVER experienced with an app. So now I have a glorious game with beautiful graphics that runs really well on my Cintiq (that Im spoiled to have at work). I cant wait to try more games from them.

Ive been a SmallWare customer since I had a PalmPilot in the late 90s. They have a lot of experience making just these types of games for the small screen, and the simplicity of design translates well to the big screen. Very nice graphics, straightforward gameplay, and a bunch of games -- what more could you ask for? (I also have this game for the iPhone, and it is the best card game Ive found on that platform....) A couple issues I have noticed: 1) The graphics dont scale well. Theyre nice and large, so this wont be a problem for many, but it would be nice if I had more control over the size of the cards, etc. 2) In their push for simplicity, theyve made some of the controls fairly cryptic. The first time or two you play, the various buttons are definitely a case of "click it to see what it does". An example are the small arrows on the bottom corners of the window: the one on the left opens a list of different games; the one on the right displays the rules for the current game. Handy? Yes. Convenient? Yup. Intuitive? Er.... No. 3) In Freecell they really need to fix it so that you can move stacks of cards. This works in the iPhone verison, but here if youre moving multiple cards, you must move each one individually, which is a pain. This bug can easily turn what should be two clicks into sixteen! Smallware please fix this one! Okay... if you need more, theres a bigger version on their web site with something like 200 solitaire games. Its quite expensive by comparison though, so unless youre a REALLY serious solitaire player, the version youre looking at here should be plenty for most people. One last thing: It would be fun to see more options for "skinning" the game. Different table surfaces, different card backs, and so forth. No need to get silly with it, but a few options would be nice.

Ive always appreciated that Apple does not bog their computers down with a bunch of mindless, free games. Im more productive that way. However, there is something built into all of us that seeks out time-wasting games. Gotta say, this one is a gem. Ive only played a couple of games of Klondike (the one that opens first after you donwload), and, ummm, not sure how many games of Spider...definitely more than a few. Smooth graphics - its a card game! What more can you want? Occasional screen freeze in Spider, but appears all you have to do is click on a few other columns, and things return to normal. Another reviewer complained that the stats could not be reset. Personally, I love the fact that it is tallying up exactly how much time I have wasted, oops, I mean invested in playing a mindless game. Love it. Its replacing another well know Mac Solitare game. Thanks Smallware! Great price! Grab it before its more!

This is the missing Solitaire game I have been wishing to have in Mac OS X for years! It has a very clean and simple interface, yet has wonderful transitions when moving cards around. I would be happy to pay $5 for this game, definitely worth $0.99!

Most any solitaire suite will give you Klondike. The big difference here is that Smallwares version doesnt have the annoying glitches or oversights Ive found in freebies (such not being able to move partial batteries in Klondike). The interface is absolutely gorgeous as well, very Mac-like eye candy. If Mac OS X came with a solitaire app, this is what I would expect to see.

1). I agree with Jeffery Stanley that the Freecell game only allows you to move one card at a time rather than move a stack when you should be able to. This is time-consuming and annoying. 2). You cant adjust the size of the cards, so even when you maximize the game, the cards stay small. 3). Also, it eats up a lot of memory and takes a long time to launch, even with 4 GB ram!

I chose this title because it includes both a Yukon and Freecell flavor, both of which Im addicted to. Serious Freecell addicts need two features, both of which are absent in this version. First, because its extremely difficult even for an experienced player to determine when a game has become unwinnable, any good Freecell must include a solver. Not to complete the game for you, of course, but to alert you that the game is unwinnable even if many valid moves are still available. Its a pleasure to stick with a game when youre in a terrifyingly tight spot but know that your persistance will be rewarded. fc-solve is a great library to use. The second must-have is, as many other reviewers have pointed out, stacks should move en-masse. This is a solid, good looking Solitaire application that I think is worthy of a top-notch Freecell. Id be delighted to fill in the extra stars with those features added.