“Overrun with ads! Gameplay is decent at best, computer always struggles to deal with your nil (partner and opponents alike) but the primary issue is the ADS!! Not only is there a banner running ads at all times, but there is a mandatory…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 580 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Spades - Card Game
Blackout LabSpades is the classic trick-taking card game, rebuilt for mobile with smart A…
4.8 ★325,115 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Spades is the classic trick-taking card game, rebuilt for mobile with smart AI, deep strategy, and a clean design you'll want to play every day. With a 4.8-star rating and over 5 million downloads worldwide, it is one of the highest-rated spades card games available.
Play offline anytime with no internet connection required, or test your skills against adaptive AI opponents that challenge players of every level. Whether you are a seasoned spades player or picking up the game for the first time, this is the card game built for you.
HOW TO PLAY SPADES: Spades is a 4-player trick-taking card game played in two partnerships. At the start of each round, every player bids the number of tricks they believe they can take. Spades are always trump. The team that reaches 250 or 500 points wins the game. Strategy, communication, and sharp card play are the keys to victory.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.5.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.5.2, updated 2026-09-30.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 2.5.2, scanned 2026-09-28.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 29 distinct reviewers — 5.0% of the 580 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“you start getting into the game and then there's like 18,000 ads and then one game of spades and then 18 kazillion”
“Ads, Ads and more Ads. there are ads after every single hand you play. And they aren't the normal ads that play through and tell you how long they'll last. It's the kind where they hide the button that you have to select with ninja like…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.5.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown0
Lowest—
Highest—
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.