iOS App

Deck of Cards

A digital deck.

A multiplayer card game platform with smooth animations, custom decks, and a clean interface designed for the way you actually play cards.

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Deck of Cards is a beautiful, multiplayer card game platform for iOS. It started as a way to play cards with family across time zones, and grew into a flexible engine for classic card games on iPhone and iPad.

Every interaction is designed to feel like physical cards — dealing, fanning, flipping, and gathering. No ads — just a clean deck in your pocket, free to play. Online multiplayer is an inexpensive optional subscription.

Features

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Multiplayer

Play card games with friends in real time. Smooth, responsive multiplayer built for mobile.

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Custom Decks

Design and customise your own card decks with the built-in deck editor. Choose from templates or create from scratch.

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Beautiful Animations

Cards deal, flip, and fan with fluid spring animations. Every interaction feels natural and satisfying.

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Multiple Games

A growing library of classic card games, all playable with the same beautiful interface.

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Game Replay

Replay any hand to review your plays. Step through each action and learn from every game.

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Tutorials

Learn new games with built-in interactive tutorials that walk you through the rules as you play.

Engineering

Native iOS, real-time multiplayer over Game Center, spring-based animation throughout.

Engineering

Native iOS, built on Game Center

Deck of Cards is a native iOS app. Real-time multiplayer is built on Apple Game Center — host a game, invite players, and card state syncs across every device in the room. The multiplayer layer handles reconnection, late joiners, and replay from any point in the hand.

Animation as physics, not transitions

Every card interaction — dealing, fanning, flipping, gathering — is spring-based. The goal is that the cards feellike cards: a deal arcs, a flip rotates around an axis with believable inertia, a fan responds to drag with the right damping. UIKit-style fixed-curve transitions don't get there.

Custom decks, custom rules

The deck editor lets you replace any card face, suit, or back with your own art. The rules engine is data-driven, so adding a new game means declaring its rules — not writing a new view controller per game.

One platform, no ads

iPhone and iPad only. Free to play, with no ads and no analytics SDKs that don't earn their keep. Online multiplayer is an inexpensive optional subscription — from $0.99 a month or $9.99 a year. Game Center handles matchmaking; the app handles cards.

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Available now — Free to play

Download on the App Store