Category note — not a fourth app review. I needed a place to explain why Spades, Solitaire, and Hearts share a Teen Patti-labelled desk without pretending they share Teen Patti rules.
I looked for offline card apps I would actually keep on a phone during a social card night. Teen Patti names the mood I was writing toward — three-player energy, suits on the table, phones face-down between hands. Building a list of fake Teen Patti clones would have been dishonest. Building a shortlist of real Spades, Klondike, and Hearts titles that survive without wifi felt truer to the diary.
Mode B here means ranking, not a catalogue dump. Three apps keep the suitrail readable: one partnership game, one solo tableau, one trick-avoidance closer. All three live on the App Store, all three state offline play in their positioning, and all three gave me dated facts I could check — ratings, sizes, versions, age labels. Where the store stayed silent (install counts), the cards say so. That silence is part of the method timeline on the home page.
Order today: Spades Solitaire, Solitaire Offline, Hearts Offline. Reviews live under /2026/ with the same Teen Patti phrasing in titles because that is the lens, not the genre claim. If a later pass reshuffles the rail, the corrections log will carry the date. Until then, start at the tabbed ranking or jump to a review from guides.
