Games Like Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 6 Alternatives Compared

The closest match to Microsoft Solitaire Collection with nothing to install is our free browser set: Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks, the same five modes with no account. If you mostly play Klondike on a phone, Solitaire by MobilityWare and Solitaire by Brainium both list offline play and daily challenges. On a Windows PC or Mac, Pretty Good Solitaire is a paid-once app with 1,080 games on Windows and 900 on Mac, and on Linux AisleRiot is free and open source. Solitaire Castle Royal, which is ours, is a TriPeaks level game rather than a Klondike app, so it only fits if TriPeaks was your favorite mode. None of them bundles five modes, daily challenges and cross-device progress the way Microsoft does.

What Microsoft Solitaire Collection includes, and why people look elsewhere

Microsoft’s app, published under Xbox Game Studios on the Microsoft Store, has Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, TriPeaks and Pyramid, plus five new daily challenges every day, a difficulty setting, weekly rewards and events with leaderboards. Recent versions also bundle other casual games inside it, such as Microsoft Bubble, Jewel and Mahjong 3D. It is free on Windows, iPhone and iPad and Android, and a Microsoft or Xbox account carries your progress between them.

The free version shows ads. A Premium membership removes them and adds perks such as double points on daily challenges, access to past challenges and unlimited use of the Solitaire Solver. On Windows, the store page says Premium is included with Game Pass. On phones it is a subscription that renews monthly or annually, and the App Store listing adds that "Solitaire Premium is available for mobile only", so a phone subscription is not a Windows one.

The reasons people search for something else follow from that. Some want to stop seeing ads without paying every month. Some do not want to sign in: the Windows store page lists "A Microsoft account and Internet access" under requirements, and both mobile listings say a persistent internet connection is required, which rules out a flight or a weak signal. Some play on a device Microsoft does not cover, since no Mac version is listed in the App Store and there is no Linux build. And some only ever play one mode and want an app built around it.

How we chose these games

We make one of the games below, and it covers only one of Microsoft’s five modes, so we set the bar around what Microsoft players actually miss.

• It replaces part of the collection. Each pick has to cover at least one of Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid or TriPeaks. We say which ones, because only our browser set is confirmed to cover all five.
• The reason you are leaving is answered. The table states ads, account and offline play for every pick, since those are the three most common complaints.
• Platforms stated up front. Microsoft is on Windows, iOS and Android. We include options for Mac, Linux and Chromebook because those players have no Microsoft app at all.
• Facts from the developer’s own listing. Every claim comes from a store page or the developer’s site, checked November 6, 2026. Where a listing does not commit to something, such as offline play, we say "not stated". We quote prices only where the listing is consistent, and no ratings or download counts.
• Verifiable today. Google’s built-in solitaire, which appears when you search "solitaire", is a common suggestion. We left it out because the only sources we could find describe its 2016 launch, and we could not confirm from Google how it works now.

Quick comparison

If you want all five modes without an app

Our free browser games, the five modes with no account

We publish free browser versions of every solitaire game in Microsoft’s collection: Klondike with draw one or draw three, Spider in one, two or four suits, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks. There is nothing to download, no sign-up and nothing to buy, and they run in any modern browser, so they work on a Mac, a Chromebook or a Linux laptop where Microsoft has no app. If you also play Golf Solitaire, that is here too.

The limitations are the features Microsoft built around the cards. There are no daily challenges, no events, no leaderboards and no account, so nothing follows you from your laptop to your phone. They are five separate pages rather than one app with a shared profile. And like Microsoft’s app, they need a connection, in their case to load the page.

If Klondike on your phone is what you play

Solitaire by MobilityWare, Klondike with daily challenges and multiplayer

MobilityWare’s app is the nearest thing to Microsoft’s Klondike table with the same kind of daily structure. The Google Play listing describes draw one or draw three, daily challenges that earn crowns toward monthly trophies, weekly events, multiplayer with leaderboards, Vegas scoring, a left-handed mode and dark mode. It also says you can play "online or offline, no WIFI needed", which is the clearest single difference from Microsoft’s app.

Two limitations. It is a Klondike app; Spider, FreeCell and Pyramid are separate MobilityWare downloads. And it still runs on ads. On iPhone and iPad, the App Store listing sells a Premium Status subscription with "NO Ad interruptions or Banners!" and a one-week free trial, but the listing gives two different yearly prices, so check the purchase screen. The Google Play listing does not describe a way to remove ads.

Solitaire by Brainium, Klondike with an ad-removal purchase

Brainium’s Klondike app is now published under Playstudios. Its Google Play listing lists draw one or draw three, Vegas scoring, unlimited hints and undo, auto-complete, daily challenges, statistics and offline play. What sets it apart from Microsoft and MobilityWare is the way out of ads: the App Store listing shows a "Remove Ads" item at $11.99 next to timed ad-free passes from one week to one year.

The limitation is the same split as MobilityWare: Spider, FreeCell and Pyramid are separate Brainium apps, each with its own ads, so rebuilding Microsoft’s five modes means five downloads. The listing also does not say whether the Remove Ads item is permanent, and the Google Play listing does not describe it, so check the store screen on Android.

If you are on a computer and want to own it

Pretty Good Solitaire, more than 1,000 games on Windows

If Microsoft’s five modes feel like a small menu, Goodsol Development’s Pretty Good Solitaire is the other end of the scale. The developer’s score pages list the Windows version at $24.95, with version 22.2 from May 2024 carrying 1,080 games, and a Mac version with 900. You pay once, there are no ads and no account, and it runs as ordinary desktop software. For a player who has worn out Klondike and FreeCell and wants hundreds of patience variants, nothing else here comes close, and on that axis it beats every other pick on this page, ours included.

The limitations are cost and age. $24.95 is real money next to free apps, and the iPad and iPhone versions were last updated in 2021 and 2022, so it is a desktop pick first. There is no Android version, and no daily challenges or events.

AisleRiot, free and open source on Linux

AisleRiot is the GNOME Project’s solitaire collection, and its Flathub page lists more than 80 solitaire-type games. The source on GNOME’s GitLab includes Klondike, Spider, FreeCell and Triple Peaks among them. It is free, open-source software with no ads and no account, which makes it the only pick here that costs nothing and shows nothing.

Reach is the catch. It is a Linux desktop app, so it does not help on a phone, on Windows, or on a Chromebook unless you turn on Linux support. Its latest tagged release is from January 2025, and it has none of Microsoft’s daily challenges or events.

Solitaire Castle Royal, ours, if TriPeaks was your favorite mode

This one is ours, and it is a different kind of game from the rest of this page. Castle Royal is TriPeaks on a level map, not a Klondike app. If you opened Microsoft’s collection mostly for TriPeaks, it gives you 15,000+ levels with new ones every month, and players who finish them move into Kings League. Every level is winnable without power-ups, no coins are needed to start a level, and standard levels are untimed. Only the rotating events are time-limited, and those need a connection. Levels play offline, and linking an account is optional: it backs up your progress, as our save game progress article explains.

It is free on the App Store and Google Play, runs on Chromebook, and plays on a Windows PC through Google Play Games, and it has 1M+ players. The free version shows ads, and a one-time No Ads purchase, not a subscription, removes the forced ones. The mobile game page covers levels, ads and offline play in more detail.

Now the gaps. Microsoft’s app has five modes and we have one, so if Klondike or Spider is what you play, this is not your replacement. Microsoft’s daily challenges and cross-device account are more developed than anything we offer for a Klondike player. And our free version shows ads until you buy the pack, while Pretty Good Solitaire and AisleRiot never show one.

Picking one

• Want all five modes with no account and no install? Our browser games: Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks.
• Play Klondike on your phone, sometimes offline? Solitaire by MobilityWare for multiplayer and events, or Solitaire by Brainium if you want a listed Remove Ads purchase on iOS.
• On a Windows PC or Mac and happy to pay once? Pretty Good Solitaire.
• On Linux? AisleRiot, free.
• TriPeaks was the mode you played most? Solitaire Castle Royal, which is ours, accepting that it is TriPeaks only.
• Happy with the account and the connection, and only bothered by ads? Stay with Microsoft and look at Premium, or Game Pass if you already have it on Windows.

Start from the reason you are leaving rather than the feature list. Ads point to a paid or open-source app, the account and connection point to a phone app with offline play or a browser game, and a missing device points to whichever pick runs on it. If ads are the whole problem, our guide to the best solitaire games without ads sorts these and others by exactly how each one removes them.