Free for macOS 14 Sonoma and later
A faithful remake of the Windows XP classic. The same rules, the same scoring and the same quiet joy of a finished suit, built natively for macOS.
Many solitaire apps now come with banners, nagging timers and coins to buy. This one is the game as you knew it: ten columns, two packs, a stock of fifty cards and a score that starts at 500.
One, two or four suits. You start with 500 points, pay one for every move and earn 100 for each finished suit, exactly like XP.
Turn on winnable deals and every new game is one the built in solver has already beaten.
Go back to the first move and redo what you undid, or pick classic XP undo for a stricter game.
From your first win to four suits without a single undo. A banner slides in when you earn one, and your statistics keep every streak.
Traditional English pattern faces by Dmitry Fomin and a gold rosette back, or a clean simple set drawn by the app.
Ten columns. Two packs.
One calm hour
with nothing in the way.
Keyboard shortcuts for every command, full screen, a help window with the rules and the scoring, and settings that apply the moment you change them.
Get SpiderSolitaire.zip from the latest release on GitHub, open it and drag Spider Solitaire into Applications.
The first time, right click the app and choose Open, then Open again. macOS remembers your choice.
Drag cards, click the stock to deal and press ⌘T for a hint. Your game is saved when you quit.
Versions after 1.0.0 are signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens them with a double click. Version 1.0.0 was signed ad hoc, so Gatekeeper cannot confirm who made it and blocks a plain double click. If you have 1.0.0, any of these lets it open:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Spider Solitaire.app"
MIT
Every line of the game is on GitHub. Read it, build it yourself or fork it.
200+
The rules, the scoring, undo and redo, the solver and the update check are tested on every change.
SHA256
Each release is built by GitHub Actions from a tagged commit and ships with a checksum file next to the zip.
Yes. There are no ads, no purchases inside the app and no account. The source code is open under the MIT licence.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The download is a universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Versions after 1.0.0 are signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so they open with a double click. Version 1.0.0 was signed ad hoc, so Gatekeeper cannot check who made it: right click the app, choose Open, then confirm. You only do this once. More ways to open it
No. The only network request is the optional update check, which reads the public list of releases on GitHub at most once a day. You can turn it off in Settings, General.
Yes. Everything runs on your Mac. Without a connection the update check simply waits for the next day.
The rules, the scoring, the dealing rule for empty columns, hints, statistics and the three difficulties all follow XP. Redo, winnable deals and achievements are new, and you can switch undo to the classic XP behaviour.
Not every random deal. Turn on Only deal winnable games and each new game is one the built in solver has already won.
Choose Spider Solitaire, then Check for Updates. If a new version exists, Install downloads and checks it, and Restart to Update swaps it in and reopens the app. If the app can't replace itself, the download is saved to your Downloads folder instead.
Drag the app to the Trash. Your saved game and statistics live in the SpiderSolitaire folder inside Library, Application Support, which you can delete too.
Free, with nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. If it is not for you, drag it to the Trash.
The English pattern playing cards by Dmitry Fomin, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.
The centre of the ace of spades comes from Byron Knoll's vector playing cards, released into the public domain by its author.
Cormorant Garamond by the Cormorant Project Authors and Manrope by the Manrope Project Authors, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and served from this site. Icons from Phosphor, MIT licensed.
The screenshots are taken from the app itself.
