iScopa
Traditional Cards Game
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Card
Languages
English
Mon Nov 10 2025
Bug fix and OS compatibility
iScopa is the definitive version of the traditional Italian card game. Featuring high-resolution regional card decks including Napoletane, Piacentine, and Siciliane, the game offers an immersive cultural experience. Learn the rules, build your strategy, and compete for the 'Settebello' in this addictive and historic game.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
iScopa brings the classic Italian card game to the iPhone with a lot of charm and authenticity. Scopa is all about memory and strategy, and this app captures that tension perfectly. The use of traditional Italian card designs (like the Napoletane deck) is a wonderful touch that makes the experience feel genuine.
The AI is competent, though it can occasionally be predictable once you've played a few dozen matches. However, the online multiplayer works well and is where the game really shines. It's a must-have for anyone of Italian descent or anyone who just loves a good, fast-paced card game that isn't another version of Solitaire.
Features
15 authentic regional decks
Online and local multiplayer
Detailed rule guide for beginners
Global leaderboards
Tips & Walkthrough
Always prioritize capturing the 7 of Coins (Settebello). It is a guaranteed point and often decides the winner of a close match!
Gameplays
Match a card in your hand with one or more cards on the table of the same value. If you clear the table, you get a 'Scopa' and an extra point!
Screenshot
Q&A
Yes, both Scopa and Scopone (scientifico) modes are available.
Ratings & Reviews
Always Fun
Mon May 26 2025 SkipmiesterI love how you can choose the various rules and pointing systems. Playing the computer has different levels. I am enjoying the new upgrade!
After 1000 games Im frustrated
Fri Jun 01 2018 ACinCAI love this game, the look and feel, and I grew up in Italy playing this game. However, it’s obvious when the AI says “OK you won the last two, Im winning this one” and it gives itself all the aces plus all the best cards and you can just tell there is nothing you can do once it’s decided it’s time for it to win. Frustrating. But good game with great potential
Great (Italian) Job!! ;-))
Thu Dec 11 2008 JPmiami369I was waiting for an iPhone version of this game! It is very well done, this game also respects all the original rules. The interface is very intuitive; it let you easily understand how to play, even if you don't know exactly all the rules. I really appreciated that the author used Neapolitan card's deck (I'm from that city, so I grew up playing Scopa using the same kind of cards.. ;-)). Cosmetically talking I have nothing to say, very nice also the (virtual) "piece of paper" where the score is reported... ;-) In my opinion, two things should be implemeted in a future build. the first regards the numbers indicating the score during the game; they are almost unreadable, the fonts used are two small. The second one is the possibility to know, during the game, how many "Scopa" each player has; at monent, this is impossible to know. Thank you! :)
Don’t like the changes
Sat Apr 08 2023 Joe Shadow EraThe changes to the score board and added achievements were not necessary
Cheating AI
Thu Oct 23 2025 bfnfnebeThe ai clearly cheats
Why is there only one Scopa game for iPhone?
Wed Feb 25 2009 An honest reviewerThere are several Briscola games for iPhone. Perhaps Scopa is harder to program, because its rule is more complex than Briscola. But I prefer to play Scopa. This game is nice overall. But the double-tap change of backgrounds is very annoying. Whenever I tap twice accidentally, the background changes to ridiculous sky or space pictures. BACKGROUNDS SHOULD BE CHANGED IN THE OPTIONS MENU! The overall quality of this game is not so good. Of course, the classic card game of Scopa is great. That's why, I believe, many people think this iPhone game is great as well. But it is not. Consider numerous Poker and Solitaire games for iPhone: many of them has much a better quality than this game. And even the Hispanic card games for iphone, Briscas and Truco, have a better quality than this.
It's ok
Tue Sep 28 2010 milito9871I'm from Sicily, carini. I grew up playing scopa in the streets of carini, with friends and just sometimes looking at old people playing it was fun, so anyway it's been my life my culture and my childhood. I was expecting a little bit more for 4 bucks. It doesn't give u an option to save before u get out. No ranking, u can't play with other people. As far as I'm concerned I don't need more sounds, but saving the game and ranking is needed, it's a must. Lower the price too so more people will buy it I doubt a game that only Italians and few other know we'll pay 4 bucks for it, but that's just me. Hope I see once again ranking soon and the option to play, again, other players online if it's possible one day, till then 3 stars it's all u get from me.
CHEATING CHEATING CHEATING!!!
Fri Apr 22 2011 Mari MoSuch a pity. This little detail forces me to give the game 1 star instead of 5. The program would definitely deserves 5 stars, because it's awesome! But if you have been playing the game since childhood and know it very well it takes a few rounds against the computer to understand that the AI totally cheats. Not only it cheats, it decides in the first place which games you are going to win. Scopa should be based on giving RANDOM cards to both opponents from a SHUFFLED deck, and then it's up to them, their memory, and their knowledge of probability to play more or less well. Here there is nothing random in the way the AI serves the cards to itself. If you could please fix this absurdity, remove the difficulty option (which makes no sense in scopa) and make it a TRUE RANDOM game I would give it 5 stars, hands down! Good value anyway.
