BridgeBoost vs Big Deal Bridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BridgeBoost
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Boost your Bridge-game at home with BridgeBoost: a unique and very friendly tool for all bridge players: young and old, beginner and expert. Experience it for 130 free deals. After that it only will cost €0,02 each deal. You can buy deals inside the app and if you have questions about that please send a mail to info@bridgeBoost.net. The app assists you during the bidding-phase and calculates results using the method of your choice. The tablet in the middle of the table replaces the bidding boxes. BridgeBoost prevents you to make mistakes like underbidding. After finishing your games you can always look back and see what went wrong. It will improve your game and partnership. BridgeBoost offers several calculating methods. Homebridge: random games with 4 people, each score compensated depending on the hand power. Percentage: prepared boards with 4 people, a percentage is registered depending on the score. Team, Patton, Board a Match: contests played on two tables. The scores on both tables are automatically transported between the two tablets so you see immediately which team has won.
Big Deal Bridge
Recreate tournament bridge hands with innovative card recognition technology. Deal hands face down using your iPhone's camera and compare your scores to actual tournament results. Offers practice play for beginners and the ability to deal any hand record file for clubs.
- Recreate tournament hands
- Card recognition technology
- Deal hands using iPhone camera
- Compare scores to tournament results
- Instant Contract feature for practice
- Deal PBN hand record files
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Play duplicate bridge in person with real cards, using hands from actual tournaments. Four players at a table with a deck of cards, the way bridge was meant to be played! No bots, no online play. One iPhone deals and keeps score. Hold each card up to the iPhone’s selfie camera and Big Deal tells you which player gets it. When the bidding and play are done, enter your result and compare your score with the actual tournament results. Matchpoint scoring finally answers the age-old question, “Was that a good result?” New to bridge? Instant Contract assigns a contract to each hand, so you can go straight to the play while you’re still learning to bid. You can also deal any hand record in Portable Bridge Notation (PBN) format, such as club games or tournament hands you find online. Small clubs can even use Big Deal as a low-cost dealing machine. Your first event is free. Subscribe for unlimited play of our ever-growing library. Download Big Deal Bridge today and bring the tournament experience home! Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bigdealbridge.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BridgeBoost at every 5 weeks against Big Deal Bridge's every 4 months. BridgeBoost also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. BridgeBoost sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Big Deal Bridge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BridgeBoost ships an update every 5 weeks, Big Deal Bridge every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BridgeBoost | Big Deal Bridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PT Cebes Indonesia | Big Deal Bridge LLC |
In-app purchases
BridgeBoost
- Bridgeboost 500 boards package$9.99
- Bridgeboost 1000 boards package$18.99
- Bridgeboost 2500 boards package$41.99
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- Bridgeboost 5000 boards package$74.99
Big Deal Bridge
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Yearly$49.991 Year









