Bridge Classic vs Bridge Mentor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bridge Classic
Experience a classic partnership trick-taking card game. Compete to reach 100 points by bidding for and winning tricks, aiming to win the best of three games. Offers both standard and quick game modes.
- Partnership trick-taking gameplay
- Bidding and contract system
- Standard and quick game modes
- Score tracking for tricks
- Play against AI opponents
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Bridge is an exciting, popular partnership trick-taking game. It is played with a standard 52 card deck. There are 4 players consisting of two teams; each player sits opposite their partner. The game starts with each team at zero, and the object of the game is to win the best of 3 games. Each game consist of a player reaching 100 points before his opponent. Points are scored by bidding for and winning tricks, which in this game are called books. For a successful contract, the score below the line for each trick (in excess of 6) bid and made is as follows: If trumps are Clubs or Diamonds, 20 per trick If trumps are Hearts or Spades, 30 per trick If there are No Trumps, 40 for the first trick, and 30 for each subsequent trick. I added an option of a short game which ends when one team reaches 100 points, winning one game. The dealer begins the auction, and the turn to speak passes clockwise. At each turn a player may either: make a bid, which must be higher than the previous bid if any; say "double", if the previous bid was by an opponent, and has not already been doubled; say "redouble", if the previous bid was by one's own side and has been doubled by an opponent, but not yet redoubled; pass, by saying "no bid" or "pass". This indicates that the player does not wish to bid, double or redouble at that turn, but a player who has passed is still allowed to bid, double or redouble at a later turn. NB. Either "no bid" or "pass" is permissible, but you should stick to one term or the other. If all four players pass on their first turn to speak the hand is said to be passed out. The cards are thrown in and the next dealer deals. If anyone bids, then the auction continues until there are three passes in succession, and then stops. After three consecutive passes, the last bid becomes the contract. The team who made the final bid will now try to make the contract. The first player of this team who mentioned the denomination (suit or no trumps) of the contract becomes the declarer. The declarer's partner is known as the dummy. Overtricks are 100 points. Undertricks are 50 points. Overtricks and Undertricks are counted and tracked, however, they have no bearing on the outcome of the game. If you are playing the standard game, whoever wins the best 2 out of three games is the winner. The winner of each game is the person who scores 100 points first. If you are playing a quick game then whoever scores 100 points first wins. www.ppicapps.com
Bridge Mentor
Practice and improve your bridge game with this app. Play rubber bridge against the computer or duplicate bridge with friends. Features include bidding explanations, hand profiles, and hints for card play.
- Play rubber bridge against computer
- Play duplicate bridge against friends
- Learn optimal bidding and play strategies
- Extensive bridge help guides
- Explanations of bidding options
- Hints for card play
- Convention bids highlighted
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Play rubber bridge against the computer, to test and improve your play. Play duplicate bridge against a friend, or compete against all bridge mentor players. Buy a monthly subscription for unlimited hands plus access to duplicate bridge, for just $0.49 / month. Practice your bridge skills while competing against the computer! Learn optimal bidding and play strategies. Extensive Bridge help guides, including How To Play and a guide to the Standard American bidding system. Includes explanations of all of the bidding options for yourself and your opponents. Shows hand profiles based on everyone's bidding. Provides hints for card play. Convention bids highlighted Bidding conventions highlighted in red to help you understand them. Includes many Standard American conventions, including: Weak Twos Weak Threes Weak Fours Strong Two Clubs Stayman Jacoby Transfers Blackwood Gerber Michaels Negative Doubles Fourth Suit Forcing RONF Also starts with an introduction to the features of the App. Terms of Use: https://bridgementor.app/BridgeMentorTermsOfUse.pdf
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bridge Mentor at 4.4 against Bridge Classic's 1.7. Bridge Mentor also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 18%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). Bridge Classic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Bridge Mentor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. Bridge Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bridge Mentor holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bridge Mentor has 680 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Bridge Classic's written reviews are positive against 56% of Bridge Mentor's.
Bridge Classic ships an update every 5 months, Bridge Mentor every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bridge Classic | Bridge Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (3 ratings) | 4.4 (680 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews | 56.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 680 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PARIS PINKNEY | Eamonn and Ian llc |
Customer experience
Bridge Classic
Bridge Mentor
Bugs and requests
Bridge Classic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bridge Mentor
Reported bugs
5 issues- App fails to verify subscription despite active payment
- Repeated App Store connection failures
- Screen freezes every 6-7 games requiring reinstall
- Unresponsive technical support
- Phone reboot does not resolve connection issues
Requested features
6 requests- More complex bidding conventions (Blackwood, intermediate bids)
- Better hand information exchange through bidding conversation
- Universal card symbols instead of English abbreviations
- Larger, more readable text and UI elements
- Better instructions and onboarding for new users
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- Improved AI partner bidding logic
In-app purchases
Bridge Classic
No in-app purchases
Bridge Mentor
- Unlimited Hands - Monthly$0.491 Month
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