Bergen Bridge vs Bridge Mentor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bergen Bridge
Enhance your bridge playing skills with interactive lessons and explanations. This app provides guidance on optimal card play and bidding strategies, helping you become a more formidable opponent. It's designed for all skill levels and requires no internet connection.
- Interactive deal play
- Explanation of optimal plays
- Programmed questions for self-assessment
- Standard American bidding system
- Offline functionality
- Expert guidance from Marty Bergen
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This app is perfect for the bridge player who wants to improve his/her playing skills. When you are playing the deal but don’t play or defend perfectly, you will get a message explanation what you should have done. You also have the option to let the program ask you questions about the play. Every bridge player should ask these questions themselves before playing a card. By answering the questions you will learn the best approach. Once you are used to asking yourself these type of questions, you will have made a big step in improving your play and becoming a better opponent. The bidding system is based on Standard American. However, the auction is always provided for you so this program is appropriate for all players. To use the app, no internet connection is needed. About Marty Bergen Marty is a U.S. bridge teacher/player/author. He is a ten-time national champion and ACBL Grand Life Master and World Bridge Federation World International Master. He retired from active competition in 1993 to concentrate on teaching and writing. He was recently voted to be the 22 most influential person in the history of bridge. Marty has been a columnist in the monthly ACBL Bridge Bulletin since 1976. He has also written 69 bridge books; two of which won the ABTA Bridge Book of the Year award. Points Schmoints!: Bergen's Winning Bridge Secrets in 1996 and Declarer Play the Bergen Way in 2005. Wins - North American Bridge Championships (10) - Pan-American Maccabi Games (1) - Cavendish Invitational Teams (1) - Cavendish Invitational Pairs (2) - Goldman Pairs (1) Second-place finishes - North American Bridge Championships (10) - United States Bridge Championships (1) - Cavendish Invitational Teams (1)
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 Bergen Bridge's 2.5. Bridge Mentor also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 26%) and ratings volume (681 vs 17). Bergen Bridge's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Bergen Bridge sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Bridge Mentor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bridge Mentor holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bridge Mentor has 681 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Bergen Bridge's written reviews are positive against 56% of Bridge Mentor's.
Bergen Bridge ships an update every 5 weeks, Bridge Mentor every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Bergen Bridge | Bridge Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (17 ratings) | 4.4 (681 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews | 56.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 681 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Hofstede | Eamonn and Ian llc |
Customer experience
Bergen Bridge
Bridge Mentor
Bugs and requests
Bergen Bridge
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
Bergen Bridge
- Beginner 1$8.99
- Beginner 2$8.99
- Intermediate 1$8.99
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- Intermediate 2$8.99
- Advanced (Play)$8.99
- Advanced (Defense)$8.99
- Expert$8.99
- Bergen Bridge Exercises$8.99
- Opening$9.99
- Bid with Bergen 1$9.99
Bridge Mentor
- Unlimited Hands - Monthly$0.491 Month
Questions
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